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Calvary Hospital’s New President: Workforce, Research Initiatives Keys to ‘Reinvigorating’ Hospice Care

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Calvary Hospitals newly appointed president Michael Fosina is embarking on a deeper journey to improve quality and access to hospice care amid rising demand. Research and workforce growth will play large roles in the future of palliative and end-of-life care delivery, according to Fosina. Some people struggle with that.

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The Rise of Hospice Nurses as Authors, Social Media Influencers

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Hospice nurse, death doula and educator Suzanne OBrien is also seeking to change the conversation about death and end-of-life care. OBrien is the founder of the Doulagivers Institute, which provides education to families facing the end of life and trains professional death doulas.

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Stillwater Hospice CFO: A Winning Recipe for Improving Rural Hospice Care

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For example, we try to buy vehicles for our nurses, home health aides, social workers and chaplains. When we find the right combination of the right person to fit with Stillwater culture and who believes in end-of-life care, thats gold. No other hospice care provider is offering vehicles where we are.

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Improving Nursing Home Quality: Jasmine Travers, Alice Bonner, Isaac Longobardi, and Mike Wasserman

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Summary Transcript Summary In April 2022, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM) issued a report on how the United States delivers, regulates, finances, and measures the quality of nursing home care. We have Alice Bonner, who’s Chair of the Moving Forward Nursing Home Quality Coalition.

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Dialysis vs Conservative Management for Older Adults: Manju Kurella Tamura, Susan Wong, & Maria Montez-Rath

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As background, we discuss Manju Kurella Tamura’s landmark NEJM paper that found, contrary to expectations, that function declines precipitously for nursing home residents who initiate dialysis. So, for example, you know, we see somebody coming in from the nursing. A nursing home. Let it be (hint hint).

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Many Hospices Need to Step Up Disaster Planning

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Overall hospice and end of life care was given too little consideration and disaster management policies and actions have been enacted by the larger response community,” Baker Rogers said. They were at best insufficiently supportive and at worst partially obstructive to provision of hospice care in disasters.”

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‘Let Patients Lead the Way’: Hospice Veterans’ Advice for New Nurses

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Winegarner came into the field in 1976, making her one of the longest serving hospice nurses in the country. Her work in end-of-life care began seven years before the Medicare Hospice Benefit was established at the organization that eventually became By the Bay Health, which at the time was licensed as a home health agency.

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