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

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

“The ideas underpinning all of this is that when patients’ needs are really complex, everyone should have access to a specialty team of palliative care specialists in whatever setting they’re receiving care,” Bowman said at the C-TAC-CAPC Leadership Summit in Washington D.C. “We

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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

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Competition for hospice workers has been fierce amid staffing shortages, retirements and rising cases of burnout and turnover during the pandemic. Raising pay for health workers is just one aspect of improving labor strains, but can come with difficult financial impacts for some organizations, including hospices.

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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

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

APRIL 26, 2022

We also have a home health aide, a chaplain, a social worker, a patient intake coordinator and a medical director. We’re starting small to be able to manage patients coming to us. I get into the field right alongside our staff to provide hospice care. Providing great patient care is the top priority.

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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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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Mag brings a level of thought leadership and innovation that will further enhance our reputation of excellence in patient care.”. Our Hospice of South Central Indiana and Palliative Care has announced that Dr. Leigh Anderson will be its new medical director. Trustbridge Names New Hospice CMO.

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Daily Nurse

JULY 29, 2024

Hand hygiene plays an important role within any healthcare system, but particularly within oncology, and definitely within a stem cell transplant unit,” Corbett says.

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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 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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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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NHPCO

DECEMBER 20, 2022

The FY23 omnibus extends that IMPACT Act aggregate cap methodology by another year to 2032, meaning that for the next decade many hospices will have to do more with less to continue providing patient care. .

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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. So there was lots of permutations of how people did rounds.

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Daily Nurse

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Home care nurses are increasingly filling a crucial care gap within the HIV/AIDS community, acting as a bridge for patients by helping to determine the full spectrum of support they might need. as making sure they closely follow prescribed medical treatment and go to all their appointments.

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Minority Nurse

AUGUST 14, 2023

It’s important that the patients feel supported throughout their journey, and the nursing model empowers us to aid the patient in a holistic manner. How does technology help patient care in endocrine nursing and do you see advances? Advancements in technology intersect with the world of endocrinology in many aspects.

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Hospice News

MARCH 18, 2024

Deanna Heath: At one point palliative care was hospital-based, now it’s so much more home-focused. It doesn’t just focus on the physical, it also focuses on the emotional and the spiritual with the use of social workers and spiritual counselors. Can palliative care function without numerous systems?

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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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Minority Nurse

AUGUST 6, 2024

PNPs can prescribe medication and develop treatment plans for their patients. They work collaboratively with other healthcare professionals, such as psychiatrists, psychologists, and social workers , to provide comprehensive care to patients. Therapists provide talk therapy to their patients.

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Hospice News

JULY 11, 2023

I have channeled my passion for working with underserved communities, beginning as a licensed social worker for a large hospital system, where I experienced firsthand the disparities in healthcare access and limitations in delivering whole-person care.

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Traditions Health

APRIL 22, 2024

During that time, she’s come to understand what patients need, and how volunteers can add value. While it’s true The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) require volunteers to perform 5% of direct patient care hours per month for hospice agencies, she insists their contributions go far beyond simply meeting that goal.

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AAHPM (American Academy of Hospice and Palliative)

JULY 10, 2024

Most notably, I am constantly awed by the transformative leadership of palliative care social workers. As an associate editor of the Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, it’s been incredibly exciting for me to celebrate scholarship on psychosocial palliative care from a range of disciplines.

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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 16, 2025

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. To have a social worker who’s dedicated in many places. What’s your next step?

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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). Important implications. David: Yeah.

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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. DorAnne, welcome to GeriPal. G lad to be here.

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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.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 13, 2024

Some homeless individuals approaching the end of life may be decades younger than the average hospice patient. Care delivery should account for their potentially vastly different physical abilities and goals-of-care compared to seniors. They may also need access to a continuum of care further upstream of hospice, he stated.

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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

MAY 8, 2024

When the system overlooks caregiver contributions, it also overlooks the support they need to enable better patient care. Caregivers often feel overwhelmed, lost, and burnt out, which can lead to increased ER visits, higher readmission rates, and an overall decline in patient outcomes.”

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Home Care Pulse

MAY 16, 2023

So before we became accredited by, with the Joint Commission in their home care program, we were already receiving referrals from local physicians, nurses, social workers, discharge planners, at a number of different healthcare systems in the area. You know, we improve the quality of patient care by, by following that patient.

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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. This is in addition to widespread attrition among registered nurses, social workers, back-office staff and other professionals.

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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. The need to roll with the nearly constant changes in the health care system also takes a toll, according to an executive panel from Houston Hospice.

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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. “One

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