Hospice News
FEBRUARY 10, 2025
Rising competition in the hospice space has fueled pivotal changes in end-of-life care delivery both for better and for worse, according to Arizona-based Hospice of the Valley Executive Director Debbie Shumway. Where we started providing care is with adult and pediatric hospice and palliative care.
Hospice News
DECEMBER 17, 2024
The health care community should integrate palliative care into all aspects of post-stroke treatments, according to a new scientific statement from the American Heart Association (AHA). Integrating palliative care principles into stroke care is fundamental for all patients and at every stage after a stroke.
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Hospice News
JANUARY 31, 2025
Montana-based Headwaters Hospice and Palliative Care LLC will soon unveil a new palliative care service line, set to launch later this year. Patients in rural, mountainous regions face some of the most significant struggles in terms of accessing and receiving end-of-life care, Brown stated.
Hospice News
AUGUST 19, 2022
Researchers recently found that “trigger systems” signaling when a patient may need palliative care can boost utilization of those services, as well as advance care planning and hospice admissions. Identifying triggers for palliative care. Signals for goals of care conversations.
Hospice News
JUNE 26, 2024
Development of the Hospice Care Accountability, Reform, and Enforcement (Hospice CARE) Act has signaled that a wave of change may be on the horizon in end-of-life care delivery – including how patients are certified to receive these services. The area of end-of-life care was ripe for a pilot project.
GeriPal
MARCH 13, 2025
Summary Transcript CME Summary As far as weve come in the 50 years since Balfour Mount and Sue Britton opened the first palliative care at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Quebec, have we lost something along the way? In todays podcast we welcome some of the early pioneers in palliative care to talk about the roots of palliative care.
Hospice News
MAY 31, 2023
The biggest challenge is understanding how cannabis laws in particular apply to pain and symptom management in end-of-life care, according to Jennifer Moore Ballentine, CEO of the Coalition for Compassionate Care of California. Fratkin, California-based palliative care specialist, stated.
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