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U.S. Senators Call on CMS to Boost Palliative Care Resources

Hospice News

“Americans enrolled in Medicare should have the option to access integrated, interdisciplinary, patient-centered, goal-oriented care for serious illness …” Edo Banach, president & CEO of the National Hospice & Palliative Care Organization. The post U.S.

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New Palliative Care Resources for the New Year!

Life & Death Matters

We are very excited to announce new Life and Death Matters resources for students! The post New Palliative Care Resources for the New Year! Let’s get started because there is so much to report. appeared first on Life and Death Matters.

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Researchers Uncover Widespread Disparities Affecting Rural Hospice Caregivers

Hospice News

Lagging supportive services around social determinants of health and limited access to hospice and palliative care are driving disparities among rural family caregivers. Having hospice and palliative care resources available alongside community-based social supports helped improve caregiver outcomes, according to Patano.

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New York State Passes Law to Raise Hospice, Palliative Care Awareness

Hospice News

Kathy Hochul has signed a bill designed to expand awareness of advance care planning, hospice, and palliative care. The new law requires the New York State Department of Health to develop a public awareness campaign to promote advance care planning. That must change.”.

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ACO Partnerships Could Open Doors for Palliative Care Providers

Hospice News

To take advantage of those opportunities, more attention might be focused on [the provider’s] own capacity and making sure they can take the volume of patients that might be sent their way,” Allison Silvers, chief of health care transformation at the Center to Advance Palliative Care, told Hospice News. “I

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In the Nick of Time: Advance Care Planning in the ICU

AJN Off the Charts

In all my years of nursing, this was about as optimal an advance care planning encounter as possible. There was a palliative care resource in the cancer center to help with both symptom management and introducing the idea of advance care planning. A best-case scenario.

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Hospice Palliative Care: Palliative Care in CMMI Programs

Hospice News

This article is based on a discussion with Fred Bentley, Managing Director for Medicare Innovation and ATI Advisory, Allison Silvers, Chief of Healthcare Transformation at the Center to Advance Palliative Care and Ryan Klaustermeier, Vice President of Professional Services at Axxess. Hospice News: Excellent. Klaustermeier: Sure.