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Compassus’ Laura Templeton: Education, Better Reimbursement Needed to Foster Palliative Care Growth

Hospice News

Two barriers interfere with palliative care growth — identifying patients in need and a fragmented reimbursement system, according to Laura Templeton, COO and executive vice president at Compassus. As a nurse, Templeton has leveraged her clinical experiences to help navigate challenges that prevent patients from accessing care.

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Empath Health Launches New PACE Center

Hospice News

This is the second PACE center that the nonprofit senior care health system has opened and the first such program in its home county, Hillsborough. Empath’s first center, Suncoast PACE, launched in 2012. We exercise; we do all kinds of fun things.” A third center is planned for Florida’s Manatee County later this year.

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