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How California Began Expanding Palliative Care Via Medicaid

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Palliative care has become a more sought-after treatment plan in recent years, and one agency in California has led the charge in advancing palliative care support among its population. Cotter has been a board certified physician in family medicine since 1981 and worked as a hospice medical director from 1988 to 1989.

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Oasis Hospice & Palliative Care CEO: The ‘Painful’ Growth of Inpatient Care Delivery

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Our dream initially was to have a hospice house for patients that needed higher levels of symptom management. We obtained our Medicare license in June 2015, and everything really started by faith. I was in restaurant management. Our license to operate the new facility came more recently.

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Hospices Partner with After-Loss Services to Bolster Grief Support

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Bereaved families often face tremendous challenges fielding a barrage of tasks following a loved ones’ death, according to Grant Marylander, grief counselor at Trail Winds Hospice, which provides adult and pediatric hospice and palliative care. Hathaway founded PALS after her husband died of terminal cancer in 2015.

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Systematic Change Needed to Support Family Caregivers of Hospice Patients

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Families caring for seriously ill loved ones face systemic barriers that could threaten patients’ ability to receive care at home, including at the end of life. If a family can’t withstand these burdens, the patient may have to receive care in a facility to ensure their needs are met.

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Blue Monarch CEO: Hospice Startup Seeks to Raise Bar on Quality

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Years ago, I thought the customer service side of things in the hospice industry could use some improvement. That, coupled with the increasing age of the [nation’s] population, led me and my wife to start Blue Monarch Hospice. . I often saw slow response times as patients waited sometimes days for nurses to provide care.

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Key Palliative Care Trends to Watch in 2024

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of the country’s total population, according to a 2015 report by the U.S. Fee-for-service Medicare, for example, only covers physician and licensed independent practitioner services and does not cover the full range of interdisciplinary palliative care. Census Bureau.

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The Forces Driving, Impeding Access to Pediatric Palliative Care

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Seriously ill children represent some of the most underserved populations nationwide in terms of quality and access to supportive health care, according to Katie Leonard, director of pediatrics at California-based Anchor Health. There is a great unmet need for supportive care at home. Each year an estimated 2.5