Hospice News

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Others may lack the technical skills needed to ensure clinical documentation is sound in electronic medical record systems, Garcia added. For example, some clinicians may lack the communication skills needed to discuss goals of care at the end of life, she said.

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Hospice News

MAY 17, 2022

With regulatory scrutiny on the rise in the industry, hospices are zeroing in on trained and qualified jobseekers who can prevent billing and documentation errors, which are often red flags that bring surveyors or auditors to their doorstep. Staff who can manage the intricacies of hospice billing are also in demand.

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Hospice News

MARCH 24, 2023

We’re not going to take the place obviously of a medical director or a certified hospice nurse, but we are going to give them another tool to question their thinking and make sure that what needs to be documented is being documented.” What other programs can we help you find for them?

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Pallimed

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

The CDC’s reply was unusual in that it provided no responsive documents, but cited Chou’s public disclosure of his conflict of interest from the July 2021 Meeting of the CDC BSC-NCIPC and recusal from those proceedings (13). He can be reached by e-mail at chad.kollas@orlandohealth.com or via Twitter at @ChadKollasMD.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 3, 2025

Systems like AI can help hospices allocate the appropriate resources for patients changing needs as well as reduce redundancies in tasks like clinical documentation. Hospices are also leveraging AI to detect potential errors in documentation or medication reconciliation to improve compliance and patient safety.

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Hospice News

APRIL 17, 2025

Decisions at the end of life reach beyond an individuals medical condition and involve in-depth consideration of how each person defines quality, according to Sharon Hamill, executive director at the California State University Shiley Institute for Palliative Care.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Alex 00:27 And we’re delighted to welcome S a ch Kale, who is a palliative care doc at the Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center. Alex 00:27 And we’re delighted to welcome S a ch Kale, who is a palliative care doc at the Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center. Janet, welcome back to the GeriPal Podcast.

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Hospice News

MAY 22, 2023

Understanding these perspectives can drive conversations about management of these symptoms, according to VITAS Medical Director Robert Nguyen, who worked on the study. Nearly half (41%) of Asian Americans surveyed indicated that they knew the type of end-of-life care they wished to receive, but only 7% had documented these goals.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 16, 2025

But like, if you look at a surrogate document, it walks you through step by step, the hierarchy of decision makers, but also, like, how that surrogate should be making decisions. Tim 01:40 Wonderful to be here. Thanks for having me. Joe, welcome to the GeriPal Podcast. Joe 01:54 Thanks so much. Really excited to be here talking with you all.

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High Peaks Hospice

MARCH 1, 2022

High Peaks Hospice would like to honor our Medical Director, Dr. Curt Gedney for National Doctors Day by sharing information about him with the team. After graduating from Medical School, to assist in the repayment of his school debt, he went on to fulfill a commitment to serve an underserved area for a three-year period.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 12, 2023

This article is based on a Hospice News discussion with Faith Protsman, regional medical director at VITAS Healthcare, Raianne Melton, senior clinical manager of professional service at Axxess, and Cheryl Hamilton Fried, president & CEO at Blue Ridge Hospice. This article is sponsored by Axxess. How would you respond to that?

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GeriPal

MARCH 20, 2025

Should these patients qualify for medical aid in dying medications? Hope is a palliative care doc and hospice medical director at Evergreen Health up near Seattle, Washington. And so I think of it as more like the patient who’s on document dialysis, who. Alex 00:14 We have a very full house today.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 31, 2023

We have a wide ranging conversation that touches on how to place aging, disability, and multimorbidity in the context of serious illness conversations, “striving toward normal,” stoicism, existentialism, psychedelics, the goals of medicine, medical aid in dying and more. Why don’t people want to document serious illness conversations?

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High Peaks Hospice

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Ann Merkel and some of the group of original High Peaks Hospice founders gathered to create a video to document the story of High Peaks Hospice’s beginnings. Dr. Merkel engaged with his partner Dr. Robert Kasulke to spear head the medical care. Dr. David Merkel served as Medical Director of Hospice until his death in 2012.

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Pallimed

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

By 2007, the Washington State Agency Medical Directors Group (AMDG), which included several eventual PROP members (23), published an “Interagency Guideline on Opioid Dosing for Chronic Non-Cancer Pain (26) that introduced the concept of hard dosing thresholds for opioid analgesics, which was later incorporated into the 2016 Guideline (2, 3).

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Pallimed

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Franklin also served on the Washington State Agency Medical Directors Group (AMDG) via the Washington State Department of Labor and Industries (9). However, PNN received 1,500 pages of documents “so heavily redacted they were completely blank (52, 53; See Figure 2 Below).

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Hospice of the North Coast

AUGUST 25, 2023

The team encompasses medical directors, primary physicians, registered nurses (RNs), certified nursing assistants (CNAs), social workers, chaplains or spiritual counselors, bereavement specialists, and volunteers, along with one designated family member. What exactly does hospice care entail?

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GeriPal

AUGUST 15, 2024

We discuss: What is considered a hate incident, how is it tracked, what do we know about changes over time The wider impact of Anti-Asian hate on older Asians, who are afraid to go out, leading to anxiety, social isolation, loneliness, decreased exercise, missed appointments and medications. CME This episode is not CME eligible.

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