Hospice Management Advisor Archives – August 1, 2007
August 1, 2007
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Trends in Hospice: Palliative Care Growth
This story covers the recent growth of palliative care programs in the hospice industry. -
Large hospice converted to palliative care philosophy
Heartland Home Health Care and Hospice, based in Toledo, OH, began to look seriously at palliative care in 1999, starting with research into how the 110-office organization could improve chronic disease management. -
Palliative care program is passion for smaller hospice
When leaders at Coastal Hospice in Salisbury, MD, decided to move toward a palliative care philosophy, one of their first actions was to visit a Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC) site at the Palliative Care Center of the Bluegrass in Lexington, KY. -
How to evaluate a new service: Will it work?
As hospice agencies prepare for success within a pay-for-performance environment, ideas for new services or redesigned existing services are popping up everywhere. -
NC nurses examining policy on assisting in executions
Physician groups' opposition to doctors participating in death penalty executions has put a moratorium on prisoner executions in North Carolina for nearly a year. -
Hospice as continuation of care not just end of the road
Hospice evolved from the need to provide medical and social support to terminally ill patients in the last weeks of their lives.