Hospice & Palliative Care Today's most read stories of 2024

1. Giving Tuesday is tomorrow! [There's still time!]
2. Creative examples of hospice fundraising
3. Hurricane Helene: NC recovery update after one month
4. Featured Hospice Fund Raisers - compiled by Hospice & Palliative Care Today
5. Two states lead the pack on palliative care access, many lag behind
6. House of Goshen makes history as Chicago’s first black-owned independent inpatient hospice house
7. NAHC-NHPCO Alliance comments on Hospice CARE Act
8. Clinician- and patient-directed communication strategies for patients with cancer at high mortality risk
9. CMS 2025 Hospice Final Rule: Content and Initial Responses
10. Normandy Welcomes World War II Heroes - 80th Anniversary
11. Retraumatization when an adult child cares for the parent who harmed them through serious illness or the end of life

Tributes to President Jimmy Carter
The Rosalynn Carter Institute for Caregivers invites you to visit the official tribute website to the life of President Carter at www.jimmycartertribute.org for the official online condolence book, arrangements, and schedule of events as well as print and visual biographical materials commemorating his life. ... 

• American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine - AAHPM
  
• Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association - HPNA
• National Alliance for Care at Home
• National Partnership for Healthcare and Hospice Innovatin - NPHI
• Rosalynn Carter Institute for Caregivers

Hospice News’ top 10 stories of 2024 
Hospice News; by Holly Vossel; 12/13/24 
Fraud and program integrity concerns dominated the news in 2024, along with large acquisitions, payment rules and regulatory changes. This year saw regulatory evolutions spurred by program integrity concerns, as well as the introduction of landmark legislation, shifts in reimbursement trends and a change in presidential administration with unknown impacts across the care continuum. The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) ramped up auditing activity in the space while also sunsetting the hospice component of its value-based insurance design (VBID) model demonstration ahead of its initial expiration. Meanwhile, lawmakers unveiled a bill with some of the most significant reforms proposed to date for hospice payment and oversight. Dubbed as the Hospice Care Accountability, Reform, and Enforcement (Hospice CARE) Act, the bill has ignited conversations across the industry about future sustainability, growth and program integrity. [Click on the title's link to continue reading.]

2024’s most read palliative care news stories 
Hospice News; by Holly Vossel; 12/20/24 
“Access” was the watchword in the palliative care community during 2024, as providers sought more ways to reach the right patients at the right time. However, the momentum toward greater access is slow, even though researchers, payers, providers and regulators increasingly recognized the value of palliative when it comes to improved quality and health care expenditures. The following are the most-read Palliative Care News articles of 2024. This year’s top coverage spanned a wide range of payment, legislative and research trends impacting the future delivery of palliative care.

1. What Palliative Care Providers Need to Know About Psychedelics, Cannabis ...
2. Key Palliative Care Trends to Watch in 2024 ...
3. Why Palliative Care Providers Are Adopting the GUIDE Model; CMS Launches GUIDE Model Demonstration With Strong Showing From Hospice, Palliative Care Participants ...
4. New ASCO Guidelines Stress Importance of Early Palliative Care ...
5. 2 States Lead the Pack on Palliative Care Access, Many Lag Behind ...

The Hastings Center’s 2024 highlights 
The Hastings Center; 12/26/24  
It has been a successful 2024 thanks to our community of readers and supporters who trust The Hastings Center to illuminate and thoughtfully explore ethical issues in health, science, and technology. Here are some of the past year’s highlights, with a personal message from President Vardit Ravitsky.

• AI, Health, and Biomedical Research ...
• Anti-Ableism in Medical Education: Meeting the Challenges ...
• What Makes an Organization Trustworthy? ...
• Gene Therapy’s Hopes and Ethical, Policy Challenges ...
• Pipeline Programs ...
• Facing Dementia: Clarifying End-of-Life Choices, Supporting Better Lives ...

[Cure] Top palliative care stories from 2024 
Cure; by Alex Biese; 12/28/24 
This year, CURE® worked to provide education and insight that underscored the importance of palliative care in cancer treatment. Early integration of palliative care, whether through in-person visits, telehealth or ongoing emotional support, can make a significant difference in a patient's quality of life. Here are some of the top articles on the topic of palliative care from 2024.

• Patients With Cancer Can Benefit from Palliative Care Earlier ...
• Telehealth Palliative Care Comparable to In-Person Visits ...
• Early Palliative Care Can Help With Coping Skills in Advanced Cancers ...
• From Comfort to Cure in Cancer Care: Use Palliative Care From the Start ...

The top long-term care stories of 2024 
McKnights Long-Term Care News; by James M. Berklan; 12/20/24 
Workforce issues dominated the long-term care provider landscape in 2024 — but in far more ways than just coping with the finalization of the nation’s first-ever nursing home staffing mandate. As new legal and political winds may eventually push that controversial regulation off providers’ desks anyway, it was clearly apparent this year that McKnight’s Long-Term Care News readers’ interests span a wide array of personnel and workplace issues. Below are the top stories, topics and issues that our readers showed they were most intrigued about when it came to doing their jobs better, and about the sector in which they spend so much daily energy.

• Minimum staffing proposal gets even tougher, may soon become moot ...
• Nursing home owners attract hot spotlight ...
• Load of new survey changes sends providers scrambling ...
• A 4.2% pay hike — and more ways to be punished ...
• Dire plight of rural nursing homes put in focus ...
• ‘Gun-packing’ step-mother fuels Life Care Center takeover drama ...
• Nursing home employee nearly assassinates Trump ...
• Nurse agencies must pay for gouging providers ...
• Among the other big story lines ...

Big senior living stories of 2024
McKnights Senior Living; by Lois A. Bowers; 12/23/24
Here’s a look at some of the big stories involving senior living providers that captured the attention of McKnight’s Senior Living readers this year. [Click on the title's link for these stories listed below, and more.]

• The prospect of increased federal involvement in assisted living bookended the year for senior living providers. ...
• As the year wound down, news came that US Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) planned to introduce federal assisted living legislation. ...
• Assisted living pilot for veterans ...
• Medicaid Access Rule ...
• Other federal legislation ...
• Private equity ...
• Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease ...
• The feel-good story of the year? ...
• Other notable news of 2024 ...

25 Hospital closures in 2024 
Becker's Hospital CFO Report; by Madeline Ashley; updated 12/27/24, 3:06 pm CT 
Many hospitals and emergency departments have been forced to close in 2024 due to circumstances like high costs and shifts in care needs. Becker's has reported on 25 hospital and emergency department closures in 2024. [Click on the title's link to view the list.]

2024 Review: The best thought leadership of the past year 
PRovoke Media; by Paul Holmes; 12/27/24 
There were some familiar themes, from the impact of artificial intelligence to the changing face of ESG, as well as a focus on geopolitical turmoil and the coming Generation Alpha. ... The content below identifies the most interesting themes of the thought leadership we saw in 2024, and includes 12 surveys conducted by researchers, consulting firms, professional organizations, and agencies.

1. Artificial Intelligence Still Tops the Agenda ...
2. Geopolitical Turmoil ...
3. A Way Forward for ESG? ...
4. The New “CCO-Plus” ...
5. Crisis Insight ...
6. Gen Alpha Is Coming ...

The year in review: Influential people who died in 2024 
AP International - Chicago's Very Own WGN 9; by Bernard McGhee; 12/30/24 
... [Jimmy] Carter was the nation’s longest-lived president when he died Sunday at age 100. But he was just one of many noteworthy people who died in 2024. ... The year also brought the deaths of several rights activists, including the reverends Cecil L. “Chip” Murray and James Lawson Jr.; Dexter Scott King; Hydeia Broadbent; and David Mixner. Business leaders who died this year include: Indian industrialist Ratan Tata, The Home Depot co-founder Bernard “Bernie” Marcus, financier Jacob Rothschild and Daiso retail chain founder Hirotake Yano. ... [Noteworthy] sports figures who died include: basketball players Jerry West and Dikembe Mutombo; baseball players Willie Mays and Fernando Valenzuela; and gymnastics coach Bela Karolyi. The music industry lost a titan in producer Quincy Jones, who died in November. ... Here is a roll call of some noteworthy figures who died in 2024 (cause of death cited for younger people, if available): [Click on the title's link to read more.]

I have one life and one chance to make it count for something. ~ Former President Jimmy Carter