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Connecting Patients to Palliative Care

NASHP

One of the first notable accomplishments of this council included developing and launching the Texas Health and Human Services system supportive palliative care and hospice care websites, which include resources for patients, families , and professionals. Oregon leveraged its Patient-Centered Primary Care Home Program (PCPCH).

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Seven Steps for Building a Community-Based Palliative Care Benefit Within Medicaid

NASHP

High-quality palliative care can both improve quality of life and avoid unnecessary and often unwanted treatments for Medicaid enrollees with serious illness. States can support palliative care in a number of ways and across a range of settings (e.g., in hospitals, embedded within enhanced primary care, via home health).

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Roundups: 17 Recent Strategic Digital Health Partnerships

HIT Consultant

This partnership will give primary care providers access to Story Health, which provides members with treatment optimization, care planning, and precision sub-specialist escalations at scale. Pearl Health uses data science to help primary care providers focus on the patients who are most likely to need it.