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Advance Care Planning Billing Rules Impede Equitable Access

Hospice News

Across 150 different studies, white adults represented nearly two-thirds (65.1%) of roughly 800,000 individuals who had completed advance directives between 2011 and 2016. The expense can range from $10 to $50 per patient, she added. Adding a financial cost further impedes access to an important service,” Freeland said.

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Ep. 45 -  The Heart of a Hospice Nurse

HPNA podcast

Helen Bauer, BSN RN CHPN Helen Bauer is a highly experienced hospice nurse with more than 15 years dedicated to end-of-life care. Her expertise spans across bedside care, caregiver support, nursing leadership, and hospice consulting. She is board certified with the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners.

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Executive Changes at Niagara Hospice, Transcend Strategy Group, AMOREM, HomeCare & Hospice

Hospice News

Niagara Hospice is part of The Hospice and Palliative Care Group (HPCG), an organization that provides administrative services. Established in 1971, the organization provides hospice, palliative, nursing and home care services across four counties in western New York. Gordon Hospice and Palliative Care of Tidewater.

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Ep. 43 - An Insider’s View: An Insider’s View: A Pediatric Nurse Practitioner’s Reflections as a Palliative Care Clinician, Caregiver, and Mother

HPNA podcast

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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Facility-Bound Hospice Patients Less Likely to Get SIA Visits

Hospice News

“Based on these results, we find that institutionalized beneficiaries were less likely to receive SIA services, and even among those that did, received shorter visits,” Christian and Plotzke indicated at the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (AAHPM) and the Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association (HPNA) Annual Assembly.

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PC Trials at State of Science: Tom LeBlanc, Kate Courtright, & Corita Grudzen

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Summary Transcript Summary One marker of the distance we’ve traveled in palliative care is the blossoming evidence base for the field. They study palliative care. She’s pulmonary critical care and palliative medicine trained. These are big trials in palliative care. That’s a pretty big palliative care study.

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Buprenorphine Use in Serious Illness: A Podcast with Katie Fitzgerald Jones, Zachary Sager and Janet Ho

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Our experts include Katie Fitzgerald Jones (palliative nurse practitioner and doctoral student at Boston College), Zachary Sager (palliative care physician at the Boston VA and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute), and Janet Ho (physician at UCSF in addiction medicine and palliative care). Good review on buprenorphine for pain.