Pharmacists Providing Palliative Care Services: Demonstrating a Positive Return on Investment.

To establish a return on investment (ROI) for a pharmacist position on a hospital-based palliative care (PC) team. Utilizing a pharmacist to provide PC services is often overlooked as a solution to physician shortages. Integration of a pharmacist into PC teams yields a favorable ROI.

Expanding Palliative Medicine across Care Settings: One Health System Experience.

Background: The success of our hospital-based Palliative Care program stimulated requests to duplicate the program across the health system continuum of care.

Objective: To develop a model of care focused on a high-need, high-cost population that could be implemented across all care settings, including hospitals and patients' homes.

Methods: To fiscally support program expansion from hospital to home, we conducted a retrospective cost analysis for home-based Palliative Care (HBPC)-enrolled patients with continuous claims months before program enrollment through date of death.