Health policymakers love the idea of hospice. Yet Medicare seems to be learning exactly the wrong lessons from the success of the program, which provides well-integrated patient-centered comfort care ...

KenSci, a company that has developed a machine learning risk prediction platform for healthcare, recently presented a paper on predicting end-of-life mortality and improving care. The paper, which ...

Continua Learning, a leading provider of post-acute care education solutions, today announced the launch of its new comprehensive online training platform. This innovative system unifies home care ...

A SERIES of special learning forums have been run at Pendleside Hospice to help students on their way to their dream careers. Held over four weeks, students from schools and colleges from across ...

GRAND RAPIDS, MI – Few things make adults feel as helpless as the death of a child or a serious illness. Although eager to help the child’s family, people often feel tongue-tied, uncertain what to say ...

When Jessica and Julia Boutchie visit Kaplan Family Hospice House, they know just where to find the cookies — in a dish in the patients’ and family kitchen. To the young ladies — Julia, 13, and ...

More than 70 percent of people say they want to die at home, not in a hospital. But when it comes to using hospice services, the vast majority wait until the last few days of life. It may be due to ...

Many times, when you hear the word “hospice,” a very grim picture comes to mind. But it doesn’t have to be that way. Maureen McNeill, director of development with Coastal Hospice and Palliative Care; ...

Patients and families at North Devon Hospice can now enjoy a whole host of mindful outdoor activities thanks to staff undertaking an insightful day of Forest School learning. The hospice’s Supportive ...