Affinity Care Hospice uses what Cuthbert calls a service intensity model. While Medicare gives every hospice a certain amount ...

When it comes to treating and managing serious illnesses, there are options besides hospice. Palliative care is a way for people to discover options for relieving pain and other symptoms ...

Gwen’s story is just one example of how hospice care brings comfort, dignity, and peace of mind to families during life’s ...

Hospice Savannah, the leading nonprofit provider of hospice and palliative care services in Bryan, Chatham, Effingham, Liberty, and Long Counties, is proud to recognize November as National Hospice ...

November is Hospice and Palliative Care Month. Here to tell us more is Brian Greenlee, Director of Hospice & Palliative Care, ...

Palliative care is specialized medical care for people with serious illnesses. This type of care is focused on providing patients with relief from symptoms, pain, and stress of a serious ...

In February 2011, New York amended the Public Health Law by adding the Palliative Care Information Act, requiring doctors and nurse practitioners to inform terminally ill patients about end-of-life ...

A brochure produced by Liberal Member for Wagga, Daryl Maguire, on palliative care for the region has been described as creating more questions than answers. The 18 page booklet was recently delivered ...

Conclusions: There is a potential mismatch between what clinicians identify as important in determining palliative care need and final eligibility determinations. Patients with dementia were less ...

The programme aims to improve support, quality of life and healing for children with advanced, chronic or complex illnesses.

The facility will improve supportive and palliative care services within the Western Sydney Local Health District.

New York State’s Palliative Care Information Act, which was passed last summer and implemented in February, is meeting resistance from doctors who treat patients at the end of their life. The law was ...