{"id":1304,"date":"2022-11-05T09:22:08","date_gmt":"2022-11-05T09:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medelitegrp.com\/?p=1304"},"modified":"2023-07-19T14:01:00","modified_gmt":"2023-07-19T14:01:00","slug":"highlights-from-the-zimmet-2022-after-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medelitegrp.com\/highlights-from-the-zimmet-2022-after-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Nov. 22 Highlights from the Zimmet 2022 After Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/b8b6d5507a09edecf8545c5e6\/images\/2c03e7a5-7f35-a8ae-4580-115f15892927.png\" width=\"616\" height=\"421\" \/><\/h2>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #3893cb;\"><strong>Highlights from the Zimmet 2022 After Party\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"MedElite Hosts Zimmet After Party\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7LLIzvsjV6A?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Thanks to everyone who joined us for the MedElite After Party, part of the Zimmet Conference\u00a02022! Click on the\u00a0<u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7LLIzvsjV6A\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">video link<\/a><\/u>\u00a0above\u00a0to watch the highlights from the event.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/48a28b2332e5619bf457f85c1\/images\/3f916432-3de0-0b6f-118d-03927e2b9f3b.png\" width=\"828\" height=\"112\" \/><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Medical Directors<\/li>\n<li>In-house Mid-level Providers<\/li>\n<li>Population Health Management<\/li>\n<li>Cardiology<\/li>\n<li>Neurology<\/li>\n<li>Pulmonology<\/li>\n<li>Infectious Diseases<\/li>\n<li>Psychiatry<\/li>\n<li>Optometry<\/li>\n<li>Podiatry<\/li>\n<li>Dermatology<\/li>\n<li>Gastroenterology<\/li>\n<li>Endocrinology<\/li>\n<li>Orthopedics<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/medelitegrp.com\/contact\/\">Schedule a call to learn more<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/b8b6d5507a09edecf8545c5e6\/images\/e9796f19-85be-0144-4332-4d25a7024858.png\" width=\"670\" height=\"571\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/b8b6d5507a09edecf8545c5e6\/images\/7da95e6c-e2ce-8e7f-dcf9-077e081fa670.png\" width=\"672\" height=\"242\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>On Aug. 19 Dr. Rekha Bhandari, CMO of The MedElite Group,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/pulse\/understanding-hospice-care-palliative-yes-different-bhandari\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">posted to her LinkedIn page<\/a>\u00a0the following piece about the differences between hospice and palliative care, and the importance of both:<\/em><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><u>Understanding Hospice Care and Palliative Care<\/u><\/h2>\n<p>In a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lithub.com\/ask-me-about-death-and-dying-on-the-work-of-palliative-care\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">thoughtful essay<\/a>\u00a0that appeared on the website Lithub.com in August 2022, a New York City-based palliative care physician named Anna DeForest outlined the challenges facing those in her field, as well as hospice care.<\/p>\n<p>DeForest mentioned that the primary goal in Western medicine is to prolong life, and then wondered what the cumulative effect might be on those in the field to have \u201ca failure rate of one hundred percent,\u201d since everybody dies. But more to the point, she discussed the fact that more often than not \u201ca good death requires a little bit of time,\u201d and that those working in hospice care help patients \u201cnavigate the process of becoming dead.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Click the link above to read her full piece.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/48a28b2332e5619bf457f85c1\/images\/e4a6bf9c-9d8d-311e-f209-8d4c95cde6d8.png\" width=\"729\" height=\"226\" \/><\/h2>\n<p>Updates to long-term care facilities\u2019 minimum health and safety standards,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cms.gov\/files\/document\/qso-22-19-nh.pdf-0\">issued by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) on June 29<\/a>, go into effect Oct. 24. These updates, part of a Biden-Harris Administration initiative to advance the quality of nursing home care and the safety in such facilities, also included new guidance in the State Operations Manual (SOM).<\/p>\n<p>In\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cms.gov\/newsroom\/press-releases\/cms-issues-significant-updates-improve-safety-and-quality-care-long-term-care-residents-and-calls\">announcing the new measures<\/a>\u00a0in June, CMS Administrator Chiquita Brooks-LaSure said:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs the COVID-19 pandemic highlighted, we have a pressing moral responsibility to ensure that residents of long-term care facilities are treated with the respect and dignity they deserve. CMS is proud to be leading President Biden\u2019s initiative to improve the safety and quality of care in the nation\u2019s nursing homes, and this set of improvements is our next step toward that goal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Compliance with these updates, first outlined in a fact sheet released before President Joe Biden\u2019s State of the Union Address in March 2022, will be monitored by surveyors as they respond to routine and complaint-based inspections of nursing homes.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the other key issues addressed in this new guidance:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/48a28b2332e5619bf457f85c1\/images\/2a913348-cede-2616-007d-655c198b499b.png\" width=\"464\" height=\"460\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/b8b6d5507a09edecf8545c5e6\/images\/581096bf-0a75-1e23-def1-98ea63baf0fa.png\" width=\"828\" height=\"244\" \/><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.surveymonkey.com\/r\/95VZ7MN\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Click here to vote<\/em><\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Highlights from the Zimmet 2022 After Party\u00a0 Thanks to everyone who joined us for the MedElite After Party, part of the Zimmet Conference\u00a02022! Click on the\u00a0video link\u00a0above\u00a0to watch the highlights from the event. &nbsp; Medical Directors In-house Mid-level Providers Population Health Management Cardiology Neurology Pulmonology Infectious Diseases Psychiatry Optometry Podiatry Dermatology Gastroenterology Endocrinology Orthopedics Schedule [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1209,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medelitegrp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1304"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medelitegrp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medelitegrp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medelitegrp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medelitegrp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medelitegrp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1304\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medelitegrp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medelitegrp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medelitegrp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medelitegrp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}