Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Unroe has worked in advance care planning and palliative care, dating back to experience at the Duke University Medical Center as a Geriatric Fellow and as a fellow for the Office of Disability, Aging, and Long Term Care Policy at the U.S. According to July 2022 research from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

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Hospice News

JUNE 20, 2023

Homebase Medical previously operated as The Residential Group until SCAN acquired the company in 2022. Homebase Medical, a subsidiary of SCAN Group, is developing a new palliative care model to care for some of the Medicare Advantage organization’s most vulnerable beneficiaries. It’s really a clinical-first model.” SCAN is a $4.3

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Hospice News

JUNE 9, 2022

The Q&A took place on April 27, 2022. I am an acute care and adult and geriatric certified nurse practitioner. This article is sponsored by Axxess. The discussion has been edited for length and clarity. Hospice News: We have Tina Taylor and we also have Christina Andrews here today. Thanks for sharing.

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Hospice News

MARCH 23, 2023

Deborah Freeland, assistant professor of internal medicine at UT Southwestern Medical School, Division of Geriatric Medicine, in Texas. The 272 participants polled in the 2022 research included clinicians and administrators from 11 health systems nationwide, among other key stakeholders.

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Hospice News

JULY 25, 2023

Case in point, the average annual per-patient total cost of care for hospice beneficiaries 65 and older with some kind of dementia was nearly 17x higher in 2022 than for those without these conditions, according to research from the Alzheimer’s Association. A projected 12.7 million seniors with these conditions, according to the report.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Oncology practices have increasingly collaborated with palliative care providers — or built their own service lines — to better support cancer patients throughout their health care journeys. Integrating palliative care deeper into oncology practices “empowers” these providers to improve utilization and quality, she indicated. An estimated 1.9

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GeriPal

JULY 11, 2024

Summary Transcript Summary In May we did a podcast on KidneyPal (the integration of palliative care in renal disease) , which made us think, hmmm… one organ right next door is the liver. Maybe we should do a podcast on LiverPal? (or or should we call it HepatoPal?) Alex 00:12 This is Alex Smith. Eric 00:13 And, Alex, who do we have with us today?

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

billion in 2022 and went on to make a bid to purchase Amedisys (NASDAQ: AMED) for $3.3 A pattern of large hospice deals occurring in 2021 and 2022 set a high bar for transaction valuations and volumes, which contributed to this year’s slump by comparison. The insurance giant acquired Lousianna-based LHC Group for $5.4

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Pallimed

JULY 11, 2022

If geriatrics is on there, so are we. Christian Sinclair, MD, FAAHPM is a palliative care physician at the University of Kansas Health System, editor-in-chief of Pallimed, and trying to keep up a resolution to write more about palliative care in 2022. by Christian Sinclair ( @ctsinclair ) We have entered a new age! Spread the word!

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Hospice News

JUNE 2, 2022

The Q&A took place on April 27, 2022. This article is based on a Q&A session with Jason Banks, Senior Director of Post Acute Sales at nVoq, during the Hospice News Palliative Care Conference. The discussion has been edited for length and clarity. Banks: I ran a hospice and palliative care. We had two palliative care clinics.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 15, 2024

Alex 00:20 And we’re delighted to welcome in studio Lingsheng Li, who is a geriatrician and palliative care doc and currently a t 32 research fellow in the UCSF division of Geriatrics. Russell 00:19 I’m glad to be here. Lingsheng, w elcome to the GeriPal podcast Lingsheng Hi, everyone. Jessica, welcome back to GeriPal.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 11, 2024

The number of people who have used MAID in Canada since it was legalized in 2016 has increased year on year from about 1,000 people in the first year to over 13,000 people in 2022. California, which has a similar population size as Canada and legalized MAID around the same time, has fewer than 1000 deaths per year from MAID. Bill: Thank you.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Today we learn more about coaching from 3 coaches: Greg Pawlson, coach and former president of the American Geriatrics Society, Vicky Tang, geriatrician-researcher at UCSF and coach , and Beth Griffiths, primary care internist at UCSF and coach. Led the American Geriatric Society. We address: What is coaching? Beth: Yeah.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Summary Transcript Summary Last week we talked about a trial of a nurse and social worker outpatient palliative care intervention published in JAMA. See also our accompanying editorial , first author Ashwin Kotwal who joins today as a co-host, and a podcast I recorded with JAMA editor Preeti Malani). Alex, who are our guests today?

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GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

Alex: We are delighted to welcome back to the GeriPal podcast, Katie Fitzgerald Jones, who’s a nurse scientist at the New England Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center, and a palliative and addiction nurse practitioner at the VA in Boston. That was in April of 2022. Who do we have with us today? That was from our what?

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GeriPal

AUGUST 31, 2023

She was a prior guest with Rachelle Bernacki on our most listened to podcast of 2022, Should We Shift from Advanced Care Planning to Serious Illness Conversations? I think this is actually bread and butter geriatrics. Brad: I completely forgot about that. That’s great. Alex: That was great. We were co-fellows about 100 years ago.

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GeriPal

MARCH 2, 2023

This includes a JAGS study recently published in 2022 showing that we seem to be substituting one bad drug (antipsychotics and opioids) with another bad drug (valproic acid and gabapentin). J Am Geriatr Soc. 2022 Perioperative Gabapentin Use in Older AdultsRevisiting Multimodal Pain Management JAMA IM. Nisha: Thank you so much.

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary In November of 2022, Ava Kofman published a piece in the New Yorker titled “How Hospice Became a For-Profit Hustle.” Some viewed this piece as an affront to the amazing work hospice does for those approaching the end of their lives by cherry picking stories of a few bad actors to paint hospice is a bad light.

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Daily Nurse

JUNE 15, 2023

For example, in late 2022, PSI and Babylon launched AI OI, a new digital health service focused on supporting people in low-income communities to make informed decisions about their health and efficiently navigate the healthcare system. The world population is getting older, and we know this trend won’t reverse.

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NHPCO

MARCH 4, 2022

For Immediate Release: March 4, 2022. Rory Farrand Has 20 Years of Health Care Experience. Alexandria, Va) – The National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) today announced that Rory will join the organization as the Vice President of Palliative and Advanced Care.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 4, 2022

Ariel: As we all know, as geriatricians in geriatrics research, people accumulate conditions and accumulate medicines over the years. The post Deprescribing Super Special Part II: Podcast with Elizabeth Bayliss, Ariel Green, and Kevin McConeghy appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 20, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary In April 2022, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM) issued a report on how the United States delivers, regulates, finances, and measures the quality of nursing home care. I think the importance for DONs and medical directors to work together are essential.

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GeriPal

APRIL 26, 2024

From you reading the 2022 article that was authored? We talk today with Betty Ferrell, who has been a nurse for 47 years, and is the founder and PI of ELNEC. As I argue on the podcast, ELNEC has likely done more to lift the primary palliative care skills of clinicians than any other initiative. Josh, welcome back to GeriPal. Josh: Yeah.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

JAMA 2022 (a reply to the above). Summary Transcript Summary. There is a lively debate going on in academic circles about the value of Advance Care Planning (ACP). So check out the podcast and if you are interested in diving into this debate, here are some great links to learn more: What’s Wrong With Advance Care Planning? Juliet: Thank you.

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GeriPal

APRIL 11, 2024

This podcast was initially sparked by Josh’s “Note From a Family Meeting” Substack post titled “ Ambivalence in Clinical Decision-Making ,” which discussed Bryanna’s and Jenny’s 2022 article titled “ Two Minds, One Patient: Clearing up Confusion About Ambivalence.” From you reading the 2022 article that was authored? Josh: Yeah.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Every member of the team, even for me, for whatever reason, that switched me from focusing on trying to be in pulmonary critical care to become actually a geriatrician, choose the geriatric fellowship. So we came out with a report in March of 2023, followed it on the heels of a report that we had done in November, 2022. But anyway.

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