This site uses cookies to improve your experience. To help us insure we adhere to various privacy regulations, please select your country/region of residence. If you do not select a country, we will assume you are from the United States. Select your Cookie Settings or view our Privacy Policy and Terms of Use.
Cookie Settings
Cookies and similar technologies are used on this website for proper function of the website, for tracking performance analytics and for marketing purposes. We and some of our third-party providers may use cookie data for various purposes. Please review the cookie settings below and choose your preference.
Used for the proper function of the website
Used for monitoring website traffic and interactions
Cookie Settings
Cookies and similar technologies are used on this website for proper function of the website, for tracking performance analytics and for marketing purposes. We and some of our third-party providers may use cookie data for various purposes. Please review the cookie settings below and choose your preference.
Strictly Necessary: Used for the proper function of the website
Performance/Analytics: Used for monitoring website traffic and interactions
Rising competition in the hospice space has fueled pivotal changes in end-of-lifecare delivery both for better and for worse, according to Arizona-based Hospice of the Valley Executive Director Debbie Shumway. Over the years, Hospice of the Valley has grown. Weve expanded our programs beyond hospicecare.
Mayo has focused on geriatriccare for 17 years, completing a residency in family practice at Bethesda St. He recently sat down in a Hospice News Elevate podcast to discuss what pulls workers towards the end-of-lifecare space — and the factors that are leading them away. Joe’s Hospital in St.
Bond is board-certified in family medicine, emergency medicine and hospice and palliative care medicine. He has worked in the end-of-lifecare space for close to two decades. Prior to that, Bond was national medical director for Seasons Hospice and Palliative Care, which was acquired by AccentCare in 2020.
Data has played a large role in the ability to gauge the impact of end-of lifecare. Hospice providers have needed a window into access and utilization, as well as how lawmakers are shaping policies around health care. Data on CON laws has taken on new significance as regulators zero in on the hospice space.
The new hires follow the retirement of hospice physician Dr. Mark Silver. Patel is fellowship trained in geriatric medicine with an emphasis on palliative and end-of-lifecare. Stacy Kreger, a nurse practitioner has an extensive background in geriatric and hospicecare, the company indicated in a press release.
“His clinical expertise, compassion and leadership abilities will be invaluable in guiding our clinical teams so that Treasure Coast Hospice can continue to build upon its legacy of providing comfort and quality end-of-lifecare to our community.”
Once Ana graduated and moved back to Phoenix to work in Children’s Behavioral Health, she was quickly reminded of her love for Geriatrics and Hospice. She obtained her Master’s in Social Work and has been with Hospice Promise since finishing her schooling!
Individuals with Alzheimers and dementia-related conditions could benefit from stronger caregiver programs upstream of end-of-lifecare. This is according to recent research findings, which could help inform approaches to care under the new Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) payment model. Fueled by a $2.3
Aging, incarcerated populations often have poor end-of-lifecare experiences, with a lack of trained hospice workers at the crux of the issue. Garlock previously provided prison-based hospicecare to fellow incarcerated individuals at the Kilby Correctional Facility, part of the Alabama Department of Corrections system.
Maryland-based hospice and palliative care provider Gilchrist recently formed a joint venture with the hospital system Luminis Health to expand the full scope of senior and geriatriccare in the state’s southern region. You can’t do that if you don’t contract and work with someone to provide hospicecare.
She retrained as a social worker, and it was while she was a social worker that she began to formulate her ideas for better kind of end of lifecare, which was to become hospicecare, modern hospicecare. She put her back out. CME This episode is not CME eligible.
I think as palliative care continues to grow, we need to shine a light on this because it’s needed not just for extended end-of-lifecare, which is how we’ve traditionally known it in the home health and hospice world, to true chronic disease management and holistic care of members, patients, residents in their homes.
He stopped in to request information and instead received an immediate call back from who would turn out to be the most formative person in his life, David Weissman, MD, the founding Director of the Geriatric and Palliative Medicine program at the medical college.
And I’ve always looked to try to help people spiritually to better themselves through spirituality, and who more needs help than in the end of lifecare. Eric: Before we end up, and I really appreciate the time that you’re giving us. So that’s when I jumped into this all the way. Gerald: Yes, they do.
I’m the senior nurse educator at H C P, Speaker 1 ( 00:25 ): And you’re listening to Vision, the podcast for leaders and forward thinkers in the care industry. Today we’ll be discussing the importance of unifying the care continuum for end of lifecare. Speaker 3 ( 00:38 ): Hi, glad to be here.
We did not want them to already have seen home palliative care. Eric 20:26 And that includes home hospicecare. And then we also didn’t give them access to palliative care social work on the stepdarmouse. And then they, I think that was an exclusion criteria in both arms, actually. Pallavi 20:28 Yes, definitely.
We organize all of the trending information in your field so you don't have to. Join 5,000+ users and stay up to date on the latest articles your peers are reading.
You know about us, now we want to get to know you!
Let's personalize your content
Let's get even more personalized
We recognize your account from another site in our network, please click 'Send Email' below to continue with verifying your account and setting a password.
Let's personalize your content