GeriPal
MARCH 20, 2025
To delve into these questions, we spoke with Hope Wechkin, medical director of EvergreenHealth home hospice, who authored an article describing a process of Minimal Comfort Feeding (MCF) for patients who have expressed an interest in not wanting to live with advanced dementia. Hope Wechkin brought this topic to us. Take it over.
GeriPal
OCTOBER 17, 2024
He’s a medical director of H ebrew S enior L ife outpatient clinic at Newbridge. Eric 02:37 Feeding the beast, Matthew, feeding the beast [laughing] Alex 02:41 All right, here’s a little bit. Because I think we have someone special, a guest host. He’s in Boston. It’s awesome.
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Hospice Nurse Hero
AUGUST 21, 2022
However, did you know that only the hospice medical director can recertify your patient’s eligibility ? While the nurse practitioner can perform the face-to-face visit, it is up to the hospice medical director to review the documentation and certify the patient still meets hospice criteria. Yep, you heard me right.
GeriPal
MAY 9, 2024
He’s a palliative care doctor and he is Medical Director of Palliative Care at Ascension Illinois Palliative Care. And for Matt, when you’re giving people the advice, I was listening to one about how do you talk to somebody about a feeding tube that’s for pleasure? Does that sound about right? Great title.
GeriPal
FEBRUARY 27, 2025
They often have behavioral issues stemming from their disorder, their life circumstances, all sort of feeding into each other. So there are some clinics where you can talk to the medical director and they may give people like a take home dose for the afternoon. They’re often angry.
Hospice Nurse Hero
MAY 11, 2022
It is also smart to know the generic names of medications. Also, what medications are likely to be discontinued once the patient is enrolled in hospice. For example, the medical director may want to stop vitamins and supplements. They told the family that the hospice would supply the tube feedings.
GeriPal
JANUARY 5, 2023
Would such ethical guidelines foster or feed suspicion of the motivations of bioethics? . And I became the medical director for that program, and so I was watching and learning as the hospital was taken over by AIDS patients and the whole city was consumed by this epidemic. We could have talked for hours. It’s bigger.
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