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Inside The Pennant Group’s Palliative Care Philosophy and Practice

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The Pennant Group has been quietly building palliative care programs driven by its local leaders with support from the corporate offices Service Center. We take a local-model approach where teams can build out what their palliative programs look like, and then we surround them with Service Center support, Steik told Palliative Care News.

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National Alliance’s Scott Levy: Hospices Need ‘Regulatory Relief’ to Protect ‘Sacred Benefit’

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How will your past experiences help inform your future policy and advocacy efforts in the home-based landscape? It was also activating the team from a grassroots perspective when it was time to take action, making sure that leaders were paying attention and providing the right information.

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Palliative Care Providers Get Creative to Boost Utilization

Hospice News

While a critical service for patients with serious illnesses, palliative care is vastly underutilized nationwide. Providers have gotten creative in their efforts to improve utilization, with some incorporating pets into nursing visits with patients. The parakeet has been involved in patient care for the past two years.

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3 Key Hospice Technology Trends

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Todays hospice leaders need a firm understanding of the varying and rapidly changing advances in technology that can impact their business lines and ability to support patients and staff, said Bivek Pathek, chief information officer at Empath Health.

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Health Systems Pursue Palliative Care Skill-Building Initiatives

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Clinicians often lack exposure to palliative care during their medical training – an issue blocking growth of this workforce during a time of rising demand. One key to growing the supply of palliative care clinicians hinges on data that demonstrates how these services improve patient outcomes.

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Palliative Care Providers Leverage Data to Thrive within Value-Based Reimbursement Models

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Data collection and analysis are becoming increasingly important to palliative care providers’ clinical and business processes. This trend has led to many new partnerships that have helped companies make better-informed decisions for patients. Palliative care is such a challenging business. Recently, Sharon S.

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Providers Leverage Community Partnerships to Expand Palliative Care Programs, Support Patients

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Palliative care providers in several states are finding the best way to connect to the community is through pre-existing, and in some cases, non-medical community groups. We worked with them and put an inpatient palliative care provider in the hospital as well as an RN liaison. At the Hospice of Acadiana Inc.