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Center for Hospice Care Launches ‘Kaleidoscope’ Palliative Care Program

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The Indiana-based Center for Hospice Care (CHC) has unveiled a new palliative care program, branded as Kaleidoscope. Kaleidoscope is designed to provide patients with interdisciplinary palliative care in the home setting. We also still have palliative care in a clinic setting. It’s a very inclusive program.”

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Unique Aspects of Palliative Care Recruitment

Hospice News

A 2018 study showed that most students in clinical disciplines do not feel prepared to provide family care at the end of life. Palliative care and hospice is incredibly rewarding, but we sit with incredible suffering. There’s tremendous value to patients and also tremendous economic value in palliative care.

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Guaranteed Taps SVP of Strategic Growth; Nurses Step Into C-Suite at Hospice of the Piedmont, Hudson Valley Hospice

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Guaranteed Health is redefining the end-of-life-care experience by building a-first-of-its-kind technology and AI-enabled platform that supports patients, caregivers, providers and payers. Hudson Valley Hospice offers services to more than 620 individuals across two New York counties that stretch along the Hudson River.

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Rural Providers Weigh Telehealth Investment Against Regulatory Uncertainty

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Case in point, the Providence Institute for Human Caring last year launched a tele-palliative care program aimed at addressing rural patients’ unmet needs. The TelePC program has increased care collaboration between Providence and the patients’ other providers, including family caregivers.

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Congresswoman Van Duyne: Hospice Licensing Should Remain with the States 

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We are trying to get as much data as we possibly can, trying to hear as many opinions as we possibly can,” Van Duyne told Hospice News. But I want to make sure primarily that the caregivers’ hands are not tied. We’re in the investigative phase right now, but we’re not taking anything off the table,” she told Hospice News.

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New CMOs for Hospice of the Chesapeake, Care Synergy; HopeWest Taps New VP

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Hospice of the Chesapeake Appoints New CMO Maryland-based Hospice of the Chesapeake recently named Dr. Marny Fetzer as its new chief medical officer. Fetzer is currently system medical director for palliative care and hospice services at Illinois-based Ascension Health.

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Blue Monarch CEO: Hospice Startup Seeks to Raise Bar on Quality

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Right now, we’re a community-based provider, and we also work with a hospital system to provide general inpatient hospice care. . There’s potentially going to be a huge gap in care with even less qualified hospice care providers to fill it, causing stress on the overall health care infrastructure.

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