On 3/10/16, with a vote of 94-1, the Senate passed a new bill supporting opioid addiction treatment programs. The bill will now move on to the...
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Providing palliative care within the first 48 hours of admission led to a shorter length of stay for seriously ill patients, less cost, and...
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The FDA recently released their plan for improving opioid safety and reducing abuse potential. For full details, see their latest news release.
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The National Institute for Nursing Reasearch has expanded the materials available from their Palliative Care: Conversations Matter campaign. They...
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Stefan Friedrichsdorf, medical director of the Pain, Palliative, and Integrative Medicine program at Children's Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota,...
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A recent article published in The New England Journal of Medicine demonstrated traditional pain rating scales are not necessarily appropriate for...
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As part of the national public engagement efforts of NHPCO and NHF, first-class and business travelers on American Airlines will see a video that...
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Welcome! We have been working hard to improve our website for chapter members that better connects us as a group, as well as with members of the...
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The Dying in America project, a multimedia exploration of death and dying, has launched a website at http://dyinginamerica.org/ that explores...
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CMS established 2 codes for ACP - one for the first 30 minutes of ACP (CPT - 99497) that will be paid at a national level of $86.00 and the second...
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