Sensible Medicine

OCTOBER 20, 2023

i] My third year of medical school began with a night in the operating room with a man with an aorto-enteric fistula. That night introduced me to the smell of melena — a smell that I now can recognize even rooms away on a hospital floor, and which also takes me back to that New York Hospital operating room in 1991.

Hospice 72

Hospice Hospitals Operations Sepsis 72

PulmCCM

MARCH 11, 2024

Ascension is a $27 billion, 140-hospital conglomerate operating in 19 states—the third largest system in the U.S There was no difference in rate of discharge to hospice (6.8% for likelier hospice discharge after automatic palliative care consultation. by some accounts (after HCA and the VA).

Hospice 52

Hospice Documentation/Coding Administration Hospitals 52

Sensible Medicine

OCTOBER 20, 2023

i] My third year of medical school began with a night in the operating room with a man with an aorto-enteric fistula. That night introduced me to the smell of melena — a smell that I now can recognize even rooms away on a hospital floor, and which also takes me back to that New York Hospital operating room in 1991.

Hospice 52

Hospice Hospitals Operations Sepsis 52