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How Palliative Care Can Benefit Heart Failure Patients

Hospice News

Given these factors, many of these patients should be receiving some form of palliative care, Dr. Larry Allen, chief of cardiology at the University of Colorado, said in a recent AHA webinar. Heart failure is an increasingly common condition among the aging U.S. population. This population also tends to see high rates of hospitalizations.

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EAPC Webinar: Defining Primary Palliative Care

EAPC (European Association of Palliative Care)

After this webinar, we plan to conduct a Delphi study to gain an international consensus about how primary care services might best integrate palliative care and update the meaning of the phrase “primary palliative care”. Thus, please do register for the webinar.

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Integrating an Interdisciplinary Palliative Approach to Care

Life & Death Matters

Compiled by Misha Butot MSW, RCSW for Life and Death Matters webinar April 23, 2024 Reflections from Misha Butot, in preparation for Webinar April 23 2024 Please download the PDF or enjoy in this format. Palliative care specialists improve quality of life for the patients whose needs are most complex.

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Hospices Leverage Partnerships to Scale Palliative Care Programs

Hospice News

At Mount Sinai we’re really good at creating new models and proving they work to improve care for the sickest patients with serious illness,” Goldstein told Hospice News during the Palliative Care Executive Webinar Series. NASDAQ: AMED) subsidiary Contessa.

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Lack of Awareness Challenging Palliative Care’s Plight in the Hospice VBID Landscape

Hospice News

A main barrier to palliative care growth in the Medicare Advantage hospice carve-in is a lack of understanding of these services among beneficiaries, as well as inconsistent service delivery. There’s substantial variation when you look under the hood.” can define it, according to a 2020 study from the Journal of General Internal Medicine.

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Care Coordination, Quality Data Crucial to Hospice Referral Growth

Hospice News

Care coordination and quality data will be engines for hospice referral growth. Hospices saw census volumes drop during the COVID-19 public health emergency as facilities nationwide restricted access to patients amid mandated state closures.

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Hospice, Palliative Care Providers Leverage Education Programs to Attract and Keep Staff

Hospice News

Palliative care and hospice providers are enhancing their staff education programs in an effort to better ensure they have a sustainable workforce. That mentality is playing out in relation to nurse residency programs and the clinicians that we’re hiring,” Brennan told Hospice News during the Palliative Care Executive Webinar Series.