Evidence-Based Nursing - BMJ blogs
NOVEMBER 6, 2022
This blog does not intend to revisit this pathway, but to raise awareness that as healthcare professionals, we have and always will have only one chance to get it right in palliative and end of life care. What is Palliative and End of Life Care? The Cornerstone of Humanity. Dame Cecily Saunders.
Hospice News
APRIL 11, 2024
Black Americans are frequently denied access to hospice and palliative care due to structural racism, and many of those communities lack sufficient information to make end-of-life care decisions, new research has found. The issues identified in the report exist across the country. were Hispanic; 1.8% were Native American.
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Hospice News
MARCH 1, 2024
The new curriculum is designed to offer “foundational orientation training” for hospice aides, nurses, volunteers, social workers, chaplains and other spiritual care providers, as well as physicians. It covers the essentials of delivering end-of-life care in the home and compliance with regulatory requirements.
Hospice News
APRIL 22, 2022
Francis Reflections hospice and palliative care clinicians and physicians will serve patients at the center when their care is no longer manageable in other settings. Volunteers, social workers, chaplains and bereavement counselors also make up the center’s staff. Formerly Hospice of St. Census Bureau.
Hospice News
FEBRUARY 28, 2024
“This is a tremendous opportunity to offer experienced, hospital-based hospice care to patients who are too fragile or unstable to be transferred to another location,” Mattson said in a press release. The hospital-based hospice unit marks Hospice of Cincinnati’s fifth inpatient location.
Hospice News
SEPTEMBER 20, 2022
If enacted, the legislation would remove co-pays and patient fees for advance care planning (ACP) services, allow social workers to conduct these conversations, expand provider education about associated billing codes, and improve reporting on barriers to ACP utilization. House of Representatives by Rep.
Hospice News
SEPTEMBER 22, 2022
Without widespread change, demand for palliative care in the United States is projected to outstrip the supply of the clinicians trained to provide it during the next decade. A key barrier to building that workforce is that most clinicians receive little to no exposure to those types of care during their training.
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