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5 ‘Hidden Gem’ Palliative Care News Stories in 2024

Hospice News

Challenging this payment pathway in the VBID model was a lack of definition for the palliative care component, which led to widespread issues of consistency across the demonstration, sources told Palliative Care News.

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The Senior Living Opportunity for Hospices

Hospice News

My generation, baby boomers, were not going to a nursing home. It’s definitely very feasible versus going from home to home. Were looking at assisted living, senior living, that sort of thing, Ponder Stansel told Hospice News.

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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. Telehealth has been a positive evolution in recent years to help address some of our challenges that definitely helps in rural care. If youre a rural hospice, you may have higher reimbursement needs.

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Deprescribing Super Special III: Constance Fung, Emily McDonald, Amy Linsky, and Michelle Odden

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Finally, we discuss Michelle Oddens study, which used a target trial emulation approach to investigate the effects of deprescribing antihypertensive medications on cognitive function in nursing home residents. Emily 06:11 Yeah, we definitely have a pill for every ill. Go ahead, Connie. Eric 32:14 Yeah, I love that.

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The Nexus Between Palliative Care and PACE Programs

Hospice News

PACE programs offer a comprehensive approach to care for participants who meet certain eligibility criteria, mainly to seniors who have significant medical and non-medical needs to help them age in place and avoid the hospital or nursing homes. PACE programs are definitely open to capitated arrangements — per-participant, per-month.

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Dysphagia Revisited: A Podcast with Raele Donetha Robison and Nicole Rogus-Pulia

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So, it’s definitely possible in sort of that oldest old category that there may be what we call silent aspiration, where someone aspirates, and then they don’t cough or clear their throat, so you actually wouldn’t even know that they’re aspirating. Raele: Yep, they definitely can be. Raele: Yes, definitely.

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AGG, New Day’s Bill Dombi: Hospices’ ‘Vibrant Evolutionary Path’ Spurs Legal Growing Pains 

Hospice News

Its seeing the promise of hospice care being realized, and seeing the greater focus on an expansion in the definition of palliative services as being exciting, positive things coming about. Nursing homes have had this, home health has had it as well, but maybe it didnt all have the same name.

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