Hospice News
JANUARY 20, 2023
More providers are investing in virtual reality (VR) programs as a growing body of research shows that it can ease pain symptoms and improve outcomes for palliative care patients. These findings suggest that there could be therapeutic benefits to expanding virtual reality programming in palliative care delivery, researchers indicated.
Hospice News
SEPTEMBER 6, 2023
Though relatively few home health agencies provide palliative care, those providers and their patients can benefit from more integration of those services. Currently, the palliative care space is dominated by hospices and health systems. So they end up getting discharged from their services.
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Hospice News
MAY 3, 2023
In turn, that could dampen the growth of palliative care supplemental benefits in MA moving forward. Despite palliative care’s ability to lower health care spending and improve patient outcomes, it remains an underutilized service. billion, a 287% increase in profits since 2012,” Sens. wrote in a statement.
Hospice News
AUGUST 16, 2023
Two barriers interfere with palliative care growth — identifying patients in need and a fragmented reimbursement system, according to Laura Templeton, COO and executive vice president at Compassus. As a nurse, Templeton has leveraged her clinical experiences to help navigate challenges that prevent patients from accessing care.
Hospice News
MARCH 24, 2025
However, more stakeholders are applying the term to hospice and palliative care. Personalized medicine is a step away from a one-size-fits-all approach to health care. While genetic information can be useful in hospice and palliative care, patients rarely have that data. Between 2012 and 2019, only 6.8%
Hospice News
MARCH 19, 2025
In 2012, heart failure cost the nation an estimated $30.7 of all patients who received the benefit, the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization reported. The disease in 2022 was mentioned on more than 457,000 U.S. death certifications. However, hospice utilization among these patients remains low.
HPNA podcast
MARCH 3, 2025
Join us for an insightful episode featuring seasoned Pediatric Nurse Practitioner Meggan Mikal-DeMont DNP, APRN-FPA, PCNS-BC, CPNP-PC, CHPPN , FPCNwith more than10 years of experience in palliative care and pain management. This led her to also become a board-certified pediatric hospice and palliative nurse in 2009.
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