Hospice News

DECEMBER 3, 2024

The house call provider Bloom Healthcare has leveraged its integrated palliative-primary care model to achieve substantial reductions in hospitalizations and health care costs. Where does palliative care fit into the model? It is not a typical primary care practice. It is all throughout.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Reaching breast cancer patients with varying needs can be a challenging feat for palliative care providers. Their referral strategies often hinge on how palliative services can help improve outcomes. A real shift is happening where there is a lot more emphasis on compounding symptom management,” Kamal told Palliative Care News.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 24, 2025

Hospices that have palliative care service lines may be better poised for growth in the merger and acquisition landscape compared to others. In bringing a hospice to market, it is 100% of the time a question that comes from all potential suitors is do they have a palliative care program, Kulik told Palliative Care News.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Palliative care providers that form collaborative partnerships with Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) may be lending to a landmark downward trend in health care spending in the value-based payment landscape. million patients annually.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

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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Hospice News

JANUARY 15, 2025

Julia Frydman, senior medical director at Nashville-based Thyme Care, runs its palliative care wing. She believes palliative care may be inoculated against that industry trend. Seen in that light, the support Frydman has seen for palliative care programs makes sense.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 17, 2025

Palliative Care News spoke with a group of industry leaders about the most pressing market forces and trends that will shape the space during 2025. They also spoke about the need for greater integration of palliative care into the larger health care continuum. Heath Bartness, CEO, St.

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Hospice News

MARCH 4, 2025

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. A new partnership between Humana Inc.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

The Pennant Group has been quietly building palliative care programs driven by its local leaders with support from the corporate offices Service Center. Pennants Service Center also facilitates education in palliative care for local leaders and provides, including courses from the Center to Advance Palliative Care.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Palliative care is a neglected health care priority worldwide, three nursing experts contend. Palliative care is neglected as a global health priority, and health systems around the world must better prepare to meet the growing need.”

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Hospice News

JANUARY 31, 2025

Montana-based Headwaters Hospice and Palliative Care LLC will soon unveil a new palliative care service line, set to launch later this year. We have kind of married our health care experience with the structure and accountability of our founders having a military background, Brown told Palliative Care News.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

A recent research project that combined palliative care with dementia care management reduced emergency department visits and hospitalizations by half among its patient population. The post IN-PEACE Palliative Care-Dementia Program Reduced Hospital Care by 50% appeared first on Hospice News.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Access was the watchword in the palliative care community during 2024, as providers sought more ways to reach the right patients at the right time. The following are the most-read Palliative Care News articles of 2024. Laws vary across states, with some allowing for greater therapeutic use than others.

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Life & Death Matters

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

The Palliative Performance Scale (PPS) has emerged as an invaluable instrument in palliative care settings, offering healthcare providers a standardized approach to assessing and monitoring patients’ functional status.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Patients with chronic kidney disease often face complex health care decisions, including identifying their need for palliative care. Early advance care planning is especially important for this population, the study indicated.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

cut for 2025 in physician payment rates used to reimburse palliative care care practitioners, among other professionals. Fee-for-service Medicare continues to pay for the bulk of palliative care delivered to seniors in the United States, using the rates established in the physician fee schedule final rule.

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Hospice News

MARCH 7, 2025

The future of palliative care payment is reaching an uncertain, but potentially promising time in the Medicare landscape. Palliative care models have been gaining traction in terms of demonstrating cost savings and improved quality for several years running, Farrand said.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

The trend represents significant unmet needs that some say palliative care providers are well-positioned to fill. These are just some of the areas that palliative care teams could help to improve. Palliative care providers are really poised to help improve quality of life for both the recipient and their caregiver.

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Hospice News

MARCH 11, 2025

A key component of palliative care is understanding that chronic conditions may not be cured, but rather need to be managed, sometimes for many years. William Collins, associate director of the Palliative Care Institute at Western Washington University.

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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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GeriPal

MARCH 13, 2025

Summary Transcript CME Summary As far as weve come in the 50 years since Balfour Mount and Sue Britton opened the first palliative care at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Quebec, have we lost something along the way? In todays podcast we welcome some of the early pioneers in palliative care to talk about the roots of palliative care.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 23, 2025

A palliative training program for emergency department staff in 29 hospitals did not reduce hospital admissions, a recent study found. Through PRIM-ER, emergency department clinicians received training in palliative care, simulation-based communication workshops, clinical decision support tools and audit and feedback.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Low palliative care utilization is associated with higher risk of mental health challenges among patients with pancreatic cancer, recent research found. Researchers dug into patients’ data to examine palliative care utilization and delivery of mental health services and pharmacotherapies between January 1, 2010, and December 31, 2018.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Palliative care providers are taking varied routes to address the most disruptive forces they are encountering this year, rising to challenges that have been persistent across the sector. The nation lacks a sufficient supply of palliative care professionals amid a swelling population of seriously ill patients, driving up demand.

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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 12, 2024

Palliative care clinicians in health systems can apply research to lobby administrators for additional resources. Palliative care’s reputation grew during the pandemic, with more patients and health care organizations recognizing its benefits and value. and spiritual care providers during the pandemic. “The

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Palliative interventions should be integrated into primary care for patients living with symptomatic multiple chronic conditions (MCC), a recent consensus paper indicated. Primary care providers are already taking care of patients with heart failure, chronic obstructive lung disease, dementia, obesity and diabetes.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Des Moines, Iowa-based WesleyLife at Home has launched the areas first home-based palliative care program. While analyzing their home health census, the organization identified a significant number of patients with chronic medical conditions who required an additional level of care. The goal is to eliminate barriers to care.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Delivering goal concordant care has been the largest strategic lever to its growth. The health system provides pediatric palliative care, as well as primary, urgent and virtual care, behavioral health, cancer treatments and a range of other services. Both entities operate multiple hospitals across Michigan.

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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. The study found no differences in caregiver satisfaction when receiving virtual versus in-person palliative services.

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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. Introduced in July 2023 , the appropriation included $12.5 The appropriations also allocated $302.47

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Hospice News

JUNE 12, 2024

Palliative care clinical recruitment involves some unique elements compared to other health care settings. Among the challenges is a general lack of awareness of palliative care and its distinctions from hospice among the public, clinicians in other settings and payers. Palliative care is relatively a new field.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 16, 2024

More hospitalized patients can receive earlier palliative care if a provider programs automated orders into the electronic medical record (EMR). By using this process, researchers at Penn Medicine increased palliative care consultation rates in the hospital to 43.9%, up from 16.6%, according to a study published today in JAMA.

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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

AUGUST 14, 2024

As a sector, most standalone palliative care providers are still maturing from startups into long-term, sustainable businesses. million people need palliative care annually, worldwide. However, only about 14% of people who need this care receive it. The palliative space is just so new and such a new frontier.

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Hospice News

MAY 7, 2024

Palliative care delivery approaches that are not gender-inclusive can contribute to significant quality issues in caring for transgender populations. We want folks to think about what training opportunities would be helpful to enhance the care delivery of diverse patients.” of palliative teams, respectively.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 23, 2025

The Foundation of Community Hospice & Palliative Care is fueling the launch of a new pediatric center in northern Florida that will support serious and terminally ill youths and their families. The building is going to offer a sense of community for our kids care families, Tuttle told Hospice News.

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