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CMS to end Hospice MA Carve-In: Insights for home-based care providers

Home Health Care News
by Andrew Donlan

Mar 7, 2024

what CMS’ ditching of the hospice carve-in means for home health and hospice providers generally...

MMJ.com expands access to Medical Marijuana cards across 26 states in the US

Newsfile Corp.

Mar 1, 2024

In a significant development for healthcare and legal access to medical marijuana in the United States, MMJ.com has announced its expansion to offer services across 26 states...

4 key trends for hospices to watch in 2024

Hospice News
by Jim Parker;

Feb 26, 2024

Hospice operators in 2024 are navigating a rapidly transforming environment...

Aging is not an illness: Exploring geriatricians' resistance to serious illness conversations

Journal of Pain and Symptom Management
by Alexis Drutchas MD; Deborah S. Lee MD; Sharon Levine MD;
Jeffrey L. Greenwald MD; Juliet Jacobsen MD, MPH;

Mar 4, 2024

Three key themes emerged that help explain the reluctance of clinicians caring for older patients to have or document serious illness conversations...

Hospice of the Chesapeake appoints new CEO

The Southern Maryland Chronicle
by David M. Higgins II

Mar 1, 2024

Rebecca Miller has been appointed as the President and Chief Executive Officer of Hospice of the Chesapeake, a prominent not-for-profit organization dedicated to providing end-of-life care....

Social acceptability of psilocybin-assisted therapy for existential distress at the end of life: A population-based survey

Palliative Medicine
by Louis Plourde, Sue-Ling Chang, Houman Farzin, Pierre Gagnon, Johanne Hébert, Robert Foxman, Pierre Deschamps, François Provost, Marianne Masse-Grenier, Jean-François Stephan, Katherine Cheung, Yann Joly, Jean-Sébastien Fallu, Michel Dorval for the P3A Study Group;

Feb 24, 2024

Internationally, there is a growing interest in the potential benefits of psilocybin-assisted therapy to treat existential distress at the end of life...

Apparently healthy, but diagnosed with Alzheimer’s?

The New York Times
by Paula Span

Mar 4, 2024

New criteria could lead to a dementia diagnosis on the basis of a simple blood test, even in the absence of obvious symptoms...

Why not-for-profit health systems need positive margins: Deloitte

Becker's Hospital CFO
by Andrew Cass;

Feb 28, 2024

Health system margins are the "lifeblood of a healthy, patient-centered, innovative health care system and community"

We gave palliative care patients VR therapy. More than 50% said it helped reduce pain and depression symptoms

The Conversation;

Feb 22, 2024

Our study, published this week in the journal BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care, found more than 50% of patients experienced clinically meaningful reductions in symptoms such as pain and depression immediately after a 20-minute VR session..