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How Hospice and Palliative Care of the Wood River Valley Built a Collaborative Care Model Without Medicare Certification

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They have been brilliant in setting up an endowment back in 2016. We have nurses, a social worker and chaplains that donate their time. After more than a decade working in hospice leadership, Alli Collins came across something she had never seen before — a financially viable, all-volunteer provider that is not Medicare-certified.

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Partners In Care, Summit Health Join Forces on Palliative Care

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The palliative care team at Partners In Care expanded to include a physician, nurse practitioner, registered nurse and chaplain, which rounded out the multidisciplinary team approach they could offer patients.” Hagfors previously served as CEO of the Bend Memorial Clinic – now known as Summit Health – from 2011 to 2016.

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Advance Care Planning Billing Rules Impede Equitable Access

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Across 150 different studies, white adults represented nearly two-thirds (65.1%) of roughly 800,000 individuals who had completed advance directives between 2011 and 2016. Numerous advanced care planning tools show that social workers, chaplains and nurses can have those conversations. Inability to bill can really limit access further.”

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Executive Changes at Niagara Hospice, Transcend Strategy Group, AMOREM, HomeCare & Hospice

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Williamson was most recently the chaplain and volunteer coordinator at Suncrest Home Health & Hospice since 2021. He has also held chaplain roles at VCU Health and Freda H. He previously served in similar roles at Seasons Hospice & Palliative Care since 2016 prior to its merger in 2020 with AccentCare.

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PC Trials at State of Science: Tom LeBlanc, Kate Courtright, & Corita Grudzen

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Summary Transcript Summary One marker of the distance we’ve traveled in palliative care is the blossoming evidence base for the field. Ten years ago we would have been hard pressed to find 3 clinical trial abstracts submitted to the annual meeting, much less high quality randomized trials with robust measures, sample sizes, and analytics plans.