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Navigating Palliative Care Models in ACO Partnerships

Hospice News

Partnerships between health care providers and Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) can help to create effective, value-based palliative care models for patients, but navigating the development of those relationships requires communication and a true commitment to collaboration. Partnering with ACOs offers palliative care providers advantages too.

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Bloom Healthcare CEO: Integrating Palliative Care Into Every Decision

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We often fill that gap with a lot of care management services, and that could be nursing, social work, pharmacy, but they’re generally going to get to know their nurse really, really well. The company currently operates in Colorado and Texas. That becomes another trusted care partner and decision maker. It is all throughout.

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Humana, Thyme Care Partnership to Expand Access to Palliative Care

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A new partnership between Humana Inc. NYSE: HUM) and Thyme Care promises to expand access to palliative care among the oncology care companys patient population. The value-based agreement contracts Thyme Care with Humana Medicare Advantage plans, giving them access to their beneficiaries.

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Lower Cape Fear LifeCare Launches Palliative Care Clinic

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Lower Cape Fear LifeCare has opened the first free-standing palliative medicine clinic in southeastern North Carolina. The LifeCare Center for Palliative Medicine will provide outpatient palliative care to patients experiencing serious illness. It will also accept referrals from other physicians in the community. “As

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Researchers: Palliative Care an Overlooked Global Health Priority 

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Palliative care is a neglected health care priority worldwide, three nursing experts contend. The three authors recently published their remarks in the British Medical Journal. Millions of people around the world live and die with virtually no access to pain and symptom relief.

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Inside The Pennant Group’s Palliative Care Philosophy and Practice

Hospice News

The Pennant Group has been quietly building palliative care programs driven by its local leaders with support from the corporate offices Service Center. Pennant is the holding company for a group of independent hospice, home health and senior living providers located across 13 states.

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IN-PEACE Palliative Care-Dementia Program Reduced Hospital Care by 50%

Hospice News

Patient and family participants in the intervention arm of the IN-PEACE study received monthly check-ins via telephone for up to two years from a nurse or social worker to help caregivers manage issues such as patients neuropsychiatric symptoms, caregiver distress and palliative care concerns such as advance care planning and referral to hospice.