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Health Reform in a New Era: Options for the Obama Administration
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Karen Davis of the Commonwealth Fund outlines several realistic scenarios on health reform options for the Obama administration:
Source: Growth House News - November 7, 2008 Category: Palliative Care Source Type: news
Washington Voters Pass Death with Dignity ActEmail this article to a colleague.
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Assisted suicide measure passed by a vote of 58.68% (yes) to 41.32% (no).
Source: Growth House News - November 7, 2008 Category: Palliative Care Source Type: news
Harvard PCEP program accepting applicationsEmail this article to a colleague.
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The Harvard Medical School Program in Palliative Care Education and Practice (PCEP) is accepting applications for its 2009 trainings. The deadline is January 30, 2009.
Source: Growth House News - October 18, 2008 Category: Palliative Care Source Type: news
HFA Teleconference on Diversity and End-Of-Life-CareEmail this article to a colleague.
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Hospice Foundation of America is registering sites for its upcoming videoconference on Diversity and End-Of-Life Care.
Source: Growth House News - October 17, 2008 Category: Palliative Care Source Type: news
Bill introduced to improve access to investigational drugs by terminally ill patientsEmail this article to a colleague.
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Sen. Sam Brownback (R-Kans.) and Rep. Diane Watson (D-Calif.) have introduced the Access, Compassion, Care, and Ethics for Seriously Ill Patients Act (ACCESS) to make it easier for terminally ill patients to use treatments in the investigational phase of Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval.
Source: Growth House News - May 23, 2008 Category: Palliative Care Source Type: news
OIG Presents Ways to Improve Quality of Nursing Home CareEmail this article to a colleague.
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Lewis Morris, Chief Counsel to the Inspector General, testified before Congress on ways to improve the quality of nursing home care.
Source: Growth House News - May 17, 2008 Category: Palliative Care Source Type: news
Nursing home enforcement needs to get tougher, study saysEmail this article to a colleague.
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Center for Medicare Advocacy review of nursing home enforcement decisions shows that serious deficiencies often get only modest fines and penalties, calls for tougher action.
Source: Growth House News - May 16, 2008 Category: Palliative Care Source Type: news
Inspectors Often Overlook Serious Deficiencies at U.S. Nursing Homes, GAO Report FindsEmail this article to a colleague.
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State nursing home inspectors miss or minimize deficiencies such as malnutrition, severe bedsores, overuse of medications and abuse that pose threats to patients, according to a report by the Govenment Accountability Office .
Source: Growth House News - May 15, 2008 Category: Palliative Care Source Type: news
Size of the Medicare funding shortfall exceeds that of the mortgage crisisEmail this article to a colleague.
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American Enterprise Institute study says that if Medicare is to pay all of its bills over the next seventy-five years, $36 trillion in general taxes, measured in today's dollars, must be transferred to the trust funds.
Source: Growth House News - May 6, 2008 Category: Palliative Care Source Type: news
BMJ poll shows importance of palliative careEmail this article to a colleague.
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A British Medical Journal (BMJ) poll says palliative care is the area in which doctors can make the greatest difference to patient care.
Source: Growth House News - May 6, 2008 Category: Palliative Care Source Type: news
"Slow medicine" helps elderly be heard at life’s endEmail this article to a colleague.
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Grounded in research at the Dartmouth Medical School, slow medicine encourages physicians to put on the brakes when considering care that may have high risks and limited rewards for the elderly.
Source: Growth House News - May 6, 2008 Category: Palliative Care Source Type: news
Health care meets online social mediaEmail this article to a colleague.
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California Healthcare Foundation issues report on online social media and Health 2.0.
Source: Growth House News - May 6, 2008 Category: Palliative Care Source Type: news
FDA approves Relistor for treatment of opioid-induced constipationEmail this article to a colleague.
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Relistor™ (methylnaltrexone bromide) subcutaneous injection for the treatment of opioid-induced constipation in patients with advanced illness who are receiving palliative care, when response to laxative therapy has not been sufficient.
Source: Growth House News - May 6, 2008 Category: Palliative Care Source Type: news
Healthcare for the LuckyEmail this article to a colleague.
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With 600,000 uninsured residents, Oregon will use a lottery to help ration limited resources in the Oregon Hearth Plan.
Source: Growth House News - March 10, 2008 Category: Palliative Care Source Type: news
New Guideline on Drug Treatment for DementiaEmail this article to a colleague.
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A new AAFP-ACP guideline on pharmacological therapy for dementia reports only modest evidence of clinically meaningful benefit for the average patient.
Source: Growth House News - March 9, 2008 Category: Palliative Care Source Type: news
UCSF Children's Hospital seeks Bereavement CoordinatorEmail this article to a colleague.
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UCSF Children's Hospital has an opening for a Bereavement Coordinator. For job details, go to the UCSF Human Resource Website at http://ucsfhr.ucsf.edu/careers/ and put in Req Number: 26109BR.
Source: Growth House News - March 7, 2008 Category: Palliative Care Source Type: news
Metta Institute End-of-Life Care Practitioner TrainingEmail this article to a colleague.
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Metta Institute will offer a six-day residential training July 18-23, 2008, featuring key elements of their year-long End-of-Life Care Practitioner Program.
Source: Growth House News - March 7, 2008 Category: Palliative Care Source Type: news
National Healthcare Decisions DayEmail this article to a colleague.
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On April 16, 2008, join Americans across the county to plan for your future healthcare decisions and complete your advance directives.
Source: Growth House News - March 7, 2008 Category: Palliative Care Source Type: news
The Power of GoodbyesEmail this article to a colleague.
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How will you say goodbye when you know that life is coming to an end? Debra Bradley Ruder has a new blog at Growth House sharing stories about how real people face farewells .
Source: Growth House News - March 1, 2008 Category: Palliative Care Source Type: news
Stanley Terman, M.D., on Voluntary Refusal of Food and Fluids (mp3 podcast)Email this article to a colleague.
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In this audio podcast psychiatrist Stanley Terman, M.D., discusses why some terminally-ill people stop eating and drinking when life is coming to an end. Psychiatric assessment for depression, anorexia nervosa, mental competence, and control needs should be made in these cases.
Source: Growth House News - February 24, 2008 Category: Palliative Care Source Type: news
Bill Aims for Nursing Home ReformEmail this article to a colleague.
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A controversial new proposal by Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley and Democrat Sen. Herb Kohl seeks to force nursing homes to provide more information about ownership and accountability.
Source: Growth House News - February 22, 2008 Category: Palliative Care Source Type: news
Number of Geriatric Specialists Declines as Older Population Faces Health CrisisEmail this article to a colleague.
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Over the last decade, the number of certified geriatricians in the United States declined from 8,800 to 7,100. By the year 2030, there will be more than 70 million people over the age of 65 in the United States.
Source: Growth House News - February 21, 2008 Category: Palliative Care Source Type: news
Elizabeth Menkin, M.D., On Conflict Over Removal Of Feeding Tubes (mp3 podcast)Email this article to a colleague.
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In this podcast interview by Les Morgan of Growth House, Dr. Elizabeth Menkin explains some of the ways that disputes about removal of feeding tubes can arise, and how to deal with them.
Source: Growth House News - February 21, 2008 Category: Palliative Care Source Type: news
Book on Voluntary Refusal of Food and FluidsEmail this article to a colleague.
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Stanley Terman, MD, has written a new book on refusal of food and fluids by terminally-ill patients. The book examines the medical, ethical, and legal aspects of this practice, which some patients specify in their advance directives.
Source: Growth House News - February 21, 2008 Category: Palliative Care Source Type: news
Mother named guardian of teenage girl in comaEmail this article to a colleague.
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A mother seeking to cut off life support for her comatose 16-year-old daughter against the father's wishes won a minor victory Monday in court.
Source: Growth House News - January 15, 2008 Category: Palliative Care Source Type: news
Doctors Give MA Health Reform Plan A Failing GradeEmail this article to a colleague.
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More than 250 Massachusetts physicians sign an open letter with their assessment that the health reform model enacted by the state is failing and that a single-payer program is the only feasible alternative.
Source: Growth House News - January 14, 2008 Category: Palliative Care Source Type: news
California Healthcare Reform Battle Heats UpEmail this article to a colleague.
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As bill moves forward to the Senate, debate mounts on both sides.
Source: Growth House News - January 13, 2008 Category: Palliative Care Source Type: news
How Deaths Inspired Two Tennis StarsEmail this article to a colleague.
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Roger Federer and Pete Sampras both experienced the death of their coaches, and learned to live in the moment.
Source: Growth House News - January 13, 2008 Category: Palliative Care Source Type: news
Ex-governor backs assisted suicide proposalEmail this article to a colleague.
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Former govenor Booth Gardner has filed a ballot initiative that would give Washington state an assisted suicide law similar to that of Oregon.
Source: Growth House News - January 11, 2008 Category: Palliative Care Source Type: news
Frozen Peas Become Rallying Symbol Of Online Cancer Survivor CommunityEmail this article to a colleague.
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Cancer survivor Susan Reynolds use of online social networking sites sparked a spontaneous movement using frozen peas as a rallying point.
Source: Growth House News - January 9, 2008 Category: Palliative Care Source Type: news
Access to palliative care is poor in the UKEmail this article to a colleague.
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Access to palliative care is inadequate and varies across the country, the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) warns.
Source: Growth House News - January 9, 2008 Category: Palliative Care Source Type: news
US ranks dead last in preventable deathsEmail this article to a colleague.
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The United States ranks worst in a new study of preventable death in 19 industrialized nations. If the US did as well as the
best-performing health care systems in the world it would have 101,000 fewer deaths each year.
Source: Growth House News - January 9, 2008 Category: Palliative Care Source Type: news
VA is Leader in Hospice and Palliative CareEmail this article to a colleague.
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Nearly 9,000 veterans were treated in designated hospice beds at VA facilities in 2007, and thousands of other veterans were referred to community hospices to receive care in their homes.
Source: Growth House News - January 8, 2008 Category: Palliative Care Source Type: news
AAHPM ConferenceEmail this article to a colleague.
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The American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (AAHPM) in collaboration with the Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association, will host its Annual Assembly January 30 to February 2, 2008, in Tampa, Florida.
Source: Growth House News - November 5, 2007 Category: Palliative Care Source Type: news
NPCRC now accepting letters of intentEmail this article to a colleague.
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November 1, 2007, is the deadline for submitting letters of intent to the National Palliative Care Research Center
for pilot project and research grants. This RFA covers pain and symptom management, communication among providers and families, and evaluation of delivery models.
Source: Growth House News - September 14, 2007 Category: Palliative Care Source Type: news
The Business Case for ChangeEmail this article to a colleague.
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In the United States, Federal dollars pay for most of the health-care costs at the end of life. Yet Medicare provides no
workable business plan for coordinated and comprehensive care for those facing serious illness. Read a summary of
the economic issues in this extract from the book Sick To Death.
Source: Growth House News - September 13, 2007 Category: Palliative Care Source Type: news
World Hospice and Palliative Care DayEmail this article to a colleague.
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will take place on October 6, 2007, with
Voices for Hospices, a global musical marathon event wih over 500
concerts around the world.
Source: Growth House News - September 13, 2007 Category: Palliative Care Source Type: news
Palliative Medicine 2008 12th Annual International SymposiumEmail this article to a colleague.
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The Cleveland Clinic will sponsor Palliative Medicine 2008, the 12th Annual International Symposium, March 13-15, 2008, in Scottsdale, Arizona. For details call 1-800-238-6750 or 216-297-7330.
Source: Growth House News - September 12, 2007 Category: Palliative Care Source Type: news
Metta Institute End of Life Care Practitioner ProgramEmail this article to a colleague.
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Metta Institute is now accepting applications for the 2008 End-of-life Care Practitioner Program.
Source: Growth House News - September 10, 2007 Category: Palliative Care Source Type: news
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross To Be Inducted to Hall of FameEmail this article to a colleague.
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The late Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, who revolutionized attitudes toward grief and care for dying patients and their families in the United States, will be inducted to The National Womens Hall of Fame on October 6-7, 2007, in Seneca, New York.
Source: Growth House News - September 6, 2007 Category: Palliative Care Source Type: news
Grief Counseling Not Bad For You, Experts SayEmail this article to a colleague.
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A new study debunks the common notion that grief counseling makes things worse rather than better for most people. Read the full text of the article online.
Source: Growth House News - September 4, 2007 Category: Palliative Care Source Type: news
Always Too SoonEmail this article to a colleague.
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This new book is a collection of intimate interviews about coping with the loss of one's parents. A worthwhile addition to the
literature of grief support, giving a look at how well-known people ranging from Mariel Hemingway to Ice-T have coped with
a significant life transition.
Source: Growth House News - September 3, 2007 Category: Palliative Care Source Type: news
Grief Counseling Not Bad For You, Experts SayEmail this article to a colleague.
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A new study debunks the common notion that grief counseling makes things worse rather than better for most people.
Source: Growth House News - September 3, 2007 Category: Palliative Care Source Type: news
Hospice care threatened by obscure Medicare ruleEmail this article to a colleague.
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Hospices in at least 25 states are being asked to refund hundreds of millions of Medicare dollars they were paid to care for hospice patients that are taking too long to die, according to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
Source: Growth House News - September 2, 2007 Category: Palliative Care Source Type: news
Palliative Care For the Emergency Department SettingEmail this article to a colleague.
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Social worker Hillel Bodek reviews the new EPEC-EM training program for palliative care in the emergency setting.
To achieve quality palliative and end-of-life care to the ER setting, it will be necessary for emergency medicine departments to develop relationship with palliative-care trained and experinced health care professionals.
Source: Growth House News - September 2, 2007 Category: Palliative Care Source Type: news
ELNEC-Geriatric Train-the-Trainer CourseEmail this article to a colleague.
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On September 12-14 in Pasadena, California, the American Association of Colleges of Nursing will offer a train-the-trainer course designed
for geriatric nurses who work in long term care, skilled nursing, hospice, home care, acute care facility, clinic,
or teach in a university.
Source: Growth House News - August 30, 2007 Category: Palliative Care Source Type: news
ADEC workshop on Grief and the CommunityEmail this article to a colleague.
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On September 15, 2007, the Southern California Chapter of the Association for Death Education
and Counseling will present a workshop on Grief and the Community at Loyola Marymount University
in Los Angeles, California. Experts
on grief and loss will cover topics such as Kids and Chronic Community
Violence, Working Effectively within a Multicultural Community, Donor
Families, What are a School and Community to do After a Suicide Death,
and the Healing Power of Music.
Source: Growth House News - August 30, 2007 Category: Palliative Care Source Type: news
Discovering Secrets of the Aging MindEmail this article to a colleague.
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The Institute on Aging is offering a seminar series to give participants a better understanding of organic brain diseases and the mental health
issues that affect the behavior and ultimately the quality of life of
older adults. Seminars will take place in San Francisco on November 15, 2007, and during 2008.
Source: Growth House News - August 30, 2007 Category: Palliative Care Source Type: news
Global best practices in implementing chronic care programmesEmail this article to a colleague.
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December 3-4, 2007, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. The European Leadership Summit on Chronic Care is the forum where government and
industry leaders share successful initiatives and global best practices in the implementation
of chronic disease management programmes.
Source: Growth House News - August 30, 2007 Category: Palliative Care Source Type: news
Intensive Update with Board Review in Geriatric and Palliative MedicineEmail this article to a colleague.
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September 30-October 3, 2007 Baruch College Vertical Campus in New York will offer a four-day, clinically-based intensive course in geriatrics and
palliative medicine is taught by leading experts in both fields,
providing updates on geriatric syndromes and palliative medicine, and
the latest research and treatments.
Source: Growth House News - August 30, 2007 Category: Palliative Care Source Type: news
