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This is the second of a two-part series that examines family caregiver issues such as education, stress, burnout, and support. In this months article, programs to support caregivers and different ways to offer care to home health patients are discussed.
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Although Valley Health System in Winchester, VA, originally set up its community nurse case management program as a separate department that operated independently of home health, staff soon realized that the two areas needed to coordinate their activities.
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At the height of AIDS mortality, hospices built inpatient facilities and assembled the expertise to deal with an epidemic that seemed to have no end in sight. Since then, however, improved drugs and prevention education have lowered the number of annual deaths.
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Don Schumacher, PsyD, president and CEO of the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization in Alexandria, VA, challenged members of the National Association of Attorneys General (NAAG) to learn more about futile medical care.
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It sounds funny to talk about finding and keeping good volunteer leaders, but as anyone whos been associated with a less-than-stellar fundraising campaign can attest, your campaign is only as successful as its leaders.
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Hospices obviously depend on community physicians for referrals and to sign medical orders, while Medicare regulations define essential roles for the hospice medical director as a core member of the team. But inconsistent or insufficient medical leadership of some hospice teams, coupled with occasional conflicts and misunderstandings with referring physicians, have left a lingering perception in some quarters that hospice is “anti-physician.”
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The pattern of restenosis in sirolimus-eluting stents is focal and mainly inside the stent.
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Data do not support early implantation of prophylactic ICDs in patients with nonischemic cardiomyopathy.
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A new classification of blood pressure in adults is suggested, with normal blood pressure (BP) as < 120 mm Hg and < 80 mm Hg.
