Hospice News

JULY 25, 2023

Data are reshaping the health care space, and hospice is no exception. Data has played a large role in the ability to gauge the impact of end-of life care. Hospice providers have needed a window into access and utilization, as well as how lawmakers are shaping policies around health care.

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Hospice Promise

MARCH 31, 2022

Ana has been a Social Worker for three years now. She fell in love with hospice social work during an internship at a local non-profit hospice while completing her undergraduate studies at Northern Arizona University. The post Employee Spotlight: Ana appeared first on Hospice Promise.

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GeriPal

MARCH 7, 2024

We’ve invited two death doulas, Jane Euler and John Loughnane (who is also a family doc and palliative care physician), to talk about the role of a doula at the end of life. We also invited Beth Klint to speak about the doula’s role within a traditional hospice organization. Hospice volunteers do lots of things.

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GeriPal

MAY 25, 2023

We have Sarah Nouri, who is a palliative care doc and researcher at UCSF. Alex: And we have Hillary Lum, who is a geriatrics and palliative care researcher at the University of Colorado. Van Scoy who is a pulmonary critical care advance care planning researcher at Penn State Hershey Medical Center in Pennsylvania.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

The experts settled on a range of key services, from more palliative care focused (e.g. end of life care and advance care planning) to more geriatrics focused (e.g. staff training in person centered care). It’s what happens in lots of different fields, including geriatrics. Welcome back.

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GeriPal

JUNE 9, 2022

In the US, geriatrics “grew up” as an academic profession with a heavy research base. Clinical growth of geriatrics programs has lagged academic research, despite the rapid aging of the population. . Palliative care, in contrast, saw explosive growth in US hospitals. Summary Transcript Summary.

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GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

Asking clinicians whether they had offered the option of withdrawal of life support and comfort-focused care also did not change length of stay, but did increase the discharges to hospice, odds greater than two-fold, whether it was done alone or in combination with the prognostication nudge. It wasn’t just any nurse.

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