Hospice News

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, for instance, has a team of palliative care providers “embedded” into its oncology clinic and ALS Center, according to David Wu, the program’s director.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 5, 2022

That setting has had the greatest impact on my mind and heart, but my experiences in home-based primary care, hospice in the home, skilled care and long-term custodial care have enabled me to further develop my professional skillset. The question for me is why wouldn’t it? How can we promote this?”

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

That’s why we do this podcast- to address real world issues in palliative care, geriatrics, and bioethics. Within hours of recording this podcast, I joined a family meeting of an older patient who had multiple medical problems including cancer, and a slow but inexorable decline in function, weight, and cognition.

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2023

Lauren: And looking in the Medicare data, you cannot figure out when a hospice changed ownership. I think that there are for-profit hospices like VITAS that have been around for a long time that really have the resources to support people whose goals of care are less aligned with the traditional hospice philosophy.

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Home Care Pulse

JULY 25, 2023

Hospice takes care of people with life-threatening illnesses that are no longer wanting treatment. Medicare doesn’t hurt palliative care services. We look for creative ways, but hospice has its own reimbursement source through Medicare. Those five years, those patients taught me what dying was like.

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