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Defining Palliative Care Quality in Murky Regulatory Waters

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Calls are growing louder for a federally established set of standardized palliative guidelines. Capturing real-time quality data is an important part of effectively managing patients symptoms and needs, according to Dr. Monisha Pujari, medical director of Georgia-based Longleaf Hospice & Palliative Care.

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‘Extra Steps’: Building Strong Pediatric Palliative Referral Partnerships

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Sustaining pediatric hospice and palliative care programs involves employing dynamic referral and financial strategies in todays health care landscape. HopeHealth in 2021 began providing inpatient and community-based pediatric palliative and hospice care to infants, children and young adults.

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How Palliative Care Can Better Support Transplant Patients’ Caregivers

Hospice News

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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How Health System Palliative Providers Can Leverage Data to Gain More Resources

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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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Palliative Care’s Most Disruptive Forces in 2025

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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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Palliative Physicians Leverage Social Media to Educate Public

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Palliative care physicians are taking to social media to help educate the public and other clinicians about the care they provide. Just as some hospice nurses have used social media to inform people about end-of-life care, a handful of physicians are doing similar work for palliative care.

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Earlier Palliative Care Yields Higher ROI

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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. There was a 20% lower cost in one of the hospitals.