Hospice News

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

I knew that if we could put a nurse practitioner with a patient earlier in the prognosis, they would move through the continuum of care with that patient and create a report. Our program is staffed by nurse practitioners and social workers, under the oversight of our medical director.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Contessa’s specialties are high-acuity care in the home, including hospital-at-home and skilled nursing facility-at-home programs. That model is a mix of in-person and virtual visits, nurse practitioners, RNs, social workers and community health workers,” Baumgardner said at the NHPCO conference. “I

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

“We were seeing retention as being harder and harder, competing with other organizations for doctors, nurses, CNAs and other clinicians,” Nathan Adelson Hospice CEO and President Karen Rubel previously told Hospice News. Registered nurses also saw high turnover rates at 25.15% turnover and accounted for 16.97% of vacancies. for nurses.

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Hospice News

JUNE 1, 2022

Hospice and palliative care need greater recognition among disciplines across the board, beyond medicine and nursing, according to Eunju Lee, palliative care social worker at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. AAHPM’s chief medical officer, told Hospice News in an email.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Dr. Leena Dutta, medical director of hospice and in-home palliative care for the center, joined the program in May, 2022 and oversaw the initiative. The Northeast Georgia model provides a nurse practitioner, who works under the advice of a physician, and a social worker. That staff oversees a patient census of 140.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Contessa’s specialty is high-acuity care in the home, including hospital-at-home and skilled nursing facility-at-home programs. That model is a mix of in-person and virtual visits, nurse practitioners, RNs, social workers and community health workers,” Baumgardner said. “I

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Hospice News

APRIL 3, 2024

She is a registered nurse who has also served as a hospice case manager, nursing aide, director of nursing and regional director. Pagliaro is also medical director of palliative medicine at Jefferson Health East and serves on its ethics and cancer committees.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 30, 2023

The grant will also support efforts to address social determinants of health, according to Dr. Heidi Young, associate chief medical officer for Capital Caring and medical director of the Primary Care at Home program. The dollar amount was undisclosed. million primary care visits in 2016.

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Hospice News

JULY 15, 2022

For the past several years, hospice teams at Adventist’s Mendocino location were limited to one nurse and volunteers who provided emotional support, according to an announcement by Dr. William Miller, chief of staff at Adventist Health Mendocino Coast hospital in Ft. Bragg, California. Hospice utilization reached 46.1%

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Hospice News

JULY 10, 2024

Palliative care providers can help ensure that these patients don’t “fall through the many cracks” of a fragmented health care system, according to Landon Blankenship, chief nursing officer at Hospice of Southern West Virginia, which provides hospice and palliative care across four counties in the state.

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Hospice News

APRIL 23, 2024

Cotter has been a board certified physician in family medicine since 1981 and worked as a hospice medical director from 1988 to 1989. For individuals who take part in the program, they are required to be visited by a nurse and a social worker once per month.

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Hospice News

MAY 31, 2023

If restrictions eased around controlled substances, then hospice providers might be more open to their use, according to Dr. Karl Steinberg, medical director for Hospice by the Sea. 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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Hospice News

OCTOBER 17, 2023

A 2020 meta-analysis of 15 studies on burnout among palliative care nurses found a 24% prevalence for emotional exhaustion, 30% for depersonalization and 28% for feelings of low personal accomplishment. Nursing is not the same kind of work it used to be. Or an inpatient nurse and make her a floater.

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Hospice News

JULY 20, 2022

If you’re able to truncate the number of nursing hours it takes to manage a complex symptom management visit, then the agency saves money; the patient is comfortable, and quality improves.”. The program centers around services from a nurse practitioner, a nurse, and a social worker, as well as chaplain care when needed.

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Hospice News

JUNE 29, 2023

As with nursing, the industry-wide labor shortage has impacted bereavement care, which is an underfunded service, according to Dr. Dawn Gross, palliative care physician at University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) Health. Gross is also a medical director at ANX Hospice Care.

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JUNE 10, 2022

The center is not immune to the labor pressures, but seeks ways to do more with less to ensure patients’ needs are met, according to the center’s medical director Dr. Stefan Friedrichsdorf. This includes rehabilitative inpatient and outpatient acute and chronic pain management. “I Hospices are also stepping up.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Owens: We are a home hospice provider and take care of patients wherever they call home, whether it’s with family or in their own home or at a skilled nursing, memory care or assisted living facility. We have a social worker, medical director, chaplain services, nursing care and nursing assistants, and bereavement and volunteer coordinators.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 11, 2023

This isolation can be compounded for LGBTQ+ seniors with terminal and serious illnesses, according to Dr. Jennifer Ritzau, vice president of medical staff services at HopeHealth, a Rhode Island-based hospice, palliative and home care provider. She also serves as medical director of palliative care at the nonprofit organization. “I

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

For more than 40 years, Community Hospice has grown from an inspired idea by two registered nurses to a respected and leading provider of vital service for those with serious and life-limiting illness in the Central Valley area. In her new role, she’ll oversee Trustbridge’s medical staff providing home- and facility-based hospice care.

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Hospice News

JUNE 15, 2023

I’ve run companies, been a clinical director and helped start hospices and a palliative program. The organization has only had two executive directors, and it was established in 1985. A registered nurse started the company back in 1985, and it was 100% volunteer-based. Even the nurses just volunteered their time.

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Hospice News

APRIL 26, 2022

Nurse practitioner Raphael and registered nurse Britt Akobundu, a married couple, launched San Diego-based Blue Monarch Hospice this past March, with the intent of improving the quality of life for not only patients and families, but also health care workers. . As a nurse practitioner, what led you to begin a hospice program?

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Hospice News

JANUARY 10, 2024

Valley Health’s palliative care model includes a full interdisciplinary team, including physicians, advanced practice nurses, social workers, chaplains and volunteers. Valley Health currently offers palliative care in a number of settings, including inpatient, outpatient, subacute medical facilities and the home.

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Hospice News

APRIL 8, 2024

Hospice News recently sat down with pediatrician Dr. Rebecca MacDonell-Yilmaz, medical director of HopeHealth’s pediatric supportive services. We’ve since added more nurses and assigned backup nurses for each patient to have someone more familiar with the patient and who has developed a relationship with them.

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Hospice News

JULY 1, 2022

“Over the last several years we’ve had so many patients and families come to us that need some place to go and not having a place for them to go was very hard,” Deborah Salazar, nurse manager at Kaweah Health Hospice, said in a company announcement.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 19, 2023

Last year VNA Health Group enhanced its dementia care training programs for social work and nursing staff, with an emphasis on its home health patients. VNA Health also has plans to possibly add psychiatric advanced practice nurses into their clinical teams, though this initiative is in its early stages.

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Hospice News

APRIL 17, 2023

Smith said Prospero’s global measure of success is providing more days for patients at home, rather than keeping them in hospitals, nursing homes or rehab facilities. Reimbursement for palliative care in fee-for-service Medicare currently only covers physician or nurse practitioner services.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Furthermore, nearly half (49.4%) indicated they had never met with a palliative care physician or nurse (58.4%) as part of their overall cancer care experience. More than half (58%) of these cancer patients indicated that an oncologist recommendation would have led them to seek palliative care.

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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. Everybody has a primary care doctor, a primary care nurse, a team.

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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. Alex: Great.

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Hospice News

MAY 23, 2024

Brubaker Miller is a licensed clinical social worker and brings more than 25 years of experience in the hospice industry. Its affiliates include The Denver Hospice, Pikes Peak Hospice & Palliative Care, Pathways Hospice and the Colorado Visiting Nurses Association (CVNA). “We

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Nurses saw average national salary increases of 5.95% in 2022. Social workers saw an average 4.07% hourly wage hike, and medical directors saw the lowest rate of increase at 0.6%, the report indicated. Many organizations also implemented bonus programs to attract job seekers and reduce turnover.

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Hospice Nurse Hero

JULY 24, 2022

If you’re a new hospice nurse, you might feel overwhelmed. You may also wonder if your prior nursing experience is enough. 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. Common Feelings of New Hospice Nurses.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Dr. Dustin Dillon, medical director of palliative care services at Pallitus, said it was important for the palliative care provider to stand on its own. Dillon said roadblocks to patient care often include a lack of access to transportation, food scarcity and medical bills.

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Hospice News

JUNE 2, 2022

Do you have a doctor and a social worker that can work on, for instance, Medicaid eligibility. We started having palliative care IDGs, where we would have our medical director sit in on case management and case conferences to understand “should we have actually coded this differently than we did?

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Hospice News

APRIL 25, 2022

When COVID started, the first thing I witnessed for us was that our nurses back then were afraid to go and see patients. This is what we’re going to do,” and two or three nurses saying, “We’re not doing it.” I would get nurses telling me they were making $5,000 a week. That was the first challenge.

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2023

She’s a hospice and palliative care nurse practitioner and Assistant Professor in the School of Nursing at UCSF. We also have Joe Shega, who is a hospice physician, and he is a Chief Medical Officer and Vice President at VITAS Healthcare. .” When I talk to our nurses, that’s what it’s about.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 12, 2023

Alex: And we’re delighted to welcome back to the GeriPal Podcast, Stephanie Rogers, who’s a geriatrician and medical director of UCSF’s, age-friendly health systems. Kellie, welcome to the GeriPal Podcast. Kellie: Thank you so much. Great to be here. Welcome back, Stephanie. Stephanie: Thank you.

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