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

DECEMBER 8, 2023

A New Jersey state bill recently passed that establishes community-based palliative care benefits under Medicaid. A main concern is that the state’s Medicaid funding system may be strained to implement the community-based palliative coverage changes, according to New Jersey Governor Philip Murphy.

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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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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

MAY 12, 2023

Palliative care utilization in ovarian cancer patients can lower their chances of rehospitalizations, according to recent data. Palliative care patients were less likely to be readmitted within 90 days of a hospital stay, according to Dr. Alex Francoeur, study author. Both of those findings were significant as well.”

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Hospice News

MAY 24, 2023

The channels for palliative care payment may be widening as more state legislators recognize growing demand for these services and start to weave them into Medicaid reimbursement. California, Colorado, Hawaii, Maine and Oregon each have established Medicaid reimbursement for community-based palliative care.

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Hospice News

MAY 10, 2023

Hospices are increasingly eying palliative care as a promising growth opportunity, prioritizing expansion in that field over other health care service lines. Survey respondents included nearly 330 hospice and palliative care industry professionals, including owners, executive leaders and managers, among others.

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Hospice News

JULY 30, 2024

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patients can benefit from more palliative care referrals. In a recent Medscape podcast , Iyer presented a case study involving a 78-year-old male patient with end-stage COPD. The patient experienced four hospitalizations in the prior year, including two intensive care unit stays.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Patients and clinicians can benefit from having palliative care consults available in hospital emergency departments, though currently few providers have done so. Populations who most need palliative care are often chronically ill seniors with complex health conditions. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Low health literacy among seriously ill patients can impede access to palliative care and complicate efforts to improve health equity. A health illiterate patient may have a strong overall ability to read or have an advanced education but have a limited understanding of information specific to health care.

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Hospice News

APRIL 24, 2023

As the hospice landscape shifts and hospice care is delivered more widely, another care type has made entry into the conversation: palliative care. The shift does present challenges, however. Every organization structures its care approach a little differently and delivers that care in a variety of care settings.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Illinois-headquartered Unity Hospice & Palliative Care has expanded to Houston, Texas, following its acquisition of an existing license in that market. Unity is a family-owned provider established in 1992 that since then has cared for more than 30,000 patients, the company reported.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

The Indiana-based palliative care provider Center for Hospice Care (CHC) is looking beyond its immediate community and has developed networks that impact palliative care on a global scale. Historic run Getting the Global Partners in Care program to this level has been quite the journey for CHC.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

The foundation is an independent, nonprofit hospice and palliative care research and advocacy organization. The foundation aims to identify and address gaps in the health care continuum to help improve the quality of life for the seriously and terminally ill.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 16, 2023

Patients are more likely to receive palliative care if they can access social workers through their primary care providers, Veterans Health Administration (VA) research has found. These findings suggest that social workers may increase access to and/or use of palliative care.”.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 4, 2023

North Carolina-based hospice provider Four Seasons has launched a new mobile palliative care unit to reach patients in remote and rural areas. The mobile clinic will deliver care through six North Carolina counties. Patients in rural communities are often an underserved population when it comes to palliative care and hospice.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

It’s not required,” Jillian Sparks, attorney at the OIG’s Industry Guidance Branch, said during a presentation at the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization’s Annual Leadership Conference. These are recommendations from the OIG.

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Hospice News

MAY 25, 2023

This article is based on a discussion with Anthony Spano, Director of Client Development at Netsmart and Nikki Davis, Vice President of Palliative Care Programs at Contessa Health. The conversation took place on April 20, 2023, during the Hospice News Palliative Care Conference.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Education in palliative care principles for emergency department clinicians could likely improve care for seriously ill patients who present in the ED. However, clinical teams in the ED rarely receive training in comfort care or quality-of-life interventions, according to a recent study published in Cureus.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 15, 2022

In that role, I worked on improving outcomes and surveys along with chart reviews, which are critical to my role as the VP of Hospice and Palliative Care Services today. KanTime can capture affiliated providers, documents and palliative care-to-hospice transitions seamlessly by overlaying medical records for easy reference.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 23, 2024

While some palliative care programs mirror the hospice model, more operators are working to tailor their services to patients’ specific needs, with varying intensity. Payment streams for palliative care, most palliative programs are relying on a combination of Medicare Part B and grants and fundraising,” Schramm said.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Rami Moustafa Shaarawy recently filed a civil action lawsuit against HHS, CMS and Noridian Healthcare Solutions LLC, seeking to prevent termination of his physician billing privileges following Medicare fraud risk allegations presented by an independent contractor.

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Hospice News

APRIL 4, 2025

However, careful implementation is necessary to effectively use these systems. For a number of years now, providers have leveraged AI to predict when a patient may become eligible for hospice or to determine the best time to begin palliative care. This requires careful evaluation.

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JUNE 7, 2024

Telehealth can be just as effective as in-person visits when it comes to palliative care. They met every four weeks with a palliative care clinician either in a clinic or via video conferencing. The post Palliative Telehealth’s Quality of Life Improvement Equivalent to In-Person Care appeared first on Hospice News.

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Hospice News

APRIL 30, 2024

adults functioning as caregivers at any time,” Dr. Michael Certo, assistant professor of pediatrics for Lurie, said at the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine’s Annual Assembly. “We We as palliative care clinicians meet caregivers who may be particularly vulnerable given the circumstances under which they find themselves.”

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Caregiver Support Services

JANUARY 31, 2025

Palliative care plays a significant role in improving the quality of life for individuals managing serious illnesses. It can be easy to confuse palliative and hospice care, but one difference between them is that your loved one can receive palliative care at any stage of an illness.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Rooted in the power of storytelling and fueled by a desire to improve health equity and foster meaningful connections, Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center’s innovative palliative care approach has earned industry-wide acclaim. “We

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Hospice News

APRIL 23, 2024

A huge need exists for neuropalliative care, Dr. Claire J. Creutzfeldt at the Harborview Medical Center’s Department of Neurology told Palliative Care News. Palliative care offers support for a variety of symptoms through interdisciplinary care.

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Hospice News

MAY 26, 2023

Ensure social workers have a voice To keep social workers on staff, hospices should focus on creating a respectful workplace culture in which all members of the interdisciplinary team can feel heard, according to Vickie Leff, a palliative care consultant and interim director of the Social Work Hospice and Palliative Care Network.

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EAPC (European Association of Palliative Care)

APRIL 23, 2025

Join us for our first webinar with Veerle Coupez, an academic and clinical expert in palliative care from the School of Nursing at HOWEST University of Applied Sciences. 3Gc1jto The post Webinar ”Basics of Palliative Care” appeared first on EAPC. REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN!!

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Seriously ill patients are more likely to receive palliative care if they have more providers in their vicinity. Adults in the United States with stage IV cancer were more likely to receive care in both metropolitan and nonmetropolitan areas, researchers from the American Cancer Society (ACS). Health outcomes are unequal.

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Hospice News

MARCH 7, 2025

They can use that energy trying to figure it all out to focus on being present. So our scope of care includes home health, both skilled and non-skilled, and it includes hospice. Eventually, we hope to do palliative care. Our model of care across all of those service lines is built around an offering acronym, CARE.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Lymphoma patients who receive palliative care have fewer hospitalizations that those who do not, but racial and ethnic disparities persist. Of those 5,464 had received palliative care. The study found that on average palliative care generated cost savings of $24,269 per patient.

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Hospice News

MARCH 15, 2024

McPherson also serves on the board of the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (AAHPM). Adverse drug events (ADEs) present on a spectrum from discomfort to medical emergency, so the impacts can range widely,” Krout told Hospice News in an email. Nearly half (45.7%) of these patients had more than one adverse drug event.

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Hospice News

MAY 2, 2022

Even when a caregiver is present, that person may be elderly or ill themselves, or be unable to be in the home around the clock due to work or other obligations. The nation is in need of a “total overhaul” in terms of how we think about caregiving and its place in the health care system, according to Sonya Dolan and BJ Miller, M.D.,

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Hospice News

AUGUST 13, 2024

The recruitment initiative is the fruit of a collaboration between Visiting Nurse and Hospice for Vermont and New Hampshire (VNH) and the Home Care, Hospice & Palliative Care Alliance of New Hampshire (the Alliance). There has been less of that in the home health, hospice and palliative care spaces.

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APRIL 22, 2022

Recent research from Rutgers University-New Brunswick in New Jersey has revealed gaps in hospice referrals and palliative care consultations among underserved patient populations in the state. Diversity in population can yield diverse presentations of symptoms,” Kozlov said.

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