Hospice News

APRIL 30, 2024

Given the significance of family caregivers in hospice care, providers can benefit from having tools to assess whether or not they are experiencing burnout. We implemented the caregiver self assessment questionnaire, which is a validated brief metric developed by the American Geriatric Society.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

” Cornerstone Visiting Nurse Association Appoints New Hospice Care Director Lisa Nichols, a registered nurse, will serve as the new hospice care director for Cornerstone VNA in New Hampshire. We are confident that she will make a significant impact on our hospice care program and the communities we serve.”

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Hospice News

AUGUST 10, 2022

“When we initially set up the clinic, there were discussions from senior leaders both on the Sanford and Good Samaritan sides to really come to the table with ideas on how we can serve that rural health population and continue to care for residents in their homes,” Rindels told Hospice News. “We

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Hospice News

JULY 25, 2023

Hospice providers have needed a window into access and utilization, as well as how lawmakers are shaping policies around health care. We know that addressing issues related to quality of hospice care is timely and critical to state (and also federal) lawmakers,” Cagle told Hospice News in an email.

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Hospice News

APRIL 17, 2024

The impact of limited access to palliative psychiatry can include poor quality outcomes for those with mental health conditions, according to Dr. Priya Krishnasamy, associate professor in the departments of geriatrics, palliative medicine and psychiatry at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Health System.

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Hospice News

JULY 11, 2022

‘We oftentimes come in on the palliative care side for patients who maybe haven’t seen a physician for the last 10 years, because they’re not able to get out of their home, and there’s no resources available to them for home-based primary care,” Dado told Hospice News. “I million primary care visits in 2016.

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Hospice News

MAY 8, 2023

For Hughes, the PalliCare model realizes an ambition of filling the care gap between home health and hospice care. PalliCare focuses on geriatric patients, and Fluhart was quick to acknowledge seriously ill people outside that demographic also need palliative care.

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GeriPal

JUNE 20, 2022

Families are unable to visit their loved ones and patients suffer from limited access to care and medications. The All-Ukrainian Associate of Palliative and Hospice Care was founded in 2011 and is currently working to provide support and direct supplies to hospices and palliative care wards in the country.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 1, 2024

We have an existing group of primary care providers, but we’re very aggressively pursuing acquiring as many primary care providers who are already in the geriatric care space, because when you look at most of the risk-based models — the GUIDE model that’s coming out and ACO REACH,” Ponder Stansel said. “[The

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Hospice News

JULY 24, 2024

A range of barriers contribute to the under-utilization of palliative care in nursing home settings, including poorly defined referral criteria and a general lack of awareness and understanding of what palliative care is and does, the study published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society indicated.

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Hospice News

JUNE 9, 2023

Health care fraud does occur in hospice and elsewhere, but some of the factors that regulators see as red flags — live discharges and longer lengths of stay — could also be explained by the rising number of dementia patients electing the benefit. Hospice care — regardless of length of stay — saves Medicare approximately $3.5

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

. — Nick Westfall, CEO, VITAS Healthcare Earlier access and longer hospice stays can reduce health care costs in the last year of life by as much as 11%, a recent joint report found from the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO), the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC) and NORC at the University of Chicago.

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Pallimed

JULY 11, 2022

We are right behind cardiologists, oncologists, critical care and GI and this should be something (when shared) helps to cement our stature. If geriatrics is on there, so are we. We should be including this in our presentations on Hospice and Palliative Medicine 101, or frankly anytime we are asked to speak to outside audiences.

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Hospice News

MARCH 22, 2024

Abdo is a true advocate for her patients – assisting them in navigating through some of the most vulnerable times of their lives,” Lisa Goings, hospice director at North Oaks Health System, said in an announcement. Her experience and sensitivity in treating older adults translate to hospice care for patients of all ages.

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Hospice Promise

MARCH 31, 2022

She fell in love with hospice social work during an internship at a local non-profit hospice while completing her undergraduate studies at Northern Arizona University. 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.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Providers need stronger supportive programs that help caregivers more effectively navigate the challenges of dementia care, said principal investigator of the study Dr. David Reuben, director of geriatric medicine and gerontology at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Health system.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

However, when a veteran transitions from a VA facility to hospice, they lose access to that benefit. This is even the case when hospice care is provided by the VA itself. Gerald’s Law would institute those benefits for those veterans who die in hospice. That needs to change,” Feifer told Hospice News.

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Comfort Home Care

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Pat Grant, Chair of AAHP, asked Gerri to speak on the important topic of home health care during Home Health Care and Hospice Care Month (November). Recently our CEO, Gerri Flowers, was asked to speak at the monthly executive coalition meeting of the African American Health Program (AAHP).

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) Care Compare site. The study linked for-profit hospice care to risks of lower quality, according to researcher Dr. R. Sean Morrison, director at the National Palliative Care Research Center (NPCRC). Morrison is also the Ellen and Howard C.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Garlock previously provided prison-based hospice care to fellow incarcerated individuals at the Kilby Correctional Facility, part of the Alabama Department of Corrections system. Quality issues are tied to a limited supply of clinicians who are trained to provide hospice care in prison settings, Garlock indicated.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 24, 2024

Honing palliative skills can be a constantly moving target when considering patient populations needs, according to Dr. Shellie Williams, geriatric and palliative medicine physician and associate professor of medicine at the University of Chicago. Williams is also a fellow of the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (AAHPM).

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Hospice News

AUGUST 18, 2022

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 geriatric care in the state’s southern region. You can’t do that if you don’t contract and work with someone to provide hospice care.

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Home Care Pulse

MAY 16, 2023

Brett Ringold ( 21:34 ): And home care providers are just one piece of the larger puzzle. If you’re an agency who also provides pt, OT of speech pathology, registered nursing at home, geriatric management, that’s a wonderful thing. Our agency is strictly a personal care agency.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 10, 2023

The program is designed to recognize up-and-coming industry members who are shaping the next decade of home health, hospice care, senior housing, skilled nursing, and behavioral health. Melissa Heiss, vice president of hospice, Jet Health, has been named a 2023 Future Leader by Hospice News.

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2023

What is our role as hospice and palliative care providers in advocating for high-quality hospice care? If you are interested in signing the position statement “Core Roles and Responsibilities of Physicians in Hospice Care”, click here. JAMA IM 2021 Hospice Acquisitions by Profit-Driven Private Equity Firms.

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GeriPal

MARCH 13, 2025

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 life care, which was to become hospice care, modern hospice care. You’re talking about a paradigm shift in healthcare. CME This episode is not CME eligible.

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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. those experiencing homelessness). The program also operates via a partnership with the PEACH Program. People who.

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Hospice News

JUNE 2, 2022

We have to get away from that in both palliative care and hospice care. I had my standard two times a week nursing, one time a week social worker, once a month chaplain, once every other month music therapist. It needs to be a part of what we do.

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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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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

That’s really allowed us to leverage some of that experience in how we work with managed care plans, especially with new solutions and how we can bridge some of these programs together. Daniel Schwartz: It’s a pleasure to be here representing Elara Caring. We are an in-home care company.

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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. We additionally discussed hospice care as an option for care that might follow the trial of rehabilitation. Summary Transcript Summary Often podcasts meet clinical reality. Once you discharge them.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

He’s a geriatrician and palliative care doc/researcher in the UCSF Division of Geriatrics. Scott, I think you have a song request before we talk about the JAMA piece and default palliative care. Good to see you. Alex: And as mentioned earlier, Ashwin Kotwal is joining us as a guest host. Ashwin, welcome back.

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HPNA podcast

JULY 1, 2024

Learn more about the Team Conference for Hospice & Palliative Care and register today! Carpenter, PhD, CRNP, ACHPN®, FPCN Featuring: Christopher Kerr, MD, PhD Joan is an expert in geriatric palliative care. His passion is palliative care and a belief that such care should be throughout the continuum of illness.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 8, 2024

And again, I’m going to ask you after this is how you also got interested in this as a career path, because that’s often a question asked of, like, for us in palliative care, hospice care, like, it’s a conversation stopper, somebody asks you what you do at a party, and usually it’s, oh, that sounds really hard.

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High Peaks Hospice

MARCH 1, 2022

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.

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GeriPal

MARCH 20, 2025

Hope 44:13 So I think a much bigger concern is why is that person who has an overwhelmingly likely chance of dying in the next six months, why is that person being denied access to federal benefits in the form of hospice care? Eric 44:32 And you feel like they are. People are, oh, I know that they are. Hope 44:35 I know that they are.

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GeriPal

JUNE 29, 2023

And specifically around hospice care, end of life care in prisons, is there something that you would change or make sure maybe we do differently or maybe other places do the same? Eric: Before we end up, and I really appreciate the time that you’re giving us. I’m wondering, we like to ask a magic wand question.

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