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HHS Unveils National Strategy to Support Family Caregivers

Hospice News

This strategy presents a vision, along with recommendations for achieving it. Terminally ill patients who lack care from family or friends are often less likely to choose hospice, a 2020 study found. “At some point in our lives, most of us will either be a family caregiver or need one.

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Hospices Likely to Ramp Up Behavioral Health Investments

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For hospices, behavioral health investments present an opportunity to extend their mission, diversify revenue streams, and capitalize on the swelling demand, according to Ken Albert, CEO if Androscoggin Home Health Care + Hospice. million respectively in 2020 alone, according to a study published in The Lancet. million and 76.2

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Growing Neuropalliative Care: Overcoming Barriers to Scale

Hospice News

On the research end of things, the International Neuropalliative Care Society (INPCS) was founded in 2020 to help address these challenges and to bring attention to the specialty. We were able to fund 13 junior investigators to come to Denver to present research into neuropalliative care.”

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The Value of Palliative Care Consults in the Hospital Emergency Department

Hospice News

ED-palliative partnerships present a quadruple aim opportunity to improve care for seriously ill patients.” For a 12-month period starting August 2020, researchers set up an embedded palliative care consultation service in a 350-bed urban community hospital that saw around 45,000 ED visits annually. ROI,” the authors found. “ED-palliative

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Hospices Stepping Up Performance on Visits-in-Last-Days-of-Life Measure

Hospice News

Social worker visits in the last days of life also rose to 9% in 2021, up from 7% in 2020. The greatest barrier to further improvement is the ever-present workforce shortage affecting the health care industry at large and hospices in particular. In 2019, for example, the percentage was 66%.

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Elara Caring Acquires of Assisted Daily Living

Hospice News

The acquisition presents opportunities for Elara Caring to fill gaps between its adjacent markets in Connecticut and Massachusetts. Roughly 265,000 adults will be 60 or older by 2040 statewide, representing nearly a quarter (23%) of the state’s overall population, according to projections from the 2020 Rhode Island Health Aging Data Report.

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COVID-19 Class of 2020: My Hospital Residency’s Twists and Turns

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During my hospital residency in 2020, I worked in several ICUs, all of which had been converted to COVID-19 wards. The post COVID-19 Class of 2020: My Hospital Residency’s Twists and Turns appeared first on Nurse.com Blog. Graduation and Beyond. That’s what nursing means to me — find a need, fill a need.

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