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From Access Barriers to Educational Gaps: The Research Trends Impacting Future Palliative Care Delivery

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Already, 2024 has brought a growing body of research in palliative care covering more ground on challenges linked to utilization and access, health disparities, lagging clinical awareness, and other aspects impacting quality and care delivery. Hospice significantly reduced end-of-life HU.

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Global Partners in Care Program Fosters International Collaboration on Palliative Care

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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. Historic run Getting the Global Partners in Care program to this level has been quite the journey for CHC. So, these U.S.

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State Palliative Care Laws Impact Where Patients Die

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Recent research has found that varying state laws around palliative care can impact cancer patients’ place of death. Researchers compared trends among states that had palliative care lows on their books against those that did not. More than half (50.1%) of cancer decedents in the study died at home or in hospice, the JAMA study found.

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LeadingAge: Proposed DEA Rule Could Limit Medication Access for Hospice Patients

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This includes drugs that are frequently used in hospice and palliative care. “We Barnett, in her public comments on the proposal, contends that hospice patients are often too sick to travel for an in-person examination and that they need to receive pain management quickly upon admission.

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Partners In Care, Summit Health Join Forces on Palliative Care

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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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Sequestration’s Return Creating a ‘Tsunami of Pain Points’ for Hospices

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Widespread workforce shortages also have hospices struggling to offer competitive compensation in a shrinking resource pool. Sequestration was established in 2014 by the Budget Control Act. Its suspension during COVID-19 has been a lifeline for hospice leaders pummeled by a mix of several financial and operational challenges.

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Two CEOs Retire, Three Hospice Leadership Teams Grow

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Whitaker has been at the helm of the nonprofit since 2014, serving as COO prior to that. She became a hospice nurse for By the Bay Health in 1996, then named Hospice of Marin, taking on various roles in clinical leadership throughout her more than 27-year tenure.

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