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Palliative Care in the ED Reduces Costs, Improves Patient Outcomes

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she said during the presentation. Patients presenting at the emergency department is a crucial moment in their care trajectory, according to Dr. Jonathan Abraham, a board-certified palliative medicine and emergency medicine physician at Corewell Health. When you do really good palliative care, what happens?”

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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 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-Primary Care Integration Crucial for MCC Patients

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Palliative interventions should be integrated into primary care for patients living with symptomatic multiple chronic conditions (MCC), a recent consensus paper indicated. patient population. Primary care providers are already taking care of patients with heart failure, chronic obstructive lung disease, dementia, obesity and diabetes.

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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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Training Hospice Workers to Face Existential Distress, ‘Death Anxiety’

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Its] often even unspoken, but we know its ever present. Hospice providers that integrate a deep focus on emotional well-being in their staff training efforts could see improved workforce and patient satisfaction. Our ability to accompany patients in their existential struggles is directly tied to our willingness to confront our own mortality.

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The Roots of Palliative Care: Michael Kearney, Sue Britton, and Justin Sanders

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Alex Smith Links Link to the McGill National Grand Rounds Series on Palliative Care , Michael Kearney as initial presenter, and registration for future events. In todays podcast we welcome some of the early pioneers in palliative care to talk about the roots of palliative care. by Kearney. I promise its short. Canadians are welcoming.