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Defining Palliative Care Quality in Murky Regulatory Waters

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The diverse landscape of palliative care services that exists today presents both opportunities and challenges when it comes to defining quality, according to Keith Everett, CEO, ProCare Hospice in Nevada. Calls are growing louder for a federally established set of standardized palliative guidelines.

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

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The pandemic reinforced positive perception of palliative care and increased participants’ understanding of its scope and respondents indicated a need for more palliative care and advocated for their role in future pandemic,” Vesel said in a presentation at the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization’s Annual Leadership Conference.

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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. Martha Twaddle, The Waud Family Medical Directorships palliative medicine and supportive care clinical professor of medicine at Northwestern Medicine.

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How Palliative Care Can Better Support Transplant Patients’ Caregivers

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Most transplant centers require that a caregiver be present and available to patients in order for them to be considered for a transplant, Montoya told Palliative Care News. Family caregiver support is lacking across organ transplant centers nationwide. These are just some of the areas that palliative care teams could help to improve.

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Improving Inclusive Palliative Care for Transgender Patients

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It’s not just past, but also present experiences that are still in existence and impact the quality of care that transgender patients receive,” Fried said. Palliative care delivery approaches that are not gender-inclusive can contribute to significant quality issues in caring for transgender populations. Furthermore, 85.3% Furthermore, 85.3%

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How Hospices Can Avoid Pitfalls in AI Implementation

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AI can provide capabilities that provide clinical decision insights through predictive and prescriptive machine learning modeling, it can summarize large swaths of data through Generative AI summarization, and a lot of opportunity is presenting itself in the agentic AI space. This requires careful evaluation.

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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. This hospital was at 10%.”