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Hospice, Home Health Providers ‘Squeezing Turnips’ Competing for Clinical Staff

Hospice News

Merz Photography / Hospice News Merz Photography / Hospice News Bill English, president and CEO, Accurate Home Care at the CONTINUUM Conference. Minnesota-based Accurate Home Care provides respite, personal and private duty care, home health, nursing and homemaking services.

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Lawmakers Mull Bills to Ensure Hospice, Home Health Worker Safety

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An emerging debate The legislation pieces have raised similar concerns among hospice and home health providers around patient access and continuity of care. Established in 1974, the nonprofit’s more than 200 employees provide care to upwards of 50 hospitals, assisted living and skilled nursing facilities, as well as in the home.

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Will the Real Nurse Please Stand Up? 

Daily Nurse

Have you ever heard a nurse pass judgment on a colleague and say that another nurse isn’t a “real nurse”? Have you noticed some nurses looking down on those who choose to be school nurses or work in home health, dialysis, assisted living, medical offices, or ambulatory surgery?

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Mourning Dove Medical CEO Dr. Kaishauna Guidry: Physicians Need a Framework for Understanding Hospice

Hospice News

For example, a patient may be hospice-eligible, but they may come on to home health because that’s all they know about. While they were in home health, nurses would observe them declining clinically, and I would go visit them and talk to them about hospice care or talk to them about our palliative program.

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Future Leaders: Tej Dhillon, Founder and CEO, Seva Hospice

Hospice News

He really wanted to create an environment in a place that he felt was suitable for his own mother, and so he had purchased an assisted living facility. One day, a home health nurse came into the facility and said, “You should get into home health.”

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Afraid to Leave Hospital Nursing? 

Daily Nurse

In contrast, other nurses might prefer a job where longer-term therapeutic relationships can be the norm. For example, dialysis nurses have the opportunity to get to know patients over many years, establishing deep mutual trust and affection. Let’s think even further afield from the hospital setting.

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Home Care Nurse or In-Home Personal Caregiver?

Freedom Home Care and Medical Staffing

Home Care Nurse or In-Home Personal Caregiver? In today’s aging society, more seniors are choosing to age in place, favoring the familiarity and comfort of their own homes over the institutional setting of assisted living or nursing facilities.