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Palliative Care Startups Require Creativity, Flexibility

Hospice News

On the flip side, factors challenging this market are high costs of treatment and fragmented delivery models which can result in subpar care coordination providing patients with less-than-ideal outcomes. Our program is staffed by nurse practitioners and social workers, under the oversight of our medical director.

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Valley Health System, Family of Caring Launch Palliative Care Partnership

Hospice News

Valley Health’s palliative care model includes a full interdisciplinary team, including physicians, advanced practice nurses, social workers, chaplains and volunteers. Valley Health currently offers palliative care in a number of settings, including inpatient, outpatient, subacute medical facilities and the home.

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Transparency Essential to Hospice Compliance in 2024

Hospice News

Caris Healthcare provides adult and pediatric hospice care to more than 40,000 patients and families across 28 locations in Georgia, Missouri, South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia. Additional services include palliative care, a veterans program and care coordination.

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Provider Partnerships Driving Palliative Care Growth

Hospice News

The fact that we are seeing traditional palliative care providers being joined by hospice organizations, primary care groups and hospital systems all starting palliative programs underscores that palliative principles permeate all aspects of health care and medicine,” Baumgardner told Palliative Care News.

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Palliative Care an ‘Important Piece’ of Quality in Oncology Programs

Hospice News

The Nashville-headquartered organization recently secured a $60 million funding round to expand its health services for cancer patients, including palliative care and programs to address social determinants. Minneapolis-based Livio Health was later acquired in 2022 by Lifespark, a senior health care company in the state.

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Hospice Nurse Practitioner Position

High Peaks Hospice

Responsibilities: Collaborates with the Medical Director, Hospice Physicians, Executive Director, Hospice Care Coordinators (HCCs), and RN Case Managers to ensure quality and continuity of care across the continuum of services and locations of care.

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10 Hospice News ‘Hidden Gem’ Stories from 2022

Hospice News

“PCHETA really focuses us on the fact that in order to have really high-quality palliative care, we need a huge catapult to our skilled interprofessional workforce,” Dr. Tara Friedman, vice president and national medical director of the Anthem (NYSE: ANTM) subsidiary Aspire Health, told Hospice News. “We

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