Hospice News

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Like many great innovations in health care, it really bubbled up from our community. They already had a small palliative care resource. Some of our partners did have palliative care partnerships working in their community, but those were very, very individualized. Our first partner started in 2018.

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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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AJN Off the Charts

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

In all my years of nursing, this was about as optimal an advance care planning encounter as possible. There was a palliative care resource in the cancer center to help with both symptom management and introducing the idea of advance care planning. A best-case scenario.

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GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

We were really interested in the gap that exists after patients leave the ED or an observation status and go home, so what we did is we randomized patients, it was patient-level randomization, to either nurse-led telephonic care for six months, or specialty outpatient palliative care for six months. Was this the same?

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Liz: Yeah, palliative care teams is exactly one of those institutional factors. Well, it’s not an institutional factor, but institutions can either support having more palliative care teams, better palliative care resources, being palliative care friendly or being less so.

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GeriPal

JULY 28, 2022

Obviously, I don’t think that symptom monitoring is the same as you wonderful people coming in and taking care of patients and their families. But I think thinking about combined models of care, like can we use palliative care resources if we’re monitoring patient symptoms?

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Hospice News

JUNE 5, 2023

I have heard a lot of ACO people being very frustrated that they’re like, “We have this palliative care program but there’s a three month waiting list. We don’t really have a palliative care resource.” What’s the point?

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

So quality of life was, if we want to talk about just the as good as the more intensive model, but we used significantly fewer palliative care resources. So basically, to achieve the same quality of life benefit as the intensive arm patients saw palliative care, significantly fewer. Eric 31:38 Half is less, right?

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GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

And yet in my other rotations and experiences, it was so clear that we were resourcing people with palliative care resources very well. You didn’t have to walk many blocks down the street to a hospital or another facility where people were getting world class care.

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SAGE Palliative Medicine & Chronic Care podcast

MARCH 27, 2023

• Communicable disease epidemics and pandemics, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, intensify the healthcare inequities encountered by people who use drugs. • Pandemics are expected to increase the demand for palliative care resources. • People who use drugs with life-limiting illnesses experience inequities in access (..)

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