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Health Systems Pursue Palliative Care Skill-Building Initiatives

Hospice News

Quality data can help health care leaders across the continuum visualize the return on investment of growing palliative care training initiatives/partnerships, according to Brynn Bowman, CEO of the Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC). She is also president-elect of the Case Management Society of America in Detroit, Michigan.

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Hospice News ELEVATE : Fireside Chat with Netsmart

Hospice News

As you’re thinking about not only working with referral sources and other providers and facilities, they may start asking you for information about it, even if you’re not participating in it. You need to be able to use that information to then bring it forward and tell a story. It needs to be able to tell a story.

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On National AIDS and Aging Day, A Veteran Nurse Looks Back: How Nurses Can Transform the Lives of HIV/AIDS Patients Through Empathy

Daily Nurse

Across the board, as the number of older adults receiving care at home grows, so will the need for nurses and caregivers specializing in home health, including nurses who understand the specific needs of individuals with HIV, which vary from person to person.

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UnityPoint VP Agnew: Educate Patients, Clinicians to Expand Hospice

Hospice News

When you talk about an interdisciplinary team coming into your home — nurses, a social worker, chaplain, having access to the physician, volunteers — people are automatically going to think that there’s a cost associated with that. In addition to that I think there’s misconceptions about the costs.

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Empath Health CEO Sciullo: Hospice Leaders Need Exposure at the Bedside

Hospice News

On his last day in the office, Sciullo sat down with Hospice News to talk about the need for care integration and his strategies for effective leadership in community-based health care. Before coming to hospice you worked as an oncology social worker in Ohio. That is really where we need to go in the future.

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HSPN ELEVATE: Can It Be Done? Strategies to Reduce Documentation Burden while Increasing Audit and Survey Readiness

Hospice News

Just because I’ve been in home health longer than I’ve been in hospice, we learned that in home health a long time ago that garbage in and garbage out. Nurses want to come to work, they want to be able to do their job and go home. Same thing with aides, social workers, chaplains.

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Ep.17: How Home Care Agencies Can Reduce Hospital Readmissions

Home Care Pulse

Michelle Cone ( 03:28 ): So, you know, at its most basic level, it really allows home care agencies to monitor and promote the quality of care that they provide to their clients with actual quantitative data. Laura Coyle ( 07:01 ): You know, they are going in at the start of care, looking at the home.