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Improving Hospice Chaplains’ Goals-of-Care Communication

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Expanded hospice spiritual care training could lead to improved goal-concordant care delivery. Gaps in communication training exist for hospice chaplains, according to Edward Penate, palliative care chaplain-educator at Northwestern Medicine.

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Using a Hospice Data ‘Toolbox’ to Tune Up Health Equity

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Hospice providers have leveraged data in various ways to both identify and address the biggest barriers to access and unmet needs among underserved terminally ill patient populations. CBPR practices allow hospices to ask deeper questions beyond patient and family health care experiences, such as their values, beliefs and daily challenges.

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Transitioning Pediatric Patients Into Adult Palliative Care Programs

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Access to palliative care can help support a patient and their family through several iterations of physical, emotional and financial changes as they enter the adult health care space, he stated. The post Transitioning Pediatric Patients Into Adult Palliative Care Programs appeared first on Hospice News.

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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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Community Education Crucial to Improving Hospice Access Among Unhoused Populations

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Identifying patients and finding referral sources are two challenging issues when it comes to reaching homeless populations in need of hospice. Hospices are challenged to care for patients who are unhoused, as some living situations can pose safety risks and make it difficult to provide quality care effectively, Snodgrass indicated.

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AAHPM CMO Joe Rotella: Hospice Does Not Exist to Save Money

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Joe Rotella, chief medical officer of the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (AAHPM), calls on hospices to maintain their core principles amid a churning sea of regulatory and economic changes. It has just seen so much growth in hospice and palliative care. Now, Rotella will soon retire from AAHPM.

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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. Hospice providers have needed a window into access and utilization, as well as how lawmakers are shaping policies around health care. Data on CON laws has taken on new significance as regulators zero in on the hospice space.

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