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Palliative Care’s Most Disruptive Forces in 2025

Hospice News

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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HAP Foundation Launches to Research and Advance Hospice, Palliative Care

Hospice News

The foundation is an independent, nonprofit hospice and palliative care research and advocacy organization. The foundation aims to identify and address gaps in the health care continuum to help improve the quality of life for the seriously and terminally ill.

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Mahogany CEO: Hospice on Cusp of ‘Tremendous Revolution’

Hospice News

They can use that energy trying to figure it all out to focus on being present. So our scope of care includes home health, both skilled and non-skilled, and it includes hospice. Eventually, we hope to do palliative care. Our model of care across all of those service lines is built around an offering acronym, CARE.

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Understanding the 7 C’s of Palliative Care

Caregiver Support Services

Palliative care plays a significant role in improving the quality of life for individuals managing serious illnesses. It can be easy to confuse palliative and hospice care, but one difference between them is that your loved one can receive palliative care at any stage of an illness.

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‘Upgrading’ the Medicare Hospice Benefit

Hospice News

Dementia-related illnesses have become one of the most frequently occurring principal diagnoses among hospice patients, tied with cancer, according to the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO). In Fiscal Year 2022, 7.5% of the nation’s 1.7 million hospice recipients were diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease, 6.8%

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Hospice Programs Slated for Closure Remain Open

Hospice News

At present, Hospice of Central New York & the Finger Lakes is providing hospice care to patients in Oswego County. Like many providers nationwide, the region had been plagued by nurses resignations that led to an insufficient supply of clinicians trained in hospice and palliative care.

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New CMOs for Hospice of the Chesapeake, Care Synergy; HopeWest Taps New VP

Hospice News

Fetzer is currently system medical director for palliative care and hospice services at Illinois-based Ascension Health. Fetzer was previously associate medical director at Rainbow Hospice and Palliative Care, now part of the AMITA Health system. He’ll continue to serve as CMO of both organizations.

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