Hospice News

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Want to read more palliative care-focused content like this? Subscribe to Palliative Care News today ! Bicultural and bilingual palliative patient navigator interventions may be a key to improving access to goal concordant care among Hispanic populations with serious illness, according to recent research. among others. “In

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Virtual care delivery processes are playing a key role in hospices’ ability to support both patients and staff as end-of-life care expands further upstream. End-of-life care truly needs to be reimagined,” Hamilton Fried told Hospice News at the ELEVATE conference in Chicago. “We

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Hospice News

APRIL 17, 2024

Partners in Care offers hospice, palliative care and home health to about 1,000 patients daily in five counties in its home state. Since then, the company has grown in terms of census, grown more sophisticated in its approach to end-of-life care and expanded into other business lines. 1, 2016 and Dec.

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Hospice News

MAY 22, 2023

Though older Asian-American adults may be less likely to discuss pain and symptom management needs with their health care professionals, they may be more receptive to the psychosocial support included in hospice and palliative care, according to recent research from VITAS’ Healthcare. They represent 1.8%

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 1, 2024

In this Voices interview, Hospice News sits down with Jeri Vaughan, Director of Product Management at KanTime, to explore the diversification of hospice and palliative care services. What are the benefits of expanding hospice services to include palliative care and other specialized programs? This article is sponsored by KanTime.

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Hospice News

JULY 12, 2024

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to use documentation in a patient’s medical record as supporting material. The documentation would include the reasons that an attending physician certified a patient for hospice and establish a six-month terminal prognosis.

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Hospice News

JUNE 14, 2024

The current state of hospice regulations has providers walking compliance tightropes, according to Patrick Harrison, senior director of regulatory and compliance at the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO). Fraud, waste and abuse exist in several different industries and health care is no exception.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

A lack of trust and cultural competence are two factors fueling disparities in advance care planning and palliative care among underserved African American communities. Black populations have long-faced a history of racism that has affected the ways they access and receive care, according to a recent study.

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GeriPal

JULY 28, 2022

Jennifer’s study is most widely known for the “kicker” – not only did it improve quality of life, palliative care was associated with a couple months longer survival. . Areej’s study is remarkably novel in that it is, to our knowledge, the first study of palliative care during curative treatment. . hint: coping).

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Hospice News

MAY 9, 2022

Advance care planning by necessity occurs upstream of hospice, but those providers nevertheless have a role to play in helping patients and families understand the importance of making their end-of-life wishes known. I think everybody in hospice and palliative care has to be really vocal about this. That’s hard to do.

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Hospice News

JULY 12, 2024

The California Department of Corrections & Rehabilitation’s Medical Facility (CMF) has launched a new palliative spiritual care training program aimed at improving services for incarcerated individuals. PCS workers are an integral part of the care provided to palliative care patients.”

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 24, 2024

But concerns have mounted around sustainable growth strategies that will keep pace with rising demand amid myriad challenges in end-of-life care delivery. There’s tremendous opportunity in this corner of health care to do some really phenomenal things,” Asselta told Hospice News. “We

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Hospice News

JANUARY 17, 2024

Hospice providers, industry groups and other stakeholders recently penned a letter urging Congress to improve payment infrastructures that would increase access to end-of-life care among rural populations. So, for access to rural care, we’re going to have to depend on smaller rural programs.

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Hospice News

MARCH 15, 2024

Documentation errors and a fragmented health system pose the greatest risks for adverse drug events among hospices. Another key to reducing adverse events is increasing education around medication management at the end of life, McPherson stated. ADRs are commonly experienced in palliative care patients and are often preventable.

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GeriPal

JUNE 9, 2022

Palliative care, in contrast, saw explosive growth in US hospitals. In contrast to geriatrics, the evidence base for palliative care lagged clinical growth, in part because palliative care has no centralized “home” at the National Institutes of Health. When should people get palliative care? By diagnosis?

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 10, 2024

NPHI is a national advocacy organization with more than 100 nonprofit advanced illness care providers, including those offering hospice and palliative care services. Cameron’s leadership has already left an enormous mark on NPHI and the end-of-life care community,” NPHI President Carole Fisher said in the statement.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

Though 89% of those surveyed indicated that they felt comfortable talking about death, 81% said that they had never had a conversation about end-of-life care with a health care provider. We know that only about 51% Medicare beneficiaries in any given year are utilizing hospice. “We

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Hospice News

MAY 24, 2024

If more patients were to document their end-of-life wishes, it could effectively transform aspects of the nation’s health care system, generating cost savings and better outcomes, according to Minnesota-based physician Dr. Michael Madison. He is also the founder of the advance care planning platform Thanacare.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Research around hospice care has come a long way. But data gaps exist when it comes to expanding understanding of some aspects of end-of-life care delivery. We can continue to educate our communities and those that are not using our services to pay more attention to why hospice and palliative care are so important.”

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Onboarding processes have an important role in preparing hospice clinicians for the nuances of providing end-of-life care. For example, some clinicians may lack the communication skills needed to discuss goals of care at the end of life, she said. There’s no one special sauce in what we’re doing.

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Hospice News

APRIL 11, 2023

That helps with the HVLDL metric and the last three days of life, and also impacts our quality scores, because we’re building that relationship with them all throughout their journey and ramping up intensity as we get to those final days for the patient and the family.”

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Hospice News

MAY 3, 2024

Breaking down the barriers to stronger trauma-informed end-of-life care requires heightened awareness, legislative action and improved care delivery approaches. Counterpoints and legalities Hospices have taken greater steps toward improved trauma-informed end-of-life care.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 26, 2022

The program is designed to recognize up-and-coming industry members who are shaping the next decade of senior housing, skilled nursing, home health, and hospice care. And as I went through the journey with my master’s, I discovered home health and then hospice and palliative care. What drew you to this field?

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Hospice News

AUGUST 17, 2022

This means hospices can expect to see heightened auditing and scrutiny of what costs are deemed “unrelated” to end-of-life care, according to Judi Lund Person, vice president of regulatory and compliance for the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization. “We Department of Justice.

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Hospice News

MAY 17, 2023

It requires careful communication designed to identify what is most important to patients. While advance care planning is associated with end-of-life care, the process is also a frequent component of palliative care programs, which are oriented around patients’ own goals and wishes at any stage of their illnesses.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 2, 2022

of all Medicare hospice patients in 2018, according to the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO). Similar to other underserved populations, fear of discrimination and mistrust are the biggest walls between Native Americans and hospice care, according to Craig Dresang, CEO of California-based YoloCares.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Similarly Jessica Zitter, an intensivist and palliative care doctor analogized the inevitable clinical momentum toward highly aggressive intensive care in US hospitals as a conveyor belt. At the end we also pay tribute to Randy Curtis, senior author on this paper and mentor to Liz. So Liz, let’s jump into the topic.

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Hospice News

MAY 5, 2023

If regulators were to extend the timeframe for eligibility, patients could reap the full benefits of end-of-life care, the two executives said. We can help in making that judgment call over whether a patient is really palliative care ready or if they really are a hospice patient. But you lose a bit of the personal touch.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

We covered some of our questions on the podcast, others you can ponder on your own or in your journal clubs, including: Maries tele/video palliative care intervention was tailored/refined with the help of a community advisory board. You did a rural tele-palliative care consultation study. Who would/should be on that board?

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Hospice News

JUNE 22, 2023

This has prompted payers, providers and policymakers to take a closer look at lower-cost care settings, including the home. “I I don’t know that there’s enough access to hospice and palliative care services,” Rep. So, on one hand, patients do benefit from hospice care, and those services do reduce health care costs.

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Seasons Hospice

JUNE 27, 2023

Dignity Is Everything In end-of-life care, maintaining dignity is of utmost importance. It involves honoring individuals’ inherent worth and value, even during their final stages of life. In end-of-life care, preserving dignity is incredibly important.

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GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

Summary Transcript Summary One marker of the distance we’ve traveled in palliative care is the blossoming evidence base for the field. They study palliative care. She’s pulmonary critical care and palliative medicine trained. These are big trials in palliative care. Welcome, Corita and Kate and Tom. Kate: Thank you.

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Hospice News

MAY 17, 2022

I anticipate HR taking a front row seat in health care as our nation faces clinical staffing shortages over the next two decades.”. Widespread workforce shortages of hospice and palliative care providers are expected to worsen during the next 25 years. Concern over non-clinical staff is gaining momentum.

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Hospice News

MAY 22, 2023

Most Americans know how they want their end-of-life care to be handled, but roughly 1 in 3 actually document those plans, a recent study indicates. In 2021, Cigna Health Insurance entered a partnership with Koda Health to provide a platform for advanced care planning on a national scale.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 21, 2022

The program is designed to recognize up-and-coming industry members who are shaping the next decade of senior housing, skilled nursing, home health, and hospice care. My heart for post-acute care has grown year after year. My role was more than just teaching clinicians how to document patient visits. Change is inevitable.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Some have leveraged technology to streamline their operations and reduce documentation burdens, while others have poured resources into sculpting their organizational culture and developing training and career pathways. The volume of hospice and palliative care workers in the United States has seen a meager 0.8%

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SAGE Palliative Medicine & Chronic Care podcast

JANUARY 31, 2022

HammondCare Centre for Learning and Research in Palliative Care, Greenwich Hospital, Greenwich, NSW, Australia). Global demand for palliative care is increasing and the reliance on exclusively specialist hospital-based care is becoming unsustainable. Community preferences also favour home-based deaths.

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