Cancer Clinic Offers ‘Ideal Situation’ for Training Palliative Nurses

A Tuscaloosa, Alabama, community hospital has begun a novel partnership offering interdisciplinary palliative care training to hundreds of nurses, clinicians and caregivers. The supportive care clinic provides interdisciplinary palliative assessment and care to patients with advanced disease and high symptom burden, such as those with stage three and four lung cancers, advanced breast cancer and […]

Sustaining Standalone Palliative Care Companies

Health care’s hunt for treatment and cure can leave comfort overlooked. But if it is to meet growing demand for high quality palliative care, the United States needs interdisciplinary teams that can attend to patients’ complex clinical, social and emotional needs. Challenge enough, but these teams must also choreograph their work within Medicare’s fee-for-service coding […]