Hospice News

JUNE 16, 2023

Issues in complex end-of-life care treatments The limited use of these treatments for end-of-life hospice care is also tied to length of stay issues, the NHPCO indicated in its letter to CMS. We believe that there needs to be a consistent definition of what concurrent care is.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

In the last few years since I’ve graduated we’ve definitely seen more new programs popping up across the Northeast and in Massachusetts. Providers across all specialties are realizing the importance of learning how to appropriately discuss goals of care. Resources are limited among an aging population with high care needs.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 17, 2023

The National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) convened a group of hospice leaders at Times Square in New York City to commemorate Carter’s hospice experience. Some hospice executives have said they believe that his example will prompt more Americans to learn more about this form of end-of-life care.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 9, 2022

Cultivating understanding of patients’ life experiences and developing effective communication skills can be a life-long learning process, rather than a status one achieves by taking a class or seminar. It’s definitely not defined as ‘cultural competence,’ because as soon as we think we know everything, then we’re toast.

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Hospice News

MARCH 20, 2024

“In addition, it would help educate Wisconsinites about what palliative care does. Palliative care is often misunderstood and confused with hospice care. Palliative care is not end-of-life care.” Sexten also serves as board chair of the Wisconsin Hospice & Palliative Care Association (WiHPCA).

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

We know that local, hospice-dedicated pharmacy is and will always be critical to delivering consistent, quality end-of-life care. Technology definitely plays a crucial role in helping hospice clinicians and their patients, with EMR integrations being a key focus. These are the two main issues that we’re observing.

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Hospice News

MARCH 5, 2024

Some participating plans had certain levels of success – and we have been proud to partner with a number of organizations that used the VBID demonstration effort to find innovative ways to support end-of-life care.

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Hospice News

MAY 15, 2023

Generally, these buyers see a promising return on investment and sustainable business growth because of rising demand for end-of-life care in the United States. You’ve got to pay your bills, and we’re definitely getting to a sore spot [there], It doesn’t even matter if it’s home health or hospice.

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Hospice News

MARCH 1, 2024

Kei Ouchi, associate professor of emergency medicine at Harvard Medical School/Brigham and Women’s Hospital, told Palliative Care News. “So, So, I think they have a harder time involving palliative care initially because they equate palliative care to end of life care.

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Hospice News

JULY 19, 2022

The company has signed a definitive agreement to sell a 60% stake in Kindred at Home’s (KAH) hospice and personal care business to the private equity firm Clayton, Dubilier & Rice (CDR) for $2.8 We are here for patient care. End-of-life care grew out of a great American crusade for social change.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Some of these barriers include cost, a lack of training for providers on how to conduct these conversations, and poor awareness or understanding of ACP or end-of-life care options such as hospice. The goal of the bill is to think about barriers to advance care planning utilization.

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NHPCO

JUNE 21, 2023

The choice for end-of-life care is deeply personal and should be made by patients, in consultation with loved ones and medical personnel, with a thorough understanding of the prognosis, the various care options available, and the implications of each of those options.

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Hospice News

APRIL 8, 2024

Some of our newer services include child life specialists who help with developmentally appropriate processing and legacy and memorabilia for the family. We are in the process of adding a massage therapist who specializes in pediatric end-of-life care. The numbers were pretty striking.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Calls have grown louder among hospice providers and stakeholders for payers to solidify a dedicated community-based palliative care benefit that would standardize the definition and delivery of these services. “We The bill still has not passed, but even if it were, it would not represent a definitive solution to the shortage.

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Hospice News

APRIL 21, 2022

Witnessing the success of that oncology collaboration led physicians in other Summit departments to recognize the benefits of offering palliative care, according to Partners In Care CEO Greg Hagfors. ” Partners In Care offers palliative, home health and community- and facility-based hospice care, among other services.

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Hospice News

MARCH 22, 2024

As a result of Mr. McMahon’s successful tenure with the company, he has met the definition of retirement set forth in his previously granted equity awards, which will continue to vest in accordance with their terms, similar to equity awards granted to other employees,” Leong said. “His

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Hospice News

MAY 5, 2023

If regulators were to extend the timeframe for eligibility, patients could reap the full benefits of end-of-life care, the two executives said. Some of it was definitely just trying to find new ideas in a way to be able to get into facilities and doctors’ offices. It was still a very virtual world.

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Palliverse

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

In New Zealand, the definition of adults is those 16 years old and over. We had admitted her for end-of-life care and it looked like she had limited time left. I decided to become an adults-only doctor and didn’t look after children anymore. It is highly unusual to have bowel cancer at such a young age.

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Hospice News

MAY 17, 2022

Widespread workforce shortages of hospice and palliative care providers are expected to worsen during the next 25 years. Recent research has indicated that supply of trained clinicians will be outpaced by demand for serious illness and end-of-life care as the country’s aging population swells.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 14, 2023

So we’re going to have a link to the article that you published in JAMA IM titled The Hospital Culture and Intensity of End-of-Life Care at Three Academic Hospitals. And I was interested in intensity of end-of-life care and differences in intensity of end-of-life care. Liz: Right.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Trogdon recently shared her thoughts with Hospice News about her career in hospice and palliative care, and the biggest forces of change at play in serious illness and end-of-life care. Early on I knew I wanted to work in health care and needed a career in which I could find meaning and purpose.

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Hospice News

APRIL 26, 2022

What is the demand for end-of-life care in your service area, and how do you anticipate this evolving in coming years? The biggest thing will be making sure we have enough leverage where we can manage patient care efficiently without having to burn people out. That’s definitely not ideal for anyone.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Earlier this year, it was awarded the prestigious 2023 Circle of Life Award from the American Hospital Association, which recognizes programs for their efforts in palliative and end-of-life care. Historic run Getting the Global Partners in Care program to this level has been quite the journey for CHC.

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Hospice News

JULY 1, 2022

In my opinion, it is definitely not the time to consider constructing a hospice building in Denton at this point in time when we are facing the highest inflation rate in 40 years, the highest gas prices in history, supply chain issues, continued staffing shortages,” Terry Mead, Compass board treasurer told a local newspaper. Census Bureau.

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NHPCO

JULY 25, 2023

Together with our advocacy partner, the Hospice Action Network (HAN), we serve as the leading voice advancing public policy to improve serious-illness and end-of-life care, while our CaringInfo program provides free resources to educate and empower patients and caregivers.

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1-800-HOSPICE

APRIL 11, 2023

This fact leads many to conflate palliative care, hospice, and end-of-life care. Palliative medicine grew out of the hospice movement and was recognized as its own medical subspecialty along with hospice in 2006. All hospice is palliative, but not all palliative medicine is hospice.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 6, 2023

The JAMA Network Open study found that more than half of cancer decedents in states that require health care providers to offer palliative consultations died at home or at inpatient hospices versus a hospital setting. 2 ‘It’s Where We’re at Right Now’: US Prison System Struggling to Keep Up with Growing Need for Palliative Care (Aug.

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Hospice News

JUNE 22, 2023

All said their HCA hospitals pushed palliative and end-of-life care in pursuit of better performance metrics,” NBC News reported. Internal HCA hospital documents and texts between hospital staffers provided to NBC News support these health care professionals’ views.”

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GeriPal

JUNE 8, 2023

-@AlexSmithMD Additional Links: – Fingerstick monitoring in VA nursing homes (too common!) – Improving diabetes management in hospice – Continuous Glucose Monitoring complicating end of life care Transcript Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal podcast. Tamryn: I definitely agree. This is Eric Widera.

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Journey With Deanna

OCTOBER 12, 2015

There is still so much misunderstanding about Palliative Care in and outside of Healthcare. There are educational videos I have found on the internet and definitions about Palliative Care that are flat out wrong. What is wrong: they are saying that palliative care is what you use at the end of life.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Eric: Definitely MAID- Alex: Eric knows, MAID in Canada Eric: Medical Aid In Dying in Canada. So, we asked my older son, Kai, who’s 18 years old, he’s an adult, “What is Palliative care?” ” And, he said, “End of life care.” Alex: Definitely not on amyloid drugs.

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Pallimed

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

It contains no hard dosing thresholds for prescribing opioids and instead “aims promote equitable access to effective, informed, individualized, and safe pain management that improves patients’ function and quality of life, while clarifying and reducing the risks associated with opioid use (19).” 2019 Dec;160(12):2655-2660. 0000000000001680.

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GeriPal

JULY 28, 2022

So I think there’s definitely overlap with that, but I think helping patients cope, make priorities, think through their goals and values early and along the illness course does facilitate and enable better end of life decision making, including advanced care planning.

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GeriPal

MAY 25, 2023

I’m not sure if you read that article and whether or not it’s changed your mind or whether or not you want to do any more research in advance care planning. LJ: Definitely read it. And then it went about, you know, push back on advance care planning overall, which is a separate topic. Your thoughts?

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GeriPal

AUGUST 11, 2022

There was a little bit of teaching about end of life care. And for example, there’s still in most medical schools no required rotation in palliative care. I think there’s data that shows that there have been improvements in end of life care. And there was some teaching about pain.

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GeriPal

JUNE 22, 2023

And people are getting life sentences. They’re going to get older, they’re going to struggle with geriatric conditions, and they’re going to need palliative services and eventually end-of-life care. And so the definition of family was broad. The person didn’t believe in the medications.

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GeriPal

MARCH 10, 2022

Ruth: Then in their values … interesting thing was that we found that all nursing homes, regardless of intensity, wanted to keep people with advanced dementia in the facility, and provide end of life care in the facility. It’s Forced to Choose: When Medicare Policy Disrupts End of Life Care.

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