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Implementing Palliative Care in Nursing Homes: A Podcast wtih Connie Cole, Kathleen Unroe, and Cari Levy

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Eric 03:25 So we have a lot to talk about, but I’m wondering if we can kind of take a big step back and just talk about the patient population that’s in nursing homes. Connie 06:18 So, I’ve been a clinician working in the nursing home since back in the 80s, and I saw a lot of patients that really needed palliative care.

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Understanding the Variability in Care of Nursing Home Residents with Advanced Dementia

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That’s a problem in our healthcare financing system. Nursing homes are subsidized by their Medicare, by their rehab patients. Once a nursing home gets a bad reputation and they can’t attract the rehab patients anymore, they’re in big trouble. We didn’t respond. That doesn’t work.