CareAcademy Blog

APRIL 30, 2025

Located in a tranquil, home-like setting, the facility offers a peaceful environment that prioritizes the quality of a patients remaining life over curing illness. At the heart of a hospice care is its staff, including nurses, doctors, social workers, and chaplains.

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Minority Nurse

JUNE 17, 2024

Through the ACT (Advocacy, Career, Tools) program for all clinicians within the Ingenovis Health brands, Dr. Geiger aims to increase resilience for healthcare providers, improve quality care, and create solid support systems. I would stare at her nursing picture, in which she wore a white dress and cap. I immediately loved it!

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Interim HealthCare Inc.

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Every November, the home care and hospice community honors the millions of nurses, home care aides, therapists, and social workers who make a remarkable difference for the patients and families they serve.

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Minority Nurse

JULY 26, 2023

Geiger’s professional focus is on health equity and clinician advocacy, aiming to increase resilience for healthcare providers, improve quality care and create solid support systems through the ACT (Advocacy. – Talk about your role in nursing. My interest in nursing peaked at an early age. I immediately loved it!

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Minority Nurse

AUGUST 6, 2024

Instead, PNPs work under the supervision of a physician or collaborate with other healthcare providers to provide comprehensive care. Psychiatric nurse practitioners (PNPs) are advanced practice registered nurses (APRNs) who are trained to assess, diagnose, and treat mental health conditions in adults and families.

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Traditions Health

OCTOBER 13, 2024

Most people choose to get hospice care at home. However, inpatient hospice facilities, hospitals, and some nursing homes also provide services. Your healthcare providers usually visit a few times a week. Social workers can address financial issues and access additional support services.

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Shining Light Hospice

JUNE 7, 2022

Check with your Hospice Nurse to ensure your family receives the proper information prior to calling 911. It is important for EMS, Hospitals, and Healthcare providers to understand that the patient is in Hospice to ensure correct coding for benefits to be considered for coverage. Respite Care. To Obtain Curative Treatment- Revocation.

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Seasons Hospice

MARCH 23, 2021

Social workers can help you and your loved one resolve any lingering end-of-life planning. Healthcare services. Nursing services : RNs visit patients in residential homes, nursing homes and hospitals. Nursing services : RNs visit patients in residential homes, nursing homes and hospitals.

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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.

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GeriPal

MARCH 13, 2025

She started her career as a nurse and probably her heightened that worked against her. She retrained as a social worker, and it was while she was a social worker that she began to formulate her ideas for better kind of end of life care, which was to become hospice care, modern hospice care. She put her back out.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

She is a guest host and she’s a palliative care social worker. And we often do, as healthcare providers, care for people who are going through traumatic events, through just being sick in the hospital or a home or dying at home. Eric 00:04 And Alex, we have somebody in the room with us. Alex 00:07 We do.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 19, 2023

“The behavioral home model for reimbursement is very appealing to us,” Androscoggin CEO Ken Albert told Hospice News at the time of the deal. “We chief innovation officer for the National Partnership for Healthcare and Hospice Innovation (NPHI). These conditions also put a burden on family caregivers, just as many medical ailments do.

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Hospice News

JULY 1, 2022

Brown-Forman Foundation and Norton Healthcare, along with individual donors. Kaweah Health Hospice staff will oversee the hospice facility’s day-to-day operations and medical care, which will be provided by a team of nurses, home health aides, social workers and chaplains.

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2022

Susan: I’ll just say, I think that could happen outside of the healthcare setting pretty easily and frequently does. So it’s an example of something that can start outside of the healthcare system and move its way in. I have done a lot of work on POLST and nursing homes and I’ve seen POLST forms.

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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. We have nurses who have extra training in palliative care. Michele: Yep.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

And so I became more interested in what are the outcomes of patients with cancer when they do go to a nursing facility? Why do we not have more palliative care access in nursing homes? They’re really great, the palliative care social worker and chaplain. Has this patient been out of bed?

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2023

We also have Joe Shega, who is a hospice physician, and he is a Chief Medical Officer and Vice President at VITAS Healthcare. This was an investigative report about fraud and healthcare, pure fraud, pure victimization of vulnerable people. Lauren: Thanks for having me. Alex: And she’s going to be a guest host today.

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GeriPal

MARCH 7, 2024

It was started by a social worker who really saw some gaps in care with those at end-of-life, particularly those with chronic long-term illness, having important conversations. I was alone with her in the end of a long hallway at a nursing home health center. What the social workers are … Eric: Yeah.

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GeriPal

APRIL 4, 2024

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

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GeriPal

JUNE 9, 2022

You’re not hiring a bunch of social workers or nurses or docs to do it. Alex: So the proven trial was that the video in the nursing homes? Kate: Yeah, the nursing homes. Kate Courtright appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 25, 2022

By setting, so patients who are living in places like nursing homes and assisted living facilities, where it’s easier to visit very quickly patient to patient, as opposed to home-based care for people say in rural areas. There’s also been some differences in things like staffing. I just want to highlight some work.

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Shining Light Hospice

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

An interdisciplinary team is assembled for each patient and it typically includes the attending physician, a Registered Nurse (RN) case manager, home health aide, social worker, and a chaplain. The RN case manager will set up regular nursing visits at the patient’s home and will provide the bulk of the medical care.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

And Bill Andereck is still haunted by the decision he made to have the police break down the door to rescue his patient who attempted suicide in the 1980s, as detailed in this essay in the Cambridge Quarterly of HealthCare Ethics. The intention was to place it in the beds in nursing homes. This shouldn’t have happened.

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Kindful Hospice

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

We’ll also dispel some of the common myths that surround this important kind of healthcare. To provide for the greatest care for the patient, hospice care is typically offered in the home or administered in a hospital or a nursing home. Read on to learn more about hospice care. What is Hospice Care?

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Hospice Nurse Hero

MARCH 2, 2022

First, CAHPS stands for Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems. Similarly, you should always call the family of your nursing home patients to inform them about their loved one’s pain control. Also, nurse supervisors can share survey scores and comments with the hospice IDG.

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Shining Light Hospice

DECEMBER 30, 2021

In keeping with the goals of hospice, to maintain patient dignity and comfort, care can be in the patient’s own home, a personal care home, a nursing home, the home of a relative, and sometimes in a hospital or inpatient hospice unit. When Is It Time for Hospice Care? It also provides grief support.

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Shining Light Hospice

JANUARY 6, 2022

The hospice team typically includes a Physician, Nurses, Aides, Social Worker, and a Chaplain. This care usually occurs in the patient’s own home; however, it can include alternatives such as a nursing home, a care home, a relative’s home, a hospice inpatient unit, or a hospital in some circumstances.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Alex: And we’re delighted to welcome to the podcast Alaine Murawski…Social worker and researcher, research study coordinator at Northwestern. One of my co-authors, Alaine Murawski, who’s a social worker, she has a lot of the similar experiences if you want to talk about it from a social worker perspective.

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GeriPal

JULY 25, 2024

Next, we talk with James Deardorff about whether we can accurately predict nursing home level of care in community-dwelling older adults with dementia. Alex 16:46 On time to nursing, needing nursing home level of care. That just leads to issues that can make home care very difficult for these individuals.

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GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

I’m a geriatrically trained social worker and it was my grandmother. It was designed to really balance what Medicaid at the time was to provide nursing homes and Medicare is obviously health insurance. Greg: Yeah, great question. I got into this 31 years ago. But, what you need is a community-based game there.

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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. For me, right now, the worst thing, my nightmare is dying from dementia alone in a nursing home. People start thinking about putting them in a nursing home.

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