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HAP Foundation, NORC: Structural Racism Impedes Access to Hospice, Palliative Care

Hospice News

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. Access to hospice and palliative care is perceived as lacking. were Hispanic; 1.8%

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SCAN Group Invests in Guaranteed’s ‘Inclusive’ Hospice Technology Services

Hospice News

The move comes nearly a year after California-based Guaranteed launched in August 2022, when founder and CEO Jessica McGlory began her own provider company two years after her father passed away. The platform also connects patients to in-person end-of-life care services.

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VITAS, Gentiva, Home Health & Hospice Care Expand Inpatient Services; Banner Health Shutters Hospice Programs in Phoenix

Hospice News

The company opened the facility at the Broward Health Medical Center in 2022, which is located in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Patients at the hospital-based center receive care in a home-like clinical setting that includes overnight accommodations for friends and family. HHHC in 2021 merged with SolutionHealth for an undisclosed amount.

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HopeHealth’s Expanding Scope of Pediatric Hospice, Palliative Services

Hospice News

HopeHealth has been growing its pediatric hospice and supportive care service lines in recent years to address a range of unmet needs among seriously ill children and their families. HopeHealth provides home care, hospice, palliative and dementia care, as well as caregiver and grief support services.

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Hospices Face ‘Astronomical’ Costs to Attract and Keep Staff

Hospice News

More than 67% of the 203 hospice care professionals surveyed indicated that staffing would be their greatest non-COVID related challenge this year, according to the 2022 Hospice News Outlook Survey and Report. We also not extend our virtual reality therapy program beyond our patients to staff and caregivers feeling burnout.

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How Psychedelics Could Change Palliative Care

Hospice News

The focus to date has been concentrated on three areas: mental health, palliative and end-of-life care. recently introduced a federal bill that would revise current rules to permit some end-of-life patients to use psilocybin and other investigational treatments. Clinical psychedelics may become a $6.85

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2023 NHPCO Facts and Figures Report Now Available

NHPCO

Trends in quality of care: CY 2021 saw an increase in visits in the last days of life by both nurses and social workers after a decline in 2020. Although COVID-19 accounts for only 2% of primary diagnoses, it may still have been a secondary or contributory diagnosis.

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