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Integrating Social Determinants Into Palliative Care

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Strong staff education and reimbursement are among the keys to successfully integrating social determinants of health within a palliative care program. Does palliative care intersect with social determinants of health? Screening tools developed by the U.S. Photo by TBAR Productions. Photo by TBAR Productions.

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Humana, Thyme Care Partnership to Expand Access to Palliative Care

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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. A new partnership between Humana Inc.

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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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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. Agrace Expands Medical Team. Hiranandani earned his medical degree from St.

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More Medical Schools Investing in Palliative Care Education

Hospice News

As these programs grow, I think it will become more apparent just how essential these skills are,” Dr. “As these programs grow, I think it will become more apparent just how essential these skills are,” Dr. Alana Sagin, associate professor of hospice and palliative care at Perelman and CARE-7 curriculum director, told Hospice News in an email.

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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.

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Inside Palliative Care at Contessa’s Health System Joint Ventures

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We have both joint venture models as well as direct to payer models, and we’ve been in multiple conversations about growing both of those lines of business,” Dr. Gavin Baumgardner, national medical director for palliative and complex care for Contessa, told Hospice News. “We’re