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Hospice Savannah Fuels Expansion of CAPABLE Program to Enable Aging in Place

Hospice News

Georgia-based Hospice Savannah Inc. Relatively few CAPABLE programs exist in the Southeast, according to Kathleen Benton, president and CEO of Hospice Savannah. More importantly, in a nation that is absolutely aging, CAPABLE addresses the needs and issues with functional impairment that allow people to stay in their home and age well.

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Calls Grow Louder for Greater Federal Support of Rural Hospices

Hospice News

Rural-based hospice providers face a range of challenges to improve access among their underserved patient populations. We hear from countless community providers and state association leaders that rural hospices are in financial trouble,” Hoover wrote in a recent letter to the U.S.

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Hospice Documentation What You Need to Know

Hospice Nurse Hero

Hospice documentation is tedious and time-consuming. I’ve outlined simple tips to help you master the fundamentals of hospice documentation. Do you spend hours documenting at home? Why Hospice Documentation Matters. First, like all nurses, hospice nurses are required to document ALL patient care.

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Managing Urinary Symptoms and UTI’s in Older Adults

GeriPal

First, we talk with Christine, a researcher and geriatrician from the University of North Carolina, who recently published a JAGS article titled Overdiagnosis of urinary tract infections by nursing home clinicians versus a clinical guideline. Chrissy: Hospice? Transcript. Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal podcast. Eric: All right.

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Palliative Rehab?!?: Ann Henshaw, Tamra Keeney, and Sarguni Singh

GeriPal

We additionally discussed hospice care as an option for care that might follow the trial of rehabilitation. Why do we not have more palliative care access in nursing homes? Many of them aren’t enrolled in hospice before they die. And a lot of them never actually improve their ADLs once they’re sent to SNF.

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New Prognostic Models for Older Adults: Alex Lee, James Deardorff, Sei Lee

GeriPal

ePrognosis started out as just a list of different prognostic indices, so things to predict mortality in hospitalized adults, things to predict mortality in community dwelling adults, things to predict mortality in nursing home residents. And we’ve been slowly building that out. That’s been reported previously.

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Prognosis Superspecial: A Podcast with Kara Bischoff, James Deardorff, and Elizabeth Lilley

GeriPal

Next, we talk with James Deardorff about whether we can accurately predict nursing home level of care in community-dwelling older adults with dementia. Eric 04:39 Yeah, I see it used on inpatient, side on consult clinics in hospices. Alex 05:48 I guess we didn’t do hospice specifically. Eric 04:55 Oh, really?