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Home-based palliative care helps patients with advanced illness

HopeHealth

HopeHealth’s Advanced Illness program provides palliative care to patients in the later stages of serious illness — right in the comfort of home. The post Home-based palliative care helps patients with advanced illness appeared first on HopeHealth.

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The Case for Palliative Care in the ICU

Hospice News

An intensive care unit (ICU) stay often challenges everyone involved. Integrating palliative care could alleviate some of the suffering through symptom management, improved communication about goals and treatment, and better training and resources for staff. More than 57% of their relatives suffer high symptom distress as well.

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How to ‘Sell’ Palliative Care to Health System Partners

Hospice News

Establishing consistent relationships with referral sources will not only fill palliative care’s business pipeline, but they also allow providers to develop better delivery models to meet the needs of their partners and patients. It’s almost a requirement for these large health systems.

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ICU Patients Benefit from Clinicians with Palliative Care Training

Hospice News

A recent study of nursing students providing palliative care in a Thailand-based intensive care unit (ICU) indicates a need to include exposure to these services in medical education and training. Researchers also asked students to observe family experiences and outcomes of palliative care.

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The Intersections Between Hospice and Palliative Care

Hospice News

Hospice care and palliative care services have similar, but diverging, threads across the care continuum. An area of increasing overlap centers around patient consultations discussing symptom management and goals of care. Palliative care and hospice share some common goals with hospice.

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What palliative care means for people living with heart failure

HopeHealth

Palliative care helps with everything from everyday questions to long-term plans. The post What palliative care means for people living with heart failure appeared first on HopeHealth. If you or a loved one is living with heart failure, you don’t have to go it alone.

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Through Education and Collaboration Hospices Can Help Shape Value-Based Palliative Care

Hospice News

Palliative care packs a small but meaningful punch in the value-based payment arena. . To successfully negotiate value-based contracts, hospices will need to educate payers about the value of palliative care, according to J. Palliative care made its first strides into the value-based care arena in 2020 when the U.S.