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Hospice Medical Director Receives 50-Month Prison Sentence for $150M Fraud

Hospice News

“They enrolled patients with long-term incurable diseases such as Alzheimers and dementia as well as patients with limited mental capacity who lived at group homes, nursing homes and in housing projects.” All told, Merida personnel submitted 47,000 claims for more than 9,000 patients, totalling $152 million.

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

Hospice News

The positive outcomes of palliative care are well-documented, but it is true that person-centered, high-quality palliative care is a resource-intensive service. This is particularly true in community settings (patient homes, nursing homes, clinics) and in telehealth palliative care models, where we see an enormous amount of innovation.

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Nursing Work Environments: A Brief Guide

Nurse.com

Whether assessing injuries, administering medication, creating a care plan for the students’ teachers, or any number of varied tasks, the responsibilities of the school nurse are especially varied. In-home Nurses working in the in-home environment have similar responsibilities to the geriatric nurse.

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Avoiding the Pitfalls of Involuntary Nursing Home Discharges/Transfers in Missouri

Healthcare Law Insights blog

To best position the nursing home for the most successful outcome at the appeal hearing, the facility must follow specific rules and requirements as it discharges or transfers the resident and the facility must ensure it documents all necessary facts along the way. 19 CSR 30-82.050(2)(A)-(F). 19 CSR 30-82.050(2)(A)-(F).

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Transforming the Culture of Dementia Care: Podcast with Anne Basting, Ab Desai, Susan McFadden, and Judy Long

GeriPal

She’s a geriatrician and ethnomusicologist at UCSF, and she wrote a paper a few years back, it’s called, Now I Write Songs: Growth and Reciprocity after Longterm Nursing Home Placement. This idea that we’ve talked about here about the possibility of growth within a nursing home. There you go.