Hampton Groover

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About Hampton Groover

SPECIALTY AREAS: Professional experience includes 30 years in clinical practice: teaching; administration; project development and oversight; formal speaking; Hospice/Palliative education, training, and program certification in Northeast Africa (Ethiopia/Kenya).Specialty experience/competence domains:* Hospice & Palliative medicine* Geriatrics in skilled nursing, long-term care, assisted living, & home care settings* Hospital-based Palliative Medicine program development, practice, & management* Clinical administration & interdisciplinary medical team management* I-SNP / Medicare-Advantage program development, practice, UM, and Model of Care (LTC & PAC)* Pain management & analgesic pharmacology* Non-pain symptom management* Wound care: Comprehensive & risk-assessment based treatment, especially frail & complex elderly* Dysphagia treatment & complications in ICU, LTC, End-of-Life, and disease-specific settings* Dementia: Diagnosis, palliative & non-palliative goal differentiation, & drug/non-drug treatment* Psychotropic pharmacology/symptom management in dementia, stroke, Parkinson's, & brain injury* Medical Ethics & End-of-Life issues: palliative sedation, artificial life-supports, care withdrawal* Hospice practice: Regulations, certifying prognosis (CTI), standards of care, physician/staff training* Skilled nursing facility regulations, management, care transitions, and communication protocols* Osteoporosis in long-term care/institutionalized patients* Palliative and geriatric program development in acute-care, LTC, SNF, & hospice settings* Malpractice expert review: pressure / decubitus wounds, LTC, hospice, & palliative cases* POLST-related implementation & skills, General and State of Georgia