It's a place where compassion and dignity are paramount, where patients and families find solace and support during the most challenging times. We owe it to them to ensure that hospice care is of the highest quality, accessible to all and integrated into the broader continuum of care.
Ensuring that family caregivers, and hospice providers all get the support that they need is more than just about ensuring that a patient receives end-of-life care with the dignity and support they deserve.
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Instead of pushing harder on hospice providers to find more ways to deliver comprehensive bereavement care with less, it’s key to address the systemic forces hampering their ability to deliver quality care at the scale required and address these challenges.
Carter entered hospice care in his home, more than a year ago, and has set an inspirational example of how to live your last days on Earth with hope, meaning, and vigor.
In-home hospice care, which gives them ample opportunities to engage with family and friends in the comfort of their own homes, allows providers to give dementia patients the daily contact they deserve.
CMS is to be recognized for taking action to establishing chaplaincy codes along with other core services so that hospice claims data on spiritual care can be collected.
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Each of us gets one life, and every life contains its own death. Engage with that fuller picture, wield hope carefully, and then, from everything this hospice doctor has seen, you will be OK, made whole by the time death rolls around, rather than pulled apart by it.
While the top-level view of the growth in the hospice industry at 20-plus percent is impressive, it’s worth looking at a few prominent examples to gain further insight into this accelerating trend.
The Virginia-based health system is teaming up with BAYADA Home Health Care to create a new company providing home-based and hospice care. BAYADA will oversee the day-to-day operations of the company, while VCU Health will collaborate on overall quality and safety.
After initially purchasing a 40% stake in Kindred at Home for $2.4 billion in 2018, Humana is now fully acquiring the home health and hospice provider for an additional $5.7 billion. The provider will transition to Humana's payer-agnostic healthcare services brand CenterWell.
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More doctors, hospitals, and insurers are starting to see the value of home-based palliative care and are figuring out how to pay for it, said Kathleen Kerr, a health care consultant who researches palliative care.
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