Potential is mounting for deeper integration of palliative care delivery across the continuum, with some health care settings better poised than others for evolving opportunities. Palliative providers need more avenues to reach seriously ill patients with unmet physical, emotional and psychosocial needs, particularly those in rural areas across the country, said Shelby Moore, executive director […]
Palliative care providers are taking varied routes to address the most disruptive forces they are encountering this year, rising to challenges that have been persistent across the sector. Mounting workforce pressures mark the most significant of concerns for palliative care providers, according to Dr. Martha Twaddle, The Waud Family Medical Directorship’s palliative medicine and supportive […]
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 […]
Unity Hospice and Palliative Care has signed an agreement to become part of Illinois-based Northwestern Medicine’s Post-Acute Network (PAN). The agreement establishes the hospice as a member for hospice and palliative care referrals from the health system, which is affiliated with Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. “We are pleased to join Northwestern Medicine’s Post-Acute Network,” said Melinda […]
On a cold Monday morning Thomas Cornwell, M.D., climbs into the back of an SUV. A primary care physician, he is en route to the home of an elderly dementia patient in the Chicago suburbs who recently enrolled in hospice. Cornwell and a medical assistant spend close to 40 minutes in the patient’s home, checking […]
As hospices seek new ways to engage patients further upstream, a rising number are diversifying their services to include home-based primary care, along with palliative care and other care models. Evidence indicates that these primary care programs carry substantial benefits for patients and families and can have a significant positive impact on a hospice’s bottom […]
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