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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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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

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Palliative Care as ‘Personalized Medicine’

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But some argue that palliative care — which focuses heavily on patients’ own wishes and goals — as a form of personalized medicine, Dr. Bill Logan, national medical director and chief medical officer for Carelon Health, a subsidiary of Elevance Health (NYSE: ELV), said at the Hospice News Palliative Care Conference in Tampa, Florida.

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Palliative Care Startups Require Creativity, Flexibility

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We have strategically launched fee-for-service (FFS) initiatives in key locations, showcasing our care model’s emphasis on integrating clinical and social support to address the diverse needs of our patients,” she told Palliative Care News. According to the World Health Organization, each year, an estimated 56.8

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How Palliative Care Could Address Unmet Needs of Patients With Rare Diseases

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Brown is also medical director of Kennedy Krieger Institute’s Phelps Center for Cerebral Palsy. For many patients with rare diseases, unmet needs extend far beyond the medical or clinical manifestations of their conditions,” Brown told Palliative Care News in an email. “For As a disease progresses, symptoms inevitably worsen.

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Growing Palliative Care a Key Priority for Amedisys in 2024

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Contessa is currently in talks with a number of other Medicare Advantage organizations to pursue similar, but not identical, contracts, Dr. Gavin Baumgardner, vice president and national medical director of Palliative Care at Home at Contessa, said at the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) 2023 Annual Leadership Conference.

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The Benefits of Palliative, Home-Based Primary Care Integration

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The program is in the process of hiring its first social worker as a part-time employee. That will allow me access to more money that I can use to hire a pharmacist or social worker or whoever I think will benefit my patients.” There is an intersection between what we do, We do a lot of the similar things. “We

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