Hospice News April 16, 2024
A Tennessee provider is working to break down barriers to palliative care for rural cancer patients in their home state.
For cancer patients in rural areas, accessing palliative care services can be a burden due to the distance needed to travel to a clinic or for an in-home provider to come to them. Tennessee Oncology, one of the largest community-based cancer care specialists in the United States, has launched a pilot telehealth program to help relieve some of this burden for prostate cancer and breast cancer patients in seven rural Tennessee counties.
The program will cover an umbrella of supportive services, including palliative care, integrative oncology and psychology. Integrative oncology is a whole-person model of care that focuses on nutrition,...
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