The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have issued the CDC Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain to provide recommendations for the prescribing of opioid pain medication for ...

New guidelines covering implanted defibrillators in terminal patients should help patients, doctors and hospice caregivers decide how to proceed with end-of-life treatments, experts say. Up to this ...

REDMOND, Ore. (KTVZ) -- Hospice of Redmond continues to serve families throughout Central Oregon amidst the COVID-19 pandemic and is following safety and health guidelines as outlined by the Oregon ...

When the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued new opioid guidelines in 2016, I warned in the article “CDC opioid guidelines raise alarms among hospice and palliative healthcare ...

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Recently, studies and news reports have focused on the acceleration of for-profit hospices and questioned those facilities’ marketing practices. In response to these questions, and those raised by its ...

After more than 35 years, we finally have new regulations pending for hospice, the result of hard work by the Department of Public Health and 28 of the 29 hospice organizations in the state. These new ...

"Every day I see someone we should have seen sooner," said Judy Knudson, PA-C, MPAS, Hospice and Palliative Medicine, University of Colorado Hospital, Aurora. She recalls a Veterans Affairs (VA) ...

STAMFORD -- State Rep. Dan Fox, D-Stamford, said the closure of the Richard L. Rosenthal Hospice late last year is an illustration of how the state's longstanding rules for hospice kept nursing and ...