Hospice News
AUGUST 16, 2023
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.
Hospice News
APRIL 2, 2024
Boston-based Dana-Farber Cancer Institute has launched the Neuro-Inclusive Oncology Care and Empowerment Program, a psychosocial oncology initiative focused on adults with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities (IDD). Almost 40% of people 65 and older had at least one disability from 2008 to 2012, according to a 2014 U.S.
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Hospice News
JANUARY 11, 2024
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.”
Hospice News
APRIL 3, 2024
Founded in 1980, Samaritan provides home-based primary care, hospice and palliative medicine. The nonprofit’s palliative care arm operates in southern New Jersey, including Bulington, Camden and Gloucester counties. The organization’s board stated it is currently searching for a new candidate to fill the CEO role.
AJN Off the Charts
APRIL 7, 2023
There have been a couple of recent studies that confirm what I have observed as a palliative care nurse practitioner (NP) in an academic medical center: that there’s still a tendency to pursue very aggressive care with older people with cancer. Palliative care could prevent many ED visits.
GeriPal
FEBRUARY 2, 2024
Summary Transcript Summary Last week we talked about a trial of a nurse and social worker outpatient palliative care intervention published in JAMA. For context, listen to the prior podcast with Scott on “ nudges ” and prior podcast with Kate on who should get palliative care. Alex, who are our guests today?
GeriPal
MARCH 7, 2024
Despite this, in my 20-year career as a palliative care physician, I have yet to see a death doula in the wild. We’ve invited two death doulas, Jane Euler and John Loughnane (who is also a family doc and palliative care physician), to talk about the role of a doula at the end of life. Why Beth? John: Nice to be here.
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