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Lack of Payment, Training Curtail Pediatric Palliative Care

Hospice News

The needs and conditions of pediatric patients differ from adults in terms of diagnoses, illness trajectories, medication dosing and equipment, as well as family dynamics and support. Palliative care was a foreign term in the the health care industry 15 years ago, and now it’s much more recognized.”.

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Wage Hikes, Labor Shortages Put Hospices Between a Rock and a Hard Place

Hospice News

The lag time for the wage index likely means most providers would not recoup the increased labor expenses in the near term, which would be unsustainable for some organizations, according to Chirico. While this increase is specific to New York state, the issue of wages has national implications.

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Palace of Care – A typical day at the office

Palliverse

COVID hit us hard in terms of being unable to host fundraising events. Photo by Lukas Tennie on Unsplash. From 11am in the morning it would become noisy, something that our hospice had been missing over the past two years. These usually involve lots of people gathering together, something that we are all learning to do again.

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