Hospice News

JANUARY 3, 2025

Hospice leaders will need to keep their eyes on five key trends in the new year when it comes to compliance, business operations and finance. Hospice utilization reached 51.7% The number of hospice care days also saw increases, as did average length of stay and average number of patient visits per week.

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Hospice News

MARCH 24, 2025

However, more stakeholders are applying the term to hospice and palliative care. However, the concept of personalized medicine, also known as precision medicine, can extend beyond the realm of genetics, according to Dr. Howard McCleod, medical director for precision medicine and professor of medicine and biology at Utah Tech University.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 23, 2024

Julia Hospice & Palliative Refuels De Novo Plans Pennsylvania-based Julia Hospice & Palliative (JHPC) has reignited plans to launch a de novo after experiencing pandemic-related setbacks. Dubbed Julia House, the facility will provide inpatient hospice and serve as an outpatient palliative care clinic.

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GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

link] Kensington Hospice & ‘Radical Love’ Equity-Oriented Hospice Palliative Care Naheed Dosani also serves as the Medical Director of Kensington Hospice, Torontos largest hospice. And this is really traumatic event for his street family and the street community that he knew.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 5, 2024

Our measure will empower Americans who are without plans for end-of-life care to be prepared in the event they experience severe illness,” said Blumenthal in a statement. “By The legislation would also finance public awareness campaigns about hospice and palliative care. In the House, U.S. Representative Nanette Barragán (D-Calif.)

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Hospice News

MAY 18, 2023

These words were spoken by a fictional, terminally ill patient portrayed in the stage play “Lily,” written by Bryan Harnetiaux on commission from the Hospice Foundation of America (HFA). Hospices get in on the act Accord Hospice is among the providers that are staging Harnetiaux’s plays.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Clinicians face relatively high rates of burnout “due to the secondary trauma and emotional exhaustion that develops from working with death and dying daily,” Aprille Waldrop, social services manager for Florida-based Hospice of Health First told Palliative Care News. Nursing is not the same kind of work it used to be.

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High Peaks Hospice

MARCH 1, 2022

High Peaks Hospice would like to honor our Medical Director, Dr. Curt Gedney for National Doctors Day by sharing information about him with the team. This church member who participated in the board meetings, events, and more was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and shortly after, passed.

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GeriPal

JUNE 22, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary In the early 1990’s, California Medical Facility (CMF) created one of the nation’s first licensed hospice units inside a prison. Keith per many reports, is the heart and sole of the hospice unit and oversees the Pastoral Care Workers. Eric: Wait, so Bonnie Raitt sang a song about hospice in prison?

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 17, 2024

He’s a medical director of H ebrew S enior L ife outpatient clinic at Newbridge. If they’re frail, if they’re falling, if they have cognitive impairment, they’re at higher risk of adverse drug events. In the hospice unit that I work in, what we see sometimes is people are on, like, 20 different medicines.

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Pallimed

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Franklin also served on the Washington State Agency Medical Directors Group (AMDG) via the Washington State Department of Labor and Industries (9). About the Authors Lead author, Chad Kollas , serves as the Medical Director for Palliative and Supportive Care at the Orlando Health Cancer Institute in Orlando, FL.

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Pallimed

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

By 2007, the Washington State Agency Medical Directors Group (AMDG), which included several eventual PROP members (23), published an “Interagency Guideline on Opioid Dosing for Chronic Non-Cancer Pain (26) that introduced the concept of hard dosing thresholds for opioid analgesics, which was later incorporated into the 2016 Guideline (2, 3).

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The Bucket-List Blog

JULY 13, 2023

When Randy was diagnosed with a serious illness over a year ago, he and Sophie called Hospice Care Plus right away. “I I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend hospice. Randy and Sophie had already experienced how helpful having hospice support was after Randy’s father was diagnosed with cancer. Another offered to make a cake.

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