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Greater Education Needed to Bring Palliative Care to Cancer Patients

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The organization has been holding a series of webinars designed to better educate the oncology community about palliative care. The organization has been holding a series of webinars designed to better educate the oncology community about palliative care. Do most cancer patients have access to palliative care? Are there big gaps?

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Hospices Leverage Partnerships to Scale Palliative Care Programs

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At Mount Sinai we’re really good at creating new models and proving they work to improve care for the sickest patients with serious illness,” Goldstein told Hospice News during the Palliative Care Executive Webinar Series. NASDAQ: AMED) subsidiary Contessa.

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How Palliative Care Can Benefit Heart Failure Patients

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Given these factors, many of these patients should be receiving some form of palliative care, Dr. Larry Allen, chief of cardiology at the University of Colorado, said in a recent AHA webinar. Heart failure is an increasingly common condition among the aging U.S. population. This population also tends to see high rates of hospitalizations.

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The ‘Holy Grail’ of Palliative Care Payment Through ACOs

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Hospices and palliative care providers can collaborate with ACOs by becoming members of those organizations themselves, or by contracting with them through a preferred provider network. The model contains a high-needs track to serve the sickest, most complex patients whom hospice and palliative care providers are well-positioned to serve.

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Clinical Capacity Palliative Care Leaders’ Top Concern for 2025

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Specifically, access to qualified hires was frequently at the top for pediatric programs,” Rachael Heitner, associate director of research and insights at CAPC, stated in a recent webinar highlighting the survey’s findings. The key takeaway here is that palliative care teams are often trying to handle increases in consult volumes.

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Hospices Leaders: ‘Vigilant’ Compliance Pivotal in MAC Auditing Climate

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The auditing environment has heated up in the hospice industry, with inconsistencies reportedly proliferating among the various types of regulatory enforcement activity — particularly those performed by Medicare Administrative Contractors (MACs). The issue has some hospice providers delving deeper into a range of compliance strategies.

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Hospice, Palliative Care Providers Leverage Education Programs to Attract and Keep Staff

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Palliative care and hospice providers are enhancing their staff education programs in an effort to better ensure they have a sustainable workforce. That mentality is playing out in relation to nurse residency programs and the clinicians that we’re hiring,” Brennan told Hospice News during the Palliative Care Executive Webinar Series.