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Lawmakers Introduce Bill to Break Down Advance Care Planning Barriers

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Other supporters include organizations such as the Center for Medicare Advocacy, LeadingAge, the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC), the National Partnership for Healthcare and Hospice Innovation (NPHI), Respecting Choices, and the Social Work Hospice & Palliative Care Network (SWHPN).

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HopeHealth’s Expanding Scope of Pediatric Hospice, Palliative Services

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HopeHealth has been growing its pediatric hospice and supportive care service lines in recent years to address a range of unmet needs among seriously ill children and their families. HopeHealth provides home care, hospice, palliative and dementia care, as well as caregiver and grief support services.

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How Hospice, Behavioral Health May Cross Paths

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Last year VNA Health Group enhanced its dementia care training programs for social work and nursing staff, with an emphasis on its home health patients. Awareness of even the basic tools to address some of this will greatly empower our medical community.”

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Hospices Need a ’Huge Catapult’ to Replenish Workforce

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Hospice and palliative care need greater recognition among disciplines across the board, beyond medicine and nursing, according to Eunju Lee, palliative care social worker at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. A late referral often means that the patient will not receive the full benefits of hospice care.

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