Hospice News
APRIL 4, 2025
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. But palliative care providers largely lack a standardized way of measuring quality, she stated.
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.
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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
MAY 20, 2025
Palliative care providers face a host of unique recruitment and retention challenges compared to others, with organizations employing diverse strategies to rise above the competition. Having staff with a deep knowledge about the emotional, spiritual, psychosocial and physical patient needs addressed in palliative care is crucial, she stated.
Hospice News
MAY 20, 2025
Staff training and effective communication play important roles in a palliative care providers ability to reach referral sources and address unmet needs among seriously ill patients and their families. Virginia-based Blue Ridge Care launched its palliative care program roughly three years ago.
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.
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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