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‘Extra Steps’: Building Strong Pediatric Palliative Referral Partnerships

Hospice News

Sustaining pediatric hospice and palliative care programs involves employing dynamic referral and financial strategies in todays health care landscape. A strong sticking point is that pediatric hospice and palliative care services can reduce high-cost and burdensome care when offered concurrently with curative treatments, she stated.

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3 Quality Keys Driving Hospice Staff, Family Caregiver Satisfaction

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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. If your staffing is insufficient, people are not going to get timely help,” Hotchkiss told Hospice News.

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Blue Ridge Hospice Brings Services Under New Unified Brand

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Blue Ridge Hospice is rebranding under the name Blue Ridge Care to signify its expanded mission and scope of services. This includes Blue Ridges hospice and palliative care programs, its Center for Hope & Healing bereavement center and its subsidiary Blue Ridge Independence at Home Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE).

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Hospice Savannah Fuels Expansion of CAPABLE Program to Enable Aging in Place

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Georgia-based Hospice Savannah Inc. Relatively few CAPABLE programs exist in the Southeast, according to Kathleen Benton, president and CEO of Hospice Savannah. Hospice Savannahs CAPABLE program is designed to help improve general safety, reduce falls and increase accessibility and improve functional abilities in the home.

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Regulators Extend Some Telemedicine Flexibilities, Gauge Telehealth’s ‘New Path Forward’ in Hospice

Hospice News

The temporary telemedicine rules allowed hospices and other health care providers to prescribe controlled substances via telemedicine such as ketamine, cannabis, MDMA and psychedelics such as LSD and psilocybin, among other drugs. Fratkin is also a palliative care specialist at Humboldt Center for New Growth.

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Avoiding ‘Cannibalizing’ Trends in Hospice Service Diversification

Hospice News

Hospices are taking myriad pathways toward greater service diversification. Service diversification is more than a growing trend in the hospice space, according to Kirva Hospice CEO Cheryl Hamilton Fried. In addition to hospice, Kirva is in the process of stepping into the palliative care space, according to Hamilton Fried.

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Blue Ridge Care Expands Bereavement Care with New Center for Hope & Healing

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Blue Ridge Care has unveiled its new Center for Hope & Healing, a facility dedicated to offering comprehensive grief care. The Virginia-based nonprofit hospice, palliative care and PACE provider financed the center through philanthropic donations. In one display, a collection of rocks symbolizes the weight of grief.