Hospice News

JULY 27, 2022

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will give hospices a 3.8% bump in their per diem payments for 2023, according to a final rule published today. The reimbursement increase is larger than the 2.7% the agency initially proposed for next year. A number of providers and industry organizations voiced concerns that proposed amount was too low to account for COVID-19 headwinds, rising labor costs, and inflation.

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Aging Life Care Association

JULY 25, 2022

Thinking about using a Medical Alert System / Personal Emergency Response System? ALCA Corporate Partner David Michaels shares the basics of Medical Alert Systems to help determine the best system for you or your aging loved one. What You Need to Know Before Choosing a Medical Alert System by David Michaels, Aging Life Care Association® … Continue reading The Basics of Medical Alert Systems → The post The Basics of Medical Alert Systems appeared first on Aging Life Care Association.

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JULY 27, 2022

Improving collaboration among staff is a top priority for many home care agencies. However, a solution needs to be secure and encrypted when discussing client information through a HIPAA-compliant* communication system. Most agencies find themselves juggling multiple different solutions for communication and work function, such as texting, email, voice notes, phone calls etc.

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HopeHealth

JULY 29, 2022

When Marsha Ireland was 36, she lost her husband and the father of her young children. In the wake of that loss, she found her calling as a grief counselor. The post South County spotlight: After personal loss, a grief counselor finds her calling appeared first on HopeHealth.

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Hospice News

JULY 29, 2022

More people are recognizing the value of advance care planning, but less are apt to follow through with those discussions. More than two-thirds (68%) of Americans indicated that discussing end-of-life preparations with their loved ones is important in a recent nationwide survey from life insurance provider and global technology company Ethos. However, among these individuals, less than half (47%) had goals of care conversations with their families or made end-of-life preparations, according to t

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GeriPal

JULY 28, 2022

Summary Transcript Summary. We are fortunate today to interview two oncologists whose research has catapulted palliative care forward: Jennifer Temel, author of the landmark NEJM study on early outpatient palliative care for patients with advanced lung cancer; and Areej El-Jawahri, author of the landmark JAMA article on inpatient palliative care for patients with blood cancers undergoing stem cell transplant. .

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AlayaCare

JULY 26, 2022

Improving collaboration among staff is a top priority for many home care agencies. However, a solution needs to be secure and encrypted when discussing client information through a HIPAA-compliant* communication system. Most agencies find themselves juggling multiple different solutions for communication and work function, such as texting, email, voice notes, phone calls etc.

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Hospice News

JULY 28, 2022

VITAS Healthcare, a subsidiary of Chemed Corp. (NYSE: CHEM), recently launched a targeted hiring and retention wellness initiative designed to ease workforce strains and increase capacity for patient care, paving the way for sustainable long-term growth. The program, which includes one-time retention bonuses, is focused on building up the company’s supply of licensed nurses, nurse managers, home health aides and social workers, Chemed CEO Kevin McNamara reported in an earnings call.

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Daily Nurse

JULY 28, 2022

In nursing school, you may have learned that health care provider bias can literally endanger a patient, but when an instructor explains this, a least a few classmates will probably imagine their parents scoffing. Even if you can’t imagine your parents saying “hogwash!” to healthcare bias studies, as barely 0.6% of our population is transgender […].

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Evidence-Based Nursing - BMJ blogs

JULY 24, 2022

For many children and young people living with Long Covid, the challenge of balancing the demands of education alongside a long term health condition is pausing, with the start of the school summer holidays across the country. The Long Covid Kids Charity shares guidance below for nurses and other parents of children and young people with Long Covid on how to manage during this time.

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AlayaCare

JULY 25, 2022

The pandemic has aptly demonstrated that the need for accessible, reliable care services at home is now imperative. Home and specialty infusion services are, we are increasingly seeing, at the top of the list. In fact, since COVID-19 became a household word, the demand for home infusion has skyrocketed – fueled by clients forced to seek out home-based alternatives rather than visit hospitals and clinics, and by medical systems in desperate need of different approaches as they contend with this p

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Hospice News

JULY 26, 2022

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has signed a bill designed to expand awareness of advance care planning, hospice, and palliative care. The new law requires the New York State Department of Health to develop a public awareness campaign to promote advance care planning. The campaign must include education about hospice and palliative care, according to the newly approved legislation.

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Nurse.com

JULY 25, 2022

Diversity, equity, inclusion (DEI), and belonging, along with racial, ethnic, and gender inequities are growing topics in the nursing industry. The lack of DEI efforts contributes to adverse outcomes like patients and their families who find particular shortcomings detrimental to their overall experience and care — issues like a lack of female leadership, health equity , provider diversity , cultural competence, intellectual and developmental disabilities care, and LGBTQIA-focused care.

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Chicago Caregiving

JULY 27, 2022

Collect and story this emergency information before you need it. As we age, it becomes increasingly important to have medical, financial, and end-of-life information immediately available in case of an emergency. Be prepared for an emergency by compiling these key documents in a safe, easily accessible location. This will ensure the person you choose has access to the information they need when the time comes, whether in a medical or financial emergency, or to inform end-of-life decisions.

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AlayaCare

JULY 25, 2022

Families have turned away from nursing homes and other institutionalized settings at record rates over the last few years. Instead, they’re choosing home care for their loved ones. As a result, home care organizations are not only caring for more clients – but more clients with acute and complex needs. It’s far from the only new demand for home care organizations.

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Hospice News

JULY 29, 2022

Hospices considering a sale should not underestimate their value proposition by limiting their focus on revenues and margins. With hospice M&A staying hot, a host of operational and financial pressures — coupled with record-high valuations in the space — has driven a range of providers to consider selling. While a healthy balance sheet is critical to those negotiations, that’s not where a hospices’ financial value begins and ends.

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Daily Nurse

JULY 27, 2022

Nurses just aren’t wired to be bystanders. When you see someone hurt or sick, you run to them because that’s part of who you are. And, after two years of working in a deadly pandemic amid a horrifying lack of facts, PPE, and staff, dashing to help at an accident scene probably seems a relatively […].

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Palliverse

JULY 23, 2022

Photo by Felicia Buitenwerf on Unsplash. How much is enough? This is a question not asked often enough of ourselves. Many of my patients had been saving their fun times, their big and only overseas trip until their retirement. I’ve witnessed many tragedies as people retired and become unwell. The opportunity to enjoy their hard-earned reward stolen from them by illness.

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Caring Senior Service

JULY 28, 2022

Your senior years can be some of the most enjoyable of your life. You’ve worked hard, now is the time to do the things you enjoy. With fewer responsibilities and likely an empty nest, many seniors find themselves looking to do the things they didn’t have the time to do when they were younger. We’ve put together some tips and ideas to help you to make the most of your senior years.

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Hospice News

JULY 28, 2022

Hot on the heels of forming four palliative care-focused joint ventures, Contessa Health has several more in the works during the remainder of 2022. Contessa is a subsidiary of Amedisys, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMED), which announced its $250 million acquisition of the high-acuity home care company in June of last year. Since that time, Contessa has doubled down on joint ventures.

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Daily Nurse

JULY 27, 2022

Assessing patients for cognitive impairment at hospital discharge can help identify those who are at higher risk of developing new severe physical disabilities, according to new research in American Journal of Critical Care (AJCC). Researchers at Montefiore Medical Center, the university hospital for Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, found that about 30% of […].

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Home Care Pulse

JULY 28, 2022

Article Contents: – Introduction. – Complaint #10: Being treated like a job instead of a friend. – Complaint #9: Care staff that lack accountability. – Complaint #8: Unmet expectations and confusion in the type of care they can expect. – Complaint #7: Caregivers who can’t prepare a meal. – Complaint #6: When they don’t have scheduled care during the hours they need it most. – Complaint #5: When more than 1 or 2 caregivers are assigned to them. – Co

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Living With Hospice

JULY 27, 2022

Diverging a bit from the Hospice theme, in episode 44, Mitch explores another form of end-of-life care and the role of a "Death Doula". He explains the origins of a doula role in relationship to the dying process, and the recent resurgence of this in modern end-of-life care. " We see women in many cultures taking the lead on preparing both the expectant mother for birth as well as the dying and dead for their final journey.

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Hospice News

JULY 25, 2022

The home-based care workforce shortage has social and economic ripple effects, according to Bill Dombi, president of the National Association of Home Care & Hospice (NAHC). Demand is outstripping supply for home-based care, said Dombi at the NAHC Financial Management Conference in Las Vegas. Home-based care providers are rejecting upwards of roughly 30% of referrals because providers lack the clinicians to sustain the volume, he said.

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Daily Nurse

JULY 26, 2022

Amanda Bettencourt, PhD, APRN, CCRN-K, ACCNS-P, is the new president of the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN) board of directors. She began her one-year term on July 1, 2022. “The future of nursing and health care is unknown, and the COVID-19 pandemic has brought a newfound urgency for us to work together to find solutions to […].

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Home With Help

JULY 27, 2022

Most devices today are new to your aging loved ones. There are seniors who gracefully welcome the possibility of using these gadgets while some feel otherwise. Be that as it may, these technological advances can be useful for our aging population. Technology as a Gateway. Distance is a great reason for people to use technology with their elderly loved ones.

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Caring Senior Service

JULY 25, 2022

Family caregivers often dive head first into their new role, full of energy and ready to do everything they can for their loved one. However, caring for a parent or spouse is physically and emotionally demanding, and family caregivers may eventually find themselves looking for help but not knowing where to turn. That’s where respite care comes in! Let's explore what respite care is and how to know if you need it.

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Hospice News

JULY 25, 2022

A federal court has sentenced Liana Karapetyan, former co-owner of California-based ANG Health Care, Excel Hospice, and Excel Home Healthcare, to 18 years in prison for hospice fraud and anti-kickback violations. The US. Department of Justice filed charges against Karapetyan and her husband Akop Atoyan last year. Atoyan was co-owner of the hospice and home health businesses and has pled guilty for his role in the scheme.

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Daily Nurse

JULY 25, 2022

In El Paso, Texas, men lined up outside the Corner of Hope, a homeless resource center, eyeing free supplies on plastic shelves inside a white van. Some wanted bags with toiletries or condoms, but others took kits that help them safely use drugs or naloxone, an opioid overdose reversal medicine. Gilbert Shepherd, an outreach worker […].

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Accessible Home Health Care

JULY 25, 2022

Remember: Prior to utilizing and depending on any device for medical purposes, you should consult with your physician to ensure the device will provide you with the accurate measurement to determine your health status. Accessible only recommends the CareCaller. With each year, more technology becomes available to us to make our lives easier. One of the most complex yet beneficial of these technologies is the smartwatch.

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