Hospice News

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Access was the watchword in the palliative care community during 2024, as providers sought more ways to reach the right patients at the right time. The following are the most-read Palliative Care News articles of 2024. This trend has helped community-based palliative care to earn greater recognition of its benefits.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Palliative care has been at the forefront of several research efforts in 2024, with findings increasingly pointing to the value proposition of these services when it comes to cost savings and quality. These are just two examples in a growing body of research oriented around palliative care and quality.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

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. The study examined areas such as pain and symptom management, emotional and spiritual support, communication and respect.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

A recent research project that combined palliative care with dementia care management reduced emergency department visits and hospitalizations by half among its patient population. More than 40% of the study population were African American patients or caregivers.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

cut for 2025 in physician payment rates used to reimburse palliative care care practitioners, among other professionals. Fee-for-service Medicare continues to pay for the bulk of palliative care delivered to seniors in the United States, using the rates established in the physician fee schedule final rule.

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Hospice News

APRIL 29, 2025

Heart to Heart Hospices return on investment in its community-based palliative care service line has come in the form of improved quality and financial outcomes. Also important is the ability for palliative care providers to demonstrate positive trends of improved quality and care transitions, Avery added.

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Hospice News

MARCH 14, 2025

Potential is mounting for deeper integration of palliative care delivery across the continuum, with some health care settings better poised than others for evolving opportunities. The Washington-based provider offers adult and pediatric hospice, palliative care, grief support and senior living services.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 29, 2025

Recent studies have established a dire need for palliative care in rural areas, and the state of Michigan is no stranger to this situation. In the current phase of the project, Stratis will be training MCRH staff to apply their framework for implementing palliative care programs in the target areas.

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Hospice News

MARCH 12, 2025

Navigating the nuanced differences of adult versus pediatric palliative care delivery can be a challenging feat for seriously ill youths as they age and transition between these two realms. Karlin is also palliative care medical director at UCLA Healths Palliative Care Program.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

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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Hospice News

JANUARY 23, 2025

The Foundation of Community Hospice & Palliative Care is fueling the launch of a new pediatric center in northern Florida that will support serious and terminally ill youths and their families. The building is going to offer a sense of community for our kids care families, Tuttle told Hospice News.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 31, 2025

Hospices nationwide have been diversifying their services to include palliative care, PACE, home-based primary care and a host of other business lines. A growing number of operators have developed programs tailored to patients with specific diagnoses, providing specialized care tailored to their specific needs.

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Hospice News

JUNE 27, 2022

Individually, palliative care and social determinants programs both have the potential to improve quality of life and reduce costs — but that potential may be greater when the two are combined. MA plans can also offer palliative care as a supplemental benefit for qualifying patients. Case in point, the U.S.

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Hospice News

JUNE 12, 2024

Palliative care clinical recruitment involves some unique elements compared to other health care settings. Among the challenges is a general lack of awareness of palliative care and its distinctions from hospice among the public, clinicians in other settings and payers. Palliative care is relatively a new field.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Palliative care providers are taking varied routes to address the most disruptive forces they are encountering this year, rising to challenges that have been persistent across the sector. The nation lacks a sufficient supply of palliative care professionals amid a swelling population of seriously ill patients, driving up demand.

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Hospice News

JULY 17, 2024

Palliative care provider Tuesday Health has penned an agreement with the Medicare Advantage organization CareSource to offer services to its beneficiaries. Tuesday Health’s supportive care services operate on hybrid in-person and virtual models, according to Dr. Mihir Kamdar, head of care delivery of Tuesday Health.

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Hospice News

JUNE 28, 2023

When deployed at scale, palliative care can help achieve many of the health care systems current goals, including reduced costs, improved patient satisfaction and quality of life. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) takes a multifaceted approach to further palliative care integration.

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Hospice News

MAY 7, 2024

Palliative care delivery approaches that are not gender-inclusive can contribute to significant quality issues in caring for transgender populations. Developing trust, empathy and understanding with a patient are particularly important pieces of quality gender-affirming palliative care delivery, according to Fried.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 26, 2023

North Carolina-based Hospice & Palliative Care of Iredell County (HPCIC) has partnered with a local technical school to develop educational videos for family caregivers. The organization also offers palliative care services through its Pathways Palliative Care Program. Mitchell Mack Hospice House.

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Hospice News

JULY 10, 2024

Although uncommon, the severity of symptoms and increased mortality risks associated with rare diseases is fueling greater demand for more specialized health care professionals. Some gaps exist because they can’t access care without much needed specialists [nearby]. The Indianna-based health system provides hospice and palliative care.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 20, 2023

More providers are investing in virtual reality (VR) programs as a growing body of research shows that it can ease pain symptoms and improve outcomes for palliative care patients. These findings suggest that there could be therapeutic benefits to expanding virtual reality programming in palliative care delivery, researchers indicated.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 8, 2024

An increasingly diverse base of health care providers have taken an interest in the palliative care space, a trend that could be indicative of how strategic growth is taking shape in the field. We’re able to bring a focus on symptom management and care navigation to organizations not traditionally in the palliative care space.”

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

The state of the palliative care workforce is at an inflection point, as employers see both challenges and opportunities in their strategies to boost recruitment and retention. Reinhard is also chief strategist of AARP’s Center to Champion Nursing in America and Family Caregiving Initiatives.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 11, 2024

The Chicago-based Elea Institute is seeking to improve public awareness of hospice and palliative care as well as convene discussions about ways to rethink the Medicare benefit. One is access to hospice and palliative care and serious illness care, then education and awareness.

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Hospice News

APRIL 3, 2024

Palliative care delivered via telehealth is effective at improving access to caregiver support. The cost of these services facilitated by a registered nurse was $395 per caregiver, compared to $337 and $585 if offered by a social worker or nurse practitioner, respectively.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Some federal legislators are working to address workforce issues in the hospice space, as well as bolstering support for family caregivers. In a fractious political environment, hospice and palliative care policy is one area in which members of both parties find common ground.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 5, 2022

Providers across seven northwestern states have formed a coalition aimed at overcoming barriers to pediatric hospice and palliative care. Roughly 64 individuals from 37 pediatric hospice and palliative care programs in Alaska, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon and Washington accepted and responded with feedback.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Hospices need careful consideration when implementing more equitable patient data collection methodologies that lead to impactful change, according to Brittany Chambers, director of health equity and special initiatives at the Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC). Perfect is not probably an attainable goal.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Palliative care is often delivered in the hospital setting or in the home, but a number of organizations have set up clinics to deliver those services. Their palliative care subsidiary, Sincera — Supportive Care and Symptom Relief, launched in 2008 and recently opened a location in Oregon City, Ohio.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Given the critical role of family caregivers in home-based care, hospices have a vested interest in expanding their access to support. Families caring for seriously ill loved ones face systemic barriers that could threaten patients’ ability to receive care at home, including at the end of life.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 4, 2022

The Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) is developing new reimbursement pathways for palliative care. As part of that process, CMMI is applying elements of its Medicare Care Choices Model (MCCM) demonstration, which ended Dec. MCCM was designed to test the impact of concurrent hospice and curative care.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Breast cancer patients often lack access to palliative care services, but the needle may be moving as researchers dig into common barriers and clinical and financial outcomes. A recent study of nearly 30,000 hospitalized metastatic breast cancer patients found that only 19% received palliative care from 2010 to 2014.

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Hospice News

MAY 2, 2022

The nation’s health care system is lacking in support for caregivers of the terminally ill, who are often left with a heavy financial and logistical burden. Even when a caregiver is present, that person may be elderly or ill themselves, or be unable to be in the home around the clock due to work or other obligations.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Pediatric palliative care providers can sometimes struggle to engage parents and families. Parental engagement can be a difficult hill for pediatric palliative providers to climb. The pediatric hospice and palliative care provider cares for communities in Las Vegas and in Reno, Nevada, as well as in Phoenix, Arizona.

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Hospice News

APRIL 29, 2024

Naturopathic medicine and palliative care may have more in common than meets the eye. Naturopathic doctors (NDs) are typically trained as primary care providers and address a broad range of acute and chronic conditions. The post Naturopath’s Potential in Palliative Care appeared first on Hospice News.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Progress on growing access to quality palliative care has been challenged by hurdles in policy, payment and common misperceptions among patients and providers. Misconceptions around palliative care often involve health providers and patients and families conflating these services with hospice.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 9, 2024

The project is designed to learn more about the innovative, person-centered care models that can help address common challenges that these patients and their caregivers face — including approaches that integrate palliative care services. Data may be mounting that supports this theory.

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