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Agape Care Names New Palliative Medical Director; Silverado Taps New Sales VP

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Agape Care Names New Palliative Medical Director Agape Care Group, a portfolio company of Ridgemont Equity Partners has appointed Kari Bradford, a doctor of nursing practice, as its new palliative medical director. She is based in Charleston, South Carolina. We are confident Ms.

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Community Education Crucial to Improving Hospice Access Among Unhoused Populations

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“Our primary partnerships were with homeless navigators within the hospital setting, directors of case management locally, and then our VA partners both in Long Beach and in west Los Angeles,” Snodgrass said at the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (AAHPM) and the Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association (HPNA) Annual Assembly.

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Challenges in Hospice Care for Terminal Anorexia Patients

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Issues around defining criteria for terminal anorexia can complicate end-of-life experiences among patients and families, Berg said at the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (AAHPM) and the Hospice & Palliative Nurses Association (HPNA) Annual Assembly.

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AAHPM CMO Joe Rotella: Hospice Does Not Exist to Save Money

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By 1995, this had led him in the direction of hospice and palliative care, beginning as a medical director in a small, community-based program in Kentucky. I’m proud that we had a project we did with the Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association called Measuring What Matters. We are going to be okay.

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Hospices Need a ’Huge Catapult’ to Replenish Workforce

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Other endorsements came from SWHPN, along with NHPCO, Hospice Action Network, Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association, the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC), and the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (AAHPM). AAHPM’s chief medical officer, told Hospice News in an email.

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Undisclosed Conflicts of Interest by Physicians Creating the CDC Opioid Prescribing Guidelines: Bad Faith or Incompetence?

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By 2007, the Washington State Agency Medical Directors Group (AMDG), which included several eventual PROP members (23), published an “Interagency Guideline on Opioid Dosing for Chronic Non-Cancer Pain (26) that introduced the concept of hard dosing thresholds for opioid analgesics, which was later incorporated into the 2016 Guideline (2, 3).

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