Hospice News

MAY 29, 2024

Dr. Vicki Jackson, board president of the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (AAHPM), noted that palliative care has demonstrated a positive impact on patient-reported outcomes across various illnesses, including cancer, heart, liver, kidney disease and dementia. She also underscored workforce shortages.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 30, 2023

The nonprofit hospice and senior services provider plans to offer primary care to a larger population of chronically ill patients with an emphasis on the Arlington County, Virginia, region. A number of hospices have launched their own programs or partnerships with other providers. Patients in the United States received more than 2.2

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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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Hospice News

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Though hospice deal volume dipped in 2022 compared to previous years, five particular transactions could paint a larger picture of where investors see value in the space. These interesting, unusual or groundbreaking deals could signal what’s to come in 2023 and help shape the hospice market’s long-term future. This was Humana Inc.’s

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Of note: these lessons apply to geriatrics, primary care, hospital medicine, critical care, cancer care, etc, etc. social worker, chaplain), everyone should be able to ask a question or two about spiritual concerns, social concerns, or physical concerns. I think geriatrics very proud of interprofessional care.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Wu added that with only 10 members, the palliative care team is “small but mighty” and includes physicians, a nurse practitioner, a nurse social worker, a pharmacist, a chaplain and an administrator. The post How Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center Built an Award-Winning Palliative Program appeared first on Hospice News.

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GeriPal

APRIL 27, 2023

Again, this was not an AHPM or HPNA sponsored thing, but we did go around people on the street asking them two questions: what’s one thing that you’re hoping for in the future of palliative care and hospice, and what’s another thing when you’re thinking about what you’re worried about for the field?

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GeriPal

AUGUST 25, 2022

Two major shifts are transforming the landscape of hospice. First, private equity firms are gobbling up hospices. Thus, they have little in the way of long term vision for hospices, instead focused on cutting costs and maximizing profits. . People with dementia make up about half of hospice admissions. AlexSmithMD.

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary In November of 2022, Ava Kofman published a piece in the New Yorker titled “How Hospice Became a For-Profit Hustle.” Some viewed this piece as an affront to the amazing work hospice does for those approaching the end of their lives by cherry picking stories of a few bad actors to paint hospice is a bad light.

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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. Many of them aren’t enrolled in hospice before they die. That’s the problem. What are other options?

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Hospice News

MAY 25, 2023

The conversation took place on April 20, 2023, during the Hospice News Palliative Care Conference. Nikki Davis: I’m a nurse practitioner and have been working in geriatrics and palliative care for about 21 years now. The post HSPN Palliative Care: Fireside Chat with Contessa and Netsmart appeared first on Hospice News.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 18, 2023

John Hopkins uses a training model across various fellowship programs, including oncology and geriatrics, that fosters improved conversations and patient care strategies using a palliative care approach. The post Palliative Care an ‘Important Piece’ of Quality in Oncology Programs appeared first on Hospice News.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 3, 2024

In this episode, we share the joy of talking with Wendy MacNaughton (artist, author, graphic journalist) and Frank Ostaseski (Buddhist teacher, author, founder of the Metta Institute and Zen Hospice Project) about using drawings and images as tools for creating human connections and processing death and dying. This is Eric Widera.

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Hospice News

JUNE 2, 2022

This article is based on a Q&A session with Jason Banks, Senior Director of Post Acute Sales at nVoq, during the Hospice News Palliative Care Conference. Hospice News: Jason has an incredible background in post-acute care that we’re going to talk about today. Banks: I ran a hospice and palliative care.

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GeriPal

MARCH 30, 2023

Our listeners will be familiar with Anne Kelly, who’s a social worker at the San Francisco VA, on the palliative care service, who wrote a JAMA piece of my mind title The Last Visit. There’s this beauty that’s there, whether we’re doing geriatrics, infectious disease, palliative care. Anne: Hi, guys.

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GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

We welcome all professions, including but not limited to physicians, chaplains, social workers, nurses, nurse practitioners, case managers, administrators, and pharmacists. It meets in-person, once a month, over nine sessions. For inquiries or to apply, please contact gayle.kojimoto@ucsf.edu. I’m going to start off with Lexy.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

I’d hazard that maybe half the patients I care for at the intersection of geriatrics and palliative care fall in the gray zone. Alex: And a voice that will be very familiar to our listeners, a dynamic and enthusiastic social worker in palliative care at the San Francisco VA, Anne Kelly. Welcome back, Lynn. Lynn: Thank you.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 5, 2022

In this Voices interview, Hospice News sits down with Dr. Khai Nguyen , National Medical Director, Geriatrician for CHAP, to talk about the age-friendly care movement. Hospice News: What career experiences do you most draw from in your role today? That roundtable approach is key in hospice as it is at CHAP.

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GeriPal

APRIL 4, 2024

They didn’t come up in geriatrics very much. And we see that too in geriatrics. Alex and Eric, both of you attend in geriatrics. Eric: Because those full treatment include hospice and comfort focused medications. Eric: Full treatment should also include hospice. I didn’t see very many AIDS patients.

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GeriPal

JULY 11, 2024

It used to also be a social worker and myself who would actually go to clinic and spend some time up there. Said social worker has left since then, so it’s now just me. Eric 34:23 Yeah, I just learned challenges of when discharging people to hospice on. You mentioned hospice, though. But it is a.

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Hospice Promise

MARCH 31, 2022

We’re ending #NationalSocialWorkMonth on a high note with a spotlight on Ana, MSW, one of our lovely Social Workers! Ana has been a Social Worker for three years now. She obtained her Master’s in Social Work and has been with Hospice Promise since finishing her schooling!

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

The last case of anger that I ineptly dealt with was we were delivering in some ways good but bad news, that somebody was graduating from hospice. And the anger was… I was the one delivering the bad news, but the anger was very much directed at a social worker on our service who’s female. Alex: Yeah. Dani: Totally.

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GeriPal

MAY 4, 2023

We talk about why it’s so hard with Abby Rosenberg (chief of PC at DFCI and Boston Childrens), Nick Purol (clinical social worker at DFCI and Boston Childrens), Daniel Eison (pediatric PC doc and co-host of PediPal). Aren’t young adults so much harder than the geriatric patients we take care of? Abby: Thank you.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Eric and I are joined today on this podcast by Anne Kelly palliative care social worker to discuss these issues with Liz. Alex: And joining us as she has many times, Anne Kelly is a social worker at the San Francisco VA. At the end we also pay tribute to Randy Curtis, senior author on this paper and mentor to Liz.

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GeriPal

JUNE 9, 2022

In the US, geriatrics “grew up” as an academic profession with a heavy research base. Clinical growth of geriatrics programs has lagged academic research, despite the rapid aging of the population. . You’re not hiring a bunch of social workers or nurses or docs to do it. Summary Transcript Summary.

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AAHPM (American Academy of Hospice and Palliative)

JUNE 6, 2024

Elizabeth Hart, MD Androscoggin Home Healthcare + Hospice AAHPM reached out to the 2024 Visionaries to gain insight into what motivated them to pursue leadership positions and what they find more fulfilling in their experiences. The nurses, aides, chaplains and social workers on our team teach me daily.

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GeriPal

APRIL 28, 2022

And then, “I call hospice giving up.” But luckily, Anne Kelly, our social worker, was in the room with me and said the magic thing that just was the right thing to say. After days of discuss my patient decided to go home on hospice with her family, no tracheostomy, no respirator. Like, oh no, I said it.

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GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

Asking clinicians whether they had offered the option of withdrawal of life support and comfort-focused care also did not change length of stay, but did increase the discharges to hospice, odds greater than two-fold, whether it was done alone or in combination with the prognostication nudge. They’re because of the treatment.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Summary Transcript Summary Last week we talked about a trial of a nurse and social worker outpatient palliative care intervention published in JAMA. He’s a geriatrician and palliative care doc/researcher in the UCSF Division of Geriatrics. And you had higher rates of hospice discharges, higher rates of DNR orders.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Forget you as a doctor right now, or as social workers, think about you as a person meeting this person at a bar. I was in a home hospice visit, and I was with this woman in her thirties and her husband who was dying. ” And this comes up sometimes with palliative care’s consult, “What are you, hospice?”

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

So I was really excited to bring in a couple of co-editors who were young and hip, and at the cutting edge of palliative care now, along with my collaborators: the social workers, the psychiatrist, a chaplain to really make this book relevant for now. All of that really had to be revamped in terms of opioid safety. Janet: Oh.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 20, 2023

For example, bachelor’s degrees for social workers. There are some nursing homes that also own hospices, so you may not just be selecting the nursing home that you’re going to, but potentially the hospice that you’re going to. You mentioned hospices, staffing agencies.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Alex 00:15 We are delighted to welcome back Louise Aronson, who’s a geriatrician and author in the UCSF division of Geriatrics. And sure enough, yeah, we hospice and let her die at home in a couple days, very quietly. Eric 00:13 And, Alex, who do we have with us today? Her most recent book is Elderhood. They’re too busy.

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GeriPal

MARCH 9, 2023

And we chose that in part because that will just help with the scientific question of the blinding, but there’s data in how we can use oral ketamine in patients with cancer who are in hospice, and they do have some benefit in maybe mood or anxiety that is at least shortly lived, if not lasts more than a week or so.

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GeriPal

MAY 9, 2024

Summary Transcript Summary On today’s podcast, we’ve invited four hospice and palliative care social media influencers (yes, that’s a thing!), We’ve invited: Julie McFadden (aka Hospice Nurse Julie ): Julie is a social media superstar, with 1.5 And then Hospice Nurse Julie. That was a lot of fun. million followers.

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GeriPal

MARCH 7, 2024

We also invited Beth Klint to speak about the doula’s role within a traditional hospice organization. Alex: We’re delighted to welcome Beth Klint who is executive director of Goodwin Hospice and is joining us from the DC, Northern Virginia area along with Jane. Hospice volunteers do lots of things. Why Beth?

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 5, 2024

And Rachel Rush, who is a pediatric social. A palliative care social worker now at Colorado. We are really trying to be mindful of the breadth of experience people bring, you know, to be sure that we have chaplains telling stories, social workers, physicians, apps, et cetera. We’re kind of a Covid baby.

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