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PC Trials at State of Science: Tom LeBlanc, Kate Courtright, & Corita Grudzen

GeriPal

There is a lot of literature suggesting that standard transplant care doesn’t really meet the needs of these patients and their caregivers. Then we looked also a little bit long-term at three and six months, and we also looked at caregiver outcomes. Eric: Well, let’s talk about caregivers. Eric: Okay.

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Inside agilon health’s Palliative Care Game Plan

Hospice News

Like many great innovations in health care, it really bubbled up from our community. They already had a small palliative care resource. Some of our partners did have palliative care partnerships working in their community, but those were very, very individualized. Our first partner started in 2018.