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5 ‘Hidden Gem’ Palliative Care News Stories in 2024

Hospice News

The project is designed to learn more about the innovative, person-centered care models that can help address common challenges that these patients and their caregivers face including approaches that integrate palliative care services. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services value-based insurance design (VBID) model.

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How Palliative Care Could Address Unmet Needs of Patients With Rare Diseases

Hospice News

Some gaps exist because they can’t access care without much needed specialists [nearby]. Unfortunately, we also see a lot of caregiver strain and stress taking care of these patients.” A wider base of palliative social workers can also be a key to improved patient and caregiver support, Brown indicated.

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WellSky Intent on Expanding Footprint, Presence Across Care Continuum

Hospice News

Hanging onto great caregivers has been the number one issue and concern of all of our clients, bar none,” Miller said. The Kansas-based company reports that it has quadrupled in size since 2017, now employing a staff of 2,200 worldwide. There is not anything close that measures up to the challenge that they’re seeing.”.

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Finding your PAC

Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

Another unique element was around the concept of care coordination and the role of patient navigators. The care trajectory for an individual beneficiary can be complicated. Many beneficiaries receive PAC services from more than one provider in their care trajectory. Patient Pathways in Acute Care and PAC.

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Why Palliative Care Providers Are Adopting the GUIDE Model

Hospice News

As dementia-related illnesses continue to rise among hospice patients, caregivers and providers alike are working judiciously to best find ways to support patients and their families in navigating these new diagnoses. And it comes with payment to allow organizations like ours to continue to expand our dementia care programs.”

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EMS Intervention to Reduce Falls: Carmen Quatman and Katie Quatman-Yates

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So when Carmen and I both started at Ohio State together, September 1, 2017, and we started our first day as faculty members here, she started pursuing this topic. Katie: Help pay for them to go and do the evaluations and provide the resources and care coordination as part of the healthcare team. Eric: Yeah.

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April 2022: CMS updates National Quality Strategy

Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

Noted in its stated objectives the CMS National Quality Strategy takes a person-centered approach to quality and safety and seeks to improve the overall care journey as individuals move across the continuum of care, from home- or community-based settings to hospitals and post-acute care. This all sounds great, right?

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