Bilingual Patient Navigation Can Improve Palliative Care Outcomes for Hispanic Patients

Want to read more palliative care-focused content like this? Subscribe to Palliative Care News today! Bicultural and bilingual palliative patient navigator interventions may be a key to improving access to goal concordant care among Hispanic populations with serious illness, according to recent research. Researchers in a recent clinical trial sought to address whether integration of bilingual […]

How Palliative Care Could Help Break the SNF-to-Hospital Cycle

Want to read more palliative care-focused content like this? Subscribe to Palliative Care News today! A dearth of coordination or integration between rehab teams and palliative care teams routinely forces some patients into a cycle between the hospital and the nursing home in their last year of life. These results appeared in a 2019 New England […]

Researchers Test New Model for Enhancing Health Equity in Palliative Care

Four academic institutions are collaborating to test the ways community health workers could enhance palliative care for African American cancer patients. The National Institutes of Health is financing the research, which includes the University of Alabama at Birmingham, Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center, the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, and Maryland-based TidalHealth Peninsula Regional. […]