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Hospices Strengthening Ties to Tech, Pharmacy Companies to Support Families, Staff

Hospice News

Hospices are increasingly leveraging technology and pharmaceutical partnerships to better address the needs of patients and families and improve financial and operational efficiencies. Hospices have leaned heavily on technology during the pandemic, turning to telehealth to remain connected to patients and their families.

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Predictive Analytics ‘Gives Hospices a Lens’ into Quality, Compliance

Hospice News

Hospices are leveraging predictive analytics to get a clearer picture of their performance amid regulatory pressures. Hospices have relied on data to enhances their ability to assess the quality and quantity of bedside care delivered during a patients’ final days.

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Study: Machine Learning Prompts Earlier Advance Care Planning, Reduces High-Cost Care

Hospice News

These cancer patients showed increased hospice enrollment and length of stay, fewer occurrences of inpatient deaths, less intensive care unit use within the last 30 days of life, and reduced use of systemic therapy two weeks before death (such as chemotherapy or inhibitor therapy). of the cancer descendents studied. Minnesota-based St.

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BoldAGE CMO Glenn Meyers: PACE Is Palliative Care

Hospice News

New Jersey-headquartered BoldAge emerged last year, established by a group of former hospice and home health leaders. That empathy is already in every pace employee that I’ve met in all of our centers so far, just like in hospice. So we are palliative care, and palliative care is not just the next step before hospice.

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A Day in the Life: Hospice Nurse  

Daily Nurse

Supporting someone with a life-limiting diagnosis or talking about death can be difficult for many people, but not for a hospice nurse. Maryette Williamson, RN, BSN, knows firsthand from working as a BAYADA Hospice Nurse in Fayetteville, North Carolina. How did you get interested in working as a home hospice nurse?

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5 Tips to Stop Feeling Incompetent for New Hospice Nurses

Hospice Nurse Hero

If you’re a new hospice nurse, you might feel overwhelmed. Before you settle into those feelings too much, you might want to explore these 5 tips to help you stop feeling incompetent as a new hospice nurse. Just because you were an expert in the intensive care unit doesn’t mean you will know everything about hospice.

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What can we learn from simulations? Amber Barnato

GeriPal

They were not touching the patient, and they were more likely to be looking at the nurse or the vital signs tracing than the patient or the family member. There’s a vital signs tracing, the patient’s wearing a mask. Of course, the doctors know they’re in simulation, they signed up for it.