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Inside The Pennant Group’s Palliative Care Philosophy and Practice

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Our philosophy is that palliative care as a whole should be kind of a blanket that goes over all of those things and helps coordinate the care that those patients need across all of those settings, no matter which specialists they’re seeing or which which Medicare defined service line they’re a part of, Walker told Palliative Care News.

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Hospice of the Chesapeake Launches New Dementia Program Amid ‘Urgent, Significant’ Need

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Aliviado Health’s program is part of the Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing (HIGN) at New York University’s (NYU) Rory Meyers College of Nursing. Staff training is among the most important considerations when launching a dementia care service line, Escalante stated.

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Why Hospices Are Pursuing Home-Based Primary Care

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As health care stakeholders work to improve care coordination, more hospices are exploring home-based primary care. Patients are able to access palliative care when they need it and hospice generally sooner than they normally would.” million primary care visits in 2016. million primary care visits in 2016.

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Key to the Continuum: Hospice Providers Eye Primary Care Businesses

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“We have an existing group of primary care providers, but we’re very aggressively pursuing acquiring as many primary care providers who are already in the geriatric care space, because when you look at most of the risk-based models — the GUIDE model that’s coming out and ACO REACH,” Ponder Stansel said. “[The

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ACHC Ushers in 2 Home-Based Care Distinction Programs

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Recipients of home health and hospice distinction must demonstrate their ability to proactively ensure patient safety and provide goal-concordant care, in addition to implementing four evidence-based practices in geriatric care known as the “4Ms”: What Matters, Medication, Mentation and Mobility.

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HSPN Palliative Care: Fireside Chat with Contessa and Netsmart

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Nikki Davis: I’m a nurse practitioner and have been working in geriatrics and palliative care for about 21 years now. I have spent about 11 years total with Optum and then worked with Aspire, but now I’m currently working with Contessa and Amedisys to help support palliative care at home programs.

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Palliative Care an ‘Important Piece’ of Quality in Oncology Programs

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Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, for instance, has a team of palliative care providers “embedded” into its oncology clinic and ALS Center, according to David Wu, the program’s director.