Hospice News January 3, 2025
Interdisciplinary palliative care delivery can help to improve quality and health disparities among underserved cancer patient populations, according to oncology specialists.
Cancer patients across diverse cultural, ethnic and racial backgrounds often lack access to goal-concordant care that sufficiently addresses their physical, emotional and spiritual needs, according to Nadine Barrett, president of the Association of Cancer Care Centers (ACCC).
These disparities leave opportunities for greater collaborative partnerships between palliative care providers and oncologists, Barrett said in a recent ACCC Open Forum discussion. Barrett is also the associate director of community outreach and engagement at Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist’s Office of Cancer Health Equity.
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