Healthcare administrators constantly aim to deliver genuine value-based care. We talk about reducing unnecessary hospitalizations and delivering treatment ...
Boston College offers a new Interdisciplinary Palliative Care Certificate Program for graduate students at the William F. Connell School of Nursing, the School of Social Work (BCSSW), and the School ...
L-R: Sarada Lewis, RN, CHPN, Amy Lebolt, MSW, Julie Hirsch, RN, CHPN, Lynn Rapp, RN, CHPN. Not pictured are Lindsay High, RN, CHPN, Lori Leopold, MSW and Juliana ...
This study compares a robust, culturally-based Palliative Care Tele-consult program to usual hospital care to determine whether a culturally-based Palliative Care Tele-consult program leads to lower ...
Adopting an emerging model, a Pennsylvania skilled nursing provider is expanding its reach to include palliative and other support services for chronically ill residents. Exton Post Acute, a 120-bed ...
Hospice of the Western Reserve's palliative care program visits patients where they live. It has an active daily roster of about 150 people, of whom about a third reside in nursing homes, says Judy ...
Home-based care executives are increasingly turning to alternative reimbursement models developed by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services ...
It was a personal experience that first exposed Dr. Christine Cofer to palliative medicine. During her late teens, when her father was suffering from metastatic kidney cancer and conventional ...
I was a palliative care nurse long before the discipline was formally identified. I always went out of my way to keep my patients' pain under control and their symptoms effectively addressed. In my ...
Administrative records were used to describe case volumes, setting of care, and organizational expenditures. An estimate of cost per clinical encounter was derived by dividing 2016 monthly clinical ...
Nurse Practitioner SubspecialtyOpens a new website. Specialized Education Lecture Series BEACON ProjectOpens a new website. Dr. Tucker earned her Ph.D. from University of Iowa in Clinical and ...