yeop, he really said all that This is what so badly bothered J. Donald: "the data analysis, based on hundreds of thousands of Medicare patient and hospice records from 2013, shows that the gap between the for-profits as a whole and nonprofits is striking and consistent, regardless of hospice size." WaPo - Dying and profits: The evolution of hospice ..read more

  It's a slide show, you can maximize screen size, advance the slides or auto loop This is an excerpt from a work in progress - How to find the best hospice? | How to make money in Hopsice!! and specifically an excerpt that takes a look at the way to make the BIG money in hospice: financial engineering Inspired by the reporting of journalist Ava Kofman How Hospice Became a For-Profit Hustle The final(?) version(s) will be video(s) with scripted narration This is just some of the storyboard that takes a look at one form of financial engineering - the spin-off special dividend - and ho ..read more

I’ve been observing for-profit-corporate hospice for a while, and have long believed it’s the single greatest threat to a patient and family’s opportunity to achieve a peaceful death Ava Kofman’s recent piece emphasized yet again the need to develop ways to help people negotiate the minefield that for-profit corps have made of hospice, and to help patients, families, caregivers, clinicians and the community understand the difference between good hospice and predatory crappy hospice There are so many rabbit holes in the space, as just one example: Curo Health Services didn’t exist until 2010 ..read more

 WaPo 2014 - “... data analysis, based on hundreds of thousands of Medicare patient and hospice records from 2013, shows that the gap between the for-profits as a whole and nonprofits is striking and consistent, regardless of hospice size “Unfortunately, a lot of people have come into the business for the wrong reasons,” said Michael Girard, who with his wife Deb owns the Circle of Life for-profit hospice in Reno, Nev. “A lot of the problems we have in hospice today have happened with the entry of what I call the ‘vulture capitalists.’ ” WaPo 'Business of Dying' NHPCO 2014 - “In an articl ..read more

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I posed the following questions at the gated online community run by the national office of the specialty nursing organization to which I pay annual dues: Why are continuing education units measured by quantity (time, contact hours) and not quality (learner objectives achieved)? Why should a 15-minute continuing ed program (including post test and evaluation) where learners achieve 2 or 3 meaningful objectives be valued as "less than" a one hour death by power point? A colleague took exception to the phrase, "death by power point," and seemed to feel I was being judgmental or dismissive of edu ..read more

This terrific video is a great way for you to begin to know an amazing person, Ms Adrian Allotey Take the introduction further at You Are Not Alone Elder Care ..read more