Hospice/Palliative care

LTPAC organizations have not been incentivized to use interoperable technology in the same way as other healthcare providers, HHS has found.

A new VR platform helps train nurses for palliative care by simulating conversations between terminally ill patients, doctors and families. 

The need for technology to maintain the “human” or personal dynamic in palliative and hospice care was highlighted in a new report.

Toledo, OH-based ProMedica last week finalized the long-awaited $710 million sale of its national home health and hospice division to Atlanta-based Gentiva Health Services. The deal had been delayed several...

For the second time this year, the DEA is extending telehealth prescription options, a move LTC providers say is essential for hospice care.

The DEA may re-evaluate its rules on prescribing controlled substances via telehealth appointments, following a deluge of 38,000 public comments on the initial rulemaking.

More specific direct care worker training requirements in assisted living communities may help decrease the number of end-of-life care transitions, and more explicit staffing regulations may increase those...

Caregivers of patients receiving hospice care report worse experiences at for-profit versus not-for-profit hospices.

These preexisting conditions affect functional impairment, mobility and falls.

Residents living in states with supportive regulations around hospice and home healthcare were more likely to die in their assisted living “homes” rather than transition to skilled nursing care at...