Hospice News

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

The post-acute data analytics company develops machine learning solutions designed to identify patients in need of home health, hospice or palliative care services as early as possible in the course of their illnesses.

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Hospice News

JUNE 1, 2022

Hospice and palliative care need greater recognition among disciplines across the board, beyond medicine and nursing, according to Eunju Lee, palliative care social worker at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. This tracks with available data. “The Staffing Constraints Limit Growth.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 16, 2023

Your palliative care team can be instrumental in listening to the goals of a patient and helping to guide them around the care they desire. It’s building a care plan that is right for the patient and a care coordination plan that addresses that fragmentation. Palliative care is a good care coordinator.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 5, 2022

A direct contracting entity (DCE), CareConnectMD offers primary care, palliative care, and care coordination services. The company’s interdisciplinary care model is “high-touch,” according to Phan. The company expects to begin operating in Las Vegas, Nevada and Arizona next year and in Wisconsin in 2024.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Through the partnership, Livio Health provides care to Minnesota Oncology patients in their homes through interdisciplinary teams including nurse practitioners, social workers and nursing care coordinators with a focus on symptom management and improving quality of life.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 30, 2022

The organization, which does business as the Children’s Health Foundation of Oklahoma, will offer the program to practicing physicians in pediatrics and general family medicine, as well as nurses, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, social workers and hospice workers statewide.

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Chicago Caregiving

JUNE 30, 2022

Communication-based healthcare apps stand to improve complex care coordination, which is especially important for older adults. Consider all of the care providers involved in the typical person’s medical care: primary care physician, therapist, gynecologist or urologist, dentist, dermatologist….the

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

California-based Legacy Health Endowment recently launched a program to improve care coordinations and seniors’ awareness around their community-based health care options, including hospice. Legacy’s Person-Centered Care program aims to help rural-dwelling seniors to age in place.

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Hospice News

JUNE 21, 2023

The serious illness population was a population of focus for us for longitudinal care management, and we needed a toolbox for our providers and for our care coordinators. Meier is the founder, director emerita and strategic medical advisor to the Center to Advance Palliative Care.

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Hospice News

MAY 30, 2023

This type of care is focused on providing relief from the symptoms and stress of the illness. Palliative care is provided by a specialty-trained team of doctors, nurses, social workers, and chaplains who work together with a patient’s other treating clinicians to provide an extra layer of support.

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Hospice News

APRIL 4, 2024

The PPCPs will also provide funds for care management, patient navigation, behavioral health integration and other care coordination services. The prospective, capitated payments for primary care in this model will make a huge difference. This takes it one step further.”

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Its business model uses a mix of virtual palliative care, advance care planning, care coordination and symptom management services, among others. Broadly, VyncaCare works with provider and payer partners to help manage complex, seriously ill populations. The company has raised at least $40.3

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Hospice News

MAY 25, 2023

We also have some workforce management tools and in particular, an ONC-certified EHR that’s designed to provide value-based care that has components for comprehensive care coordination and care navigation components in it.

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Hospice News

MARCH 18, 2024

Deanna Heath: At one point palliative care was hospital-based, now it’s so much more home-focused. It doesn’t just focus on the physical, it also focuses on the emotional and the spiritual with the use of social workers and spiritual counselors. Can palliative care function without numerous systems?

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Caregiver Support Services

MARCH 17, 2024

Healthcare Providers Interactive decision trees can be integrated into healthcare provider systems, enabling caregivers to receive personalized guidance and recommendations directly from their loved one’s care team. The advice comes from healthcare providers, social workers, or other caregiving experts.

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Hospice News

JULY 11, 2023

I have channeled my passion for working with underserved communities, beginning as a licensed social worker for a large hospital system, where I experienced firsthand the disparities in healthcare access and limitations in delivering whole-person care.

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American In-Home Care

OCTOBER 17, 2022

The knowledge and expertise offered by a specialist can help guide care and provide information about clinical trials. Geriatric Care Specialists. Social workers, care coordinators and case managers have experience and special training in working with older adults who have been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s.

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Home Care Pulse

JUNE 27, 2023

I was working in home Health back when it was first introduced back in 2010, as a way for c m s to not only create structured penalties for hospitals with excessive readmissions, but also to reward and incentivize those providers for effective care coordination and collaboration with post-acute providers across the care continuum.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

So, basically, with a stepped care model, the goal is to tailor care delivery to the patient’s needs while at the same time utilizing less clinician resources. How it works is that all patients will have access or encounters with the specialty trained clinician, a psychologist, a social worker, a palliative care clinician.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

The good news is that the financial case for comprehensive dementia care is changing thanks to a new Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) alternative payment model (APM) called Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) Model. And these care navigator, they can be community health worker with just 12 years of education.

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Minority Nurse

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Then I worked as a care coordinator in the trauma unit, where I worked very closely with social workers and all the teams, ensuring you were preparing patients for discharge and making sure they were ready to go home. Then I started getting into education.

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Always Best Care Senior Services

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Since October 2021, Always Best Care of Tempe has provided over 4,300 hours of caregiving to seniors throughout the area. They have grown their team, adding a full-time care coordinator, and sponsored local charitable events and organizations such as the Walk to End Alzheimer’s and the Tempe Chamber of Commerce.

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