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Inside agilon health’s Palliative Care Game Plan

Hospice News

A recent study published in the Journal of Pain and Symptom Management found that the primary care-led, integrated approach to palliative care espoused by agilon were two-thirds less likely to die in a hospital and on average spent five more days at home near the end of life. They already had a small palliative care resource.

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Influence of Hospital Culture on Intensity of Care: Liz Dzeng

GeriPal

In this article, it was availability of hospice services, but we also know availability of ICU services. Liz: Yeah, palliative care teams is exactly one of those institutional factors. And palliative care friendliness was definitely a very important factor to this.

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Stepped Palliative Care: A Podcast with Jennifer Temel, Chris Jones, and Pallavi Kumar

GeriPal

We did not want them to already have seen home palliative care. Eric 20:26 And that includes home hospice care. And then we also didn’t give them access to palliative care social work on the stepdarmouse. There was a difference, though, in hospice utilization, right? Jennifer 31:40 About half.