New York, NY -- Hospitals continue to implement palliative care programs at a rapid pace, according to a Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC) analysis of the latest data released in the 2006 ...

Value-based cancer care platform Thyme Care is launching Enhanced Supportive Care, a virtual palliative care support program to assist its members and caregivers with managing physical and ...

We’ve come a long way in the past 20 years, evidencing how the specialty of palliative care saves money, improves quality of life, produces quality outcomes, and enhances provider satisfaction—all key ...

A decade ago, a team of researchers showed clearly that a new treatment for advanced lung cancer significantly improved patients’ quality of life, reduced symptoms of depression, lowered the ...

Accountable care organizations (ACOs) are an increasingly dominant feature of the health care delivery system. As of the third quarter of 2019, nearly 1,000 ACOs covered approximately 44 million lives ...

For too long, many have talked about the need for community-based palliative care programs as both a precursor to hospice care and even as a stand-alone service. Sure, some have given it a go, but for ...

Here’s how to get relief from the nausea, anxiety, pain, and other symptoms of advanced prostate cancer and its treatments. Palliative care can make life more manageable during cancer treatment, but ...

Ask the patient: (1) What is happening? (2) How do you (and I) feel? and (3) What is important? and then explain the information in a way understandable to that particular patient—taking into account ...

In 2018, Ruth Hill got out of bed one morning and felt her spine literally break. The 53-year-old collapsed to the floor. “I knew something catastrophic had happened,” Ruth says. She soon learned six ...