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Using a Hospice Data ‘Toolbox’ to Tune Up Health Equity

Hospice News

Bullock is also professor at Boston Colleges School of Social Work and Global Public Health. Collaborating with other providers can help cast a wider net of data collection across underserved communities, Bullock indicated.

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Pamela Duggan Runs the Boston Marathon to Give Back to the Hospital That Saved Her Baby’s Life

Daily Nurse

For Pamela Duggan, RN, of Medfield, MA, every mile of the Boston Marathon is personal. Today, Danny is a healthy 16-year-oldone of three reasons Duggan is proudly running the 129th Boston Marathon this year. The longtime Tufts Medical Center nurse, mother of three, and first-time marathoner isn’t just running the iconic 26.2

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Meet David Nguyen an RN at Boston Medical Center

Minority Nurse

Minority Nurse recently caught up with David Nguyen, an early career nurse in Boston who decided when he was young that a career in nursing was his path. I am currently a registered nurse at Boston Medical Center in the Medical Intensive Care Unit. My transition from nursing school to becoming a nurse has been smooth so far.

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“What a privilege”: Reflections of a hospice nurse

HopeHealth

In honor of Nurses Week, we spotlight our hospice nurse based in a Boston hospital. “So So much love, so much meaning can happen in these end-of-life spaces,” she says. The post “What a privilege”: Reflections of a hospice nurse appeared first on HopeHealth.

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VNA Health Group CEO Steve Landers to Leave Company, Take Helm at Hebrew SeniorLife

Hospice News

Steve Landers, CEO of VNA Health Group, is leaving the company in July and become the top executive for the Boston-based health system Hebrew SeniorLife. Hebrew SeniorLife is affiliated with Harvard Medical School and serves more than 3,000 seniors in the Boston metropolitan area. Landers succeeded Louis J. Woolf upon his retirement.

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Brigham and Women’s Hospital Speeds Hospice Transition with AI

Hospice News

Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston applied an AI algorithm to facilitate timely transitions to hospice for patients presenting in the emergency department. After this effort was initiated in 2021, about 54% of eligible patients elected the hospice benefit, compared to 22% in years prior, a new study in JAMA Network Open indicated.

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The Impacts of Child Abuse, Neglect in Pediatric Palliative Care

Hospice News

Navigating care delivery approaches in instances of child abuse comes with challenges related to health care decisions and outcomes, according to Dr. Ross Cleveland, pediatric palliative care physician at Boston Children’s Hospital.