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Providers Work to Solve Palliative Care’s Biggest Growing Pains

Hospice News

Samaritan Healthcare & Hospice launched its palliative care service line in 2007, mainly providing these services in hospital-based settings. Strains on reimbursement, referrals and staffing represent the biggest obstacles to palliative care providers’ viability and growth.

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Understanding Policymakers’ Frame of Reference Crucial to Hospice, Palliative Care Advocacy

Hospice News

In 2007, Olajide established the tech firm Axxess with a mind toward improving the efficiency of health care delivery to allow providers to devote more time and resources to their interactions with patients. Typically, when we hear about value, it’s about saving money for payers and Medicare. These are real issues.

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Pediatric Hospice, Respite Program Combatting Financial Challenges

Hospice News

The idea for Sarah House came into being in 2007. Current Medicaid and Medicare per diem rates do not sufficiently support the full scope of interdisciplinary pediatric hospice and respite services, according to Marcum. Image courtesy of Sarah House's board of directors.

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Palliative Care Pioneer: Susan Block

GeriPal

Myself personally, I was in PCEP at Harvard, I think like 2007 or something with Rachelle Bernacki and a bunch of other great people. Was before the Medicare hospice benefit. Eric: So Susan, very big thank you for joining us on this podcast. We’ve got a lot to cover. But before we do, we always start off with song requests.

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VNHS Leveraging Tech to Optimize Hospice Patient Experience

Hospice News

For example, VNHS implemented its remote patient monitoring program in 2007. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services reported. The company has pioneered a number of technologies that are becoming increasingly common in the post-acute space. More recently it has dipped its toes into the realm of predictive analytics. “We

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Predictive Analytics ‘Gives Hospices a Lens’ into Quality, Compliance

Hospice News

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) designed the HCI tool to paint a picture of care processes that occur between a patient’s admission and discharge. Established in 2007, the nonprofit hospice today announced a new partnership with health and community care technology company WellSky Hospice & Palliative.

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GeriPal 300th Episode: Ask Me Anything Hot Ones Style

GeriPal

So, in front of us today, we have a variety of hot sauces and chicken wings. They’ve all been laid out for you. Our task is simple, we are going to be sampling each of these hot chicken wings while we ask Eric and Alex questions related to Palliative care and Geriatrics. Alex: Great Eric: These are the questions submitted by our audience?