palliative care
Loss of palliative care is a community’s loss
May 19, 2023
Margaret Jacobson
Commentary: More than 100 current patients and all possible future eligible patients stand to lose palliative care when PeaceHealth closes its outpatient palliative program.
Outpatient palliative care program unfortunately unsustainable
May 19, 2023
Bryan Stewart
Commentary: Insurance reimbursement levels and rising costs across all service lines led to PeaceHealth’s decision to end its comprehensive outpatient palliative program and restructure to continue to “provide the essential components of the program.”
photo: Amy Nelson © 2020
Community Voices / The coronavirus pandemic adds new twists to the ‘good death’
June 4, 2020
Floyd McKay
In our time of pandemic, the hackneyed phrase, “a good death,” has come to have new meaning and, yes, a new life.