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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Home Care Pulse

MAY 16, 2023

You know, we improve the quality of patient care by, by following that patient. We follow a patient from beginning to end to see the level of care that’s being provided. Brett Ringold ( 21:34 ): And home care providers are just one piece of the larger puzzle. We have a tracer, a methodology.

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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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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. Within hours of recording this podcast, I joined a family meeting of an older patient who had multiple medical problems including cancer, and a slow but inexorable decline in function, weight, and cognition.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 2, 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.

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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. Outside of direct patient care, Chris’ focus is in the area of patient advocacy.

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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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Home Care Pulse

JULY 25, 2023

Doulas, When, when, when I look back at my career, the first five years of my nursing was patient care. At end of life, it was a hospice nurse, but no one had any idea of what dying was like. Those five years, those patients taught me what dying was like. And hospice has evolved in those, what, 50 years.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

We did not want them to already have seen home palliative care. Eric 20:26 And that includes home hospice care. And then we also didn’t give them access to palliative care social work on the stepdarmouse. And then they, I think that was an exclusion criteria in both arms, actually. Pallavi 20:28 Yes, definitely.

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GeriPal

APRIL 11, 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.

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GeriPal

APRIL 26, 2024

** Claim your CME credit for EP308 “Palliative Care Nursing: Podcast with Betty Ferrell about ELNEC” [link] Note : If you have not already registered for the annual CME subscription ( cost is $100 for a year’s worth of CME podcasts ), you can register here [link] For more info on the CME credit, go to [link] Disclosures: Moderators Drs.

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GeriPal

JULY 20, 2023

We did the Geriatric 5M approach to telemedicine with Lauren Mo. And this is one way from a patient-centered standpoint, not the convenience of the clinician, but from the patient-centered standpoint, we can get care to people who otherwise have no access. It’s been a little while since I did direct patient care.

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