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Key Trends to Watch: Health Systems Moving into Hospice, Home-Based Care

Hospice News

As more care moves into the home setting, more hospitals and health systems are throwing their hats into the ring. Coupled with the entry of more payers into the space, the influx of health systems into home health, hospice and community-based palliative care stands to change the competitive dynamics in markets nationwide.

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Health Systems Adapt to Changing Environment by Expanding Hospice, Home-Based Care

Hospice News

Initiatives like these allow health systems the opportunity to not only capitalize on growing demand, but also to address a more comprehensive range of their patients’ health needs in the setting that most prefer, according to Angel Vargas, vice president of Care at Home for Kaiser Permanente. As early as 2011, more than 90% of U.S.

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Challenges for children’s palliative care

Evidence-Based Nursing - BMJ blogs

In this week’s blog, the 5th and final of our CYP series, Gilda Davis @GildaMDavis, Senior Lecturer in Children’s Nursing at the University of Worcester discusses challenges affecting children’s palliative care. As such, the services that are currently available are going to find themselves under further increasing pressure.