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Humana, Thyme Care Partnership to Expand Access to Palliative Care

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Through contracts with risk-bearing entities, Thyme Care cares for roughly 11,000 patients and families navigating cancer and serious illness.

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Hospice Provider YoloCares Launches Enhanced Care Management to Address Social Determinants

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A lot of times these clients don’t need a nurse in the house, but maybe a spiritual care coordinator or a social worker. This program is set up to really go in and figure out what are all those social determinants that are impacting this person’s overall well being.” Psychosocial support?”

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Palliative Care Startups Require Creativity, Flexibility

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On the flip side, factors challenging this market are high costs of treatment and fragmented delivery models which can result in subpar care coordination providing patients with less-than-ideal outcomes. Patients who aren’t quite ready for hospice still need care but there is no seamless transition between home health and hospice.

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HSPN ELEVATE: Leveraging AI and Other Digital Tools in Hospice & Palliative Care

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With robust integrations, we can now take care coordination documentsCCDAs, for exampleparse them, and pre-populate the EMR. It can summarize this for the admitting nurse, providing a quick overview and helping them understand the patients needs. I recently went through cancer treatment myself as a palliative care patient.

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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. We exercise; we do all kinds of fun things.”

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How Palliative Care Could Address Unmet Needs of Patients With Rare Diseases

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Palliative care providers can help ensure that these patients don’t “fall through the many cracks” of a fragmented health care system, according to Landon Blankenship, chief nursing officer at Hospice of Southern West Virginia, which provides hospice and palliative care across four counties in the state.

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New Hospice Locations Unveiled in 2 States as Others Close

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The company is currently in the process of hiring new registered nurses, hospice aides/CNAs, social workers, patient care secretaries, chaplains and community representatives. The move sparked community outrage amid rising demand for end-of-life care in the area.

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