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

Hospice News

Senators Call on CMS to Boost Palliative Care Resources appeared first on Hospice News. Senators Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.), John Barrasso (R-Wy.), and Deb Fischer (R-Neb.), as well as Roger Marshall (R-Kan.), Catherine Cortez-Mastro (D-Nev.), and Krysten Sinema (D-Ariz.). The post U.S.

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Researchers Uncover Widespread Disparities Affecting Rural Hospice Caregivers

Hospice News

Rural caregivers are more vulnerable to adverse emotional health impacts than others due to their remote locations, researcher Arienne Patano, PhD student at Michigan State University, said at the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (AAHPM) and the Hospice & Palliative Nurses Association (HPNA) Annual Assembly.

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Inside agilon health’s Palliative Care Game Plan

Hospice News

We can bring powerful data and care pathways. We can co-invest in resources, whether they’re nurses, care managers, social workers. We also can help them create risk sharing contracts with palliative care organizations. But as agilon, we don’t provide the care ourselves. We bring insights.

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

AJN Off the Charts

I’m a health policy consultant for national palliative care organizations and often advocate for advance care planning, a process that helps people with serious illness prepare for future decision-making. I recently saw a patient whose case typifies how advance care planning and policies to support it can work.

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PC Trials at State of Science: Tom LeBlanc, Kate Courtright, & Corita Grudzen

GeriPal

A colleague of mine up in Toronto did an ICU study actually asking clinicians, nurses, docs, six-month prognosis, both functional and vital status and compared it with actual observed status. Eric: We just did a podcast on creating palliative care consults. Were these two resources already there? Was this the same?

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Hospice Palliative Care: Palliative Care in CMMI Programs

Hospice News

The slide that the previous panelists put up about the supplemental benefit, that’s only nursing and social work because a prescribing clinician is covered under part B, so you can’t make it supplemental. We don’t really have a palliative care resource.” What’s the point?

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Influence of Hospital Culture on Intensity of Care: Liz Dzeng

GeriPal

More recently Sharon Kaufman ‘s book And a Time to Die described the ways in which physicians, nurses, hospital systems, and payment mechanisms influenced the hour and manner of patient’s deaths. Liz: Yeah, palliative care teams is exactly one of those institutional factors. Eric: Well, let’s dive into that.