Tech-enabled hospice provider Guaranteed recently closed a $6.5 million seed round, bringing its total funding to $9.25 million. Jessica McGlory founded the startup a year ago so that patients and their families can have more dignified and holistic end-of-life care experiences than what she and her father went through.
Palliative care must be the standard of care for all who have been diagnosed with progressive, advanced, and terminal illnesses. Never should we hear the phrase, “I’m sorry, there’s nothing more I can do,” when physicians encounter the failure of a curative course of therapy.
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The program will include services like remote monitoring, virtual urgent care visits through Intermountain Connect Care, appointment video visits and physical therapy, to name a few.
Financial terms of the deal, which expected to close in the third quarter of this year, were not disclosed.
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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A report shows that the majority of hospitals fail to provide enough staff for palliative care programs to meet national guidelines.
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“There’s been a lot of focus on end-of-life care for cancer,” said Melissa Wachterman, the study’s principal author and a physician. “But most people don’t die of cancer. And the quality of end-of-life care for those dying of other conditions … is not as good.”
Healthcare is meant to be about making a better life, but giving each of us a better death is the natural end to that story.
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I had the opportunity to learn from a visionary palliative care startup, observed an adult continued education course about dying with dignity, and toured a hospice center that felt like a home.
Lack of training and uncertainty with how to broach the subject have hindered advanced care planning discussions between doctors and patients, despite reimbursement. But electronic health record providers have fallen short as well.
Physicians can now bill Medicare $86 for an office-based, end-of-life counseling session with a patient for as long as 30 minutes.
"Doctors need to be the stewards of the relationship," according to Dr. Michael Fratkin. "Wise guidance is what's missing." It's been replaced with excessive paperwork and a hint of paternalism.
How can we help patients better understand what palliative is?