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Advance Care Planning Billing Rules Impede Equitable Access

Hospice News

Facing potential out-of-pocket expenses has led to racial divides in advance care planning utilization among lower income and ethnically diverse groups, according to Dr. Deborah Freeland, assistant professor of internal medicine at UT Southwestern Medical School, Division of Geriatric Medicine, in Texas.

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The Roots of Palliative Care: Michael Kearney, Sue Britton, and Justin Sanders

GeriPal

She started her career as a nurse and probably her heightened that worked against her. She retrained as a social worker, and it was while she was a social worker that she began to formulate her ideas for better kind of end of life care, which was to become hospice care, modern hospice care. She put her back out.

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

GeriPal

We have our social workers and our psychologists and we know how to manage these symptoms. Nurses, they also had specific training requirements, so I just want to make it clear. It wasn’t just any nurse. How often did the palliative care team have to see folks? They’re because of the treatment.