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Stillwater Hospice CFO: A Winning Recipe for Improving Rural Hospice Care

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For example, we try to buy vehicles for our nurses, home health aides, social workers and chaplains. Allowing social workers and chaplains to do check in with telehealth, that would allow for more mid-level association with patients beyond the physicians involved in their care.

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Calvary Hospital’s New President: Workforce, Research Initiatives Keys to ‘Reinvigorating’ Hospice Care

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Calvary Hospitals newly appointed president Michael Fosina is embarking on a deeper journey to improve quality and access to hospice care amid rising demand. Research and workforce growth will play large roles in the future of palliative and end-of-life care delivery, according to Fosina. Some people struggle with that.

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Hospice in Prison Part 1: An interview with Michele DiTomas and Keith Knauf

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Afterwards, we chat with the prison’s chaplain, Keith Knauf. Keith per many reports, is the heart and sole of the hospice unit and oversees the Pastoral Care Workers. And people are getting life sentences. I don’t know if the chaplain shared with you stories about… Alex: Well, that’s going to be coming up.

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Enhabit Appoints General Counsel; The Denver Hospice Gets New Medical Director

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Board-certified in hospice and palliative medicine, Howe has more than 20 years of experience as a physician and medical director for various health care organizations in the Denver area, including a number of rehabilitation, assisted living and skilled nursing home facilities.

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Calls Grow Louder for Greater Federal Support of Rural Hospices

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Calls are growing louder for Congress to build stronger reimbursement and workforce incentives aimed at improving the availability and sustainability of rural-based end-of-life care. Nurse practitioners and physician assistants are essential in covering the gap in providers in rural communities,” Hoover said.

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New Hospice Facilities Launch Ahead While Others Halt

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Patients will receive 24/7 care at the six-bed hospice facility, which features private patient rooms, a living room space, kitchen, large dining area, office area and a serenity garden. In line with national trends, the area’s aging population is projected to grow and raise demand for end-of-life care and related services.

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The Roots of Palliative Care: Michael Kearney, Sue Britton, and Justin Sanders

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She started her career as a nurse and probably her heightened that worked against her. She retrained as a social worker, and it was while she was a social worker that she began to formulate her ideas for better kind of end of life care, which was to become hospice care, modern hospice care. What do we do?