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5 ‘Hidden Gem’ Palliative Care News Stories in 2024

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Palliative care providers have explored diverse routes to improve quality and access to their services in 2024. The topics spanned evolving reimbursement trends, innovative care delivery partnerships and research examining the biggest barriers among undeserved populations.

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How to ‘Sell’ Palliative Care to Health System Partners

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Establishing consistent relationships with referral sources will not only fill palliative care’s business pipeline, but they also allow providers to develop better delivery models to meet the needs of their partners and patients.

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LeadingAge to Congress: Reform Hospice Benefit, Fund Palliative Care

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The Medicare Hospice Benefit should allow some concurrent care, and Congress should support greater access to palliative care, among other reforms, according to LeadingAge. The senior care advocacy organization wrote to Congressional leaders today calling on lawmakers to devote attention to improving the 40-year-old benefit.

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Stratis Health Builds Framework for Expanding Rural Community-Based Palliative Care

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The health care performance improvement company Stratis Health has developed a framework for expanding access to palliative care in rural communities. What are some of the unique needs of rural populations when it comes to palliative care? Oftentimes it’s either combination of home visits and telephonic services.

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CAPC CEO Brynn Bowman: Palliative Services Are a Fundamental Shift in Health Care

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For Center to Advance Palliative Care’s CEO Brynn Bowman, palliative care represents a fundamental shift in health care delivery as it continues to grow and make an impact on facilities and patients. health care workforce with the skills necessary to care for seriously ill patients and their families.

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Why Skilled Nursing, Assisted Living Operators Invest in Home-Based Hospice Programs

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million Medicare decedents who elected hospice in 2019,, nearly half (49%) received care in private homes, reported the Center for Medicare Advocacy. The other half was provided in nursing homes and at assisted living facilities (21% and 11%, respectively), according to the report. Among the 1.6 Anthony’s Hospice.

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Empath Health Launches New PACE Center

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The program will serve chronically ill seniors aged 55 and older who are certified by the state of Florida to need a nursing home level of care and are able to live safely in the home and community. “Me Empath Health Empath Health Empath LIFE cuts the ribbon on its new Tampa PACE center.

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