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How Hospices Are Innovating Clinical Onboarding

Hospice News

Having peer-support and employee feedback loops are key pieces in some hospices’ onboarding models. Rising demand for hospice amid prolific clinical workforce shortages has providers laser-focused on effective recruitment and retention strategies. It’s getting doses of training that are more meaningful.”

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Preventable and Aggressive Care for Cancer Patients: To the Bitter End

AJN Off the Charts

Aggressive care common in nursing homes at end of life. The other recent JAMA study ran in February: Incidence of Aggressive End-of-Life Care Among Older Adults With Metastatic Cancer Living in Nursing Homes and Community Settings. Nearly 10% of the 1.5

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NHPCO Welcomes Incoming Vice President of Quality

NHPCO

Alexandria, Va) – The National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) today announced it has hired a new Vice President of Quality, Dr. Aparna Gupta DNP, FACHE, CPHQ, CRNP. Gupta said, “I look forward to working with the hospice and palliative care communities to improve the quality of patient care.