Hospice News

DECEMBER 14, 2022

“The Care Team and 1st Care share similar cultures and a strong commitment to quality patient care,” Shoemaker said in an announcement. “‘We We see a tremendous growth opportunity by expanding into Indiana and are excited to partner with organizations focused on clinical quality and patient experience.”.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

The health care sector in California must offer higher wages to remain competitive.” Employees covered by the proposed legislature include workers at home-based care companies, hospitals, health systems, skilled nursing facilities and other organizations, including dialysis clinics and inpatient centers.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 10, 2023

According to Wu, the hospital sees about 1,000 patients a year across the spectrum of serious illnesses; some of the most common diagnoses include sepsis, heart failure, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, cancer and dementia.

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Hospice News

JULY 28, 2022

(NYSE: CHEM), recently launched a targeted hiring and retention wellness initiative designed to ease workforce strains and increase capacity for patient care, paving the way for sustainable long-term growth.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 25, 2022

Telehealth allowed for serious illness care conversations to be “uncoupled” from patient care visits for cancer treatments, which allowed for a “better focus on what matters most to patients and their families,” they added.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

“We can make the best case for investment in primary palliative care education when you have patient-reported outcomes [and] deep dives on what’s happening in patient care.” But many of them go without due to a lack of trained clinicians.

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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. . The health care system is strained.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

More than 67% of the 203 hospice care professionals surveyed indicated that staffing would be their greatest non-COVID related challenge this year, according to the 2022 Hospice News Outlook Survey and Report. This is a rise from 33% the prior year.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 22, 2022

This left employees burdened with more documentation responsibilities that often took time away from patient care and left chaplains in particular spread too thin, said Richardson. This is heavy work, so we ensure that we’re helping each other to maintain self-care.”. Limited opportunities for training.

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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. The care is pretty unique for those people younger than 18. Trustbridge Names New Hospice CMO.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

A state of stress Palliative professionals of all walks are navigating symptoms of burnout, including social workers, grief counselors, chaplains, physicians and nurses. During that time frame, workers reported low levels of well-being that indicated a higher potential risk of burnout.

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Daily Nurse

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Any nurse entering the field, no matter how prepared or well trained, will do their best to learn about the realities of caring for others on the job. As a young nurse, I suddenly saw many patients developing complex and difficult-to-manage illnesses. Soon, we would give this disease a name: HIV/AIDs.

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Minority Nurse

AUGUST 14, 2023

Endocrine nurses work in a professional nursing specialization that is seeing an increased patient population with endocrine-related conditions such as diabetes, Cushing’s disease, thyroid disease, or hormonal conditions. And Cheng also has the unique perspective of being both an endocrine nurse and an endocrine patient.

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Daily Nurse

JULY 29, 2024

Wearable technology has become more common in the care of cancer patients, but it can also boost adherence to certain protocols, such as hand hygiene. When you go in [a patient’s room], it will automatically read that the nurse is in the room and has performed hand hygiene.” That’s why we have the hubs around.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 12, 2023

And ACE units in general take a typical multidisciplinary hospital unit that has all the different team members, so doctors, nurses, social workers, dieticians, pharmacists, chaplains, patient care technicians, others I’m leaving out. And so I started reframing the way that I was talking about ACE units.

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AAHPM (American Academy of Hospice and Palliative)

MAY 6, 2024

Being labeled as a ‘Visionary’ underscores the importance of innovation and forward-thinking in our approach to patient care. Learn more about the AAHPM 2024 Visionary in Hospice and Palliative Care and view a full list of all current and past Visionaries.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

One of the things that you want to think about is tapping into your interdisciplinary care team, and have everybody profile a patient and sit there, and close their eyes. How are you making sure that you’re meeting not only the patient’s outcomes, the family’s satisfaction.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

However, attracting people to its palliative care space isn’t always easy because of several obstacles in the community. Dillon said roadblocks to patient care often include a lack of access to transportation, food scarcity and medical bills. It’s reimbursement for all of that time spent outside of a provider visit.

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CareAcademy Blog

APRIL 30, 2025

Located in a tranquil, home-like setting, the facility offers a peaceful environment that prioritizes the quality of a patients remaining life over curing illness. At the heart of a hospice care is its staff, including nurses, doctors, social workers, and chaplains.

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Minority Nurse

AUGUST 6, 2024

If you’re considering seeking mental health treatment, you may be wondering about the differences between a psychiatric nurse practitioner, a psychiatrist, and a therapist. While all three professions can provide mental health care, they have different levels of education, training, and clinical roles.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Furthermore, we also developed certifications of the people who run the programs in the house, career-specific certifications for hospice operations, home health operations, health care sales, and even ongoing coaching and support. The question for me is why wouldn’t it?

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Traditions Health

APRIL 22, 2024

A vital role in hospice care She’s worked as a volunteer coordinator for more than six years, but before that, was a hospice nurse for 23 years. During that time, she’s come to understand what patients need, and how volunteers can add value.

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Hope Hospice

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Through the new organization’s integrated, trans-disciplinary team-based approach to health care, patients and families will have comprehensive access to a clinically trained, compassionate team including physicians, nurses, social workers, spiritual support and bereavement counselors, home health aides, and physical and occupational therapists.

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Traditions Health

APRIL 14, 2024

Experienced Care Teams Our care teams are made up of a wide range of professionals and volunteers who care for the whole person, which means that we recognize and address emotional, mental, physical, and spiritual needs. It’s a voluntary commitment that we’ve made to consistently provide the highest quality of care.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

He also found gaps, including very few studies of patients with lung disease, and little impact of trials on quality of life. David Bekelman conducted a RCT of a nurse and social worker telephone intervention (ADAPT intervention) for people with heart failure and lung disease (COPD or ILD). Welcome to GeriPal, David.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 16, 2025

All right, and finally we have Yael Zweig, who is a geriatric nurse practitioner at NYU. Eric 13:00 I also love that too, because even on our inpatient ballot of care consult service, whenever somebody says that they’re unrepresented or they don’t have a surrogate, we never believe that until we usually look up.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Of note: these lessons apply to geriatrics, primary care, hospital medicine, critical care, cancer care, etc, etc. social worker, chaplain), everyone should be able to ask a question or two about spiritual concerns, social concerns, or physical concerns. Louis University School of Nursing. And I just.

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Home Care Pulse

MAY 16, 2023

They required nurses to perform assessments before initiating care and regularly every 60 days. And that’s even though we were strictly a personal care provider and not providing any skilled nursing services. You know, we improve the quality of patient care by, by following that patient.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

At such a vulnerable time, it is important for families to have a resource like a patient care unit right in their backyard. AMOREM provides comfort and understanding in ensuring that their compassionate and incredibly skilled nurses are there to support patients and families. Is this [facility] ever going to happen?

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GeriPal

MAY 22, 2025

Jenny 23:26 Oh, it’s literally a documentary of people following specific patients in nursing homes who benefit from music and seeing the impact of music. But Theresa has done a review, so I’m sure you could talk more about that. Theresa 23:42 Well, we really should have Dan Cohen on the podcast.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 17, 2023

For palliative care clinicians, that apathy can lead to the depersonalization of patients, negatively affecting patient care. Nursing is not the same kind of work it used to be. The risks of burnout When a nurse or support provider becomes burned out, their patients and the organization suffer.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

The Dallas-based home health and hospice provider has placed retention among its top three priorities, behind patient care and quality, he said. Retaining your clinical workforce is really important in that patient relationship and the type of dying experience they have.

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Daily Nurse

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Healthcare is an industry where careers and patient care are both fueled by relationships. At the same time, your connections with patients can bring meaning and purpose to your work. There are many ways in which relationships can benefit you and your nursing career.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Lasting physical and social impacts can also take root as a result of these experiences, she added. The impacts of trauma and abuse are important to include in staff training and education, as well as patient care delivery approaches and employee policies, Fisher stated. Snyder previously served as a hospice nurse for 23 years.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 1, 2024

Thinking about the future as we advance health care, we’ve created efficiencies for our nurses, chaplains, social workers and therapists,” Templeton said at the conference. There’s a human element to it and a patient-centered care element to it that helps advance health care overall.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

We can bring powerful data and care pathways. We can co-invest in resources, whether they’re nurses, care managers, social workers. We also can help them create risk sharing contracts with palliative care organizations. But as agilon, we don’t provide the care ourselves. Is it 24-7 care?

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