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The Intersections Between Hospice and Palliative Care

Hospice News

Hospice care and palliative care services have similar, but diverging, threads across the care continuum. An area of increasing overlap centers around patient consultations discussing symptom management and goals of care. Palliative care and hospice share some common goals with hospice.

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How to ‘Sell’ Palliative Care to Health System Partners

Hospice News

“I think the industry as a whole, just health care in general, is recognizing palliative care and it is built into a lot of the metrics — cost-saving metrics. Enhanced care coordination … supports improved patient outcomes, fewer duplicated services and reduced health care costs,” Davis said in an email.