Life & Death Matters

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

The demand for healthcare professionals skilled in palliative care is growing rapidly. As Canadians live longer, many require extended care due to chronic illnesses such as cancer and dementia.

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Hospice News

JUNE 21, 2022

“More than 35 years ago, the hospice Medicare benefit was enacted and has been instrumental in improving quality of life for patients,” said Nick Westfall, president and CEO of the Chemed (NYSE: CHEM) subsidiary VITAS Healthcare. “We Senators Call on CMS to Boost Palliative Care Resources appeared first on Hospice News.

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Hospice News

JULY 17, 2024

The expanded collaboration with CareSource will bring additional palliative care resources to patients in northeast Ohio. Last summer, the Medicare Advantage company inked a partnership agreement with the palliative care operator Radiant Health.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 14, 2023

And what my goal was was to try to get a 360 degree view of the healthcare system by interviewing as many different types of people that will influence care for people who are at the end-of-life or people with serious illness in the hospital. Liz: Yeah, palliative care teams is exactly one of those institutional factors.

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GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

We were really interested in the gap that exists after patients leave the ED or an observation status and go home, so what we did is we randomized patients, it was patient-level randomization, to either nurse-led telephonic care for six months, or specialty outpatient palliative care for six months. We’ve come so far as a field.

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GeriPal

JULY 28, 2022

So I think until we figure out how to deliver these evidence based interventions in resource intense places with individuals like you, who are committed to research, committed to furthering the science, it’s really hard to think about how to disseminate them to the community. But we have to. And I do think that is the way of the future.

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Hospice News

JUNE 5, 2023

This article is based on a discussion with Fred Bentley, Managing Director for Medicare Innovation and ATI Advisory, Allison Silvers, Chief of Healthcare Transformation at the Center to Advance Palliative Care and Ryan Klaustermeier, Vice President of Professional Services at Axxess. This article is sponsored by Axxess.

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