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

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

He is associate professor at the University of Wisconsin and medical director of their Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center. They need more nurses. And I think that is a sign that geriatrics has a really important role in the future of dementia care. To start things off, Nate’s a returning guest.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 20, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary In April 2022, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM) issued a report on how the United States delivers, regulates, finances, and measures the quality of nursing home care. We have Alice Bonner, who’s Chair of the Moving Forward Nursing Home Quality Coalition. Alex: Great.

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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. The other piece is the quality and compliance as it relates to physicians and nurse practitioners.

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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

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Furthermore, nearly half (49.4%) indicated they had never met with a palliative care physician or nurse (58.4%) as part of their overall cancer care experience. More than half (58%) of these cancer patients indicated that an oncologist recommendation would have led them to seek palliative care.

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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.

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Minority Nurse

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Between the role’s autonomy and the hours’ flexibility, there’s never been a better time to be a Nurse Practitioner (NP). I believe that nurse practitioners bring a unique perspective to the relationship with our patients. The opportunities seem endless regardless of the type of NP a nurse chooses to become.

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2023

She’s a hospice and palliative care nurse practitioner and Assistant Professor in the School of Nursing at UCSF. We also have Joe Shega, who is a hospice physician, and he is a Chief Medical Officer and Vice President at VITAS Healthcare. .” When I talk to our nurses, that’s what it’s about.

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Hospice News

JUNE 2, 2022

We were very successful at providing it at a break-even point in a skilled nursing or a senior living setting or even a hospital setting, but we struggled in the home setting, and a lot of that actually had to do with: how do we educate our clinicians and treat them more like we do in hospice? It needs to be a part of what we do.

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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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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. The nurses, aides, chaplains and social workers on our team teach me daily. I look to them all as my guides.

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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 ). And they’re my family and the patients here and the doctors and the nurses. Jeff: So, well, I might come in and I’ll assist the nurse, do showers. Eric: And what do you do here?

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GeriPal

MAY 9, 2024

We’ve invited: Julie McFadden (aka Hospice Nurse Julie ): Julie is a social media superstar, with 1.5 He’s a palliative care doctor and he is Medical Director of Palliative Care at Ascension Illinois Palliative Care. And then Hospice Nurse Julie. Julie McFadden goes by Hospice Nurse Julie. I don’t look.

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GeriPal

JULY 14, 2022

Imagine that you are the medical director of a large (>150 bed) nursing home. The other physicians who previously saw patients in the nursing home are no longer coming to your facility because you have COVID positive patients. You’re short on nurses and nurse aids so now you have to help deliver meals.”.

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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

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

I remember as a fellow, I would come in and our nurse practitioner on our hospice team, I would say the word narcotics, and f or half an hour, she would just lay into me. So there are some clinics where you can talk to the medical director and they may give people like a take home dose for the afternoon.

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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. To medical directors, chiefs, and some were really cool to talk to me. We just hired a nurse. And everywhere I rotated.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Malaz: One day I was in internal medicine residency and I had to take care of a patient who was admitted from a nursing home with dementia. 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.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 5, 2023

On the other hand, when I hear of workarounds to assist patients to die, or even euthanize them, I worry that we’ve gone back to a time when the doctor or nurse knows best – and should be morally permitted to do whatever they think is right, according to their conscience. Do we really trust all doctors and nurses so far?

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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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