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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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The support that Calvary has with the staff onsite whether its the nurses or the clinicians, the social workers, the chaplains everybody is sensitive to what patients and families are going through. A Calvary Hospice nurse practitioner, for example, could provide dedicated service to a nursing home.

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AMOREM Launches New Inpatient Center, Agrace Temporarily Closes Facility

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To the families and the people, were going to make them a home, Susan Mitchell-Macfarlane, chairman and president of Mitchell House, told local news. A portion of the former Countryside Nursing Home is currently undergoing renovations as the boarding houses new site. Is this [facility] ever going to happen?

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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. Eric: So I’m excited because we’re going to be interviewing Michele, but we’re also going to be interviewing others, including inmate volunteers here, chaplains. You walk through that door and you feel like you’ve come into more of a nursing home.

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HopeHealth CMO: Hospice Rules for ‘Unrelated Care’ Getting Stricter

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We want to have money for our chaplains program and our bereavement services, and you could easily spend all of the money that we get from Medicare on pharmacy. If they’re able to take it by mouth, we switch the medicines to oral and get them out to a nursing home or to a home. So we try to be judicious about that.

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CAPC CEO Brynn Bowman: Palliative Services Are a Fundamental Shift in Health Care

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Palliative care is provided by a specialty-trained team of doctors, nurses, social workers, and chaplains who work together with a patient’s other treating clinicians to provide an extra layer of support. The goal is to improve quality of life for both the patient and the family. Are there ways to mitigate those obstacles?

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A ‘Culture of Caring’: Calvary Hospital’s 125-Year Legacy in Hospice and Palliative Care

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We have a pastoral care department made up of many chaplains of various religions, including an orthodox rabbi, that interface with the patient and family within 24 hours with the patient being here and then follow the patient and family throughout the patient’s stay. We have a home hospice.