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Key Research Trends: Telehealth Impacts, Global Gaps in Hospice, Goal-Concordant Care

Hospice News

Patients, caregivers and family members surveyed rated the telehealth hospice services as “highly satisfactory,” including those from bereavement staff members along with clinicians. A bill recently introduced to Congress proposed to extend these telehealth flexibilities until 2026. Congress extended the flexibility through Dec.

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Voices: Melissa Kozak, Founder and Head of CitusHealth

Hospice News

Care coordination is essential to hospice care plans, as they require the interdisciplinary team (IDT) to collaborate on creating, regularly updating, and maintaining a plan of care (POC) that addresses the patient and family’s needs and goals, including bereavement support after the patient’s passing.

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Ep.8: What Providers Need to Know About the Hospice Quality Reporting Program

Home Care Pulse

You know, either they’ve come to the end of a disease trajectory or, you know, it may be something acute that hospice can step in, help the family with sort of making closure or getting as comfortable as they can with death and bereavement. Linda Leekley ( 04:01 ): Okay. Jennifer Kennedy ( 10:42 ): I think it has room for improvement.

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