Hospice News

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Low palliative care utilization is associated with higher risk of mental health challenges among patients with pancreatic cancer, recent research found. Researchers dug into patients’ data to examine palliative care utilization and delivery of mental health services and pharmacotherapies between January 1, 2010, and December 31, 2018.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 13, 2023

As Contessa Health pioneers a growing value-based palliative care-at-home program, they’ve encountered some learning curves when it comes to operating within a new payment system. Contessa’s specialty is high-acuity care in the home, including hospital-at-home and skilled nursing facility-at-home programs.

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Hospice News

JUNE 28, 2023

When deployed at scale, palliative care can help achieve many of the health care systems current goals, including reduced costs, improved patient satisfaction and quality of life. The agency’s findings will likely inform the development of future payment models as the U.S.

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Hospice News

MAY 7, 2024

Palliative care delivery approaches that are not gender-inclusive can contribute to significant quality issues in caring for transgender populations. Developing trust, empathy and understanding with a patient are particularly important pieces of quality gender-affirming palliative care delivery, according to Fried.

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Hospice News

APRIL 18, 2025

Among these providers, three principal tactics are emerging, according to Sheila Clark, president and CEO of the California Hospice and Palliative Care Association. These are dubbed, identity theft, poor care/no care and uninformed consent.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Pediatric palliative care providers can sometimes struggle to engage parents and families. Parental engagement can be a difficult hill for pediatric palliative providers to climb. The pediatric hospice and palliative care provider cares for communities in Las Vegas and in Reno, Nevada, as well as in Phoenix, Arizona.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Palliative care providers engaging in Accountable Care Organization (ACO) relationships have the potential to make significant strides in bridging inequitable gaps of access. HCC scores provide insightful information around the social determinants of health driving decisions among specific patient populations.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 5, 2024

Research by VNS Health has found that generative AI systems can help clinicians better assess and predict patients’ palliative care needs. This gives nurses about a three-paragraph summary of medical history, implications for palliative care and what the potential follow ups or interventions might be appropriate.”

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Hospice News

MAY 29, 2024

As the palliative care field continues to grow and transform, understanding the current trends, outlook, relevant challenges and necessary skills for future leaders is critical. She added that these services are now being offered in diverse settings, including outpatient and home-based care models.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Where we started providing care is with adult and pediatric hospice and palliative care. While most care is provided wherever a patient calls home, we [also] have nine hospice inpatient units, which really serve to support patients that might be dealing with pain management issues or the family needs respite.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Improved patient and staff satisfaction are among the most significant returns on investment for hospices that are pouring greater resources into trauma-informed training. This is according to Amber Ash, pediatric hospice and palliative care social worker at Ohio-based Hospice of the Western Reserve.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 8, 2023

A New Jersey state bill recently passed that establishes community-based palliative care benefits under Medicaid. Accordingly, to design a comprehensive, equitable system of coverage, DHS will need to carefully study the current palliative care landscape and engage thoughtfully with our communities.”

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 31, 2024

This includes patients of Care Synergys affiliates. The partnership between Care Synergy and RCC Medical Equipment is important to the advancement of hospice care, palliative care, and home health in Colorado, Tim Bowen, president and CEO of Care Synergy, said in a statement.

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Hospice News

MAY 15, 2024

A majority of palliative care and hospice clinicians feel unprepared to discuss medical cannabis with their patients. Researchers from Harvard University surveyed 123 hospice and palliative medicine (HPM) fellows regarding their familiarity with medical cannabis. Currently, close to 3.9

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Hospice News

AUGUST 17, 2022

Stretching back more than a decade, a rising number of states have passed laws designed to raise awareness of hospice and palliative care, but to date, few if any have achieved measurable results. Palliative care does that. Five flavors of palliative care laws. The reasons for this run the gamut.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Low health literacy among seriously ill patients can impede access to palliative care and complicate efforts to improve health equity. A health illiterate patient may have a strong overall ability to read or have an advanced education but have a limited understanding of information specific to health care.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

The American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) has developed recommendations for integrating health equity into future clinical practice guidelines for palliative care. The post ASCO: Integrate Health Equity into Palliative Care Clinical Practice Guidelines appeared first on Hospice News.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

An Irish study found that 4 in 10 adults prefer not to think or discuss palliative care. All Ireland Institute of Hospice and Palliative Care (AIIHPC ) conducted the research on public perceptions of palliative care. Prior research has shown that as many as 71% of the U.S. study indicated. study indicated.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 30, 2023

Oncology nurses at cancer centers across the country are developing ways to improve palliative care referrals for seriously ill patients and families who could benefit from these services. A common thread woven through these referral strategies is expanding palliative care awareness among clinicians across the continuum.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Establishing consistent relationships with referral sources will not only fill palliative care’s business pipeline, but they also allow providers to develop better delivery models to meet the needs of their partners and patients. It’s almost a requirement for these large health systems.

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Hospice News

JULY 19, 2022

While a critical service for patients with serious illnesses, palliative care is vastly underutilized nationwide. Lacking public awareness and patient misconceptions are among the leading causes for lagging palliative care utilization. Animals have impacted care for seriously and terminally ill patients for some time.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Palliative care has been one of the largest growing segments of the health care industry in the last decade despite challenges such as staffing shortages, reimbursement headaches and misconceptions regarding this type of care. million people need palliative care.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 9, 2024

The project is designed to learn more about the innovative, person-centered care models that can help address common challenges that these patients and their caregivers face — including approaches that integrate palliative care services.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

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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Hospice News

APRIL 12, 2024

Seriously ill children may be at increased risk of experiencing abuse and neglect, an issue challenging palliative care providers’ ability to deliver trauma-informed care among pediatric populations. The post The Impacts of Child Abuse, Neglect in Pediatric Palliative Care appeared first on Hospice News.

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Hospice News

MAY 4, 2022

The United States lacks a robust reimbursement system for palliative care. While stakeholders work towards change, providers are developing innovative ways to work with what they have to bring this care to patients in need. Historically, the U.S. Hey, how are you doing this? We want to help each other succeed.”.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

A group of health plans, policymakers, and insurance companies recently told the Center for Medicare & Medicare Innovation (CMMI) that they needed a standardized definition for palliative care in order to improve access. First, it’s not just one provider who is delivering palliative care.

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Hospice News

MARCH 3, 2025

If hospices are not reimbursed for the money they have given to nursing homes, it could be seen as inducement by the federal government, according to Sheila Clark, president and CEO of the California Hospice and Palliative Care Association (CHAPCA).

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Hospice News

JANUARY 2, 2024

Fragmented health care has significant ties to adverse outcomes in patients with chronic or serious illnesses. Palliative care providers’ ability to navigate the health care system, coordinate the delivery of care, interact regularly with patients, and facilitate communication between providers can reduce this fragmentation.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 3, 2024

Lawmakers recently introduced the Value in Health Care Act, which, if enacted, could create inroads toward improved palliative care reimbursement. These changes are designed to increase participation in value-based payment programs designed to improve quality outcomes and lower costs of care.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

But by April of this year, accounting practices related to Contessa’s palliative care business threw a monkey wrench into the negotiations. I think the opportunity all-in [with Contessa] is larger, largely due to the fact that we’ve discovered palliative care and built that contract …,” Kusserow told Hospice News in January.

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Hospice News

JULY 3, 2023

This spring, Kansas launched a five-year plan to make palliative care more accessible to its nearly 3 million residents. The seeds of the plan were planted in 2018 when the legislature established the state’s Palliative Care and Quality of Life Interdisciplinary Advisory Council. Access was a high hurdle.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Delivering goal concordant care has been the largest strategic lever to its growth. The health system provides pediatric palliative care, as well as primary, urgent and virtual care, behavioral health, cancer treatments and a range of other services. Both entities operate multiple hospitals across Michigan.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 20, 2024

New York state’s new Center for Hospice and Palliative Care recently launched with an aim to increase utilization and goal-concordant outcomes among swelling aging populations in the Empire State. The next year will include leveraging data and research to develop best practices in care models.

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Hospice News

JULY 22, 2024

Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) are key for scaling palliative care through value-based models. 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.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Established nearly 50 years ago, Rhode Island-based HopeHealth provides hospice, palliative care, and dementia and grief support services in Massachusetts and in its home state. The nonprofit has narrowed the focus of its retention initiatives toward reducing staff turnover.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

A coalition of hospice and palliative care industry groups has urged lawmakers to make billing codes for telehealth available on Medicare hospice claim forms. Hospice providers need the opportunity to reflect the full scope of care provided to patients experiencing serious illness.”.

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