Family Caregivers: How Palliative Care Can Help
Facing a serious illness is overwhelming for patients, their family members, and caregivers alike. Between learning about the…
Moving Palliative Care from the Hospital to Home
To learn more about palliative care, and how innovative home-based solutions can drive better support for members with…
Palliative Care at Home: Closing Gaps, Engaging Members
Supporting members with serious illness can become costly. The need to address gaps in care for those who…
What is Home-Based Palliative Care?
I’ll never forget my patient Laura*, a 42-year-old wife and mom of two who, just weeks earlier, received…
The Future of Serious Illness Care: 3 Ways to Improve Your Strategy
With serious illness care being a highly uncoordinated part of healthcare, how can health plans use innovative strategies…
CareCentrix Names Carmella Sebastian, M.D., M.S., as New Chief Medical Officer
Former Oscar Health, Florida Blue executive will guide the organization’s clinical vision HARTFORD, Conn. — May 2, 2022…
CareCentrix Serious Illness Care at Home Program Reduces Total Cost of Care, Hospitalizations
CareCentrix rebrands palliative offering as CareCentrix Serious Illness Care at Home HARTFORD, CONN. — April 4, 2022 —…
Paving the Way for Culturally Inclusive Palliative Care Services
Despite the benefits of palliative care, cultural differences often create barriers to receiving support among certain ethnic groups. It’s critical to have culturally competent palliative care clinicians and organizational policies designed to reduce barriers and improve access to culturally diverse groups.
Demystifying Telehealth for Hospice & Palliative Care Organizations
Virtual visits enhance the provision of palliative care by rapidly connecting patients & caregivers to the support they need. Learn how telehealth is helping hospice and palliative care providers, patients & caregivers.
Home-Based Palliative Care: Critical Support for Nation’s “Invisible Army” of Caregivers
In 2017, AARP reported that about 41 million U.S. family caregivers perform roughly $470 billion worth of unpaid labor a year. Since then, the number of caregivers has increased to 53 million, meaning that more than one out of five Americans are caregivers. The COVID-19 pandemic has caused a significant shift in care from assisted living facilities and nursing homes to home settings.
Whole-Person Care in the Texas Storm
Patients managing complex health situations face new challenges during crises. Discover how Angela, a nurse with Envoy Hospice and nurse manager for the Turn-Key Health palliative care program, went above and beyond to deliver whole-person care to the most vulnerable during the Texas power outage.
Critical Success Factors in Care Management for Building a Better Care Model for Seriously Ill Patients Living at Home
Turn-Key Health, a CareCentrix company, has reimagined the home as a destination of care for seriously ill patients. In our latest white paper, “Building a Better Model for Care at Home,” we demonstrate how home-based palliative care (HBPC) for individuals with a serious or advanced illness successfully aligns treatment decisions with personal goals, preferences and values; enables payors to reduce emergency department visits, hospitalizations and 30-day readmissions; addresses clinical and non-clinical issues, such as social determinants of health (SDoH); and provides an opportunity to enhance member and caregiver engagement and care coordination.