Document to Eligibility Guidelines: How to Draw the Map
Non-cancer diagnoses now make up more than 50% of Hospice patients. Learning how to correctly review and admit these challenging patients is becoming increasing important. Walk away from this session with a better description of decline, and a better understanding of reviewing general admission criteria and disease/organ specific criteria. A review of complex cases will also be presented.
Delirium and Agitation: Which One?
What is delirium? What is agitation? Are they different? Do we treat them the same of not? Does it matter?
Workshop goals and objectives:
- Agitation will be defined and clarified
- A review of delirium and current diagnosis and treatment will be given
- Different types of delirium will be reviewed
Speaker: Dr. Gary Miller, MD, FAAFM, FAAHPM
Senior Medical Director, VITAS Innovative Healthcare
Dr. Miller joined VITAS in 1998 as a team physician in Central Florida. He has been medical director, then senior medical director since 1999. He earned board certification in hospice and palliative medicine in 1997. Prior to joining VITAS in 1998 as a team physician, Dr. Miller headed a family medical practice in Orlando and served as medical director for several geriatric and long-term care facilities.
He began his career as Major in the U.S. Air Force, serving as chief of medicine in military hospitals in Turkey and Florida. A diplomate and fellow of the American Board of Family Practice, Dr. Miller also is board certified in geriatric medicine.Dr. Miller earned an undergraduate degree from the University of Rochester and a medical degree from Albany Medical College of Union University, both in New York. He completed an internship and residency at the District of Columbia General Hospital in Washington, D.C., and additional residencies at Albany Medical Center Hospital.