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Hospices Stepping Up Performance on Visits-in-Last-Days-of-Life Measure

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Hospices, in aggregate, are showing improvement on the quality measure for visits in the last days of life. The number of registered nurse and social worker visits during a patient’s final week is one of the seven quality measures that CMS uses to evaluate providers. In 2019, for example, the percentage was 66%.

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Hospice Organizations Appoint New Leadership, VPs

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With a robust and growing membership and an engaged board, the Academy is strongly positioned to be a leading voice for hospice and palliative care physicians and professionals. Smith-Lopez has more than 26 years of experience in hospice and palliative care, beginning her career as a registered nurse before taking on leadership roles.

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Hospice & Palliative Care of Wood River Valley Works to Reach Underserved Latino Populations

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Hospice & Palliative Care of the Wood River Valley is part of the Idaho Health Continuum of Care Alliance, a group of post-acute health care providers. This is a rise from 1,367 individuals served in 2021, 135 of whom were hospice patients and families, according to an annual report. Census Bureau.

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Palliative Care as ‘Personalized Medicine’

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The company’s care model includes an interdisciplinary team consisting of board-certified palliative care physicians, advanced practice nurses, social workers, care management registered nurses and a triage hotline. For one, these services are also conflated with hospice care.

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Psychedelics, Cannabis Show Promise in End-of-Life Care, But More Research Needed on the Risks

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and serves on the national advisory board for the California State University Shiley Institute for Palliative Care. Fratkin, California-based palliative care specialist, stated. He is also CEO of California-based Stone Mountain Medical Associates, Inc. I don’t see a lot of focus on the possible harms.

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Pediatric Hospice and Palliative Clinicians Face High Burnout Risk

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The unique needs of families and children facing life-limiting can wear pediatric palliative and hospice care clinicians especially thin, and the potential for burnout can leave providers even more short-staffed than many already are. Even outside of hospice, caring for seriously ill children can take a mental and emotional toll.

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Guaranteed Taps SVP of Strategic Growth; Nurses Step Into C-Suite at Hospice of the Piedmont, Hudson Valley Hospice

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Its technology platform connects patients and family members to palliative and hospice nurses, social workers, spiritual coordinators and other interdisciplinary staff. Holstein is a registered nurse with more than a decade of hospice and health care experiences in community-based and hospital system programs. “It

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