Hospice News

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Andrew Mayo, chief medical officer at St. Croix Hospice in 2014 as an associate medical director. Mayo has focused on geriatric care for 17 years, completing a residency in family practice at Bethesda St. Croix Hospice. Mayo joined St. Joe’s Hospital in St.

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High Peaks Hospice

MARCH 1, 2022

High Peaks Hospice would like to honor our Medical Director, Dr. Curt Gedney for National Doctors Day by sharing information about him with the team. Dr. He fulfilled his commitment plus more by working six years full-time in family medicine and adding on working part-time as a hospice Medical Director.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 8, 2024

Katz Professor and chair of the Brookdale Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine at Mount Sinai. Drivers of palliative growth, sustainability The outlook for palliative care growth is “strong” and “substantial,” according to Dr. R. Sean Morrison, the Ellen and Howard C.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 12, 2023

Alex: We are delighted to welcome to the GeriPal Podcast, Kellie Flood, who is a geriatrician at the University of Alabama Birmingham and associate Chief Quality Officer for Geriatrics and Care Transitions. And also to have those folks proactively assessing and addressing geriatric syndromes. Kellie, welcome to the GeriPal Podcast.

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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.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

The Pennant Group (NASDAQ: PNTG) has appointed Dr. Derrel Walker as its chief medical officer, a new position for the company. Walker came to Pennant in 2011 as a medical director in one of the company’s Idaho branches. We started doing the house calls, mobile palliative care, geriatric primary care work.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 15, 2024

We discuss: What is considered a hate incident, how is it tracked, what do we know about changes over time The wider impact of Anti-Asian hate on older Asians, who are afraid to go out, leading to anxiety, social isolation, loneliness, decreased exercise, missed appointments and medications. Jessica, welcome back to GeriPal. Geriatrician?

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, for instance, has a team of palliative care providers “embedded” into its oncology clinic and ALS Center, according to David Wu, the program’s director.

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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. Michele: That was perfect. Alex: That was perfect. Michele: Yep.

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Hospice News

MARCH 22, 2024

Prior to joining Treasure Coast Hospice, he practiced family medicine at Cleveland Clinic Martin Health, Gateway Medical Group and Jupiter Medical Center. He also served as medical director at skilled nursing facility provider Life Care Center of Port St. Lucie, as well as at Parkway Health and Rehabilitation Center. “I

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Minority Nurse

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Nurse practitioners are accustomed to treating the entire patient rather than solely treating a disease or condition,” says Teresa Cyrus, DNP, APRN, FNP-C, co-owner of Integrative Geriatrics , a practice that provides care to underserved adults and seniors in rural Minnesota. “I I believe it is a more holistic approach to patient care.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 17, 2024

He’s a medical director of H ebrew S enior L ife outpatient clinic at Newbridge. And in fact, as Alex mentioned in the intro, probably more than 20 years ago, Muriel Gillig asked me to help out with the geriatric modules at the Brigham women’s hospital primary care medicine sort of sessions. He’s in Boston.

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Hospice News

JUNE 2, 2022

We started having palliative care IDGs, where we would have our medical director sit in on case management and case conferences to understand “should we have actually coded this differently than we did?” It needs to be a part of what we do.

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2023

Reading Ira’s article, it essentially was the VITAS Medical Director job description. At American Geriatric Society in Orlando, got up during Amy Kelly’s talk, which was about dementia and said, “My mother cannot get hospice care because no hospice will take a chance on her. Joe, what are your thoughts on that?

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

This article is based on a Hospice News discussion with Daniel Schwartz, Chief Strategy Officer at Elara Caring, Devin Woodley, VP of Managed Care Contracting and B2B Sales at VNS Health, Gavin Baumgardner, VP and National Medical Director for Complex and Palliative care at Amedisys, and Anthony Spano, Director of Client Development at Netsmart.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 20, 2023

” How hard would it be for every medical director, every director of nurses, every administrator to know the first and last name of every CNA who works in that building? From a medical director standpoint, how do you think about that? CNAs will say, “I literally feel invisible.

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AAHPM (American Academy of Hospice and Palliative)

JUNE 6, 2024

Years later, when I was a geriatric fellow, he gave me another gift by asking me to review James Hallenbeck’s remarkable book Palliative Care Perspectives for the Journal of Palliative Medicine. This honor also recognizes the shared vision and values of Hospice and Palliative Medicine and Geriatrics.

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GeriPal

JUNE 29, 2023

On last week’s podcast we interviewed the medical director and the chaplain of the prison’s hospice unit (Hospice in Prison Part 1 ). The post Hospice in Prison Part 2: An interview with the Pastoral Care Workers appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional.

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GeriPal

JULY 14, 2022

Imagine that you are the medical director of a large (>150 bed) nursing home. This was the opening paragraph that I wrote in March of 2020 when introducing a podcast we did with Dr. Jim Wright , the medical director at Canterbury Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center in suburban Richmond. Summary Transcript Summary.

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GeriPal

MAY 9, 2024

He’s a palliative care doctor and he is Medical Director of Palliative Care at Ascension Illinois Palliative Care. For GeriPal, it’s really to bring geriatrics and palliative care together. I think your most-watched video is around 750,000 views. Does that sound about right? Sammy: I don’t look. Great title.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 31, 2023

He spent a long time as hospice medical director and he founded a national model of care that many of our listeners will be familiar with, AIM, which stands for the Advanced Illness Management program, which has influenced CMS policy. I think this is actually bread and butter geriatrics. Bill: Thank you.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Every member of the team, even for me, for whatever reason, that switched me from focusing on trying to be in pulmonary critical care to become actually a geriatrician, choose the geriatric fellowship. And it became a terror for me. For me, right now, the worst thing, my nightmare is dying from dementia alone in a nursing home.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 19, 2024

They are recruiting for a Medical Director of Palliative Care Services to lead and grow innovative outpatient and inpatient palliative care programs. The post Palliative Care for Mental Illness: A Podcast with Dani Chammas and Brent Kious appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 5, 2023

Eric: This is a geriatrics and palliative care podcast and we’re talking about reproductive rights, abortions, looks like we’re talking about medical aid in dying, all encompassing this question of rights of conscious. Welcome to the GeriPal podcast, Mara. Mara: Thanks for having me.

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GeriPal

JULY 20, 2023

Alex: And we’re delighted to welcome back to GeriPal podcast, Brooke Calton, who is a palliative care physician and faculty at the Massachusetts General Hospital, and is also newly the Medical Director of palliative care at Devoted Health. We did the Geriatric 5M approach to telemedicine with Lauren Mo. Brooke: Thank you.

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