Life as a Hospice Patient
Thursday February 26, 2009
I came across an interesting blog today written by Judi Chamberlin, a 64 year old woman with COPD who started hospice care in December. "Life as a Hospice Patient" ... Read More
Dying People Date Too
Tuesday February 24, 2009
My brother is newly single. Not quite divorced yet but living alone and very ready to re-enter the dating world. He's already met someone on Match.com. If ... Read More
Obama's Stimulus Plan: Where Does Hospice Fit in?
Tuesday February 24, 2009
I've told you how the stimulus package includes $134 million for Medicare funded hospice programs and how it also effectively delays the already approved Medicare budget cuts to hospice for ... Read More
Government Comparison of Medical Treatments - Prudence or Prejudice?
Thursday February 19, 2009
The famous (or perhaps infamous depending on who you're talking to) $787 billion U.S. stimulus package includes $1.1 billion to research medical treatments. The bill creates a council 15 ... Read More
Ethnic Disparities in Hospice Care
Wednesday February 11, 2009
A research study published in the January 2009 issue of the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society (JAGS) reports that blacks and Asians with terminal cancer use end-of-life services less ... Read More
Turning Down Patients for Hospice Care
Saturday February 7, 2009
This post is purely to vent my frustrations over an imperfect Medicare reimbursement model for palliative care. Currently, hospice care is the only reimbursable model of palliative care in ... Read More
Coping with Grief on Valentine's Day
Thursday February 5, 2009
Valentine's Day is just around the corner. Great news for those of us who are able to celebrate with our loved one, but what about those of us who ... Read More
For Profit vs Non-Profit Hospice - Does it Really Matter?
Monday February 2, 2009
A recent blog by Niko Karvounis on Health Beat deals with the sticky subject of for profit and non-profit hospices. Karvounis has done some respectable research looking at studies ... Read More