Improving Hospice Chaplains’ Goals-of-Care Communication

Expanded hospice spiritual care training could lead to improved goal-concordant care delivery. Gaps in communication training exist for hospice chaplains, according to Edward Peñate, palliative care chaplain-educator at Northwestern Medicine. Though spiritual care professionals are well-poised to understand patients’ beliefs and values, their training and career pathways can be limited when it comes to enhancing […]

Providers Seek Palliative Care Quality Measures to Demonstrate Value

The lack of standardized quality measures for palliative care complicates efforts to expand access to those services. This means community-based palliative care providers have limited ways to benchmark their performance and further demonstrate their value. The growing need for this type of care has led providers and industry groups to pump up the volume of […]