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Hospice of the Panhandle Taps New CEO; New Strategy Director Appointed at Unity Hospice

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Palliative care will be expanded. Hospice of the Panhandle has provided end-of-life services in West Virginia for more than 40 years, and also offers palliative care and pediatric hospice and palliative care. Unity Hospice and Palliative Care has served more than 30,000 patients and families since its establishment in 1992.

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Physician, Legislator Morhaim: Hospices Should Be Vocal About Advance Care Plans

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Nevertheless, only about 38% of the chronically ill have documented their wishes, according to 2017 research in Health Affairs. . To help move the needle, hospice and palliative care providers can serve as advocates and educators, according to Dr. Dan Morhaim, a retired emergency department physician and Maryland state delegate. “I

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WellSky Intent on Expanding Footprint, Presence Across Care Continuum

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Data analytics systems are gaining rising levels of attention in health care. Hospice providers in particular are using analytics to identify patients in need of end-of-life or palliative care services further upstream. The Kansas-based company reports that it has quadrupled in size since 2017, now employing a staff of 2,200 worldwide.

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From Sea to Shining Sea: State Palliative Care Laws Yield Mixed Results

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Stretching back more than a decade, a rising number of states have passed laws designed to raise awareness of hospice and palliative care, but to date, few if any have achieved measurable results. Palliative care does that. Five flavors of palliative care laws. The reasons for this run the gamut.

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EMS Intervention to Reduce Falls: Carmen Quatman and Katie Quatman-Yates

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We have a pediatric specialty, and on the flip side, we have many, many of our patients are in the older adult population and we don’t really take into account some of the complexities of that care in the same way, and I really wanted to learn about hospice and palliative care and how to best guide patients.