As health care providers face staffing shortages in nearly all disciplines, home-based care providers are leveraging their mission of service to help employees remain engaged and fulfilled in their work. In addition to the dearth of clinicians who have hospice or palliative care training, those providers find themselves in tight competition with other care settings […]
Globally, about 1 in 10 of individuals in need of palliative care actually receive it even as demand rises, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). The organization expects the need for palliative care to double by 2060. WHO released the data in advance of World Hospice and Palliative Care Day, observed on Oct. 9. WHO […]
Technology is becoming a critical point of access and growth when it comes to fueling palliative care referrals. Electronic health record (EHR) interoperability will be key to building a sustainable palliative care patient census, as more providers re-examine the ways they collaborate with other health care organizations throughout the continuum. The complexity of referral management […]
SCAN Health Plan, subsidiary of SCAN Group, recently launched a new integrated care delivery model focused on seniors who are home-bound or reside in assisted living and skilled nursing facilities. Members of the company’s Embrace Medicare Advantage plan are eligible to participate in the model, which integrates primary care, geriatric and palliative care medicine. Through […]
Maryland-based Gilchrist Hospice Care will soon open doors to a new $15.3 million residential inpatient hospice facility in Baltimore. The William L. and Victorine Q. Adams Gilchrist Center Baltimore will provide inpatient and respite care to the area’s most underprivileged and underserved patients approaching the end of life. The center’s construction was supported by philanthropic […]
Efforts have been growing to push forward education and awareness about the importance of advance care planning. In addition to expanding public knowledge, more training and education is needed among health care professionals of all walks to facilitate and encourage conversations involving goals of care at the end of life. Advance care planning is an […]
Contessa has launched a joint venture in Michigan with Henry Ford Health System to provide high-acuity home care services as well as palliative care. Contessa is a subsidiary of Amedisys (NASDAQ: AMED), which acquired the company in June in a $250 million deal. Contessa has seen substantial growth during the COVID-19 pandemic as more health […]
Heart to Heart Hospice has expanded to Temple, Texas, in the central region of that state. The de novo location will serve eight counties in the Lone Star State. Dallas-Fort Worth-based Heart to Heart Hospice provides care through 52 locations in Texas, Indiana and Michigan. “This is a fast-growing area that has been directly underserved […]
Florida-based Tidewell Hospice recently opened doors to a new bereavement center in its home state. Though plans to renovate the former Ellenton Hospice House were long in the works, a growing need for community bereavement support during the pandemic helped to push forward construction on the revamped space, now the Tidewell Family Grief Center. Through […]
Help at Home has launched a new care model branded as HealthyMATCH, an acronym for More Access to Care at Home to Improve Your Health. The program is beginning in the Indiana and Pennsylvania markets. In addition to infusing new elements into the company’s approach to home health care, Help at Home clinicians will be […]
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