Hospice News

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Executives from almost every publicly traded hospice company raised this issue in earnings calls and presentations throughout the year. Length of stay will be a factor in the OIG’s planned national audit of hospice eligibility in 2023. “I Others included Amedisys and Chemed Corp. NYSE: CHEM) VITAS Healthcare. “So

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Hospice News

JANUARY 31, 2024

About 16% of the survey respondents indicated plans to start palliative care programs this year, a decline from 56% of respondents in 2023. Case in point, Virginia-based Goodwin Hospice formed a collaboration with end-of-life doula provider Present for You LLC roughly three years ago.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Earlier this year, it was awarded the prestigious 2023 Circle of Life Award from the American Hospital Association, which recognizes programs for their efforts in palliative and end-of-life care. In 2013, CHC won the Global Partnership Award presented for a model partnership that others should look at.”

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Chicago Caregiving

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Around the same time, Jacqueline Willrich, 86, a retired French teacher at Northwestern University and social worker, also arrived at Westminster. With so many distractions in day-to-day lives — the steady stream of news, for example — working with the brush or camera keeps the artist focused solely in the present moment of creation.

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Hospice News

MAY 25, 2023

The conversation took place on April 20, 2023, during the Hospice News Palliative Care Conference. This article is based on a discussion with Anthony Spano, Director of Client Development at Netsmart and Nikki Davis, Vice President of Palliative Care Programs at Contessa Health. The article below has been edited for length and clarity.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Why does CHAP have a national medical director, registered nurse and social worker on staff who all specialize in hospice? The opportunity presented by the aging of the Baby Boomer generation should be fully realized and embraced as there is much parallel work and effort of care provided in hospice and the 4Ms.

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Chicago Caregiving

DECEMBER 14, 2022

You don’t need any assistance and can meet all of your retirement dreams and travel everywhere,” says Sarah Jackson, a social worker with North Shore Senior Center in Northfield. . Taking time to care for herself, feeling gratitude for what she has, and staying grounded in the present also helps, she says. .

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Minority Nurse

JULY 12, 2023

Flores is an important nursing leader , and we’re pleased to profile him as part of the Champions of Nursing Diversity Series 2023. Besides regularly visiting my patients, I coordinate care between other disciplines, including CNAs, social workers, chaplains, and volunteers.

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GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

Today we have a star-studded lineup, including Lexy Torke of Indiana University, who discusses her RCT of a chaplaincy intervention for surrogates of patients in the ICU , published in JPSM and plenary presentation at AAHPM/HPNA. Thanks to my son Kai for playing the guitar part in 5/4 with strange chords on Riverman by Nick Drake!

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 19, 2023

This discussion took place on September 7, 2023 during the Hospice News ELEVATE Conference. This was presented back in Tampa at a post-acute long-term care conference earlier this year, where we looked at the ability of speech recognition to drive down Medicare denials of claims. This article is sponsored by nVoq.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Louise 05:02 Yes, well, I don’t know about 2024, but in 2023, yes, it could happen. And he had a deadly fear of being institutionalized, based on his previous present experience. And it bothers me how the nurses are there, the physical therapists are there, some of the social workers are there. His hands were gone.

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Home Care Pulse

JUNE 27, 2023

So whether that’s, you know, skilled nursing, physical therapy, social worker, speech therapists, all different modalities that we work closely with, which is really important factor. And Laura dropped so many nuggets during that little presentation piece right there. So we need to make sure we cover that for them.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

But also there’s also, because many more people… Oftentimes, when I’ll be at a meeting, if I’m presenting, I’ll ask for show of hands how many people have had experience with dementia. And these care navigator, they can be community health worker with just 12 years of education. Why do we need a story?”

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Minority Nurse

JUNE 10, 2024

A 2023 KFF/Washington Post survey found that nearly half of trans adults reported that “ their health care providers know ‘ not much’ or ‘ nothing’ about how to provide care for trans people.” Asha Lyons, a social worker with GAP, witnesses the impact this specialized training has on the lives of the patients we serve daily.

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GeriPal

JULY 13, 2023

Randy died February 26, 2023. And we had the date, if it was present in the EHR, to provide that context for the clinician. And when we presented it to the DSMC, which Alex was a member too, but we thought it was nice. Randy Curtis was first author of the JAMA paper. POLST advanced directives, what am I forgetting?

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