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How Palliative Care Could Help Break the SNF-to-Hospital Cycle

Hospice News

A dearth of coordination or integration between rehab teams and palliative care teams routinely forces some patients into a cycle between the hospital and the nursing home in their last year of life. Older adults frequently utilize such services, often in skilled nursing facilities (SNF).

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Global Partners in Care Program Fosters International Collaboration on Palliative Care

Hospice News

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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Partners In Care, Summit Health Join Forces on Palliative Care

Hospice News

Partners In Care has formed a strategic partnership with the primary and urgent care provider Summit Health aimed at increasing access to palliative care in Central Oregon. Beginning this July, Summit Health patients will have access to palliative care consultations and expanded services through the partnership. .

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Angela Hospice’s New Inpatient Facility; Hosparus Opens PACE Center

Hospice News

Angela Hospice provides adult and pediatric hospice, palliative care and grief support across Oakland County in southern Michigan. Constructed in 2006 as the Schmidt Museum of Coca-Cola Memorabilia, the facility was renovated after its closure in 2011. The PACE program serves communities across six counties in Kentucky.

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Fleece Takes Helm as Empath Health CEO, Begins ‘One Hospice’ Initiative

Hospice News

Empath provides hospice, home health care, primary care, palliative care, PACE, AIDS and sexual wellness care, and adult day services to a combined total of more than 23,000 individuals. The son of a nurse and a minister, Fleece said he learned the importance of service early in life.

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How 3 Hospice Companies Are Beating the Workforce Shortage

Hospice News

“About a year ago, we did a kind of a deep dive into some of our challenges, and we realized that we needed to do a new staffing model, one that would attract dedicated, experienced hospice nurses,” Kalvaitis said at the Hospice News ELEVATE conference in Chicago. “So We were able to hire nurses.

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Storycatching: Podcast with Heather Coats and Thor Ringler

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We discussed it with today’s guests Heather Coats, palliative care NP-scientist, and Thor Ringler, poet. Unpacking characteristics of spirituality through the lens of persons of colour living with serious illness: The need for nurse-based education to increase understanding of the spiritual dimension in healthcare. SPONSOR: