Hospice News

DECEMBER 6, 2023

This article is sponsored by ACHC. In this Voices interview, Hospice News sits down with Susan Mills, Senior Program Director for Home Health and Hospice, ACHC, to talk about the key compliance challenges, opportunities and trends to watch in the current hospice environment. Visit our website to learn more.

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GeriPal

JUNE 8, 2023

When I’m on nursing home call, the most common page I receive is for a blood sugar value. And we invited Tamryn Gray from the Dana Farber joins us to ask insightful questions, including: What blood sugar range should we target for patients in the nursing home or hospice? Summary Transcript Summary Diabetes is common.

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Hospice Nurse Hero

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Please read full disclosure for more information. Hospice care is delivered anywhere the patient calls home and for many elderly, this includes the nursing home. Learn how you can build better relationships with nursing homes while delivering quality hospice care. BENEFITS FOR NURSES.

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CareAcademy Blog

APRIL 30, 2025

In this article, we'll explore how to start a hospice agency and ensure its success. Building strong relationships with referral sources such as hospitals, physicians, nursing homes, assisted living facilities , and home health agencies can help you develop a consistent client rate. What is Hospice?

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The World According to Dr. El

MAY 17, 2022

If there’s one thing I’ve learned from sitting by the bedsides of elders in the nursing home, it’s that life goes faster than we think it will, and I have other mountains to climb. It’s the undertaking I’d most regret leaving undone if I were talking to my psychologist in my nursing home room at age 85. A stretch, I know.)

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Freedom Home Care and Medical Staffing

AUGUST 28, 2023

In this article, we will delve into the realm of long-term care insurance and focus on the coverage it provides for in-home care or home health aides. In-home care, provided by certified caregivers , is a viable and often preferred option for many individuals who wish to age in place.

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Hospice 101

APRIL 27, 2020

But during this time, can we truly maintain healthy relationships with loved ones outside of the home? Many of us reading this article have a loved one in a facility, whether it is at an Assisted Living Facility, Memory Care Facility, Group Home, Senior Apartments, Skilled Nursing Home, Hospital, or other CBRF.

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AJN Off the Charts

APRIL 2, 2024

He is one of a growing legion of nurses who are putting their concerns about the environment into action both inside and outside the workplace. The nurses in the article speak about their work and why nurses are well suited to tackle environmental challenges. Farmer, nurse, researcher, connector.

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Nurse.com

DECEMBER 1, 2022

For example, if you organized a blood drive at your school or read to residents of a nursing home, expand on the details of these occasions. According to Yale University’s School of Nursing, resumes should be one to two pages in length. Does my resume have to be on one page, and what other format details should I consider?

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Hospice Nurse Hero

JANUARY 26, 2022

Please read full disclosur e for more information. Attitude about documenting in front of the patient Short staffing Unclear understanding of hospice rules/regulations Lack of nursing experience (new to hospice) Inappropriate assignments (new nurse with complex patients) Travel time (rural vs nursing home vs inpatient) Too many patients.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Thats my main take-home point after learning from our three guests today when talking about trauma-informed care, an approach that highlights key principles including safety, trustworthiness, peer support, collaboration, empowerment, and cultural sensitivity. We’re going to be talking about trauma informed care.

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The World According to Dr. El

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

There have been excellent suggestions from within the LTC world, but I recently came upon a journal article from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine that outlined short-term strategies in the general workforce that might be helpful. Eleanor Feldman Barbera, Ph.D.,

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The World According to Dr. El

APRIL 5, 2022

As I reviewed the many recent long-term care happenings and articles to select a topic for this week’s blog, my mind kept returning to the fascinating column by researchers Lindsey Creapeau and Jennifer Johs-Artisensi, “ Nursing assistants’ perspective holds the key to solving your staffing woes.” .

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

As background, we discuss Manju Kurella Tamura’s landmark NEJM paper that found, contrary to expectations, that function declines precipitously for nursing home residents who initiate dialysis. Eric 00:13 And, Alex, I am very excited today because there was an awesome article on Annals on conservative management versus dialysis.

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The Nurse Break

OCTOBER 14, 2022

This is a sponsored article, written by the epic team at Hunter Galloway. Today, I’m going to show you 7 common mistakes that Nurses make with their home loans in 2022. Buying a home is a long, stressful, and complicated process. Make sure to include the additional costs of buying a home in your budget.

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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. We have Alice Bonner, who’s Chair of the Moving Forward Nursing Home Quality Coalition.

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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. The emergency physician knows it’s not new information. Corita 18:01 Into nursing homes, you know.

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GeriPal

JUNE 16, 2022

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. ” What we should say to our nurses is, “Thank you for letting me know.

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GeriPal

MARCH 10, 2022

If you develop dementia, odds are you will spend the last months to years of your life in a nursing home or assisted living facility. This study explored nursing home organizational factors and staff perceptions that are associated with the variation in care for residents with advanced dementia. Rehabbed to Death.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. We got a couple of articles to discuss and a lot of different components of this. Eric: Which brings us to an article. Jessie: Exactly. I think two of you published, at least.

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GeriPal

MAY 18, 2023

But they were specifically looking at nursing home population. So the intention of the AGS Beers Criteria is to provide information primarily to clinicians, although to other audience as well, but medications that we consider to be potentially inappropriate in older adults. Mike: Thank you.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. The ones who are publishing interesting articles are easy as we knew MAID is always going to be a controversial topic. ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 24, 2024

David 12:31 Yeah, if you believe the results of an informal. And maybe Eloise, like, in your Stanford perspective as a nurse practitioner, not in, like, your cannabis clinic perspective, I’m guessing. Eric 39:13 No, there was actually in Colorado, I think there was that Atlantic article or New Yorker. David 12:34 Yeah.

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2023

For a deeper diver into these issues, check out some of the following links: Ira’s Stat new article “Hospice care needs saving” GeriPal’s episode on the growing role of private equity in hospice care Acquisitions of Hospice Agencies by Private Equity Firms and Publicly Traded Corporations. Ira: I like the article. Thank you, Anne.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Eric: And Sarguni for you coming in as a hospitalist, as a researcher, probably a lot of hospitalists have never actually walked into a skilled nursing facility before. And so I became more interested in what are the outcomes of patients with cancer when they do go to a nursing facility? Eric: I felt that reading the article.

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GeriPal

APRIL 4, 2024

The Cruzan ruling led to a flood of interest in Advance Directives, and eventually to the Patient Self Determination Act, which mandates provision of information about advanced directives to all hospitalized patients. You write about this, you’ve written this New England Journal article, you’ve written past articles.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 19, 2023

For a trial to have value, it should not exclude patients over age 80, or those with dementia, or patients residing in nursing homes. Additional links mentioned in the podcast: Recent JGIM article on POLST in California nursing homes, hospitalization, and nursing home care Karl’s GeriPal post on appropriate use of POLST Enjoy!

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2022

Start by reading this article by Sean Morrison, Diane Meier, and Bob Arnold in JAMA , and this response from Rebecca Sudore, Susan Hickman, and Anne Walling. Ideally, there’ll be a place in the chart that actually captures the name of that person and their contact information. I think Bob also noted documenting it.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

And for this podcast in particular, both Bill and Louise wrote articles that we’re going to be discussing particular patient cases. So while you don’t have to, we’re gonna summarize these articles. If you have a chance to read those articles before you listen to this podcast, I highly recommend that you do.

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GeriPal

JUNE 22, 2023

Michele: Yeah, so in May of 2018, there was an article by Suleika Jaouad in the New York Times Magazine, and they spent about two weeks in our hospice with us learning about the work that’s done. And so the article focuses on the work of these three men who were mostly gang involved and did something really bad when they were young.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 12, 2023

This article is sponsored by Axxess. This article is based on a Hospice News discussion with Faith Protsman, regional medical director at VITAS Healthcare, Raianne Melton, senior clinical manager of professional service at Axxess, and Cheryl Hamilton Fried, president & CEO at Blue Ridge Hospice. Let me see. Our telehealth visits.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 27, 2022

But we know from previous studies that a lot of older adults actually want this information, but might not feel comfortable bringing it up. So yes, it’s imperfect and we recognize that, and we’re always clinically making decisions that are based on imperfect information. Eric: Okay, I’m going to jump to the articles.

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GeriPal

JUNE 30, 2022

In today’s podcast we talk with surgeon Samir Shah and Health Services Researcher Joel Weissman about a pair of JAGS articles they published on the outcomes of high risk surgery and advance care planning among persons with dementia. But they don’t really have a lot of condition-specific or procedure-specific information at all.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

He will post like articles that he’s read highlighted with key points noted, absolute treasure. It’s in the title of this article. So I think the implications are pretty interesting, and this is where I wish that there was more space in the article to really dive into the details on this, because it is challenging.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 25, 2022

I had looked at a research article that had recently evaluated the prevalence of private equity transactions in the hospice market and noted that there was a pretty substantial uptick in the past decade, and really over the course of say around 2015 to 2019. Where do we go with all of this information? Melissa: Sure.

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GeriPal

MARCH 7, 2024

Check out the Pub Crawl GeriPal post for more info, and follow #HPMParty on Twitter to keep us as we crawl! ** In the last several years, I’ve seen more and more articles about end-of-life doulas ( like this NY Times article from 2021 ). I was alone with her in the end of a long hallway at a nursing home health center.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Her work is informed not only by her career of more than 20 years as a hospice professional but also by her experience as a caregiver for her husband. So I had that to inform my caregiving. They’re tele-novellas; they use dramatic stories to inform people. We supplement that with additional resources and articles and things.

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