http://www.aahpm.org/apps/blog/?p=806 Physicians caring for patients with serious illness. Thu, 07 Feb 2013 01:31:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://www.aahpm.org/apps/blog/?p=806&cpage=1#comment-18796 Oygen Thu, 29 Mar 2012 10:44:38 +0000 http://www.awebsource.com/clients/aahpm/blog/?p=806#comment-18796 I want to add my voice to that of AAHPM's to say that there is no palliative care whiuott hospice and there is no hospice whiuott palliative care. Palliative care is about matching treatment to patient goals and needs whether they have a curable disease (like leukemia or lymphoma for example), or a chronic disease (like Alzheimer's or dialysis dependent end stage renal disease) or are living in the last few months of life. Hospice is the best thing that Medciare does and I am hopeful that one day it will be available to all, based not on someone's estimate of their prognosis, but on need for home-centered, patient and family-centered, well-coordinated care. There is every reason to be optimistic about this as the new health reform law calls for pilots of the simultaneous hospice+life prolonging care model, not to mention coordinated care models like accountable care organizations and medical homes- neither of which have a prayer of success whiuott palliative care and hospice expertise. So yes- hospice is a critical component of the continuum of palliative care. I want to add my voice to that of AAHPM’s to say that there is no palliative care whiuott hospice and there is no hospice whiuott palliative care. Palliative care is about matching treatment to patient goals and needs whether they have a curable disease (like leukemia or lymphoma for example), or a chronic disease (like Alzheimer’s or dialysis dependent end stage renal disease) or are living in the last few months of life. Hospice is the best thing that Medciare does and I am hopeful that one day it will be available to all, based not on someone’s estimate of their prognosis, but on need for home-centered, patient and family-centered, well-coordinated care. There is every reason to be optimistic about this as the new health reform law calls for pilots of the simultaneous hospice+life prolonging care model, not to mention coordinated care models like accountable care organizations and medical homes- neither of which have a prayer of success whiuott palliative care and hospice expertise. So yes- hospice is a critical component of the continuum of palliative care.

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