Hospice News

DECEMBER 5, 2022

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

The subsidiary’s specialty is high-acuity care in the home, including hospital-at-home and skilled nursing facility-at-home programs, but in recent years it has also leaned hard into growing its palliative care business. Gavin Baumgardner, national medical director for palliative and complex care for Contessa, told Hospice News. “We’re

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Its technology platform connects patients and family members to palliative and hospice nurses, social workers, spiritual coordinators and other interdisciplinary staff. Littlefield was previously Riverside Health System’s executive vice president and chief nursing officer. Carl Derrick as medical director.

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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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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

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

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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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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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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AAHPM (American Academy of Hospice and Palliative)

JUNE 6, 2024

I would like to share this honor with the physicians, pharmacists, nurse practitioners, nurses, social workers, and counselors I have been privileged to work with to care for patients with cancer and substance use disorders. Second, much of HPM is interdisciplinary and even transdisciplinary in nature.

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Traditions Health

OCTOBER 13, 2024

However, inpatient hospice facilities, hospitals, and some nursing homes also provide services. Social workers can address financial issues and access additional support services. Most people choose to get hospice care at home. They also train your primary caregiver to assist you and give medicine.

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Seasons Hospice

MARCH 23, 2021

Here is a breakdown of our teams at Seasons Hospice: Medical directors oversee your loved one’s care at Seasons, ensuring they receive care tailored to their needs. Resident nurses (RN) administer medical services depending on your loved one’s needs. What type of services does hospice provide?

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Shining Light Hospice

DECEMBER 24, 2021

Medicare will cover: Medical and nursing services. Medical equipment like wheelchairs, walkers, or hospital beds. Medical supplies like bandages and catheters. Social worker services. Your physician and a hospice medical director must both certify that your life expectancy is six months or less.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 16, 2025

All right, and finally we have Yael Zweig, who is a geriatric nurse practitioner at NYU. We’re going to be talking about the American Geriatric Society position statement on making medical treatment decisions. To have a social worker who’s dedicated in many places. Joe 01:59 Ann Arbor. Yael 02:12 Thank you.

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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

MARCH 18, 2024

But some argue that palliative care — which focuses heavily on patients’ own wishes and goals — as a form of personalized medicine, Dr. Bill Logan, national medical director and chief medical officer for Carelon Health, a subsidiary of Elevance Health (NYSE: ELV), said at the Hospice News Palliative Care Conference in Tampa, Florida.

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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

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

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

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

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

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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GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

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