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Humana, Thyme Care Partnership to Expand Access to Palliative Care

Hospice News

This agreement directly addresses one of health care’s most significant gaps the fact that only 12% of patients who could benefit from palliative care services currently receive them, Dr. Julia Frydman, senior medical director for Thyme Care, told Palliative Care News.

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Integrating Social Determinants Into Palliative Care

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Training interdisciplinary staff to identify and address patients nonmedical needs is a significant component of quality palliative care delivery, according to Dr. Tracy Romanello, medical director at Catholic Hospice and Catholic Palliative Care Services.

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Enhabit Appoints General Counsel; The Denver Hospice Gets New Medical Director

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The Denver Hospice Appoints New Medical Director. The Denver Hospice recently tapped Dr. Robert Howe as its new medical director following the retirement of Dr. Shirlee Turner after 11 years of service at the company. Valley Medical Group’s New CMO. Hiranandani earned his medical degree from St.

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Stillwater Hospice CFO: A Winning Recipe for Improving Rural Hospice Care

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For example, we try to buy vehicles for our nurses, home health aides, social workers and chaplains. Allowing social workers and chaplains to do check in with telehealth, that would allow for more mid-level association with patients beyond the physicians involved in their care. We use strategic geographic staffing.

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Transitioning Pediatric Patients Into Adult Palliative Care Programs

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Karlin is also palliative care medical director at UCLA Healths Palliative Care Program. How do we start at this stage to encourage ownership over medications and in other small ways build some independence by giving control to our young adult patients?

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Lawmakers Introduce Bill to Break Down Advance Care Planning Barriers

Hospice News

Currently, the scope of “eligible providers” of these services is limited to clinicians, specifically physicians, physician assistants, clinical nurse specialists and nurse practitioners, along with clinical social workers.

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Homeland at Home Launches Community-Based Palliative Care Program

Hospice News

The provider’s palliative care team includes a physician medical director, social worker and nurse practitioners who now offer in-home palliative care to adult patients 18 and older facing a serious illness. “As Homeland previously provided facility-based palliative services and is now stepping into the home.