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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. Researchers have increasingly dug into the quality impacts of virtual palliative care delivery and how telehealth outcomes compare to in-person care.

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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

Hospice News

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. In the second year of the program, the organization is specifically seeking to engage more hospices. About 12% of the 2.1

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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. The providers are participating in the Illinois House Care Project, an initiative by the Home Centered Care Institute (HCCI).

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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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Celebrating Hospice and Palliative Medicine as the Fifth Largest Medical Subspecialty

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If geriatrics is on there, so are we. I am still surprised this Tweet happened as recently as 2018! hpm — Kayla Sheehan, MD (@kksheehan) July 23, 2018 I do not expect that to happen in the future. by Christian Sinclair ( @ctsinclair ) We have entered a new age! Spread the word! If rheumatology is on there, so are we.

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Key to the Continuum: Hospice Providers Eye Primary Care Businesses

Hospice News

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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