Modern medicine can treat and cure countless health conditions, but it can’t always repair the quality-of-life impairments these conditions leave behind. Palliative care is a health care service ...

Patients in their final weeks or months of life can turn to hospice care to manage their transition. But until then, patients have another option to help them live with serious illnesses. KERA’s Sam ...

MAHA ELEVATE could open a federal funding pipeline to interventions that can't survive contact with a plausibility filter.

There are few certainties in healthcare, but one is that hospitals will generally be facing an increasingly older population. And with age comes more chronically and severely ill patients. This is a ...

Families should ask detailed questions about coverage, staffing and provider relationships when navigating end-of-life care ...

The American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine in March appointed Kristina Newport, MD, as chief medical officer for the organization. Dr. Newport currently serves as chief of palliative care ...

Of course being diagnosed with metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) feels overwhelming. Between juggling treatments, managing symptoms and side effects, and dealing with the anxiety of a ...

What Is Palliative Care Planning? Palliative care is a specialized approach to healthcare that focuses on improving the quality of life for patients and their families facing serious illnesses.

The hospice movement got its start in the United States right here in New Haven. In the late 1960s, former Yale School of Nursing (YSN) Dean Florence Schorske Wald attended a speech given by hospice ...

As the organization marks seven decades of service, growing demand across four counties calls for earlier, more ...

HAMPTON ROADS, Va. (WAVY) — Entering palliative care can be difficult for a patient and their family, and breaking the news to a patient can also be difficult. It’s a skill that those with Sentara ...