Hospice News

JUNE 4, 2024

Data trends have found that suicide rates among cancer patients have decreased during the last three decades, with improved psychosocial end-of-life care a potential factor. Suicide rates among cancer patients saw a “sharp slump” between 2013 and 2017, with researchers attributing the decrease to several potential factors.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 17, 2024

Hospice providers, industry groups and other stakeholders recently penned a letter urging Congress to improve payment infrastructures that would increase access to end-of-life care among rural populations. So, for access to rural care, we’re going to have to depend on smaller rural programs.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

health care system does a good job of caring for the aging population. The research follows up on a 2017 report by the Kaiser Family Foundation and The Economist to gauge whether perceptions of health care had changed in the intervening years, particularly in light of the pandemic.

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Hospice News

APRIL 17, 2024

Partners in Care offers hospice, palliative care and home health to about 1,000 patients daily in five counties in its home state. Since then, the company has grown in terms of census, grown more sophisticated in its approach to end-of-life care and expanded into other business lines. 1, 2016 and Dec.

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Hospice News

MAY 21, 2024

There’s been tremendous progress in a relatively short amount of time that has yielded improvements in end-of-life care,” Tucker told Hospice News. That translates into increased quality of life during such a critically important time for patients.”

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

In addition to oversee AccentCare’s hospice and palliative care programs, he will also support its clinical care operations and patient experience initiatives. Prior to joining AccentCare, Natarajan founded Chicago Primary Care Sports Medicine. The company merged with Illinois-based Seasons Hospice & Palliative Care in 2020.

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Hospice News

MAY 9, 2022

Nevertheless, only about 38% of the chronically ill have documented their wishes, according to 2017 research in Health Affairs. . To help move the needle, hospice and palliative care providers can serve as advocates and educators, according to Dr. Dan Morhaim, a retired emergency department physician and Maryland state delegate. “I

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Hospice News

MAY 25, 2022

Stakeholders in the hospice space are optimistic that Congress will pass the recently reintroduced Palliative Care and Hospice Education Training Act (PCHETA). PCHETA was first introduced in 2017 and again in 2019. Additionally, it would support programs to develop career paths within the field. Third time’s a charm?

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Hospice News

JANUARY 31, 2024

Palliative care, pediatric end-of-life care and end-of-life doula (EOLD) services are top of mind for hospices that are diversifying their services in 2024. About 16% of the survey respondents indicated plans to start palliative care programs this year, a decline from 56% of respondents in 2023.

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Hospice News

JUNE 28, 2023

Fetzer is currently system medical director for palliative care and hospice services at Illinois-based Ascension Health. Fetzer was previously associate medical director at Rainbow Hospice and Palliative Care, now part of the AMITA Health system. He was previously medical director at Compassus since 2017.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 17, 2023

Board-certified in hospice and palliative medicine, Howe has more than 20 years of experience as a physician and medical director for various health care organizations in the Denver area, including a number of rehabilitation, assisted living and skilled nursing home facilities. Agrace Expands Medical Team.

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Hospice News

APRIL 4, 2024

Calls are growing louder for Congress to build stronger reimbursement and workforce incentives aimed at improving the availability and sustainability of rural-based end-of-life care. The letter described experiences of rural-based hospice and palliative care providers, highlighting examples of common challenges they experience.

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Evidence-Based Nursing - BMJ blogs

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

In this week’s blog, the 5th and final of our CYP series, Gilda Davis @GildaMDavis, Senior Lecturer in Children’s Nursing at the University of Worcester discusses challenges affecting children’s palliative care. As such, the services that are currently available are going to find themselves under further increasing pressure.

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HPNA podcast

JANUARY 15, 2024

In this episode, we welcome Amisha Parekh de Campos, PhD, MPH, RN, CHPN to the show where she speaks on the research that she is conducting surrounding people of color in end-of-life care. Joseph in 2009; additional certifications include hospice and palliative care (CHPN). She received her BSN from the University of St.

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Hospice News

JULY 1, 2022

The nonprofit provider in 2017 originally set a $24 million goal to expand its hospice and palliative care services across 41 counties in Kentucky and Southern Indiana, reporting last year that it surpassed this with a $28 million fundraising campaign. Census Bureau.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

Summary Transcript Summary The CDC’s Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain excludes those undergoing cancer treatment, palliative care, and end-of-life care. Jessie Merlin is an addiction and palliative care physician, and professor of medicine at the University of Pittsburgh. 2017 podcast.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Millicent Burke-Sinclair, president and CEO of the hospice and palliative care provider Four Seasons, has been named a 2022 Future Leader by Hospice News. The program is designed to recognize up-and-coming industry members who are shaping the next decade of senior housing, skilled nursing, home health, and hospice care.

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Evidence-Based Nursing - BMJ blogs

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

Where the child has an oncology diagnosis, there is an established body of evidence, but for children with a life limiting condition, the evidence is more limited (Duc, Herbert and Heussler 2017; Johnston et al 2020). Her positive experience from then impacted heavily on the very different experience she had with her son.

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AJN Off the Charts

APRIL 7, 2023

There have been a couple of recent studies that confirm what I have observed as a palliative care nurse practitioner (NP) in an academic medical center: that there’s still a tendency to pursue very aggressive care with older people with cancer. Palliative care could prevent many ED visits. Nearly 10% of the 1.5

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Pallimed

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

It contains no hard dosing thresholds for prescribing opioids and instead “aims promote equitable access to effective, informed, individualized, and safe pain management that improves patients’ function and quality of life, while clarifying and reducing the risks associated with opioid use (19).”

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1-800-HOSPICE

APRIL 11, 2023

Writing for the Mayo Clinic, Mary K Buss, MD, MPH made an interesting observation: “Many PCPs already engage in primary palliative care but may not recognize their actions as palliative care.” 1 In fact, general practitioners, not hospice or specialists, provide most palliative care. 2017 Feb 28; (Vol. 280-286).

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Evidence-Based Nursing - BMJ blogs

OCTOBER 20, 2024

This weeks’ blog is by Prof Julia Downing, Chief Executive International Children’s Palliative Care Network, (Julia.downing@icpcu.org) The report on ‘Unleashing the Power of the Nurse to Achieve Health Equity’ 1 highlights the role of nurses in promoting and enabling health for all, regardless of who we are or where we live. References 1.

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NHPCO

JULY 11, 2024

Her contributions continue to shape the landscape of hospice and palliative care today. The organization, which was a program of NHPCO from 2004 to 2017, is now known as Global Partners in Care. To date, the Medicare Hospice Benefit has made dignified end-of-life care accessible to nearly 30 million Americans, and counting.

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NHPCO

DECEMBER 7, 2022

(Alexandria, VA) – The Hospice Action Network (HAN), the advocacy affiliate group of the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO), is pleased to announce its 2022 Hospice Action Network Angel Award Honorees.

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GeriPal

JUNE 30, 2022

You might be able to extend your life a little bit, but at what cost? So, that was maybe 20 years ago at this point and it really got me down the road thinking about advance care planning, end-of-life care, and similar consequences. And you two guys are both palliative care docs, right? Eric: Yeah.

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Pallimed

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Kaiser Permanente acquired Group Health Cooperative in 2017 and formed a new 501(c)(4) foundation from the proceeds from the acquisition, which “was previously part of Group Health Cooperative [but would then] operate collectively as ‘Group Health Foundation’ (37, 38).” Terri A.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Recent studies spanning various countries have found that location matters for patients with cancer and opioid disorders when it comes to end-of-life care delivery, costs and outcomes. Settings examined included acute care hospitals, health care clinics, long-term care facilities and the home. “Our

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GeriPal

MARCH 3, 2022

I want to say like 2017, 2018, something like that. Julien: He basically had an end of life care discussion with this patient. That will be the last one in his life. ” And that has 34,000 likes, which for a palliative care tweet is beyond what other tweets have achieved. It was amazing. Alex: Yeah.

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Hospice News

MAY 13, 2022

In this COO role, Greene will be charged with overseeing operations of all of the organization’s clinical service lines, which include hospice, palliative and home-based primary care in addition to adult day health care, behavioral medicine and clinical pharmacy. Sangre de Cristo lands new palliative care director.

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