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Humana, Thyme Care Partnership to Expand Access to Palliative Care

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NYSE: HUM) and Thyme Care promises to expand access to palliative care among the oncology care companys patient population. The value-based agreement contracts Thyme Care with Humana Medicare Advantage plans, giving them access to their beneficiaries. The company offers palliative care in addition to other services.

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Dole Act Could Give Veterans Greater Access to Hospice, Palliative Care

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The Senator Elizabeth Dole 21st Century Veterans Healthcare and Benefits Improvement Act, currently winding its way through Congress, would likely increase access to hospice and palliative care for veterans, if enacted. The National Alliance for Care at Home and the National Coalition for Hospice and Palliative Care endorsed the legislation.

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How Palliative Care Providers Can Enhance Care Coordination

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Fragmented health care has significant ties to adverse outcomes in patients with chronic or serious illnesses. Palliative care providers’ ability to navigate the health care system, coordinate the delivery of care, interact regularly with patients, and facilitate communication between providers can reduce this fragmentation.

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2024’s Most Read Palliative Care News Stories

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Access was the watchword in the palliative care community during 2024, as providers sought more ways to reach the right patients at the right time. The following are the most-read Palliative Care News articles of 2024. Substances in this realm include cannabis, ketamine, MDMA and psychedelics such as psilocybin and LSD, among others.

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Inside The Pennant Group’s Palliative Care Philosophy and Practice

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The Pennant Group has been quietly building palliative care programs driven by its local leaders with support from the corporate offices Service Center. We take a local-model approach where teams can build out what their palliative programs look like, and then we surround them with Service Center support, Steik told Palliative Care News.

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Headwaters Hospice to Launch New Palliative Care Services

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Montana-based Headwaters Hospice and Palliative Care LLC will soon unveil a new palliative care service line, set to launch later this year. We have kind of married our health care experience with the structure and accountability of our founders having a military background, Brown told Palliative Care News.

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Care Coordination, Quality Data Crucial to Hospice Referral Growth

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Care coordination and quality data will be engines for hospice referral growth. YoloCares offers hospice, supportive and palliative care, adult day services and advance care planning, among other programs. Those are very interesting subjects that are coming up across the health care organizations that we deal with so far.”