Hospice News

AUGUST 30, 2024

My first job as a nurse was in a nursing home in a secured dementia unit. Care of the whole person — mind, body and spirit — was what pulled me to nursing originally. What do you foresee as being different about the hospice industry looking ahead to 2025? What drew you to the hospice industry?

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 22, 2024

In 2025, this will rise to $34,465. The average length of stay for a patient with a neurological condition in 2022 was 159 days, compared to 106 days for those with cardiac conditions and 52 days for those with cancer, according to the National Alliance for Care at Home. For Fiscal Year 2024, the U.S.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 3, 2025

Barring some extreme event like a global pandemic, for example a decline in utilization is unlikely in 2025 and beyond. But in 2025, the pendulum could start swinging in the other direction. All this being said, 2025 also will see more regulatory action governing how AI is deployed by health care providers and insurance companies.

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Minority Nurse

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

And since a DNP will be the entry-level degree for all CRNAs as of 2025, newly enrolled CRNA students have been automatically enrolled in DNP programs since 2022. Executive leadership positions include chief nursing officer (CNO), patient care director, nursing home administrator, director of nursing, or chief nursing information officer.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Andy Harris (R-Maryland) sponsored the newly proposed budget for Fiscal Years 2025 through 2034, which outlined roughly $884.4 Potential cuts to the federal governments Medicaid obligations to states would be a significant blow to those who serve older adults in nursing homes, home health and other home- and community-based care settings.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Mitchell House is anticipated to open later in 2025. To the families and the people, were going to make them a home, Susan Mitchell-Macfarlane, chairman and president of Mitchell House, told local news. A portion of the former Countryside Nursing Home is currently undergoing renovations as the boarding houses new site.

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GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

Yael Shenkers negative study of primary palliative care for cancer , Randy Curtiss negative study of a Vital Talk-ish intervention , Lieve Van den Blocks negative study of primary PC in nursing homes. Corita 18:01 Into nursing homes, you know. And you excluded nursing home patients. Corita 18:47 I know.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Jerry: Probably for the reason a lot of people go into geriatrics, close relationship with grandparents, volunteered to work in a nursing home as a high school student, just felt really good about being around old people and not having a problem with it. Eric: And can I ask you, why did you choose geriatrics? Why did you go into it?

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Raianne Melton: I just have to tell you, I have like two pages of stuff because there’s so much opportunity, and when we look at staffing in particular, in 2025, the majority, 75% of our employees are going to be millennials. What they care about is professional development. We have to serve those individuals that are in between.

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Hospice and Nursing Homes Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2022

According to the "Journal of the American Geriatrics Society," b y the year 2025, an estimated 7.2 Frances Shani Parker, Author Becoming Dead Right: A Hospice Volunteer in Urban Nursing Homes is available in paperback and e-book editions in America and other countries at online and offline booksellers.

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Evidence-Based Nursing - BMJ blogs

MARCH 19, 2023

It was common then, and I’m afraid still today, to hear seniors swear they would never “go into a nursing home, because that’s where people go to die.” 1] I do know however, that excellent care is being provided in many LTC homes, most of the time. Topping the list of answers to the question, “How did we get here?”, link] , 2.

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GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

A lot has changed, but what motivated the study was a recognition that most advanced care planning interventional research had been undertaken in nursing homes. ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2025. Subscribers will claim MOC credit by completing an evaluation with self-reflection questions.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Malaz: One day I was in internal medicine residency and I had to take care of a patient who was admitted from a nursing home with dementia. For me, right now, the worst thing, my nightmare is dying from dementia alone in a nursing home. People start thinking about putting them in a nursing home. Diane: Huge.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Our conversation covers: The current state of COVID Evidence for COVID boosters, who should get them, and preferences between Novavax and mRNA vaccines COVID treatments like Molnupiravir and Paxlovid Differences in COVID impact on nursing home residents and those with serious illnesses We wrap up with a “magic wand” question.

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