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Pediatric Palliative Care Providers Seek to Improve Parental EngagementPalliative Care NewsDecember 11, 2023... Parents and guardians frequently experience feelings of stress, anxiety and becoming overwhelmed, issues that pediatric palliative care providers can do better in alleviating, according to Eddie Belluomini, COO of 1Care Hospice & 1Care Kids based in Nevada. ... Many families lack familiarity with the scope of interdisciplinary palliative care and aren’t aware that these services can help address a variety of the physical, social and emotional aspects of serious illness, Belluomini stated. Expanding that education and awareness is a pivotal starting point, he added. 

NJ extends Medicaid palliative care for poor and elderlyNJ Spotlight NewsDecember 7, 2023New Jersey plans to expand health insurance coverage so that low-income residents with a serious advanced illness can get pain relief and other palliative care at home, regardless of their prognosis, or if they live independently, in a nursing home or assisted living. The state Assembly is expected to take a final vote Thursday on bipartisan legislation that adds community-based palliative care—including specialized medical treatment, emotional and spiritual support and other services to improve patients’ quality of life—to the list of benefits Medicaid will pay for in New Jersey. 

The Center to Advance Palliative Care Celebrates 20th Anniversary of its Palliative Care Leadership CentersNews ReleaseDecember 5, 2023New York, NY—Since 2000, the percentage of hospitals (with 50 or more beds) with a palliative care program has more than tripled, from 25% to more than 83%. Additionally, palliative care has expanded beyond the hospital into community settings such as long-term care facilities, nursing homes, office practices, and patient homes. This expansion and growth has been fueled by the Center to Advance Palliative Care’s Palliative Care Leadership Centers first launched in 2003 with funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. ... Over the past 20 years, more than 1,300 palliative care teams have trained with a PCLC. And, 80% of them went on to institute palliative care services within two years. Today, there are eight Palliative Care Leadership Centers, including:

CAPC Palliative Care Provider DirectoryPress Release, 12/4/23Finding palliative care services should be easy and convenient, not only for patients living with a serious illness, and their families, but also for their medical teams. CAPC’s national Palliative Care Provider Directory provides a quick and easy way for patients, families, and referring clinicians to locate and contact palliative care programs in their area.

UT Medical Center expanding palliative and hospice care in rural communitiesWVLT-TV (Knoxville, TN)November 30, 2023Knoxville, TN—November marks National Palliative and Hospice Care Month, two types of treatment that the University of Tennessee Medical Center’s Dr. Adam Tyson is passionate about. Now, the hospital is working to expand that care into other communities.

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