{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Leadership, Quality, and the Future of Hospice: Guests Chris Comeaux and Cordt Kassner","description":"Today we\u2019re doing something different. Today, dear listeners, you get two podcasts for the price of one! (OK, our podcasts are both free, but you get the idea). We\u2019re joined today by Chris Comeaux, host of TCN Talks, a podcast about leadership, strategy, innovation, and the future of serious illness care, and author of The Anatomy of Leadership. We are also joined by TCN Talks\u2019 frequent guest host Cordt Kassner, CEO of Hospice Analytics, which provides in depth data on hospice quality, utilization, and access, and publisher of Hospice and Palliative Care Today, a daily email about the hottest stories and news in the field. This is an \u201cask us anything\u201d style podcast in which we get to ask each other questions.  Our discussions focus on concerning trends in hospice, Ira Byock\u2019s white paper, concerning trends in hospice, certificate of need, danger of losing a generation of junior researchers and hope in the form of ASCENT, various measures of hospice quality including Cordt\u2019s National Hospice Locator, which ranks all area hospice by quality, unlike CMS\u2019s Hospice Care Compare, which only has star ratings for about 30% of hospices. Hospice and palliative care are going through a tough growth period, and sometimes being real with your friends and colleagues in your field means tough love. Love hurts.  And no, I\u2019m not attempting the Nazareth version! -Alex Smith   ","author_name":"GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine Podcast","author_url":"http:\/\/www.geripal.org","html":"