{"id":4514,"date":"2016-09-30T08:35:32","date_gmt":"2016-09-30T12:35:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=4514"},"modified":"2016-09-30T08:35:32","modified_gmt":"2016-09-30T12:35:32","slug":"most-hospital-palliative-care-programs-are-understaffed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=4514","title":{"rendered":"Most Hospital Palliative Care Programs Are Understaffed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Michelle Andrews for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p>Most hospitals\u00a0offer palliative care services that help people with serious illnesses manage their pain and other symptoms and make decisions about their treatment, while providing emotional support and assistance in navigating the health\u00a0system. But hospital programs vary widely, and the majority fail to provide adequate staff to meet national guidelines, a <a href=\"http:\/\/content.healthaffairs.org\/content\/35\/9\/1690.abstract\" target=\"_blank\">recent study<\/a> found. <a href=\"http:\/\/khn.org\/news\/most-hospital-palliative-care-programs-are-understaffed\/?utm_campaign=KHN%3A+First+Edition&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=35145333&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz--DucJji-N75Vjg5igsgipSLjrv2zPTpFwOfcmrGPAxLglGOQ-RzwO9oCjS8X8UiPqIyjwzDxfGy9LeshoLwz2x4gVKpg&amp;_hsmi=35145333\" target=\"_blank\">Continue reading article here&#8230;..<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; color: #444444; text-transform: none; line-height: 1.6; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: 'Open Sans', serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; word-spacing: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; font-stretch: inherit; background-color: #ffffff; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\">Kaiser Health News\u00a0is\u00a0a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. 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