Not long ago, a palliative care practitioner I was talking with summed up one of the specialty’s conundrums perfectly. He said, “If you ask 10 practitioners of palliative care to define it, [...]
“The Best of 2020” sounds like an oxymoron. In a year dominated by a global pandemic that’s still in full force – and the many challenges it has brought to people’s physical health, mental [...]
Even though palliative care has been recognized as a board-certified medical specialty for nearly 15 years, it still may be the most misunderstood and underutilized. Consider it the Rodney [...]
Telehealth is here to stay. COVID-19’s no-contact demands helped spring the telehealth genie from the bottle, and there’s no going back now. Patients and families love having the option. [...]
The first full quarter of using the Patient Driven Groupings Model (PDGM) is in the books for home health providers – but those books were full of unexpected twists and turns due to COVID-19. [...]
In a recent post, this blog space explored just some of the impressive performance and potential emerging through the use of telehealth and other remote care tools. Transcend’s latest podcast [...]
As COVID-19 created the need to avoid person-to-person contact, telehealth finally started to emerge as an essential tool for staying in touch with patients and families. CMS began to relax [...]
The COVID-19 pandemic has catapulted serious illness and mortality to the forefront of America’s consciousness. People are hungry for facts and honesty instead of rumors, half-truths and [...]
Are you prepared to live up to the promise of caring for more people at home? As you probably know, the National Association of Home Care & Hospice (NAHC) and Partnership for Quality Home [...]
America is still in the early phases of the novel coronavirus spread, and the full effect is impossible to predict. Different regions of our nation are already experiencing different degrees of [...]