Hospice News
JANUARY 20, 2023
More providers are investing in virtual reality (VR) programs as a growing body of research shows that it can ease pain symptoms and improve outcomes for palliative care patients. of patients in the study reported feeling joy or happiness following VR interventions. Around 17.5% About 82.5%
Hospice News
OCTOBER 10, 2023
Rooted in the power of storytelling and fueled by a desire to improve health equity and foster meaningful connections, Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center’s innovative palliative care approach has earned industry-wide acclaim. “We
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Hospice News
DECEMBER 21, 2023
The hospice and senior care provider Helios Care is partnering with the integrated health system Bassett Healthcare Network to bring more extensive access to hospice and palliative care to patients in central New York.
GeriPal
APRIL 26, 2024
As I argue on the podcast, ELNEC has likely done more to lift the primary palliative care skills of clinicians than any other initiative. He is a palliative care physician at the Durham VA Medical Center in Duke and blogs on Substack at Notes from a Family Meeting. We started writing this paper in 2019 actually. Bry: Yeah, Eric.
Hospice News
MARCH 14, 2024
In Calendar Year 2021, the share of hospice care days with nurse visits in the last seven days of life rose to 63%, up from 62% year over year, according to the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO). In 2019, for example, the percentage was 66%.
Hospice News
OCTOBER 2, 2023
The agency isn’t imposing these penalties on hospices yet, according to Judi Lund Person, vice president of policy and compliance for the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO). These actions were designed to strengthen regulatory oversight of providers in the wake of two July 2019 reports from the U.S.
Hospice News
AUGUST 22, 2022
On average, the tenures of more than a third of hospice chaplains in the United States lasted only one to two years between 2010 and 2019, according to research from Zippia. More than 7,768 chaplains were employed by hospices nationwide in 2019, according to the Zippia report. Limited opportunities for training.
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