Hospice News

JUNE 20, 2023

Homebase Medical, a subsidiary of SCAN Group, is developing a new palliative care model to care for some of the Medicare Advantage organization’s most vulnerable beneficiaries. It provides Medicare welcome visits, transitional care visits and palliative care for frail older adults. SCAN is a $4.3

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Hospice News

JULY 25, 2023

On the other hand, these regulations can have direct impacts on how providers grow and sustain their services, Melinda Gaboury, co-founder and CEO of Healthcare Provider Services Inc., A rise of fraudulent allegations has given way to increasing concerns on how CON laws impact quality end-of-life care outcomes.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 12, 2022

The payer has deployed billions in capital towards high-profile acquisitions aimed at growing Optum’s capabilities, including the purchase of the health care tech firm Change Healthcare and the in-home medical group Landmark Health. NYSE: EHAB) from Encompass Health (NYSE: EHC) is a prime example. billion to $1.08

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Unroe has worked in advance care planning and palliative care, dating back to experience at the Duke University Medical Center as a Geriatric Fellow and as a fellow for the Office of Disability, Aging, and Long Term Care Policy at the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services , approximately 1.2

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GeriPal

JULY 19, 2024

Lastly, Soo Borson is a self-described primary care leaning geriatric psychiatrist, developer of the Mini-Cog, and co-leads the CDC-funded BOLD Center on Early Detection of Dementia. Alex 00:09 We are delighted to welcome S oo Borson, who is a primary care oriented geriatric psychiatrist. Who do we have with us today? Alex 12:52 Yeah.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

A notable trend driving interest from payers and other buyers are data that provide a window into the value proposition of hospice services when it comes to cost-savings and quality, according to Nick Westfall, CEO of VITAS Healthcare, subsidiary of Chemed Corp. In total hospice care saves Medicare roughly $3.5 NYSE: CHE).

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Hospice News

AUGUST 22, 2024

Recipients of home health and hospice distinction must demonstrate their ability to proactively ensure patient safety and provide goal-concordant care, in addition to implementing four evidence-based practices in geriatric care known as the “4Ms”: What Matters, Medication, Mentation and Mobility. These metrics are rooted in the U.S.

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GeriPal

APRIL 27, 2023

Attendee 5: That we are so integrated into the very fabric of healthcare that it’s a no-brainer in every single discipline because you know what? We deepen ourselves into the fabric of care and we make healthcare work for people who are seriously ill. We are not an extra layer of support. We are actually the integrator.

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Hospice News

APRIL 22, 2024

Hospice providers with higher volumes of assisted living-based patients are 7% more likely to receive lower quality scores than those in other settings, according to a recent study , published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.

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Hospice News

JUNE 9, 2022

I am an acute care and adult and geriatric certified nurse practitioner. We have 10,000 Americans becoming Medicare-eligible per day. Taylor: Yes, I think, too, in light of the pandemic, number one, we’ve seen healthcare providers that cannot meet the demands of their patients, so who do they rely on? Taylor: Absolutely.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 3, 2024

The house call provider Bloom Healthcare has leveraged its integrated palliative-primary care model to achieve substantial reductions in hospitalizations and health care costs. Bloom Healthcare cares for about 10,000 high-needs patients with a comprehensive primary care and care management model that incorporates palliative care.

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Daily Nurse

AUGUST 7, 2023

“For example, an analysis by McKinsey & Co found that telehealth accounted for less than 1% of Medicare services before the onset of the pandemic, but by July of 2021, telehealth services accounted for about 13-17% of claims submitted to Medicare. Nurses are the core of healthcare. Arends agrees.

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GeriPal

MARCH 14, 2024

Some of our healthcare systems are hard, and challenging, and I think that it’s time that we have a change. I think there’s maybe a little bit of debate as to when those turn from being just normal age related changes to then being something more, but it happens in many different areas of healthcare. Eric: Lovely.

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GeriPal

JUNE 8, 2023

Alex Smith: And we’re delighted to welcome back Alex Lee, who’s an epidemiologist and assistant professor at UCSF in the division of geriatrics. Nadine: I think for our geriatric friends that listen to the podcast, there’s a lot of discussion about de-intensifying management as people age. Happy to be here.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 5, 2022

My clinical experiences have been foundational to my growth, but my aging health policy experience with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, and my time with The California Endowment were equally important. Hartford, the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, and the American Hospital Association.

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Comfort Home Care

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Here are a few ways home healthcare services can improve the lives of older adults. In fact, research published by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services reported that nursing home residents were 14 times more likely to be diagnosed with COVID-19 than those living elsewhere in their community.

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Pallimed

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

She cited a jaw dropping falsehood about what she thought his election would mean for healthcare, and especially healthcare for white people. We spent a while talking about her concerns, and why her healthcare was secure. Her Medicare coverage wasn’t changing, and this truth would bear out for her regardless of her belief.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 16, 2025

Alex 01:27 We’re delighted to welcome back Tim F a rrell, who’s a geriatrician, associate chief for Age Friendly care at the University of Utah and chair of the American Geriatric Society Ethics Committee. All right, and finally we have Yael Zweig, who is a geriatric nurse practitioner at NYU. Tim, welcome back to GeriPal.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Actually, Manju, you probably could talk about yourself, but I cite it all the time of veterans who are equally eligible to get their care and Medicare fee for service system versus the VA and that patients who get their care in Medicare are more likely to start dialysis. AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) ™.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team. Anne: Right.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 17, 2023

Alex: And we’re delighted to welcome back Sharon Brangman, who is a SUNY Distinguished Service professor and chair of the Department of Geriatrics and director of the Center of Excellence for Alzheimer’s Disease. The field of geriatrics has been, I would say, somewhat negative on these drugs. ” Eric: Nice. So I agree.

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GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

Because I don’t think we think about that so much in palliative care, but we do in geriatrics. Eric: But before we jump into talking to your patients about driving retirement cessation, let’s talk about what is the role of the healthcare professional in this at all? Is it you, Emmy? Emmy: It is. Eric: What’s the song?

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GeriPal

APRIL 13, 2023

We’re also delight to welcome Carla Perissinotto, who is a geriatrician palliative care doc at UCSF in the division of geriatrics. I moved to Baltimore in 2015 and did clinical fellowship in geriatrics. What it found is that healthcare providers are better at identifying people that are connected more than disconnected.

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GeriPal

JUNE 30, 2022

And I learned, so you have this wonderful paper that just came out in JAGS, Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, titled Patients Living with Dementia Have Worse Outcomes When Undergoing High-Risk Procedures. So we looked at Medicare data, we called out everything that had this 1% cutoff or higher. Joel may know. Joel: Yeah.

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GeriPal

MARCH 3, 2022

This idea that for critically ill patients in the ICU, geriatric conditions like disability, frailty, multimorbidity, and dementia should be viewed through a wider lens of what patients are like before and after the ICU event was transformative for our two guests today. I’m going to turn to you Lauren.

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GeriPal

MARCH 9, 2023

If we can get on a path that is a Federal path, where it’s legal, I also can see a world where Medicaid pays for this, where Medicare pays for this, where insurance companies pay for this, in a way that makes it viable for many more people, is my hope. Eric: And thank you all of our listeners for your support.

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2023

We also have Joe Shega, who is a hospice physician, and he is a Chief Medical Officer and Vice President at VITAS Healthcare. This was an investigative report about fraud and healthcare, pure fraud, pure victimization of vulnerable people. Lauren: And looking in the Medicare data, you cannot figure out when a hospice changed ownership.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

Alex: We are delighted to welcome back to the GeriPal podcast, Katie Fitzgerald Jones, who’s a nurse scientist at the New England Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center, and a palliative and addiction nurse practitioner at the VA in Boston. I mean, there is so much substance use stigma in healthcare. Katie: Sure.

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GeriPal

JUNE 22, 2023

We start off part one by interviewing Michele DiTomas, who has been the longstanding Medical Director of the Hospice unit and currently is also the Chief Medical Executive for the Palliative care Initiative with the California Correctional Healthcare Services. I’ve known Michele a long time, since the Joint Medical Program.

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GeriPal

MARCH 10, 2022

On today’s podcast we dive into drivers of invasive procedures and hospitalizations in advanced dementia by talking to some pretty brilliant nursing and nurse practitioner researchers focused on dementia, geriatrics, and palliative care in nursing homes: Ruth Palan Lopez, Caroline Stephens, Joan Carpenter, and Lauren Hunt. Ruth: Thank you.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 25, 2022

She’s Professor and Vice Chair for Research at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine. Alex: We’re delighted to welcome back to the GeriPal podcast, Krista Harrison, who is a Health Policy Researcher, an Associate Professor of Medicine, UCSF Division of Geriatrics.

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Nurse.com

OCTOBER 26, 2022

You can care for pediatric patients, students, adults, or geriatric patients. In 2019, PMHNPs provided nearly one-third of mental health prescriber visits of Medicare patients, found a recent study. Healthcare clinicians will have contact with older adults in increasing numbers. contact hours). Psychosis, Mood, and Anxiety.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

And I think the crisis that we’re in right now in healthcare delivery, the idea of laying down my badge, I think that’s maybe a metaphor for being a sheriff, but what about being a healthcare provider? Amber Barnato appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional.

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Diversity Nursing

MARCH 29, 2021

To combat ageism in healthcare organizations, there should be DEI policies that include a focus on age. It's often healthcare providers attribute signs and symptoms of illness to normal aging, missing important indicators that need to be addressed. How You Can Reduce Ageism at Work. hospitalizations.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

That’s why we do this podcast- to address real world issues in palliative care, geriatrics, and bioethics. Sarguni: And I think the inadequacies of the Medicare hospice benefit really come into play here because a lot of times people are not sure if they want to get more cancer treatments. That’s the problem.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 11, 2022

Was before the Medicare hospice benefit. And one was the Medicare hospice benefit. I think we shouldn’t be doing advanced care planning before somebody has a serious illness or something that’s likely to end their lives, beyond having a healthcare proxy. It was really ancient times in our field. Susan: Yes.

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GeriPal

MARCH 7, 2024

Healthcare, just the way healthcare is structured, that’s not something that’s feasible unless there’s a specific symptom management need that allows for more care, but just to provide simple care doesn’t exist. There’s a consistency of understanding and approach that I think is helpful.

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