Hospice News

MARCH 7, 2025

A dire need exists to be able to better support physicians, hospital discharge planners and social workers on culturally relevant approaches to care at home and having end-of-life conversations with minority families and patients. You cant just pick up a model of care and drop it into a different city or region.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

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. Palliative Care clinicians from Nkhoma Hospital in Malawi visit U.S. So, these U.S.

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Hospice News

MAY 25, 2023

This article is based on a discussion with Anthony Spano, Director of Client Development at Netsmart and Nikki Davis, Vice President of Palliative Care Programs at Contessa Health. The conversation took place on April 20, 2023, during the Hospice News Palliative Care Conference.

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Hospice News

MARCH 14, 2024

The number of registered nurse and social worker visits during a patient’s final week is one of the seven quality measures that CMS uses to evaluate providers. Social worker visits in the last days of life also rose to 9% in 2021, up from 7% in 2020. In 2019, for example, the percentage was 66%.

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Caregiver Support Services

JANUARY 31, 2025

Palliative care plays a significant role in improving the quality of life for individuals managing serious illnesses. It addresses physical, emotional, psychological, and social well-being. For caregivers, understanding the 7 Cs of palliative care can transform the caregiving experience into a meaningful and supportive one.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 23, 2024

While some palliative care programs mirror the hospice model, more operators are working to tailor their services to patients’ specific needs, with varying intensity. Payment streams for palliative care, most palliative programs are relying on a combination of Medicare Part B and grants and fundraising,” Schramm said.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 19, 2022

1 Social Workers Leaving Hospice, Health Care in Record Numbers (July 11). One seldom-discussed aspect of this year’s pervasive labor shortage was the number of social workers who had left the field. The following are the most-read Hospice News articles of 2022. #1 3–6 Big Provider, Payer Hospice Deals.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Rooted in the power of storytelling and fueled by a desire to improve health equity and foster meaningful connections, Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center’s innovative palliative care approach has earned industry-wide acclaim. “We

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Hospice News

JULY 25, 2023

Lowenthal recently presented research at the American Geriatrics Society Meeting in which she found that many residents are unfamiliar with the needs of older patients, despite the large numbers of seniors in need of care.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 5, 2022

A direct contracting entity (DCE), CareConnectMD offers primary care, palliative care, and care coordination services. Presently, 80% of CareConnectMD’s patient population is in the long term care setting, according to Phan. The company’s interdisciplinary care model is “high-touch,” according to Phan.

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Hospice News

APRIL 4, 2024

Current reimbursement structures within the federally established Medicare Hospice Benefit do not sufficiently support the level of care needed in rural-based communities, according to the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO).

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Hospice News

MARCH 2, 2023

People want to do the care, but it’s just really hard. Our clinicians, especially our social workers and nurses that work in care management, try very hard to connect people to the services that they need because it is overwhelming as a family member to understand the different pieces of care and how they are financed.

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Hospice News

APRIL 4, 2024

Collaborations with participants in the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation’s (CMMI) Accountable Care Organization (ACO) Primary Care Flex demo could allow hospices to leverage their skill sets to access more patients. Hospices and palliative care providers can come to ACOs by two main avenues.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 30, 2025

In one corner, weighing in at decades of experience, well known for heavy hits of bedside assessments, strong patient-family relationships, and a knockout punch of interdisciplinary collaboration, we have in-person palliative care consults. Eric 01:08 On the other, we have the young upstart telehealth delivered palliative care.

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The Bucket-List Blog

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Therefore, most stories are in the present tense. Sally came on Tuesdays and Kelly Fitch, his hospice social worker, visited on Thursdays. How can you honor life during National Hospice & Palliative Care Month? Our stories about meaningful experiences are written as they unfold.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

In day-to-day practice, It’s hard to imagine providing excellent hospice or palliative care services without access to a team social worker. But are we really taking full advantage of ALL social workers have to offer our field? Summary Transcript Summary. by: Anne Kelly, LCSW, APHSW-C. Welcome back, Anne.

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The Bucket-List Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

Therefore, most stories are in the present tense. We created a video for social media featuring the song and put out a public call for help with the digitizing project. Shaunna Patton, a social worker with Caretenders at the time, connected us with Pastor B.J. Some of the patients in these stories are no longer with us.

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GeriPal

MAY 11, 2023

Ann Kelly, who’s been on the podcast many times, social worker on palliative care, she’s always under a minute. We also worked a little bit with the primary care team certain of the risk factors. I presented this at the big clinical trials meeting in November in San Francisco. So, there you go.

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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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Traditions Health

MAY 1, 2023

Moreover, if your loved one is experiencing depression because of their ALS diagnosis, know that hospice care can provide the support, care, and therapy they may need to overcome ALS-triggered depression. When to Seek Help Caring for someone with ALS often presents many challenges for the patient’s primary caregiver.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Summary Transcript Summary In our podcast with palliative care pioneer Susan Block , she identified the psychological/psychiatric aspects of palliative care as the biggest are of need for improvement. Des delivered a plenary at this year’s National Palliative Care Research Center’s Foley retreat.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 16, 2025

Alex 01:42 And we’re delighted to welcome from my home state of Michigan, Joe Dixon, who’s a geriatrician and palliative care doc at Trinity Health. Yael 19:06 Yeah, I mean, I just was kind of smiling as the two of you were talking about your social worker that, you know, can help find people.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 7, 2023

To meet growing demand, more outpatient palliative care clinics and programs are cropping up. All palliative care, no matter the setting, seeks to alleviate symptoms and pain for people living with chronic illnesses. The patient will then be referred to an outpatient clinic or home-based provider for further care.

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GeriPal

JULY 11, 2024

Summary Transcript Summary In May we did a podcast on KidneyPal (the integration of palliative care in renal disease) , which made us think, hmmm… one organ right next door is the liver. We have Kirsten Engel, who is a n emergency medicine and palliative care doc at MGH. Maybe we should do a podcast on LiverPal? (or

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GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

I say something like, Palliative care is, in many ways, the apotheosis of great palliative care. Today we talk with Naheed Dosani, a palliative care physician at St. What makes palliative care for people experiencing homelessness challenging? See if you can pick out the moment. Homelessness?

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Hospice News

JUNE 1, 2022

In enacted, the recently reintroduced Palliative Care and Hospice Education Training Act (PCHETA) could make a dent in the recruitment barriers that hospices keep hitting. Hospice] has to become a part of the education of medical students, nursing and social workers at large,” Lee told Hospice News.

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Hospice News

MAY 31, 2024

Patients with eating disorders can face an array of challenges that impede access to health care and pose risk of negative care experiences, according to Dr. Jonathan Treem, regional medical director of palliative care and hospice at Mid-Atlantic Permanente Medical Group | Kaiser Permanente.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

That’s why we do this podcast- to address real world issues in palliative care, geriatrics, and bioethics. At the end of the day, I lamented that physical, occupational, and speech therapists aren’t more tightly integrated with palliative care teams. Summary Transcript Summary Often podcasts meet clinical reality.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

She is a guest host and she’s a palliative care social worker. Eric 00:15 And we have three guests to help us talk about trauma informed care. Alex 00:31 And we have Kate Duchowny, who’s a social epidemiologist and assistant professor at the University of Michigan, where it is freezing cold.

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Hospice News

JUNE 20, 2024

Aside from parental losses, children who attend summer grief programs have often experienced the loss of a grandparent or a sibling, according to Jasmine Kendrick, grief counselor and social worker at Angela Hospice. The Massachusetts-based hospice offers a family grief camp called Camp by the Sea.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 26, 2023

EOLDs have had a growing presence in the serious illness and end-of-life care space, but their services are not reimbursed by Medicare or other insurance, according to Jane Euler, co-founder and chief doula of Present for You LLC. Doulas can help patients find a hospice earlier in their disease trajectories, Euler indicated.

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GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

Summary Transcript Summary One marker of the distance we’ve traveled in palliative care is the blossoming evidence base for the field. They study palliative care. She’s pulmonary critical care and palliative medicine trained. These are big trials in palliative care. Kate: Thank you.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Executives from almost every publicly traded hospice company raised this issue in earnings calls and presentations throughout the year. Some leaders foresee several more years of workforce scarcity as stakeholders work to expand clinical education in hospice and palliative care. The shortage isn’t going away.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 31, 2024

Palliative care, pediatric end-of-life care and end-of-life doula (EOLD) services are top of mind for hospices that are diversifying their services in 2024. About 16% of the survey respondents indicated plans to start palliative care programs this year, a decline from 56% of respondents in 2023.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 19, 2023

Many people living with serious medical illnesses also suffer from comorbid behavioral health issues,” the Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC) indicated in a 2020 report. Basically, there are gaps in need, and that both presents an opportunity for entrepreneurship and social entrepreneurship.

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Hospice News

APRIL 8, 2024

I am the one attending physician on HopeHealth’s inpatient pediatric palliative care team. I am also a supervisor for the adult inpatient palliative care teams at two hospitals, at Rhode Island Hospital and the Miriam Hospital, which are the main teaching sites of Brown Medical School. I’m a pediatrician.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Dani and Kery present three steps for interacting with an angry patient: Look within: What is this anger bringing up in me? Foundations for Psychological Thinking in Palliative Care: Frame and Formulation. The Meaning of Together: Exploring Transference and Countertransference in Palliative Care Settings.

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