Sustainable Caregiving

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

“Compassion is about giving all the love that you’ve got.” Cheryl Strayed, author of the memoir Wild Compassion is the feeling that allows us to show kindness during difficult times. Where compassion is an internal feeling, kindness is an external action that embodies warmth and affection. As Cheryl Strayed said, feeling and showing compassion is … Recharge Caregiver Compassion Reserves Read More » The post Recharge Caregiver Compassion Reserves appeared first on Sustainable Ca

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Members of Congress are seeking answers from federal regulators on hospice program integrity as industry advocacy groups call for further action. Reps. Beth Van Duyne (R-Texas) and Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.) led a group of lawmakers who wrote to Chiquita Brooks-LaSure, administrator of the U.S Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), asking for the agency to brief them on fraud and abuse within the hospice benefit.

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AlayaCare

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

With the growing demand for home-based care services, organizations are struggling to keep up with repetitive tasks and inefficiencies that can be costly in terms of time and resources. You want your employees in the head office doing only the tasks that involve building a relationship and making decisions. When you look at what’s happening in the back office of the typical home care or home health agency today, you have a lot of activities that don’t involve either of those two thin

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary Think about the last time a patient yelled at you in anger. How did you react? The last time this happened to me I immediately went on the defensive despite years of training in serious illness communication skills. Afterwards, I thought there must be a better way. Well on today’s podcast we invite two of our favorite palliative care psychiatrists, Dani Chammas and Keri Brenner, to teach us about going beyond simple communication skills like naming the emotion when

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HopeHealth

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Grief can be isolating at any age — and that certainly includes young adulthood. Through our 20s and even 30s, friends tend to play a leading role in our lives. But they often can’t relate to major losses like the death of a parent. If a young person is grieving, where can they find a Read More The post 5 signs our Young Adult Grief Support Group may be right for you appeared first on HopeHealth.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

The Medicare Hospice Benefit should allow some concurrent care, and Congress should support greater access to palliative care, among other reforms, according to LeadingAge. The senior care advocacy organization wrote to Congressional leaders today calling on lawmakers to devote attention to improving the 40-year-old benefit. In addition to concurrent care, LeadingAge urged Congress and the U.S.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Four years ago I wrote a post inviting everyone to join us for the GeriPal / Pallimed #HPMParty. It breaks my heart just reading it: “Just so you know and can mark it on your calendars from here to eternity, it has a standing reserved spot on Thursday night at 9pm local time the week of the Annual Assemblies of the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (AAHPM) and the Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association (HPNA)” Well, as we all know, a global pandemic got in the way of enjoyi

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Life & Death Matters

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

We are very excited to announce new Life and Death Matters resources for students! Let’s get started because there is so much to report. The post New Palliative Care Resources for the New Year! appeared first on Life and Death Matters.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Offering hospice can be a gamechanger for skilled nursing and assisted living operators looking to stand out from competitors and improve patient reach. Home-based care, including hospice, has become an increasingly attractive space for facility-based health care providers of all walks. Assisted living and skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) have been joining the mix, taking varied routes to growth into home-based hospice care.

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Daily Nurse

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Nurses are the backbone of the nation’s healthcare system and play a vital role in providing clinical care to patients and supporting other healthcare workers. According to the American Association of Colleges of Nursing, nursing is the largest healthcare profession in the United States, with 4.2 million registered nurses.

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Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

In a world of constant chatter, revolving news streams, and search for the latest and greatest viral trend, there is a skill to shutting it all out and going back to the basics. In the realm of rehab that often means appreciating what makes our services unique and in the regulatory sense “skilled.” Skilled therapy services may be necessary to improve a patient’s current condition, to maintain the patient’s current condition, or to prevent or slow further deterioration of the patient’s condition.

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Caring Senior Service

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Heart disease is the leading cause of death worldwide and in the US. The good news is that an estimated 80% of cardiovascular disease , including heart disease, is preventable. In addition to taking preventative measures, it’s crucial that we pay attention to our body and notice the signs of heart disease early. By detecting signs of heart disease early, you can improve outcomes and protect your heart from further damage.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

California-based post-acute care company Charter Healthcare Group has tapped Cheryl Lovell to become its new CEO and Anna-Gene O’Neal as the company’s first chief operating officer. Charter, a portfolio company of Pharos Capital Group, provides hospice, home health, complex care management and palliative care services to nearly 13,000 patients in eight states.

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Daily Nurse

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Have you ever thought about working as an oncology nurse but weren’t exactly sure what the job could entail? Perhaps you wanted to get more knowledge about it to decide if this sector of the field was a good fit for you.

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Nurse.com

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Today’s healthcare system faces complex challenges, many brought to greater focus during the pandemic. Healthcare organizations continue to experience numerous challenges ranging from supply and demand issues, quality outcomes, and addressing the nursing workforce shortage. Transforming our current healthcare delivery model to address these challenges will require greater autonomy in nursing and flexibility built into nurse roles.

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Minority Nurse

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Susanah Awe, RN, is an SCN1 (Senior Clinical Nurse 1) at the University of Maryland Rehabilitation and Orthopaedic Institute in Baltimore, Maryland. She grew up in a small town in Nigeria, where career options were limited for women, and her desire to become a nurse was considered too ambitious. Nevertheless, awe defied naysayers and has been a nurse for 36 years.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Wheels of change are in motion at Amedisys (NASDAQ: AMED) as CEO Paul Kusserow begins his second term at the helm. For starters, the company is going full-speed ahead on palliative care, delivered through its subsidiary Contessa Health. Amedisys yesterday announced a partnership with BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee to cover those services, as well as a forthcoming divestiture of its personal care segment to HouseWorks — excluding its Florida operations.

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Daily Nurse

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Mount Sinai South Nassau has received the largest single gift in the hospital’s history – a $5 million pledge from The Louis Feil Charitable Lead Annuity Trust to name the hospital’s new patient care pavilion. The new four-story, 100,000-square-foot building, scheduled to open in spring 2024, will be named the Feil Family Pavilion.

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Adobe Hospice & Home Health

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Abode Hospice Grief Support Group What is grief? Grief is a reaction to loss. The way we experience grief is very individual; we each grieve in our own way. There are no universal “stages” to grief – it is as individual as a fingerprint or a snowflake. People may have different “styles” of grieving. Some The post Abode Hospice Grief Support appeared first on Abode Hospice & Home Health.

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The Nurse Break

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

More from In Pursuit of Excellence here Clocking up CPD – the conference It’s too expensive… It’s too far away… These would have to be the two most compelling reasons an individual can make not to take the time to go to a conference. It’s too expensive…. We’re already short-staffed… equally compelling arguments from employers. Yet, as I was sitting on a shuttle bus at the end of a great conference recently, making my way from the Gold Coast to Brisbane airport to fly home, dreary rain rhythmi

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Home health and hospice giant Amedisys Inc. (Nasdaq: AMED) has repeatedly voiced its enthusiasm for its palliative care business in early 2023. It now has another reason to be excited: a new contracting agreement with a key payer. On Wednesday, the Baton Rouge, Louisiana-based Amedisys announced a new agreement with BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee to deliver home-based palliative care to the insurer’s millions of members.

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Daily Nurse

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Nurse burnout has been an Important topic of discussion for years, and the COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated what already seemed like a disaster set in motion long before SARS-CoV-2 stormed our shores. Meanwhile, physicians have been no strangers to burnout.

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Minority Nurse

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Patrice Little, DNP, FNP-BC, is a senior policy advisor for the Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action , an initiative of AARP Foundation, AARP, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation working to improve America’s health through nursing. She is also a family nurse practitioner and the CEO of NP Student ®, a digital lifestyle and educational resource for nurse practitioner students.

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Nurse.com

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

When news broke in late January that more than 7,600 nurses in the United States bought fraudulent nursing degree diplomas, nursing regulatory organizations had already been working with the FBI to help uncover the scam. At the Nursing Care Quality Assurance Commission in Washington State, the early warning signs began a year and a half ago. The organization started receiving applications for licensure with school transcripts containing uncharacteristic — yet subtle — differences from typical tr

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Connecticut-based Regional Hospice recently opened a new grief support center to extend its bereavement services further across the state’s northwestern region. The new facility, dubbed The Center for Hope & Healing, is located in Washington Depot, Connecticut. Grief counseling support groups, spiritual renewal sessions, meditation, sound healing and massages are some of the services offered at the center for families and caregivers coping with a loved one’s loss.

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Daily Nurse

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Sasha Shevchenko didn’t hesitate to say yes when her mother called her last year and asked her to fly to Europe to help her cousins evacuate from Ukraine. Shevchenko, a cardiovascular nurse at Houston Methodist Hospital, was born in Ukraine but has lived with her mother and sister in the U.S. for nearly two decades.

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Minority Nurse

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Mary Howard, DNP, RN, NEA-BC is the executive director of The Ohio State University East Hospital and is responsible for operations, strategic planning, and program development. With training in the mediation of workplace and civil rights disputes and alternative dispute resolution, she believes in giving back to the community. She’s a member of the Community Relations Commission with the city of Columbus, the Board of Directors of CRIS (Community Refugee and Immigration Services), and the Unite

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Today's Caregiver

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Nobody in your life is as full of as deserving of love as a family caregiver. The problem is that we caregivers tend to take ourselves out of the ever important Circle of Care while always making sure our loved ones.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Though operators often feel siloed within the Medicare Hospice Benefit, they are not shielded from the shifting currents in the health care system at large. This is the first of a series of articles that will explore these trends, beginning with the meteoric rise of behavioral health and chronic disease management — both as essential services and business opportunities.

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Daily Nurse

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

The worst days of the COVID pandemic may be well behind us; still, nurses continue to experience high levels of psychological distress according to a survey fielded in November as part of the American Nurses Foundation (the Foundation) Pulse on the Nation’s Nurses Survey Series that found 84% of respondents say they were stressed or dealing with […]

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