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Dole Act Could Give Veterans Greater Access to Hospice, Palliative Care

Hospice News

The Senator Elizabeth Dole 21st Century Veterans Healthcare and Benefits Improvement Act, currently winding its way through Congress, would likely increase access to hospice and palliative care for veterans, if enacted. However, when a veteran transitions from a VA facility to hospice, they lose access to that benefit.

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Center for Hospice Care Launches ‘Kaleidoscope’ Palliative Care Program

Hospice News

The Indiana-based Center for Hospice Care (CHC) has unveiled a new palliative care program, branded as Kaleidoscope. Kaleidoscope is designed to provide patients with interdisciplinary palliative care in the home setting. We also still have palliative care in a clinic setting. Census Bureau.

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Unique Aspects of Palliative Care Recruitment

Hospice News

Palliative care clinical recruitment involves some unique elements compared to other health care settings. Among the challenges is a general lack of awareness of palliative care and its distinctions from hospice among the public, clinicians in other settings and payers.

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The Barriers Creating Pediatric Palliative Care Inequities

Hospice News

Recent research has uncovered some of the leading barriers preventing greater pediatric palliative care utilization across underserved communities. Some states have begun instilling regulations in place requiring private insurance companies to cover palliative and hospice care for eligible children.

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Palliative Care as ‘Personalized Medicine’

Hospice News

However, more stakeholders are applying the term to palliative care. Personalized medicine is a step away from a “one-size-fits-all” approach to health care. Unfortunately, that gives you a genotype of that individual, but it doesn’t give you their phenotype,” Logan told Palliative Care News.

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World Hospice and Palliative Care Day Raises Global Awareness

Hospice News

Globally, the need for hospice and palliative care has been growing faster than people can access them. This was the impetus behind the World Hospice Palliative Care Alliance (WHPCA), which emerged from an Oct. 8, 2005 meeting of health care leaders in South Korea.

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Hospice Market to Nearly Double by 2030; Palliative Care to See Large Gains

Hospice News

Rising demand and demographic tailwinds are propelling rapid growth in both the hospice and palliative care markets. The state of hospice and palliative care markets. In 2021, hospice was a $23 billion industry that made up roughly 20% of the overall U.S. The hospice industry is expected to reach $64.7

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