Hospice News

AUGUST 5, 2022

A direct contracting entity (DCE), CareConnectMD offers primary care, palliative care, and care coordination services. Presently, 80% of CareConnectMD’s patient population is in the long term care setting, according to Phan. The company’s interdisciplinary care model is “high-touch,” according to Phan.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 6, 2022

The hospice, palliative care, and home health network Care Synergy has become the national center for the Community Aging in Place, Advancing Better Living for Elders (CAPABLE) program, developed by Johns Hopkins University. In post-acute care, we see people further down in their health trajectory.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 23, 2022

A veteran of the senior services sector, Health has spent his 30-year career as a leader of hospice, senior housing, long term care, and PACE programs, in addition to a stint as a health care lobbyist. I also think that we have to look at the potential new relationships out there with long term care.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

The level of Medicare audit activity has increased, with a particular focus on long stay hospice patients and hospice patients who reside in long-term care and [assisted living] facilities,” Young told Hospice News in an email.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Oregon-based Partners In Care is developing a program aimed at increasing the well-being of its hospice and home health clinical workforce and minimizing the impacts of burnout. I know that caring for ourselves first can only make us better at caring for others, but sometimes we all need to be reminded of that.”

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Assisted Living Communities (no longer preferable to call them Assisted Living Facilities, as we learned on the podcast) are…what, exactly? The problem is the tremendous heterogeneity in services offered and quality of care. If you’ve seen one Assisted Living Community you’ve seen one Assisted Living Community. .

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Caregiver Support Services

APRIL 10, 2024

These tasks include creating patient care plans, administering medications, and performing diagnostic tests. They play a key role in coordinating patient care and may specialize in areas like geriatrics or palliative care. They can prescribe medications, diagnose diseases, and provide treatment plans.

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Hospice News

JUNE 3, 2024

Florida-based Community Hospice & Palliative Care recently opened a new location in its home state that will serve as an office for interdisciplinary staff and a community center. Community Hospice & Palliative Care Community Hospice & Palliative Care Community Hospice & Palliative Care: COO Kenny Stevenson; Board Member Sen.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 16, 2025

Alex 01:42 And we’re delighted to welcome from my home state of Michigan, Joe Dixon, who’s a geriatrician and palliative care doc at Trinity Health. So for example, you know, the director of the assisted living facility could be the person who knows the patient the best. Tim 01:40 Wonderful to be here.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 18, 2022

Maryland-based hospice and palliative care provider Gilchrist recently formed a joint venture with the hospital system Luminis Health to expand the full scope of senior and geriatric care in the state’s southern region. Gilchrist clinicians will also provide hospice care through the JV at the Luminis Health Anne Arundel Medical Center.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Operators may not provide that level of care in a home, hospice residential facility, assisted living or a long term care nursing home, she said. In addition to these routine MAC audits, the U.S.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Our task is simple, we are going to be sampling each of these hot chicken wings while we ask Eric and Alex questions related to Palliative care and Geriatrics. He wants to know what do you guys think about the effect of private equity on hospice and long-term care? They’ve all been laid out for you. Anne: Right.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 20, 2023

He’s a geriatrician and Chair of Public Policy for the California Association of Long-Term Care Medicine. Eric: So before we talk about improving… So first of all, we just had a podcast not too long ago on assisted living facilities, so it seems very timely. I hope I got that right.

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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. The Lived Experience of Providing Feeding Assistance to a Family Member with Dementia. Palliative Care in Nursing Homes: Discussion of a Multinational Trial with Lieve Van den Block.

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Daily Nurse

APRIL 25, 2024

Hospice also involves the nursing care of hospice patients’ loved ones, which can include a great deal of education, encouragement, and psychosocial support throughout the journey. Hospice and Palliative Care Regarding hospice and palliative care , the National Institute on Aging teaches that palliative care can include curative treatment.

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Home Care Pulse

APRIL 28, 2022

Vicki Hoak, CEO of the Home Care Association of America (HCAOA) explained that the recognition of home care abounds post-pandemic: “This year, HCAOA released a new report, State of Home Care: Industry at a Crossroads, to illustrate how the pandemic spotlighted how older and vulnerable populations are too often left behind.

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Seasons Hospice

JANUARY 16, 2023

Your healthcare team may also suggest transferring to a skilled nursing facility or other long-term care settings. If you still require close medical monitoring and assistance with daily activities, this could be the best option.

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GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

Talking about palliative care here on this podcast, in our state, gosh, this was in the early ’90s, physician assisted death was on the ballot. The long-term care is being actually provided in the community at a much higher rate than what the formal system provides.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

So you can go to skilled facility for short rehab- But if you are permanently living in a nursing home. But if you’re in assisted living, yes. If you are independent living, yes. Eric: So as long as Medicare is not paying for the… Or Medicaid, I guess, for nursing. Long-term care.

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