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Specialized Palliative Pharmacists Have Key Role in Interdisciplinary Teams

Hospice News

Pharmacists have a pivotal role in the provision of hospice and palliative care and are integral members of all interdisciplinary hospice teams,” the organization indicated. The post Specialized Palliative Pharmacists Have Key Role in Interdisciplinary Teams appeared first on Hospice News.

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How Palliative Care Could Help Break the SNF-to-Hospital Cycle

Hospice News

Hospice services right now really can’t be provided concurrent with SNF care, which means if a person is approaching the end of their life, if they’re really doing poorly, many times the easiest route is back to the hospital,” the study’s lead author, Dr. Lynn Flint, told Palliative Care News.

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NorthShore–Edward-Elmhurst Health Expands Partnership with Residential Home Health and Hospice

Hospice News

Chicago-based NorthShore–Edward-Elmhurst Health is expanding its partnership with Residential Home Health and Hospice. But now, Residential Hospice will act as a preferred provider of hospice services at the health system, NorthShore indicated in a press release. As early as 2011, more than 90% of U.S.

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Partners In Care, Summit Health Join Forces on Palliative Care

Hospice News

Partners In Care and Summit Health were longtime partners in end-of-life care in the region so the formation of a formal agreement was a natural evolution in this relationship,” Hagfors told Hospice News in an email. ” Partners In Care offers palliative, home health and community- and facility-based hospice care, among other services.

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Global Partners in Care Program Fosters International Collaboration on Palliative Care

Hospice News

The Indiana-based palliative care provider Center for Hospice Care (CHC) is looking beyond its immediate community and has developed networks that impact palliative care on a global scale. hospice leaders. hospice leaders. hospice leaders went on this trip, saw the need and felt like more could be done to help the situation.”

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Hospices Gear Up to Reach More Heart Failure Patients, Enhance Quality 

Hospice News

The incidence of end-stage heart failure is expected to rise throughout the next decade, and hospices are preparing to serve those patients when they become eligible. However, hospice utilization remains relatively low for those patients.

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Fleece Takes Helm as Empath Health CEO, Begins ‘One Hospice’ Initiative

Hospice News

Empath provides hospice, home health care, primary care, palliative care, PACE, AIDS and sexual wellness care, and adult day services to a combined total of more than 23,000 individuals. We were a service family, and it was just a wonderful sector to be in,” Fleece told Hospice News. I wasn’t seeking hospice.”

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