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HopeHealth’s Dr. Leah McDonald Sees ‘System-Wide Embedding’ of Palliative Skills

Hospice News

In May 2023 McDonald was added to a pilot program at The Miriam Hospital that combines palliative care and emergency medical services. The United States is seeing this growing aging population that has high-care needs. The biggest need is how we appropriately transition people’s care outside of the hospital setting.

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Incoming Samaritan CEO Phillip Heath: Reduce Dependence on Medicare

Hospice News

A veteran of the senior services sector, Health has spent his 30-year career as a leader of hospice, senior housing, long term care, and PACE programs, in addition to a stint as a health care lobbyist. I also think that we have to look at the potential new relationships out there with long term care.

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Paying Your Care Staff More Won’t Keep Them Around Longer—Here are 4 Solutions that Will, According to the Experts

Home Care Pulse

98% of agencies were negatively impacted by care staff shortages last year, meaning only 2% of providers are confident that they have adequate staff to run their agency—the worst it’s been in 3 years. The Ultimate Guide to Caregiver Training in 2022. Yet it also ranks among the top 5 industries with the highest workforce shortages.

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Improving Nursing Home Quality: Jasmine Travers, Alice Bonner, Isaac Longobardi, and Mike Wasserman

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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. For example, bachelor’s degrees for social workers. I hope I got that right.

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How Hospices Are Diversifying Their Services in 2024

Hospice News

Lightways has grown its pediatric palliative care program in recent years, tripling its clinical capacity with expanded geographic service regions, staff and census. The nonprofit’s pediatric program grew its capacity to 120 patients in 2022, a rise from a previous census volume of 40.

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RCT of Default Inpatient PC Consults: Kate Courtright & Scott Halpern

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Summary Transcript Summary Last week we talked about a trial of a nurse and social worker outpatient palliative care intervention published in JAMA. I think the last time we had you on was 2022. And the best shows are always on Sundays, so it becomes Sunday Phunday, also with a PH. Eric: Thank you for the song.

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Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) Model: A Podcast with Malaz Boustani and Diane Ty

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And these care navigator, they can be community health worker with just 12 years of education. They can be a- Diane: Social worker. Malaz: Social worker, anybody. So a dozen state, they have to be trained obviously, and they have to be able to provide the comprehensive dementia care model.

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