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Transitioning Pediatric Patients Into Adult Palliative Care Programs

Hospice News

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. This involves strong communication and collaboration across both adult and pediatric clinicians, social workers and spiritual care providers.

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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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Advance Care Planning Billing Rules Impede Equitable Access

Hospice News

Currently, this includes only physicians, physician assistants, clinical nurse specialists and nurse practitioners, along with clinical social workers. “If If you spend more than 30 minutes, billable providers are limited to physicians, nurse practitioners and physician assistants.

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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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Facility-Bound Hospice Patients Less Likely to Get SIA Visits

Hospice News

Hospice providers in facility-based settings may be underutilizing Medicare’s service intensity add-on (SIA). Researchers analyzed 2020 claims data to identify associations between SIA utilization and hospice Medicare beneficiaries’ characteristics such as site of service, level of care and length of stay, among others. fewer minutes.

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The Roots of Palliative Care: Michael Kearney, Sue Britton, and Justin Sanders

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Justin Sanders wants to be sure the newer generations of palliative care clinicians understand the early principles and problems that animated the founders of hospice and palliative care, including: Origins of the word palliative – its not what I thought! Transcript Eric 00:29 Welcome to the GeriPal Podcast.

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ICU Patients Benefit from Clinicians with Palliative Care Training

Hospice News

“Nursing instructors should apply nursing students’ experiences of palliative care to improve and develop nursing education and activities to provide the better care knowledge and experience for terminal ill patients in the ICU,” researchers noted in the study. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wisc.) and Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.)