Facing mortality is never easy, but patients and families may see fewer hardships in some geographies. Some signs point to Vermont and Utah as states in which people were more likely to have a better end-of-life experience, whereas families in New Jersey or New York may encounter more difficulties. A recent analysis by the insurance […]
VITAS Healthcare, a subsidiary of Chemed (NYSE: CHEM), is launching a new certificate program to educate health care professionals on how to conduct advance care planning conversations. The company announced the initiative in conjunction with the upcoming National Healthcare Decisions Day on April 16. Participants in the certificate program will learn skills such as prognostication, […]
The hospice industry is likely to boom in coming years, but in order to thrive providers need to make serious investments to grow their workforce, expand referral partnerships and prepare for a value-based payment environment. Favorable demographics point towards accelerated growth for hospice providers, according to the 2021 Post-Acute Care Industry Trend Report by Trella […]
More hospice providers are seeking to diversify their services with palliative care to reach patients further upstream. Recent research has found a gap when it comes to improving access for patients hospitalized with severe ischemic stroke. Expanding education and awareness of these services could be key to building up utilization. A study published this year […]
Home-based primary care combined with hospice has led to greater family satisfaction among dying veterans covered by the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) in recent years. These results signal potential opportunities for hospice providers looking to engage patients further upstream as they increasingly diversify services in a value-based world. The VA’s home-based primary care […]
While racial and socioeconomic disparities persist throughout the health care system, things are changing in the realm of advance care planning. A new study in the Journal of the American Medical Association Open has found that African American and Hispanic patients outpaced Caucasians in advance care planning utilization between the Fall 2019 and Summer 2021, […]
Skyrocketing demand for post-acute care services has put providers in a pickle, often forcing them to turn away new hospital referrals due to limited labor capability. This problem has been particularly pervasive for home health agencies, but it’s increasingly an issue in the hospice setting as well, according to the latest data from CarePort, a […]
Access to community-based palliative care increases the likelihood that seriously ill patients will die at home in accordance with their wishes, a new study has found. These services also generate health care cost savings through reductions in high-acuity care. Researchers from Northern Illinois University (NIU) and Seattle University performed the first systematic literature review to […]
The United States ranks 43rd in end-of-life care quality among 81 countries according to a recent study in the Journal of Pain and Symptom Management. Worldwide, much improvement is needed in the realm of caring for terminally ill patients, researchers found. For the purposes of this study, researchers defined “end-of-life care” as any health care […]
Many specialists do not refer cancer patients to palliative care or mental health care during their course of treatment, a survey of more than 240 oncologists found. The physicians cited a lack of understanding of palliative care as a leading barrier. The data appeared in an Oncology Insights report from Cardinal Health. Among the respondents, […]
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