Hospice News

MARCH 29, 2024

Additionally, the proposal would clarify that designated physician members of the hospice interdisciplinary team may certify patients for hospice if the medical director is unavailable. But what is missing from the proposal is almost as noteworthy as what it contains. “What is missing is also notable,” continued Dombi.

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Hospice News

MARCH 12, 2024

The organizations earlier this year presented their findings , published today, to members of Congress and the U.S. They also recommended that personnel conducting these audits have knowledge equivalent to a hospice medical director. “It Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).

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Hospice News

MAY 18, 2023

In Accord’s production of “Lily,” a member of the local Rotary Club portrayed the title character with a hospice medical director in the role of Joe. When you have a new group [of employees] come in, you can present this because it creates conversation,” she said. It brought in “a good-size crowd,” according to Turner.

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Hospice News

APRIL 12, 2024

Additionally, patients with severe enduring anorexia nervosa often have longer inpatient admissions and a history of various medical treatments, the research found. The structure of some state laws can present issues when it comes to deeming severe enduring anorexia nervosa as a terminal condition versus treatable, according to Brandt.

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Hospice News

MAY 8, 2023

I was the palliative care medical director and associate hospice medical director for their four or five hospice teams. They can do presentations at places like assisted living facilities and senior communities. I created an initiative when we were dealing with the [payment] cap called Pathways in Care.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Hospice would likely change from the Medical Director-led IDT team with standard COPS, to a landscape of payer-source-driven rules for each patient. The ability to present customer satisfaction scores, attention to HQRP measures and a means for providing quality hospice services in a cost-effective manner directly impacts those plans.

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Hospice News

JUNE 1, 2022

AAHPM president and vice president and national medical director of Aspire Health. This presents a challenge for hospices as rampant inflation drives many clinicians to take jobs that can offer them higher compensation. These sentiments were echoed by Tara Friedman, M.D.,

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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. The health system in 2021 began providing inpatient and community-based pediatric palliative and hospice care to infants, children and young adults.

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Hospice News

MARCH 25, 2024

You have to find ways to best present yourself and your services appropriately, then provide services at a high quality level. It comes with hiring the right medical directors and clinicians to make sure patients are eligible. It’s an important piece of the puzzle not to limit yourself.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 19, 2023

Basically, there are gaps in need, and that both presents an opportunity for entrepreneurship and social entrepreneurship. Not only problems related to diagnosis and treatment, but also the myriad challenges that arise in the social realm,” Hospice of the Valley Executive Medical Director Ned Stolzberg told local news.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Executives from almost every publicly traded hospice company raised this issue in earnings calls and presentations throughout the year. 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.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

He is associate professor at the University of Wisconsin and medical director of their Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center. And I pretty much present it as. And well, when we wrote this, I feel like I’m just doing everything in my presentation. To start things off, Nate’s a returning guest.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 16, 2025

So if it’s an absolutely emergency, you got a physician in the med, you know, the health center medical director, if it’s urgent, like in this particular case, we get the ethics committee involved.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 20, 2023

” How hard would it be for every medical director, every director of nurses, every administrator to know the first and last name of every CNA who works in that building? From a medical director standpoint, how do you think about that? It needs to be presented in a way that they can understand.

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Minority Nurse

MARCH 15, 2023

With any system or product that impacts kidney care, the medical director, dialysis operations manager, and I are involved. The quality of the presenters is excellent, and the content is evidence-based, relevant, and up to date. How do you keep up with all the industry changes around patient care and technology?

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GeriPal

AUGUST 17, 2023

Alex: And we’re delighted to welcome Nate Chin, who is associate professor at the University of Wisconsin, where he is medical director of their Alzheimer’s Disease research center and runs a large study in Wisconsin called the RAP Study studying Alzheimer’s Disease. Welcome back to GeriPal podcast, Sharon.

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Pallimed

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Lewis PhD, Beverly Schechtman and Carrie Judy “I'm present. Franklin also served on the Washington State Agency Medical Directors Group (AMDG) via the Washington State Department of Labor and Industries (9). Kollas MD, Terri A. Uh … I do have a conflict.

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The Bucket-List Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Our chief medical director, Dr. Hanan Budeiri (known to all of us as Dr. B) donated refreshments for a reception. Nancy’s mother died peacefully the next morning, knowing her daughter treasured her enough to make sure she was present at such a key life milestone.

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The Bucket-List Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Therefore, most stories are in the present tense. The fund was recently named in honor of our former chief medical director, who retired in August. Our stories about meaningful experiences are written as they unfold. Some of the patients in these stories are no longer with us.

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Hospice Nurse Hero

AUGUST 21, 2022

However, did you know that only the hospice medical director can recertify your patient’s eligibility ? While the nurse practitioner can perform the face-to-face visit, it is up to the hospice medical director to review the documentation and certify the patient still meets hospice criteria. Yep, you heard me right.

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AAHPM (American Academy of Hospice and Palliative)

JUNE 27, 2023

Thomson, DO MBA HMDC FACOI FAAHPM As one of AAHPM’s delegates, I had the privilege of representing the field of Hospice and Palliative Medicine at the American Medical Association (AMA) House of Delegates (HOD) 2023 Annual Meeting held in Chicago in mid-June. A few of the arguments presented against the resolution were that: 1.)

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Home Care Pulse

APRIL 26, 2022

The intake team will be instructed to gather data from other medical providers and present it to the hospice medical director for her review prior to scheduling an admission. Michah is confident this approach will mitigate any risk. A More Measured Response, by the Numbers.

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AAHPM (American Academy of Hospice and Palliative)

JUNE 6, 2024

Being present for the deaths of my father and a dear friend early in my residency deeply impacted who I became as a doctor and as a person. Elizabeth Hart, MD has been recognized as one of the exceptional individuals chosen as a 2024 AAHPM Visionaries in Hospice and Palliative Care.

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Minority Nurse

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Recently, she presented “Shouldering the Responsibility: Implementation of a Collaborative Shoulder Dystocia Initiative” with her colleagues at the 2022 ASHRM Annual Conference. Shelise Valentine is an important nursing leader , and we’re pleased to profile her as part of the Champions of Nursing Diversity Series 2023.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 17, 2024

He’s a medical director of H ebrew S enior L ife outpatient clinic at Newbridge. I think at the age of 91, a patient should have a say, really, in terms of, hey, I can present you with some of the reasons I think we should make a switch, but what do you think? Because I think we have someone special, a guest host.

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Pallimed

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

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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Hospice Nurse Hero

JANUARY 30, 2024

Other ways to get ready for your shift include: Important Phone Numbers to keep handy Hospice Medical Directors + NPI numbers Co-workers/ IDG Hospitals Ambulance Companies Medical Equipment Provider Hospice Pharmacy Benefit Manager (PMB) Local Pharmacies Hospice Nurse Tools Hospice Scales and Measures (PPS, FAST, NYHA, KPS, etc.)

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Hospice of the North Coast

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

I’m Dr. Daniel Miller and one of the medical directors of Hospice of the North Coast. Cause a lot of people don’t know how to show up and be present, and I was thinking that’s a good start. video transcription: Hi everybody. That’s incredible.

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Hospice of the North Coast

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

I’m Dr. Daniel Miller and one of the medical directors of Hospice of the North Coast. Cause a lot of people don’t know how to show up and be present, and I was thinking that’s a good start. video transcription: Hi everybody. That’s incredible.

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GeriPal

JULY 14, 2022

Imagine that you are the medical director of a large (>150 bed) nursing home. This was the opening paragraph that I wrote in March of 2020 when introducing a podcast we did with Dr. Jim Wright , the medical director at Canterbury Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center in suburban Richmond. Summary Transcript Summary.

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GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

link] Kensington Hospice & ‘Radical Love’ Equity-Oriented Hospice Palliative Care Naheed Dosani also serves as the Medical Director of Kensington Hospice, Torontos largest hospice. He was a person with schizophrenia, he was a person who used drugs and he presented in pain crisis to our shelter.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 31, 2023

He spent a long time as hospice medical director and he founded a national model of care that many of our listeners will be familiar with, AIM, which stands for the Advanced Illness Management program, which has influenced CMS policy. Bill: Thank you. Alex: And we are delighted to welcome Brad Stuart, who is an internist.

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Nurse.com

MAY 26, 2022

Long COVID Presents Physical, Psychological Challenges. Subclinical anxiety and depression may be present — not on the level of a medical disorder, but enough to undermine a return to work. That tends to be between 5% to 30% [of patients]. They vary because we don’t have a universal definition of long COVID.”.

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The Bucket-List Blog

JULY 13, 2023

Therefore, most stories are in the present tense. It was a comfortable gathering with Randy’s sister and brother-in-law, Frances and Vernon Baker, and the care team they now regarded as family: nurse Courtney, chaplain Sally, and Dr. Gosha Sears, associate medical director. Everyone took their place.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

But also there’s also, because many more people… Oftentimes, when I’ll be at a meeting, if I’m presenting, I’ll ask for show of hands how many people have had experience with dementia. We present it to CMMI, to CMS, whoever will listen to us, people on The Hill. Why do we need a story?” Diane: Yeah.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 19, 2024

They are recruiting for a Medical Director of Palliative Care Services to lead and grow innovative outpatient and inpatient palliative care programs. Dani 15:02 Speaking to the fact that we are talking about such a massive array of illnesses, of presentations of symptom severity, and trying to speak in generalizations.

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