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Center for Hospice Care Launches ‘Kaleidoscope’ Palliative Care Program

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The Indiana-based Center for Hospice Care (CHC) has unveiled a new palliative care program, branded as Kaleidoscope. Kaleidoscope is designed to provide patients with interdisciplinary palliative care in the home setting. We also still have palliative care in a clinic setting. Census Bureau.

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SSM Health at Home Joins Wisconsin Hospice & Palliative Care Collaborative

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The home health and hospice provider SSM Health at Home has joined the Wisconsin Hospice & Palliative Care Collaborative (WHPCC). The collaborative includes members Agrace, Rainbow Hospice Care, Unity Hospice, Adoray Home Health & Hospice, Hospice Alliance and Sharon S.

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Unique Aspects of Palliative Care Recruitment

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Palliative care clinical recruitment involves some unique elements compared to other health care settings. Among the challenges is a general lack of awareness of palliative care and its distinctions from hospice among the public, clinicians in other settings and payers.

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Hospice Carve-In’s Sunset Could Affect Palliative Care

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Hospice reimbursement trends influence palliative care payment and delivery. Among the significant changes coming this year is the end of the hospice component of the value-based insurance design (VBID) model, as of Dec. Value-based payment models such as VBID incentivize quality measurement and reporting among providers.

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Capitalizing Palliative Care Startups

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As a sector, most standalone palliative care providers are still maturing from startups into long-term, sustainable businesses. million people need palliative care annually, worldwide. However, only about 14% of people who need this care receive it. The World Health Organization estimates 56.8

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What Palliative Care Providers Need to Know About Palliative Psychedelics, Cannabis

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Palliative care providers face a host of legal and regulatory challenges when seeking to expand patients’ access to certain controlled substances. It’s making sure that your product is safe and that regulations are created for licensing, traceability and dosing,” Hanley-Kollar told Palliative Care News.

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Palliative Care as ‘Personalized Medicine’

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However, more stakeholders are applying the term to palliative care. Personalized medicine is a step away from a “one-size-fits-all” approach to health care. Unfortunately, that gives you a genotype of that individual, but it doesn’t give you their phenotype,” Logan told Palliative Care News.