Cumberland Council hears update on hospice and palliative care

Cumberland Council hears update on hospice and palliative care

Cumberland Hospice and Palliative Care Society representatives Cheryl Smith and Rosemary Donkin had an audience with Cumberland Council on June 18 to raise awareness on the state of palliative and hospice care in the county.

A Framework for Scaling Palliative Care Via Medicaid – RamaOnHealthcare

States can adopt a specific framework to help scale palliative care via Medicaid, according to a recent study published in Health Affairs.Currently, the

Hospice Industry Groups Oppose Proposed Medicare Advantage Carve-In

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Very few palliative patients receive preventive deprescribing: study

Deprescribing is not commonplace in patients in their last months of life – which means a potential reduction in the quality of that life, researchers have found British research published ...

Clinicians cite palliative care benefits, barriers to integration

Clinicians view early access to palliative care as beneficial for people with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), yet its integration into routine care remains inconsistent, a U.S. study found. About two-thirds of ALS clinicians said they had a palliative care specialist on their team, and just over half of ALS patients were referred to outpatient specialty palliative care, often later in the disease course. Many palliative care clinicians, mea…