GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

link] Kensington Hospice & ‘Radical Love’ Equity-Oriented Hospice Palliative Care Naheed Dosani also serves as the Medical Director of Kensington Hospice, Torontos largest hospice. To medical directors, chiefs, and some were really cool to talk to me. those experiencing homelessness).

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Hospice News

JUNE 2, 2022

Well, I don’t think we have enough time, but I probably made every mistake in the book. We started having palliative care IDGs, where we would have our medical director sit in on case management and case conferences to understand “should we have actually coded this differently than we did?”

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2023

And welcome back to the GeriPal podcast, Ira Byock, who is a author and well-known, has written several books about hospice, inspired many to go into the field, and is the founder of- Ira: The Institute for Human- Alex: The Institute for Human Caring. Reading Ira’s article, it essentially was the VITAS Medical Director job description.

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AJN Off the Charts

JUNE 7, 2024

As it happens, this summer’s #1 best-selling book is Kristin Hannah’s The Women , which tells the story of Frankie, a young idealist nurse who volunteers to serve in Vietnam. Antietam battlefield, seen from the observation tower. Photo credit: Lewis Sandy. And that title remained hers forevermore. The Letterman System.

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AAHPM (American Academy of Hospice and Palliative)

JUNE 6, 2024

Joe O’Donnell, MD, Senior Advising Dean at Dartmouth, encouraged me to enroll in training as a hospice volunteer when I was a second-year medical student, an invaluable experience at a formative moment. It is also essential that we build and sustain a workforce that reflects the diversity of the communities that we serve.

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GeriPal

JUNE 29, 2023

On last week’s podcast we interviewed the medical director and the chaplain of the prison’s hospice unit (Hospice in Prison Part 1 ). But I was sitting vigil with him and just sitting there, just reading a book, just there. And she’ll never forget that book that they read together. ” He was hardcore.

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Hospice Nurse Hero

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Members of the IDT include: Medical Director Registered Nurse Nurse Practitioner Social Worker Chaplain Bereavement Coordinator Home Hospice Aide Volunteer Coordinator LPN. Revocation forms Advanced beneficiary notice Start-of-care booklets Caregiver resource books (like “Gone From My Sight”). Interdisciplinary Team.

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GeriPal

MAY 1, 2025

And I was working at the time at Yale in New Haven, and I became medical director of a facility which was initially created in New Haven as a hospice like facility for people with HIV, which is in late 1995 and in 1996 when the Protease inhibitors came along.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

There’s a book called The 36-hour day for dementia caregivers. The MVP for them is care navigator, medical director, or a clinician who could be advanced care practice PA or a physician who have one of three factor. There’s a reason that’s in… How many prints? It has multiple prints and updates.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 5, 2023

To examine how clinicians might act in the face of such bans, we turn to Lori Freedman, who wrote a book about clinicians (primarily Ob-Gyn’s) who work in Catholic Hospitals. Many links: Mara Buchbinder’s book – Scripting Death: Stories of Assisted Dying in America. And so I decided to look at medical aid in dying.

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