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The Best Holiday Gift Caregivers Can Give and Receive!

Caregiver Warrior

The best gift caregivers can give their loved ones is peace of mind and independence. Wearing a medical alert system provides both! The post The Best Holiday Gift Caregivers Can Give and Receive! appeared first on Caregiver Warrior.

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Employee Shortages Everywhere

Home With Help

Have you heard the news? We (collectively speaking) are in the midst of The Great Resignation. Employee shortages are everywhere! We are definitely seeing it and feeling it in the healthcare industry. According to several online reports, over 4 million Americans left their jobs just in September alone. And it is still happening now. What does this mean for employees?

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The Experience of Grief

Kindful Hospice

Grief is a universal experience. It will eventually touch everyone’s life. . How we deal with that grief, though, is very different from person to person. Women grieve differently than men. Soldiers grieve in a different way than civilians do. According to recent research, most people come back from the experience fairly quickly — about 60%. About 25% of people, though, take a year or two to process their grief.

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Adirondack Artists Guild to hold benefit show for High Peaks Hospice

High Peaks Hospice

When: January 7-31, 2022. What: During the month of January, the Adirondack Artists Guild will host “Transition,” an art show to benefit High Peaks Hospice. Each member of the Guild will donate one or two pieces of art in a silent auction event. Where: Adirondack Artist Guild Gallery located at 52 Main St, Saranac Lake, NY 12983. Also online at adirondackartistsguild.com.

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3 Reasons to Retire Pagers from Healthcare Settings

Let's discuss the trusty pager—an old favorite that’s losing its shine in hospitals and clinics. While once a staple in hospitals and clinics, pagers now present significant limitations that hinder rather than facilitate communication among healthcare professionals. Healthcare professionals are constantly on the move, and they need communication tools that can keep up with their fast-paced lives.

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Ep. 21 - A Day in the Life of a Certified Hospice and Palliative Care LPN

HPNA podcast

This episode of HPNA Podcast Corner welcomes guest Shelly Thomas to share with us A Day in the Life of a Certified Hospice and Palliative Care Licensed Practical Nurse. In this episode, Shelly speaks to the importance of certification and the role hospice LPNs play in the care of person and their families living with serious illness. The podcast describes the certified hospice LPNs role, the part they play on the interprofessional hospice team and Shelly’s personal reason for becoming certified.

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Your Nursing Career: Stagnation or Flow?

Nurse Keith's Digital Doorway

As nurses, our careers are fed by movement, not stagnation. Nursing can be a very dynamic career path, and how you approach the trajectory of your professional development can be greatly influenced by many aspects of your life. At this point in time, is your career stagnant or flowing? Stagnant or Flowing? When you take examine your nursing career, is it a flowing river of possibility and growth, or is it a dry riverbed hungry for the moisture of your curiosity?

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Good Retention Requires Strong DEI Culture

Diversity Nursing

Creating a workplace with a strong Diverse, Equitable and Inclusive culture is not only the right thing, it’s also crucial for your retention and improving patient care. A study from Press Ganey shows health systems with strong Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) values have less risk of staff potentially leaving the organization. The study also found: Healthcare organizations had twice as many employees at risk of leaving if the workforce perceived diversity and equity weren’t prioritized ve

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Hospices and The False Claims Act: Proposed Amendment Would Increase Liability Risk

Healthcare Law Insights podcast

Hospices and the False Claims Act Series The False Claims Act (FCA) is the government’s most serious weapon to combat fraud in the healthcare community, and hospices are increasingly the target of FCA investigations and lawsuits. The United States Supreme Court is, for the first time, considering FCA cases involving hospices and certifications of terminal illness.

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Empathy in Healthcare

Hospice and Nursing Homes Blog

Would you describe yourself as a person with empathy for supporting emotional needs of others? Were you born with this ability? It may surprise you to know that you were not. This fundamental force of morality, this psychological phenomenon is actually a learned behavior. Scientific testing with animals, infants, adults and robots suggests that empathy viewed as an automatic process that catches the feelings of others is actually constructed in the course of development through social interactio

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Notice of Admission (NOA) Requirements for Home Health

HEALTHCARE first

What home health agencies should know about the NOA effective January 1, 2022.

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Real-Life Examples of HIPAA Violations and How to Avoid Them

Speaker: Jack Clough, Chief Growth Officer

Download our 30-minute webinar where we delve into real-life examples of HIPAA violations and preventative measures every organization should know! You will learn: The critical factors that lead to HIPAA violations and how to identify them. Three compelling real-life cases of organizations that faced severe HIPAA penalties. Proven strategies to safeguard YOUR organization against HIPAA violations.

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AlayaCare Partners with Viventium Software Inc. to Streamline Payroll and HR Processes for Home Care Agencies

AlayaCare

Partnership and integration delivers Viventium’s award-winning solution directly within AlayaCare’s flexible, cloud-based platform RICHMOND HILL, NY – December 14, 2021 – AlayaCare, leading home health software, announced today its partnership and integration with human capital management solution, Viventium, to further support home care organizations in streamlining payroll and HR processes.

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AlayaCare Partners with Viventium Software Inc. to Streamline Payroll and HR Processes for Home Care Agencies

AlayaCare

Partnership and integration delivers Viventium’s award-winning solution directly within AlayaCare’s flexible, cloud-based platform. RICHMOND HILL, NY – December 14, 2021 – AlayaCare, leading home health software, announced today its partnership and integration with human capital management solution, Viventium, to further support home care organizations in streamlining payroll and HR processes.