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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. This is particularly pronounced in outpatient settings, where the disparity between billable and non-billable services can be stark.

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

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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. Palliative care is based on the needs of the patient, not on the patient’s prognosis. While the large majority of U.S.

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St. Croix Hospice Leverages Predictive Analytics to Boost Quality

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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. We’ve gotten a lot of positive feedback for it.

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Partners In Care, Summit Health Join Forces on Palliative Care

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“Partners In Care and Summit Health were longtime partners in end-of-life care in the region so the formation of a formal agreement was a natural evolution in this relationship,” Hagfors told Hospice News in an email. The two providers will use a central medical record platform to further improve care coordination.

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How Main Line Health, Delaware Valley ACO Used Palliative Care to Cut Hospitalizations by 50% 

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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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Valley Health System, Family of Caring Launch Palliative Care Partnership

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Valley Health’s palliative care model includes a full interdisciplinary team, including physicians, advanced practice nurses, social workers, chaplains and volunteers.

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Breaking Down Costs, ROIs of Hospice-Death Doula Partnerships

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We find that the combination of our death doula plus our spiritual care coordinator gives each patient the flexibility to tailor their hospice experience to best fit their final wishes.”

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