Hospice News
JANUARY 6, 2025
Economic and financial headwinds have increasingly posed significant challenges for rural-based hospice providers, with some shuttering their programs in recent years. Ensuring access to high-quality hospice and home care in rural communities is critical, Landers said in a statement.
Hospice News
JUNE 4, 2025
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz has issued a public announcement warning against the most common tactics being employed by fraudulent hospice operators. People posing as salespeople are targeting older Americans to trick them to sign up for hospice without their knowledge.
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Hospice News
FEBRUARY 12, 2025
The JAMA study examined outcomes of 1,250 adults with advanced lung cancer receiving palliative care across 22 health care organizations in the United States from June 14, 2018 to May 4, 2023. The post Early Telepalliative Care Can Reduce Caregiver Burden, Improve Quality appeared first on Hospice News.
Hospice News
NOVEMBER 27, 2024
Researchers dug into patients’ data to examine palliative care utilization and delivery of mental health services and pharmacotherapies between January 1, 2010, and December 31, 2018. The post The Link Between Palliative and Mental Health Care appeared first on Hospice News.
Hospice News
JANUARY 28, 2025
A range of new hospice executives have been recently tapped to lead organizations nationwide. AAHPM Announces New President-Elect Dr. Arif Kamal recently became the new president-elect of the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (AAHPM). Kamal became director-at-large at the academy in 2018.
Hospice News
JANUARY 23, 2025
The PRIM-ER interventions took place between 2018 and 2022, meaning that the results could have been influenced by the COVID-19 pandemic. The researchers, from San Diego-based Scripps Health, also found that palliative consults increased 10x in the ED, contributing to increased hospice and palliative care clinic referrals.
Hospice News
JULY 18, 2022
When it comes to communication and quality of care for Black patients, recent data reinforces the notion that hospices have room to grow. Our review found that Black patients with serious illness report poor-quality clinician-patient relationships and communication,” Chambers told Hospice News in an email.
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