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Palliative Care in the ED Reduces Costs, Improves Patient Outcomes

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she said during the presentation. Patients presenting at the emergency department is a crucial moment in their care trajectory, according to Dr. Jonathan Abraham, a board-certified palliative medicine and emergency medicine physician at Corewell Health. When you do really good palliative care, what happens?”

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Dementia Time-Shifting: When the Past Becomes the Present

Responsive Home Care

This isnt just failing to remember what day it is; its a total immersion in a different period of their life. […] The post Dementia Time-Shifting: When the Past Becomes the Present appeared first on Responsive Home Care.

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‘Innovative Opportunities’ Exist in Growing Need for Trauma-Informed Bereavement Care

Hospice News

The unique challenges that bereaved families face with trauma-related losses can present opportunities for hospices to form creative, innovative strategies that help address these needs, she said.

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CMS Ramps Up Efforts to Root Out ‘Door Knocker’ Hospice Schemes

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“[It’s] helping to enhance the education and the beneficiary to inform them to not necessarily accept these kind of open invitations or marketing schemes to get these free benefits that were reported or presented to them as being provided by Medicare in the attempt to mitigate or to compromise their Medicare Beneficiary Identification (MB)] and have (..)

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3 Reasons to Retire Pagers from Healthcare Settings

While once a staple in hospitals and clinics, pagers now present significant limitations that hinder rather than facilitate communication among healthcare professionals. Let's discuss the trusty pager—an old favorite that’s losing its shine in hospitals and clinics.

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Training Hospice Workers to Face Existential Distress, ‘Death Anxiety’

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Its] often even unspoken, but we know its ever present. Death anxiety is not merely an individual experience, but can also be a shared existential struggle that can permeate our clinical interactions, Brenner said. Those practices of building up self-awareness and our ability to manage these tendencies constructively really matter.

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VITAS Seeking Large Acquisitions in Hospice CON States

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First is we like CON states or states where there are restrictions on barriers of entry,” Witzeman said during a presentation at the UBS Healthcare Conference. “We are fairly optimistic on a pipeline of potential Covenant-size deals, but there are a few hurdles from an internal perspective that we would certainly want to keep in mind.

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