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Breaking the Silence: The Mounting Need for Trauma-Informed Hospice Care

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Traumatized and abused hospice patients and providers often experience an array of lingering physical, emotional and psychological effects that can fall into a silent abyss of unmet needs. They may be uncomfortable talking about it with their provider care team.

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Challenges in Hospice Care for Terminal Anorexia Patients

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Hospice providers navigate various challenges when addressing unmet needs and goals of care among patients with severe enduring anorexia nervosa. Determining these patients’ decision making and cognitive capacity can also represent a complicating factor in hospice access, she added.

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The State of the Hospice Nursing Workforce 

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Honing clinical scheduling and onboarding models is key to sustaining the hospice nurse workforce as demand for these clinicians rises and wages lag compared to those in other settings. Much of that was because new nursing students who come into the industry are often ill-equipped to understand the big picture.

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Hospices’ 2024 Public Policy Priorities 

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Hospices have been advocating for lawmakers and regulators to take action on curbing fraud, supporting veterans and bolstering the health care workforce. Battling fraud Reports of unethical or illegal practices have surged, particularly among hundreds of newly certified hospices in California, Texas, Nevada and Arizona.

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Senate Again Takes Up Hospice, Palliative Staffing Bill

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have reintroduced the Palliative Care and Hospice Education Training Act (PCHETA), designed to bolster the field’s shrinking workforce with federal support. . If enacted, PCHETA would support hospice and palliative care training programs for physicians, nurses, pharmacists, social workers and chaplains.

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Hospices Need a ’Huge Catapult’ to Replenish Workforce

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In enacted, the recently reintroduced Palliative Care and Hospice Education Training Act (PCHETA) could make a dent in the recruitment barriers that hospices keep hitting. Hospice] has to become a part of the education of medical students, nursing and social workers at large,” Lee told Hospice News.

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Key Research Trends: State CON Laws, Dementia Patient Trajectories Reshaping Hospice

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Data are reshaping the health care space, and hospice is no exception. Data has played a large role in the ability to gauge the impact of end-of life care. Hospice providers have needed a window into access and utilization, as well as how lawmakers are shaping policies around health care.

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