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LeadingAge to Congress: Reform Hospice Benefit, Fund Palliative Care

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The Medicare Hospice Benefit should allow some concurrent care, and Congress should support greater access to palliative care, among other reforms, according to LeadingAge. The most common comment our hospice members hear from patients and families is “why didn’t I get your services sooner?”

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VA Study Finds 95% Increase in Palliative Care Utilization When Patients Have Access to Social Workers

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Patients are more likely to receive palliative care if they can access social workers through their primary care providers, Veterans Health Administration (VA) research has found. These findings suggest that social workers may increase access to and/or use of palliative care.”. The average age among the veterans was about 65.

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Palliative Researcher Oliver: Family Caregivers Are Also Patients

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In many instances, hospices will not be able to provide care if patients lack the support of a family caregiver. Her work is informed not only by her career of more than 20 years as a hospice professional but also by her experience as a caregiver for her husband. You’ve personally been a caregiver yourself.

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How Hospice, Behavioral Health May Cross Paths

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Hospice and behavioral health care could increasingly intersect in coming years as demand for specialized care grows. In some respects, the two sectors are already inextricably linked, given the holistic nature of hospice care, including attention to patients’ psychosocial and spiritual needs as well as bereavement support for families.

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Calvary Hospital COO: Hospice Nurse Residency Programs Reproducible at National Scale

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He is also an ambassador for the hospital’s CalvaryCare program, designed to educate the health care community and the public about palliative care and hospice. Calvay is the only acute care hospital in the United States that is focused almost exclusively on hospice and palliative care. Hospice has grown steadily.

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High Peaks Hospice celebrates 35 years by looking back at their beginning

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Ann Merkel and some of the group of original High Peaks Hospice founders gathered to create a video to document the story of High Peaks Hospice’s beginnings. Ann Merkel grew up in New Haven, Connecticut where the first hospice in the United States started in 1974. In 1982 Medicare authorized reimbursement for hospice care.

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End-of-Life Doulas: A Podcast with Jane Euler, Beth Klint, and John Loughnane

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I’m unsure what they do, how often they’re used, and who pays for their work. We also invited Beth Klint to speak about the doula’s role within a traditional hospice organization. I have a lot of questions, because I have never worked within end-of-life doula in my 20 years of doing palliative care. Why Beth? John: I do.