GeriPal

APRIL 4, 2024

In 1988, Cruzan’s parents requested that her feeding tube be removed, arguing that she would not want to continue in this state. On the one hand, this was unfortunate, as it meant Nancy Cruzan could not be disconnected from the feeding tube immediately. And I think that’s where we want to be.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 9, 2024

This article is based on a virtual discussion with Kathleen Benton, President and CEO of Hospice Savannah. Hospice News: I’m now pleased to introduce our speaker. Dr. Kathleen Benton is the CEO at Hospice Savannah. This article is sponsored by CareXM. This discussion took place on October 3rd, 2024.

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GeriPal

JUNE 15, 2023

Charlotta: Yeah, I think it will be in reducing the need to spend so many hours on documentation and looking through the EHR for information. And that I see as something very positive, because I think none of us like to spend hours documenting. You could imagine it being used as a requirement for hospice, for example.

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Hospice News

APRIL 15, 2025

In this Voices interview, Hospice News speaks with Enclaras SVP of Patient Care Operations, Erin Harris, PharmD, about how Enclaras contact center supports hospice nurses in delivering exceptional care. Hospice News: Share a bit about your background and the path that led you to your current role. Can you share some examples?

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Certainly SOME of those avoided hospitalizations, CPR, and ICU stays were due to documentation of those orders in the POLST. He’s been a hospice and nursing home director. And whether tube feeding should be on there, that’s never an emergency decision. Welcome, Abby. Abby: Thanks for having me. Welcome, Karl.

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High Peaks Hospice

APRIL 16, 2022

no feeding tube, but open to antibiotics) and your Health Care Proxy names the person who will follow those wishes and make decisions. Our staff here at High Peaks Hospice agree with the statement above. The majority of people, even those who are seriously ill, haven’t talked about or documented their wishes.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Or when it progresses – will hospice pay? I remember as a fellow, I would come in and our nurse practitioner on our hospice team, I would say the word narcotics, and f or half an hour, she would just lay into me. We try to document that it’s for cravings or withdrawal symptoms or Sach. So I just need this, Janet.

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Hospice Nurse Hero

MAY 11, 2022

If completing a hospice admission gives you cold sweats, you’ll want to check out these expert hospice admission tips. One of the most common frustrations hospice nurses have is related to how long it takes to complete hospice documentation. And at the top of the list is the hospice admission.

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High Peaks Hospice

AUGUST 31, 2023

One of our goals here at High Peaks Hospice is aimed at increasing the number of people in the Adirondack Region who have completed an advance directive. no feeding tube, but open to antibiotics) and your Health Care Proxy names the person who will follow those wishes and make decisions. Why does this happen?

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GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

Devon, I see that you have an R21 to study concurrent prescribing of opioids and benzodiazepines, which are like the second most common thing I prescribe in combination after opioids and laxatives for people in hospice. And so, for-profit hospices, for-profit methadone clinics pop up everywhere, and their care is pretty variable.

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Home Care Pulse

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

– Hospice experiences: Meeting You Where You Are. – Just another touching hospice story? Article Contents: Hospice experiences: Meeting You Where You Are/a> Is standardizing data the end of individualized care? Just another touching hospice story? Hospice experiences: Meeting You Where You Are.

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Hope Hospice

APRIL 28, 2020

Hope Hospice is publishing a five-part monthly series about common family caregiver mistakes. This series is written by Debbie Emerson , MS, Hope Hospice Community Health Educator. Do you and your loved ones have an advance healthcare directive as well as the other documents necessary for managing legal and financial issues (e.g.,

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Hope Hospice

APRIL 28, 2020

Do you and your loved ones have an advance healthcare directive as well as the other documents necessary for managing legal and financial issues (e.g., This couple did not have advance healthcare directives nor were documents in place that would enable the wife to handle her husband’s independent financial accounts and property.

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Hope Hospice

APRIL 28, 2020

Do you and your loved ones have an advance healthcare directive as well as the other documents necessary for managing legal and financial issues (e.g., This couple did not have advance healthcare directives nor were documents in place that would enable the wife to handle her husband’s independent financial accounts and property.

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Seasons Hospice

OCTOBER 26, 2022

If You or Your Loved One Is In Hospice Care, Be Proactive. If you have been diagnosed with a terminal illness and are receiving hospice care, you may want to consider creating a living will. This document can specify your end-of-life wishes in the event that you become unable to make decisions for yourself.

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Home Care Pulse

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

She could no longer feed herself, much less cook, and was dependent on others for everything. Alice has stated that she is unsure about a feeding tube but is certain she does not want a ventilator or other assistive breathing device. Within a year, she could only walk a few steps with help and mostly relied on a scooter.

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GeriPal

JUNE 30, 2022

She went to an inpatient hospice and they kept her comfortable for a couple of weeks and she passed away. But the 90 and six-month mortality is exceptionally high in individuals with advanced dementia, where it’s basically a hospice diagnosis when somebody has a hip fracture with advanced dementia.

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GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

On the one hand people have said research is the meticulous documentation of the blatantly obvious, which is kind of LaVera’s point here. So I just want to say that I agree with you that it is frustrating that we have to prove our worth. Alex: Can you stick on this for a second. I’d love to get Karen’s thoughts on this.

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GeriPal

MARCH 3, 2022

GeriPal podcast with Tom Gill on the Precipitating Events Study, distressing symptoms, disability, and hospice. He, his Twitter feed though is brilliant. And we did one with Tom Gill about the precipitating events project back in 2017, early days for us when he talked about restricting symptoms and hospice. Eric: Yeah.

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Death and Dying Chronicles

OCTOBER 17, 2017

To be eligible for hospice care one must have a terminal diagnosis with a life expectancy of six months or less. A non hospice doctor determines this. A referral to hospice is given when all other treatments have been exhausted or would prove futile. Hospice staff gave the person medication. That did it. That did it.

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GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

Potential that documenting advance directives without a robust conversation about prognosis might have led to these findings. Sydney 06:45 So I’ve been Developing and running palliative care and hospice programs at Hopkins for about 25 years. Jennifer 17:26 Documentation of end of life preferences.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

So one that the primary outcome was supposed to be documentation, which it improved documentation, it wasn’t powered to actually look at any utilization or hard outcomes. Painstaking work to go through each outcome and really characterize and document what works and what doesn’t. Get the hospice referral.

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