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3 Quality Keys Driving Hospice Staff, Family Caregiver Satisfaction

Hospice News

Research has uncovered common threads of quality impacts among the largest hospices nationwide as providers employ a range of initiatives to uproot the underlying causes of staff and family caregiver dissatisfaction. We have a very rigorous review of our processes that has really helped us.

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Early Telepalliative Care Can Reduce Caregiver Burden, Improve Quality

Hospice News

Wider utilization of telepalliative services could help ease family caregiver burdens and improve quality among seriously ill patient populations, research has found. The study found no differences in caregiver satisfaction when receiving virtual versus in-person palliative services.

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Palliative Care Providers Build Stronger Referral Relationships to Improve Breast Cancer Patient Outcomes

Hospice News

Kamal also serves as chief patient officer for the American Cancer Society and president-elect of the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (AAHPM). Reaching breast cancer patients with varying needs can be a challenging feat for palliative care providers. Palliative care’s major referral hurdles, key selling points More than 3.97

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How Palliative Care Can Better Support Transplant Patients’ Caregivers

Hospice News

Family caregiver support is lacking across organ transplant centers nationwide. Most transplant centers require that a caregiver be present and available to patients in order for them to be considered for a transplant, Montoya told Palliative Care News. Only 3% of transplant centers perform caregiver reviews at regular intervals.

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Hospice of the Chesapeake Launches New Dementia Program Amid ‘Urgent, Significant’ Need

Hospice News

Hospice of the Chesapeake has unfurled a new dementia care program aimed at providing improved emotional, educational and practical support for patients and their caregivers as their conditions progress.

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Hospices’ Mythbusting Strategies: ‘It’s Not Brink-of-Death Care’

Hospice News

Hospices’ public outreach efforts have evolved in recent years, with providers finding new strategies to dispel myths that have long impeded access to care. Nearly half, or 49.1%, of all Medicare decedents utilized hospice services in 2022, reported the National Alliance for Care at Home.

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IN-PEACE Palliative Care-Dementia Program Reduced Hospital Care by 50%

Hospice News

CMS is doing a demonstration project where they’re doing something that they’re calling the GUIDE model that incorporates many of these kinds of services, not just for patients, but also for caregivers to try and provide support for both of them in the home, Sachs told Palliative Care News.