Hospice News
APRIL 16, 2025
Strong staff education and reimbursement are among the keys to successfully integrating social determinants of health within a palliative care program. Screening tools developed by the U.S. Does palliative care intersect with social determinants of health? That is the happiest marriage, Romanello told Palliative Care News at the conference.
Hospice News
NOVEMBER 11, 2024
billion in shared savings payments during the program’s 2022 to 2023 performance year, the highest dollar amount thus far, CMS reported. “We Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently announced that its Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) yielded more than $2.1 ACOs participating in MSSP earned an estimated $3.1
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Hospice News
JANUARY 23, 2025
The PRIM-ER interventions took place between 2018 and 2022, meaning that the results could have been influenced by the COVID-19 pandemic. A palliative training program for emergency department staff in 29 hospitals did not reduce hospital admissions, a recent study found. The study did not measure access to palliative care as an outcome.
Hospice News
JANUARY 8, 2025
Hospice utilization reached 43.77% among Medicare decedents in Hawaii during 2022, according to a report from the National Alliance for Care at Home. Six nonprofit hospice providers recently joined forces to form the Hawaii Palliative and Hospice Care Collaborative. This fell below the national average of 49.1%
Hospice News
APRIL 30, 2025
of adults across the United States had some type of serious mental illness in 2022, reported the National Institute of Mental Health. Palliative psychiatry care approaches can be key to improving quality of life among patients with severe and persisting mental illness (SPMI). At the moment, palliative psychiatry is an idea. Roughly 6.0%
Hospice News
MARCH 4, 2025
Additionally, Arkansas Hospice in 2022 acquired First Choice Senior Care, which provides personal care services and assistance with medication management, meal preparation, assistance with daily activities of life and companionship. New Day Healthcare LLC announced that Dombi recently joined its board of advisors.
Hospice News
FEBRUARY 13, 2025
CAPC surveyed 150,000 health care professionals between December 2021 and January 2022 to gauge the efficacy and scope of their quality improvement efforts to advance equity among Black patients with serious illnesses. One health care organization used patient data to adjust its clinical workflow process.
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