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Early Telepalliative Care Can Reduce Caregiver Burden, Improve Quality

Hospice News

The JAMA study examined outcomes of 1,250 adults with advanced lung cancer receiving palliative care across 22 health care organizations in the United States from June 14, 2018 to May 4, 2023. Satisfaction with care for the caregivers and for the patients [showed] no differences.

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Capital Caring Health to Expand Home-Based Primary Care Service

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The move toward risk-based reimbursement systems is partly fueling a resurgence in home-based primary care, according to a 2018 study in the journal Geriatrics. A number of hospices have launched their own programs or partnerships with other providers. Patients in the United States received more than 2.2

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Palliative Care, Health Equity Growing in Medicare Advantage

Hospice News

Passed in 2018, the Creating High-Quality Results and Outcomes Necessary to Improve Chronic Care (CHRONIC) Act widened supportive avenues for social determinants of health among seriously ill populations. Freeland specializes in geriatrics, advance care planning and home-based primary care.

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Why Hospices Are Pursuing Home-Based Primary Care

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The gradual move of reimbursement systems to value-based care models is partly fueling a resurgence in home-based primary care, according to a 2018 study in the journal Geriatrics. Close to 260,000 of those seniors are homebound, with only 26% receiving home-based primary care. Patients in the United States received more than 2.2

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Patient, Staff Satisfaction Biggest ROIs of Trauma-Informed Hospice Care

Hospice News

In 2018 Hospice of the Western Reserve launched a Trauma-Informed Care Committee designed to create various training programs across its interdisciplinary workforce, volunteer base and back-office administrative staff. It’s not another task to complete, but rather something that can actually make their work richer.”

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Hospices Pursue Home-Base Primary Care Via HCCI Project

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The gradual move of reimbursement systems to value-based care models is partly fueling a resurgence in home-based primary care, according to a 2018 study in the journal Geriatrics. “Then with taking on the risk of the management or the care in the home, we really have to be able to take on that primary care role.”.

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Key to the Continuum: Hospice Providers Eye Primary Care Businesses

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We have an existing group of primary care providers, but we’re very aggressively pursuing acquiring as many primary care providers who are already in the geriatric care space, because when you look at most of the risk-based models — the GUIDE model that’s coming out and ACO REACH,” Ponder Stansel said. “[The

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