Hospice News

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Bloom Healthcare cares for about 10,000 high-needs patients with a comprehensive primary care and care management model that incorporates palliative care. Where does palliative care fit into the model? The company currently operates in Colorado and Texas. It is all throughout.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Reaching breast cancer patients with varying needs can be a challenging feat for palliative care providers. Their referral strategies often hinge on how palliative services can help improve outcomes. A real shift is happening where there is a lot more emphasis on compounding symptom management,” Kamal told Palliative Care News.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 24, 2025

Hospices that have palliative care service lines may be better poised for growth in the merger and acquisition landscape compared to others. In bringing a hospice to market, it is 100% of the time a question that comes from all potential suitors is do they have a palliative care program, Kulik told Palliative Care News.

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Hospice News

MARCH 11, 2025

A key component of palliative care is understanding that chronic conditions may not be cured, but rather need to be managed, sometimes for many years. William Collins, associate director of the Palliative Care Institute at Western Washington University.

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Hospice News

MARCH 7, 2025

The future of palliative care payment is reaching an uncertain, but potentially promising time in the Medicare landscape. Palliative care models have been gaining traction in terms of demonstrating cost savings and improved quality for several years running, Farrand said.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Palliative care providers that form collaborative partnerships with Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) may be lending to a landmark downward trend in health care spending in the value-based payment landscape. Lowentritt is also senior medical director of Aledade, a network of ACO primary care organizations.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

The LifeCare Center for Palliative Medicine will provide outpatient palliative care to patients experiencing serious illness. Both patients and families benefit from the involvement of both oncology and palliative care.” It will also accept referrals from other physicians in the community. “As

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Hospice News

JANUARY 15, 2025

Julia Frydman, senior medical director at Nashville-based Thyme Care, runs its palliative care wing. She believes palliative care may be inoculated against that industry trend. Seen in that light, the support Frydman has seen for palliative care programs makes sense.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 17, 2025

Palliative Care News spoke with a group of industry leaders about the most pressing market forces and trends that will shape the space during 2025. They also spoke about the need for greater integration of palliative care into the larger health care continuum. Heath Bartness, CEO, St.

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Hospice News

MARCH 4, 2025

NYSE: HUM) and Thyme Care promises to expand access to palliative care among the oncology care companys patient population. The value-based agreement contracts Thyme Care with Humana Medicare Advantage plans, giving them access to their beneficiaries. A new partnership between Humana Inc.

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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. Pennants Service Center also facilitates education in palliative care for local leaders and provides, including courses from the Center to Advance Palliative Care.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Palliative care is a neglected health care priority worldwide, three nursing experts contend. Palliative care is neglected as a global health priority, and health systems around the world must better prepare to meet the growing need.”

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Hospice News

JANUARY 31, 2025

Montana-based Headwaters Hospice and Palliative Care LLC will soon unveil a new palliative care service line, set to launch later this year. We have kind of married our health care experience with the structure and accountability of our founders having a military background, Brown told Palliative Care News.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Access was the watchword in the palliative care community during 2024, as providers sought more ways to reach the right patients at the right time. The following are the most-read Palliative Care News articles of 2024. This trend has helped community-based palliative care to earn greater recognition of its benefits.

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GeriPal

MARCH 13, 2025

Summary Transcript CME Summary As far as weve come in the 50 years since Balfour Mount and Sue Britton opened the first palliative care at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Quebec, have we lost something along the way? In todays podcast we welcome some of the early pioneers in palliative care to talk about the roots of palliative care.

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Hospice News

MARCH 12, 2025

Navigating the nuanced differences of adult versus pediatric palliative care delivery can be a challenging feat for seriously ill youths as they age and transition between these two realms. Karlin is also palliative care medical director at UCLA Healths Palliative Care Program.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Patients with chronic kidney disease often face complex health care decisions, including identifying their need for palliative care. Early advance care planning is especially important for this population, the study indicated.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

A recent research project that combined palliative care with dementia care management reduced emergency department visits and hospitalizations by half among its patient population. The post IN-PEACE Palliative Care-Dementia Program Reduced Hospital Care by 50% appeared first on Hospice News.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

cut for 2025 in physician payment rates used to reimburse palliative care care practitioners, among other professionals. Fee-for-service Medicare continues to pay for the bulk of palliative care delivered to seniors in the United States, using the rates established in the physician fee schedule final rule.

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Hospice News

MARCH 14, 2025

Potential is mounting for deeper integration of palliative care delivery across the continuum, with some health care settings better poised than others for evolving opportunities. The Washington-based provider offers adult and pediatric hospice, palliative care, grief support and senior living services.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

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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Hospice News

JANUARY 29, 2025

Recent studies have established a dire need for palliative care in rural areas, and the state of Michigan is no stranger to this situation. In the current phase of the project, Stratis will be training MCRH staff to apply their framework for implementing palliative care programs in the target areas.

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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

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

University of Connecticut Health (UConn) John Dempsey Hospital is expanding its palliative care program, including a new outpatient clinic. The UConn health system first invested in outpatient palliative care eight years ago at the Carole and Ray Neag Comprehensive Cancer Center.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 23, 2025

Through PRIM-ER, emergency department clinicians received training in palliative care, simulation-based communication workshops, clinical decision support tools and audit and feedback. The study did not measure access to palliative care as an outcome. The results were published in JAMA. Health systems can realize a 6.7%

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Some patients wish to seek out alternative medicine therapies while receiving palliative care, and providers can benefit from understanding the nature and possible outcomes of these interventions, recent research has found. Trust, patient preferences, and adaptability are key for palliative care teams.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 21, 2025

Illinois-based Oasis Hospice & Palliative Care Inc.s The inpatient facility marks an important growth milestone for Oasis Hospice & Palliative Care, which stepped into the hospice landscape nearly a decade ago, Bello told Hospice News. Photo courtesy of Oasis Hospice & Palliative Care Inc.

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Hospice News

MARCH 21, 2025

Global Partners in Care (GPIC) and Elea Institute have formed a partnership designed to extend access to palliative care services worldwide. The Indiana-based palliative care provider Center for Hospice Care (CHC) is looking beyond its immediate community and has developed networks that impact palliative care on a global scale.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Researchers have increasingly dug into the quality impacts of virtual palliative care delivery and how telehealth outcomes compare to in-person care. Satisfaction with care for the caregivers and for the patients [showed] no differences. Rinaldi is also co-director of Mass Generals palliative care clinic.

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Life & Death Matters

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

The demand for healthcare professionals skilled in palliative care is growing rapidly. As Canadians live longer, many require extended care due to chronic illnesses such as cancer and dementia.

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Hospice News

MARCH 17, 2025

Before joining VNH, Tarsa was the executive director of home health, hospice and palliative care at Jefferson Healthcare in Washington, where she led quality and compliance, organizational culture, clinical operations, program and business development and project management. Vynca provides palliative care as well as other services.

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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.

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Hospice News

MAY 20, 2024

Federal lawmakers recently allocated millions of dollars to fuel palliative care research efforts. The move is anticipated to expand palliative education and career development opportunities as demand rises in coming years. Sean Morrison, director at the National Palliative Care Research Center (NPCRC).

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Hospice News

JUNE 12, 2024

Palliative care clinical recruitment involves some unique elements compared to other health care settings. Among the challenges is a general lack of awareness of palliative care and its distinctions from hospice among the public, clinicians in other settings and payers. Palliative care is relatively a new field.

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Hospice News

MARCH 19, 2025

Hughes outlined to Fluhart her industrys need for home-based palliative care, and after a number of communications, the two agreed to join forces to address the gap in services, with Fluharts business background complementing Hughess practical experience. Its all about relationships, Fluhart told Palliative Care News.

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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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Life & Death Matters

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

This approach, championed by Kath Murray, Founder of Life and Death Matters, emphasizes person-centered care and is the foundation upon which palliative care is based.

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