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. We take a local-model approach where teams can build out what their palliative programs look like, and then we surround them with Service Center support, Steik told Palliative Care News.
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
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.
Hospice News
NOVEMBER 8, 2024
Private equity transactions represented half of all home health and hospice deals in 2018 and 2019, resulting in a 300% increase in patients enrolled under PE-backed providers, according to research published in the Journal of Palliative Medicine. Sean Morrison, director at the National Palliative Care Research Center (NPCRC).
Life & Death Matters
JANUARY 14, 2025
With palliative care being integral to nursing, this introductory guide explores how specialized resources for palliative care can elevate nursing practices and improve patient care. As global demographics shift and serious and chronic illnesses rise, the demand for palliative care is expected to grow by 40% by 20301.
Hospice News
JANUARY 27, 2025
To tie this with what residents, fellows and resident physicians in palliative care and hospice experience, that training is incredibly difficult, Anderson told Palliative Care News. What we hear a lot of in the palliative and hospice care workforce is that youre working with patients in a vulnerable, critical time.
Hospice News
SEPTEMBER 27, 2022
Limited pathways to reimbursement and workforce shortages are the largest hurdles for growth among community-based palliative care programs. Some providers have a learning curve around the complex process of working out payer contracts and sustainable business models for their community-based palliative care programs, according to Goldstein.
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