Hospice News

MARCH 12, 2025

Navigating the nuanced differences of adult versus pediatric palliative care delivery can be a challenging feat for seriously ill youths as they age and transition between these two realms. Karlin is also palliative care medical director at UCLA Healths Palliative Care Program.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

University of Connecticut Health (UConn) John Dempsey Hospital is expanding its palliative care program, including a new outpatient clinic. The UConn health system first invested in outpatient palliative care eight years ago at the Carole and Ray Neag Comprehensive Cancer Center.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 29, 2025

Recent studies have established a dire need for palliative care in rural areas, and the state of Michigan is no stranger to this situation. In the current phase of the project, Stratis will be training MCRH staff to apply their framework for implementing palliative care programs in the target areas.

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Hospice News

MARCH 3, 2025

Stymied Medicaid reimbursement for nursing home room and board could threaten access to care for hospice patients in California and possibly other states. The issue centers around patients in nursing homes who are dually eligible for Medicare and Medicaid. We need to get this fixed.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Researchers have increasingly dug into the quality impacts of virtual palliative care delivery and how telehealth outcomes compare to in-person care. Satisfaction with care for the caregivers and for the patients [showed] no differences. Rinaldi is also co-director of Mass Generals palliative care clinic.

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Hospice News

MARCH 19, 2025

The seed for Texas-based Pallicare was planted at a chance meeting at a 2021 conference between Jonathan Fluhart, a management professional with a background in aerospace, technology, and hospice industries, and nurse practitioner Tiffany Hughes. Palliative care is often seen as a loss leader, but Fluhart and Hughes saw it as an opportunity.

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Hospice News

MAY 20, 2024

Federal lawmakers recently allocated millions of dollars to fuel palliative care research efforts. The move is anticipated to expand palliative education and career development opportunities as demand rises in coming years. Sean Morrison, director at the National Palliative Care Research Center (NPCRC).

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

The Maryland-based hospice and palliative care provider has seen a significant increase in demand for dementia care amid a growing population of seniors with Alzheimer’s disease and related conditions across its service region, which spans four counties in the state.

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Hospice News

JUNE 27, 2022

Individually, palliative care and social determinants programs both have the potential to improve quality of life and reduce costs — but that potential may be greater when the two are combined. Programs to address social determinants have likewise been found to reduce health care expenditures. Case in point, the U.S.

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Hospice News

JULY 26, 2024

Recent research has found that career growth, organizational culture and impactful work are significant priorities among the next generation of palliative care clinicians, particularly those from underserved populations. We found that it was particularly true for historically underrepresented students in medical school.”

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Hospice News

MARCH 27, 2024

The University of South Florida (USF) College of Nursing has launched a graduate certificate program in palliative care and hospice. The program is designed to help nurses pass the Certified Hospice and Palliative Nurse (CHPN®) exam.

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Hospice News

MARCH 17, 2025

Dartmouth Health VNH Taps Interim CEO Dartmouth Health Visiting Nurse and Hospice for Vermont and New Hampshire (VNH) has named registered nurse Tammy L. Vynca provides palliative care as well as other services. The post 5 Hospice, Palliative Care Providers Name New Executives appeared first on Hospice News.

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Hospice News

MAY 28, 2024

Stoneridge Hospice has opened a new palliative care branch in Scottsdale, Arizona. Staff at the de novo will provide pain and symptom management, emotional and spiritual support, coordination of care and assistance with advanced care planning. We are starting a palliative care program in the state of Arizona.

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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. VNS Health staff, with lead researcher Rutgers University Assistant Professor Elizabeth Luth, presented their findings at the recent International Nurse Informatics Conference. ”We

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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

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

JANUARY 20, 2023

More providers are investing in virtual reality (VR) programs as a growing body of research shows that it can ease pain symptoms and improve outcomes for palliative care patients. These findings suggest that there could be therapeutic benefits to expanding virtual reality programming in palliative care delivery, researchers indicated.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

The earlier a patient receives palliative care, the larger the return on investment, an analysis by the Pennsylvania-based health system WellSpan Health has found. Palliative care is often viewed as a cost center in health care, rather than a revenue generator. This hospital was at 10%.”

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Palliative care is often delivered in the hospital setting or in the home, but a number of organizations have set up clinics to deliver those services. Their palliative care subsidiary, Sincera — Supportive Care and Symptom Relief, launched in 2008 and recently opened a location in Oregon City, Ohio.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

The state of the palliative care workforce is at an inflection point, as employers see both challenges and opportunities in their strategies to boost recruitment and retention. Reinhard is also chief strategist of AARP’s Center to Champion Nursing in America and Family Caregiving Initiatives.

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Hospice News

JULY 17, 2024

Palliative care provider Tuesday Health has penned an agreement with the Medicare Advantage organization CareSource to offer services to its beneficiaries. Tuesday Health’s supportive care services operate on hybrid in-person and virtual models, according to Dr. Mihir Kamdar, head of care delivery of Tuesday Health.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 16, 2024

While palliative care is an important part of medical care for many patients and providers, marketing messaging for these services must be carefully crafted. A key point is to distinguish palliative care from hospice, according to Tony Kudner, chief strategy officer for Transcend Strategy Group.

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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. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) takes a multifaceted approach to further palliative care integration.

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Hospice News

JULY 10, 2024

Although uncommon, the severity of symptoms and increased mortality risks associated with rare diseases is fueling greater demand for more specialized health care professionals. Some gaps exist because they can’t access care without much needed specialists [nearby]. “For As a disease progresses, symptoms inevitably worsen.

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Hospice News

JUNE 21, 2022

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Chiquita Brooks-LaSure, calling for a payment model demonstration designed to support greater access to palliative care. Signatories on the letter included the co-founders of the Senate Comprehensive Care Caucus, U.S. Senators Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.),

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Hospice News

APRIL 10, 2024

The concept of contemplative medicine is rooted in the use of mindfulness, meditation and other practices designed to reduce clinician stress and help them embrace care for the whole patient — mind, body and spirit —which is also an integral aspect of palliative care. Everyone feels isolated. People felt disconnected.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 7, 2024

Supportive oncology services, a model that includes palliative care, are associated with lower costs and improved clinical outcomes. These can combine social work, nutritional counseling, navigation, financial advocacy, nursing, palliative medicine, psychology and pain management with traditional oncology.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

(NASDAQ: AMED) has made large investments in expanding access to palliative care, particularly through joint ventures with health systems. For now, Amedisys shows no signs of slowing down on palliative care. population ages and consumer preferences continue to shift to home-based care,” the company noted in the filing.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Expanded hospice spiritual care training could lead to improved goal-concordant care delivery. Gaps in communication training exist for hospice chaplains, according to Edward Penate, palliative care chaplain-educator at Northwestern Medicine.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 6, 2023

The palliative care space is at an inflection point at which unprecedented awareness and demand are fueling growth that could be hampered by limited reimbursement and staffing shortages. Palliative Care News spoke with a group of industry leaders about the most impactful forces that will shape the space in the coming year.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 19, 2024

Palliative care is integral to Programs for All-Inclusive Care of the Elderly (PACE) programs, according to Dr. Glenn Meyers, who was recently promoted to chief medical officer of BoldAge PACE. Can you say a little bit about where palliative care fits into your care model? He joined BoldAge in July 2023.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Hospices need careful consideration when implementing more equitable patient data collection methodologies that lead to impactful change, according to Brittany Chambers, director of health equity and special initiatives at the Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC).

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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

OCTOBER 2, 2023

A growing patient demand is fueling the emergence of integrative palliative care, a blend of traditional biomedical care for serious illness and suite of complementary therapies aimed at improving patient quality of life. That research, she believes, with further fuel interest in the integrative palliative care model. “P

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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

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Palliative care is becoming an increasingly prevalent component of Programs for All-Inclusive Care of the Elderly (PACE) programs. These are palliative care contracts where they really don’t want them to be on hospice, because they have to foot the bill.

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Hospice News

APRIL 15, 2024

The lion’s share of palliative care physicians dwell in more densely populated communities, creating disparities among the rural seriously ill population. Recent research has found that more than 90% of board certified palliative physicians and nurse practitioners nationwide were located in metropolitan and urban areas in 2022.

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