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Startup Tuesday Health Unveils Palliative Care Partnership with CareSource

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The expanded collaboration with CareSource will bring additional palliative care resources to patients in northeast Ohio. It has been a natural and aligned partnership from our first discussion with a focus on bringing innovation and services to members that suffer from serious illness as well as their caregivers.”

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Researchers Uncover Widespread Disparities Affecting Rural Hospice Caregivers

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Lagging supportive services around social determinants of health and limited access to hospice and palliative care are driving disparities among rural family caregivers. These determinants, along with the natural stressors of palliative and end-of-life caregiving, disproportionately impact their emotional well-being.”

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Inside agilon health’s Palliative Care Game Plan

Hospice News

A recent study published in the Journal of Pain and Symptom Management found that the primary care-led, integrated approach to palliative care espoused by agilon were two-thirds less likely to die in a hospital and on average spent five more days at home near the end of life. They already had a small palliative care resource.

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PC Trials at State of Science: Tom LeBlanc, Kate Courtright, & Corita Grudzen

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Asking clinicians whether they had offered the option of withdrawal of life support and comfort-focused care also did not change length of stay, but did increase the discharges to hospice, odds greater than two-fold, whether it was done alone or in combination with the prognostication nudge. Were these two resources already there?

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Stepped Palliative Care: A Podcast with Jennifer Temel, Chris Jones, and Pallavi Kumar

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We did not want them to already have seen home palliative care. Eric 20:26 And that includes home hospice care. And then we also didn’t give them access to palliative care social work on the stepdarmouse. There was a difference, though, in hospice utilization, right? Jennifer 31:40 About half.