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‘It’s Where We’re at Right Now’: US Prison System Struggling to Keep Up with Growing Need for Palliative Care

Hospice News

Individuals in prison environments often have limited access to palliative care services, making these patients among the hardest to reach for providers. Labor pressures amid growing demand represent the largest barriers in terms of both limited staffing volumes and high workforce costs. A bill was approved in 2021 that issued $7.2

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‘NEXT STEPs’ Program Focuses on Enhancing Nursing Homes Services, Including Palliative Care

Hospice News

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. Department of Health and Human Services. Unroe said.

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Empath Health, American Health Plans Launch ISNP Joint Venture

Hospice News

The Florida-based organization’s business lines include hospice, home health care, primary care, palliative care, PACE, AIDS and sexual wellness care, veterans’ services and adult day programs, serving more than 23,000 individuals. The organization is the parent company of 20 affiliates and four philanthropic foundations.

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Improving Hospital Care for Older Adults through Acute Care for Elders (ACE Units): Kellie Flood and Stephanie Rogers

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Randomized trials of ACE units date back to 1996 when Seth Landefeld and colleagues published a study in NEJM showing that they improve basic activities of daily living at discharge and can reduce the frequency of discharge to long-term care institutions. But if ACE units are so great, why do so few hospitals have them?

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Former Hospice Leaders Building National PACE Platform BoldAge

Hospice News

New Jersey-headquartered BoldAge PACE is owned and operated by former Seasons Hospice and Palliative Care CEO Todd Stern, also a former AccentCare executive, and Dan Czermak, founder of Acute Health Systems and Beacon of Life. We’re not only the provider of the care, but we’re also the payer source for these individuals.

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Transforming the Culture of Dementia Care: Podcast with Anne Basting, Ab Desai, Susan McFadden, and Judy Long

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Abhilash Desai, MD , geriatric psychiatrist, adjunct associate professor in the department of psychiatry at University of Washington School of Medicine, and poet! He wrote a book titled “ Psychiatric consultation in long term care ” that has a strengths based approach to staging dementia (how cool is that). Alex: Great.

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Dysphagia Revisited: A Podcast with Raele Donetha Robison and Nicole Rogus-Pulia

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Summary Transcript Summary Almost a decade ago, our hospice and palliative care team decided to do a “Thickened Liquid Challenge.” And then when you look long-term care facilities, more between that like 35 to 50%, and then much higher estimates in hospitalized older adults. Nicole: Yeah, it was huge.

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