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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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RAND Corp.: Families Report Better Care from Nonprofit Hospices

Hospice News

RAND researchers analyzed Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS) Survey data from 653,208 caregivers whose family members received care from 3,107 hospices between April 2017 and March 2019. study has found. However, disparities existed when it came to individual measures.

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Research Finds Links Between Hospice Care, Reduced Cancer-Related Suicides

Hospice News

Suicide rates among cancer patients saw a “sharp slump” between 2013 and 2017, with researchers attributing the decrease to several potential factors. “Furthermore, the development of integrated care models, including collaborative care models, has provided a more comprehensive and coordinated approach to cancer care.”

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The Benefits of Palliative, Home-Based Primary Care Integration

Hospice News

Goals-of-care conversations, referrals to hospice, supporting a patient and a caregiver, symptom management,” Chiang said. “We A 2017 analysis of Northwestern’s program showed significant cost reductions, reduced hospital readmissions and increases in hospice enrollment and length of stay, Chiang said at the symposium.

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

Hospice News

Unfortunately, we also see a lot of caregiver strain and stress taking care of these patients.” Other often unaddressed aspects include a lack of financial resources, education about their disease progression, advance care planning and goals of care discussions, as well as lagging care coordination and caregiver support, according to Selke.

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4 Tech solutions on how to optimize daily home care scheduling and routes

AlayaCare

At AlayaCare, in 2017 we began working hard with our partner VHA Home Health and other leading professionals to develop and reap the benefits of an optimization algorithm in the back office module of the AlayaCare platform. In fact, a national shortage of 151,000 caregivers will exist by 2030. Technological solution.

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Hospice Executives Retire as New Leaders Rise

Hospice News

Wilson in 2008 became the organizations corporate and community relations coordinator before being promoted to manager in 2017. The nonprofit hospice offers bereavement care, caregiver resources and supportive care for pediatric populations.

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