Hospice News

OCTOBER 13, 2023

“Promoting Cheryl into this position will be a smooth transition for our staff and patients,” Courtney Owens, TCMH chief nursing officer, said in a statement. Maley is a ‘homegrown’ director, working throughout her career at TCMH and up through the various patient care areas to the director position.”

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Hospice News

JANUARY 1, 2024

Consequently, many have launched additional business lines that enable them to reach patients sooner as well as capitalize on emerging value-based payment models. Patients in the United States received more than 2.2 million home-based primary care visits during 2016, up from less than 1 million in 1996, the study found.

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Comfort Home Care

MAY 15, 2022

Geraldine (Gerri) Flowers assumes the role as Chief Executive Officer of Comfort Home Care, effective May 9, 2022. She has played a significant role, spanning patient care, regulatory compliance, management, and most notably COVID prevention and treatment implementation and coordination strategies. About Comfort Home Care.

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Minority Nurse

JUNE 26, 2024

As a nurse manager, I am responsible for the unit’s overall operational needs, which include, but are not limited to, interviewing, hiring, performance management, patient safety/patient care initiatives, overall team engagement, patient experience initiatives, process improvement projects, and all other business-related needs.

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Daily Nurse

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Home healthcare nursing is a collaborative team approach to patient care. From private duty for long-term care of adults and children with neurodegenerative and motor disorders to rehabilitative and therapeutic nursing for those recovering from an injury or illness, we take a holistic approach to treatment.

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CareAcademy Blog

APRIL 30, 2025

By nature of the work, patient turnover is high, so maintaining a steady flow of client leads is critical for business stability. 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.

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Daily Nurse

JUNE 7, 2024

Paperwork is reduced with the use of electronic health records (EHRs), which help in the automation of data transmission that nurses, doctors, and patients can easily access. Nursing informatics enhances patient care decisions and outcomes. It plays a vital role in leveraging data and technology to improve healthcare.

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Nurse.com

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

An RN said an administrator at an assisted living facility — who isn’t a nurse — wrote an order in a resident’s Medication Administration Record (MAR). However, they don’t provide direct patient care. The nurse is wondering if this is legal. The post Can an Administrator Write Orders in an MAR?

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Hospice News

MARCH 22, 2024

Crouch in 2016 became a home care and assisted living facilities physician at the organization. He is responsible for strategic direction and oversight of medical services and staff at Treasure Coast Hospice, as well as ensuring regulatory compliance and evaluating patient eligibility for hospice services.

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Nurse Keith's Digital Doorway

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Nurse specialists and nurse generalists are both common within the nursing profession and 21st-century healthcare, and both serve important purposes in patient care as well as non-clinical settings. Pediatric nurses, dialysis nurses, school nurses, and others also play their parts in specific areas of clinical focus and patient care.

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Nurse.com

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Nurses are leaving direct care — and dissatisfaction with outdated staffing models may be a big reason why. How can you provide safe, efficient patient care and meet the evolving needs of nurses? We are partnering with local vocational schools to invite LPNs from those programs to work in acute care,” Zangerle said.

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Minority Nurse

MARCH 4, 2024

Community services (adult day care centers): Community-based facilities that provide care and activities for older adults, typically during daytime hours. They are for older adults requiring supervision and social interaction but not round-the-clock care. Their day typically involves a mix of medical and personal care tasks.

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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.

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Nurse.com

MAY 23, 2022

Assisted Living/Rehabilitation. American Assisted Living Nurses Association (AALNA). With 12,000 members, the AMSN encourages med/surg nurses to use their powerful voices and focused action to improve patient care. alnursing.org. Medical/Surgical. Academy of Medical-Surgical Nurses (AMSN). Nephrology.

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CareAcademy Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

A world where AI seamlessly integrates into caregiver training, offering personalized learning, real-time decision support, and insights that enhance patient care. Imagine a world where every caregiver has instant access to the knowledge and support they needwhenever and wherever they need it.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 16, 2025

So for example, you know, the director of the assisted living facility could be the person who knows the patient the best. Were you saying you started off by talking about somebody who might have conflicts of interest, like the person who runs the assisted living facility or something like that.

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Home Care Pulse

MAY 16, 2023

And I think there’s a comfort knowing that, you know, that, that the home agent, the home care agency is his joint commission accredited, especially because we credit every segment. You know, we improve the quality of patient care by, by following that patient. We have a tracer, a methodology.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 21, 2024

The inpatient cap limits the number of days of inpatient care for which Medicare will pay to 20% of a hospice’s total Medicare patient care days, according to OIG. 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.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

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Nurse Keith's Digital Doorway

AUGUST 8, 2022

Nurses, the hard-working lifeblood and connective tissue of the healthcare system, can often feel as if they are doing battle with elemental forces far beyond their control in their efforts to provide optimal patient care and fulfill their personal and professional mission.

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Nurse Keith's Digital Doorway

MAY 8, 2023

We call nurses the lifeblood of healthcare, and they're also the connective tissue and the veritable mitochondria, the cellular powerhouses of the delivery of patient care. Ask most members of the public, the media, and even legislative bodies, and they'll tell you that nurses take care of sick people in hospitals.

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Home Care Pulse

MAY 24, 2022

Grace had a private home care aide who later followed her to an assisted living, and Grace also received home health and hospice services as the storyline grew. But what about the professional home care and hospice caregivers who create these amazing impacts on all of their patients and families. The patient?

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Daily Nurse

APRIL 25, 2024

James Dibben, RN , is a hospice nurse and administrator, podcaster, advocate, and educator who loves teaching nurses about hospice and helping the public understand how hospice care can ease the burdens of dying. “99% Most hospice patients die in their homes. 99% of all hospice deaths occur outside of an inpatient unit,” Dibben states.

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Home Care Pulse

JUNE 21, 2022

Um, and just wrote about how she was progressing with those symptoms from being diagnosed by her family doctor, with her daughter, her who was her primary caregiver, Shelby at her side, needing home care to then needing home health and placement in a memory care in an assisted living facility to needing hospice.

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Home Care Pulse

JULY 25, 2023

Hospital residential care assisted living, nursing facilities resident. Doulas, When, when, when I look back at my career, the first five years of my nursing was patient care. Those five years, those patients taught me what dying was like. I said that all of those areas people are gonna die in.

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