Hospice News

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

“​​A culturally tailored patient navigator intervention can help improve some palliative care–related outcomes for Hispanic patients with serious medical illness,” researchers wrote. To determine effectiveness of lay patient navigators, researchers utilized a palliative care intervention method piloted in 2014.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 22, 2022

These cover the innovative partnerships, new technologies, pediatric care, health equity and other key developments in the hospice space. Pandemic Pushes Death Doula Awareness, Hospices Seek Strengthened Ties. Hospice Sustainability Rides Hand in Hand With Diversity, Equity and Inclusion.

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Hospice News

JUNE 14, 2023

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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Hospice News

MARCH 8, 2023

Fernandez oversees the Florida-based hospice company’s finances, investor relations and accounting functions. I look forward to partnering with this team and all its employees, immersing myself in the culture and executing on strategies that ultimately contribute to ensuring VITAS as the premier provider of end-of-life care.”

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Agape Care Group Appoints M&A VP. Alex Ferguson has stepped into the role of senior vice president of mergers and acquisitions at Agape Care Group. The South Carolina-based hospice and palliative care provider is a portfolio company of the private equity firm Ridgemont Equity Partners. as its president and CEO.

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Hospice News

APRIL 21, 2022

Beginning this July, Summit Health patients will have access to palliative care consultations and expanded services through the partnership. . In 2014, Partners In Care began offering palliative care services to patients of Summit Health’s oncology department at the Eastside Clinic in Bend, Oregon.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

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. hospice leaders.

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1-800-HOSPICE

MARCH 21, 2023

The American Society of Clinical Oncology describes hospice as an essential component of end-of-life (EOL) care. 1 As such, hospice utilization among patients with hematologic malignancies merits scrutiny as an area where hospice utilization is traditionally lower than with solid malignancies.

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1-800-HOSPICE

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Hospice sends nurses, aides, and other caregivers to the homes of patients with advanced, terminal illnesses. Expert consensus holds that people should receive hospice for three to six months. families, time in hospice falls short of recommendations. families, time in hospice falls short of recommendations.

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GeriPal

JUNE 29, 2023

On last week’s podcast we interviewed the medical director and the chaplain of the prison’s hospice unit (Hospice in Prison Part 1 ). On today’s podcast we talk with three of these Pastoral Care Workers, Jerry Judson, Jeffrey Maria, and Allan Krenitzky. Eric: And Alex, last week we did episode one of Hospice in Prison.

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DECEMBER 15, 2017

All deaths (2004–2014) from death registration data and predicted deaths (2015–2040) from official population forecasts in England and Wales. Age- and gender-specific proportions of deaths in hospital, care home, home, hospice and ‘other’ were applied to numbers of expected future deaths.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 6, 2023

State laws to promote palliative care have proliferated during the last decade. Nearly 80% of states nationwide have passed at least one or more types of palliative care legislation since 2014, according to Yale University’s Palliative Care Law and Policy GPS data tracker.

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Pallimed

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

While following this response, we confirmed that Chou received funding in September 2014 from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), through his role as the Director for the Pacific Northwest Evidence-based Practice Center and employment by Oregon Health and Science University (14). 2014 Sep;(218):1-219. PMID: 30313000.

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Evidence-Based Nursing - BMJ blogs

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

Developed in the late 1990s and undergoing incremental changes, until recognised that this pathway represented a number of significant failings, led to the publishing of a damning report by The Leadership Alliance for the Care of Dying People in 2014. What is Palliative and End of Life Care?

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Two hospices have lost the battle against workforce shortages, with one halting some of its service lines and another shutting down altogether. Hospice and Home Care of Juneau shutters. Alaska-based Hospice and Home Care of Juneau (HHCJ) recently announced its closure, citing high staffing costs and lack of clinicians.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 18, 2022

Maryland-based hospice and palliative care provider Gilchrist recently formed a joint venture with the hospital system Luminis Health to expand the full scope of senior and geriatric care in the state’s southern region. You can’t do that if you don’t contract and work with someone to provide hospice care.

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Pallimed

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Additionally, in 2014, Chou co-authored a systematic review and critical appraisal of guidelines for chronic pain (27). Competing Interests Dr. Kollas currently serves as the Secretary of the Board of Directors of the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (AAHPM). 2014 Jan 7;160(1):38-47 28. Ann Intern Med.

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