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Keys to Discussing ‘Hard Realities’ in Pediatric Advance Care Planning Conversations

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A common hurdle to improving access to hospice and palliative care among children is that many clinicians across the health continuum lack the training and skill sets needed to have goals of care conversations. Researchers reviewed electronic medical record data for nearly 2,000 adolescents and young adults who died between 2003 and 2019.

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Hospice CEO, Chief Compliance Officer Collaborations Key to Quality

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The lines of communication between hospice leaders and compliance executives need to be open and transparent in today’s regulatory environment. The complexities of hospice regulation alongside increased oversight in the space have led providers to zero in on compliance.

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Palliative Care in India: M.R. Rajagopal

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And in 2003, I formed Pallium India with several colleagues with the national agenda, because still then the growth was mostly conveyed to Kerala and a couple of metropolitan cities. I see them in your hospices, Tom. The number of people who go into depression in the pathological grief is not reported. They are there.