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5 Most Game-Changing Hospice Deals from 2022

Hospice News

billion divestiture of a 60% stake in Kindred at Home’s hospice and personal care segments to the private equity firm Clayton, Dubilier & Rice. These include a focus on smaller target acquisitions as valuations remain high across health care sectors, including within hospice, home health and personal care, according to Broussard.

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Social Workers as Leaders on Palliative Care Teams: A Podcast with Barbara Jones

GeriPal

In day-to-day practice, It’s hard to imagine providing excellent hospice or palliative care services without access to a team social worker. But are we really taking full advantage of ALL social workers have to offer our field? I don’t know if this person was a social worker or not.

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Telehealth vs In-Person Palliative Care: A Podcast with Joseph Greer, Lynn Flint, Simone Rinaldi, and Vicki Jackson

GeriPal

Alex 01:56 And returning guest, Vicki Jackson, who’s a palliative care doc, chief of the Division of Palliative Care and Geriatric Medicine at MGH , professor at Harvard Medical School, and co director of the Harvard Medical School center for Palliative Care. But what about the social workers and the chaplains?

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Family Caregiving: Practical Steps Following a Loved One's Alzheimer's Diagnosis

American In-Home Care

The knowledge and expertise offered by a specialist can help guide care and provide information about clinical trials. Geriatric Care Specialists. Social workers, care coordinators and case managers have experience and special training in working with older adults who have been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s.

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Ep.13: How Becoming an Accredited Organization will Help you Build More Partnerships and Increase Referrals

Home Care Pulse

They required nurses to perform assessments before initiating care and regularly every 60 days. And that’s even though we were strictly a personal care provider and not providing any skilled nursing services. So we don’t come there, you know, looking for, you know, for medical type of, of care being provided.

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The Roots of Palliative Care: Michael Kearney, Sue Britton, and Justin Sanders

GeriPal

Justin Sanders wants to be sure the newer generations of palliative care clinicians understand the early principles and problems that animated the founders of hospice and palliative care, including: Origins of the word palliative – its not what I thought! And I think that was partly. She put her back out.

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Dignity at the End of Life: A Podcast with Harvey Chochinov

GeriPal

Or was able to do dignity therapy with somebody who was in a personal care home. So I think about social workers, pastoral care professionals, like spiritual care clinicians. So I mean, I had referrals from as far as Canadian Arctic North, of people who were interested in doing dignity therapy.

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