While palliative care remains an uncommon offering among home-based health care providers, forward-thinking providers have ...

Physicians engaged in palliative and end-of-life care can appreciate the tremendous value social workers add to an ...

Palliative care has an image problem. Despite what people think, it's not some kind of "Grim Reaper service," say two of Canada's leading experts in this field of medicine. Ideally, it should ...

Palliative care is sometimes called supportive care. It offers relief, support and comfort to people, both in and out of the hospital setting. Having palliative care doesn’t mean you will die soon. It ...

Researchers evaluated billing for early palliative care among Medicare beneficiaries who were newly diagnosed with 1 of 6 common distant-stage cancers.

A default palliative care referral intervention increased palliative care consultations by more than fivefold and decreased end-of-life systemic therapy by more than half among patients with ...

Brentwood, Tennessee-based Compassus will manage six Providence home health locations in Alaska and Washington and five of the health system’s hospice and palliative care locations in Alaska ...

My philosophy of care is to strive to understand the whole person in order to improve the quality of life for patients and ...