On April 16 the United States observes National Health Care Decisions Day to foster awareness that patients and families have the right to discuss and document their wishes for the care they will receive at the end of life. True to form, hospices are at the forefront, encouraging patients, families and their clinicians to choose […]
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, […]
As more of the U.S. health care system migrates towards value-based care, efforts on the part of payers and other stakeholders to promote advance care planning could lead to increased hospice utilization as well as earlier admission of prospective patients. Advance care planning is designed to identify patients’ wishes, goals, and desires for their care […]
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