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Oncologists: Palliative Care Plays ‘Critical Role’ in Improving Quality, Health Equity

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Interdisciplinary palliative care delivery can help to improve quality and health disparities among underserved cancer patient populations, according to oncology specialists. Barrett is also the associate director of community outreach and engagement at Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptists Office of Cancer Health Equity. Theres a huge gap there.

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Inside The Pennant Group’s Palliative Care Philosophy and Practice

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We adopt the philosophy of combining palliative care and geriatrics and primary care together so that we can deliver what the patient needs and try to break down the silos that exist, Walker said. Pennant is the holding company for a group of independent hospice, home health and senior living providers located across 13 states.

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Early Telepalliative Care Can Reduce Caregiver Burden, Improve Quality

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Telepalliative models can in some ways help to improve communications between patients and clinicians, according to JAMA researcher Simone Rinaldi, palliative care nurse practitioner and director of nursing for MGHs division of palliative care and geriatric medicine. Rinaldi is also co-director of Mass Generals palliative care clinic.

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IN-PEACE Palliative Care-Dementia Program Reduced Hospital Care by 50%

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Sachs is also chief of the Division of General Internal Medicine and Geriatrics at the Indiana University School of Medicine. Sachs is also chief of the Division of General Internal Medicine and Geriatrics at the Indiana University School of Medicine. And so the CMS GUIDE model is actually providing a funding source.

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Hospice of the Chesapeake Launches New Dementia Program Amid ‘Urgent, Significant’ Need

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Aliviado Health’s program is part of the Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing (HIGN) at New York University’s (NYU) Rory Meyers College of Nursing. Demographic trends were among the key factors that drove the program forward, said Monica Escalante, chief strategy and information officer at Hospice of the Chesapeake.

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Hospice of the Valley: Redefining the End-of-Life Care Delivery Outlook

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We also have a home-based primary care practice called Geriatric Solutions. Geriatric Solutions was about being able to be that patients primary care provider when they were too ill to go see one. What are the other services or programs that Hospice of the Valley offers? We have almost 100 patients on these services already.

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Hearing Loss in Geriatrics and Palliative Care: A Podcast with Nick Reed and Meg Wallhagen

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Screening for addressing hearing loss should be an integral part of what we do in geriatrics and palliative care, but it often is either a passing thought or completely ignored. On today’s podcast, we talk to Nick Reed and Meg Wallhagen about hearing loss in geriatrics and palliative care. How to screen for hearing loss.