Hospice Care
With over 30 years of experience in PACE, palliative care, in-home and long-term care pharmacy, we understand the organizational and workforce challenges to optimized care.
Hospice teams know the importance of timely symptom relief, but heavy caseloads, limited resources, and unpredictable medication risks leave them stretched too thin. Too often, adverse drug events (ADEs) and unmanaged symptoms lead to preventable service utilization, follow-up visits with nurses and physicians, and unnecessary suffering. These events not only strain patients and families—they also erode staff motivation and efficiency, increase costs, and weaken referral relationships.
- 1 in 5 hospice patients is at high risk for preventable ADEs, driving millions in avoidable costs every year
- CMS is pushing hospices toward value-based performance and HOPE quality reporting, putting new pressure on symptom management and utilization control.
- Referral partners are watching. Value-Based primary care and health systems will increasingly value and hold hospices accountable for non-hospice related utilization by their patients that impact their shared savings bonus payments.
How GalenusCare Takes Pharmacy from Commodity to High-Value Clinical Partnership
Our Precision Pharmacists and advanced medication safety analytics bring clarity and confidence to hospice teams for advanced medication safety management:
- Identify high-risk patients before harm occurs with AI-driven risk analysis.
- Continuously optimize regimens across drug-drug, drug-gene, and drug-disease interactions.
- Provide timely symptom relief with collaborative practice protocols and Symptom Comfort kits.
- Support quality reporting by aligning protocol-driven interventions with HOPE symptom measures (pain, shortness of breath, anxiety, constipation, and more).
- Ease staff workload by providing real-time pharmacist decision support, available when nurses need it most, before medications are dispensed.
The GalenusCare Difference
Unlike traditional hospice pharmacies that dispense then react to utilization or problems caused in retrospect, GalenusCare is:
- Proactive: Risk mitigation starts on enrollment, not after the
- Personalized: Every recommendation reflects the patient’s goals of care and incorporates advanced pharmacy science including PGx based on medication regimens or when results are available.
- Collaborative: Our pharmacists work as your dedicated partners, embedded in your care team.
- Proven Outcomes: Published, peer-reviewed evidence data shows significant medical cost savings from prevented adverse drug events and avoided utilization.
Proactive
Personalized
Every recommendation reflects the patient’s goals of care and incorporates advanced pharmacy science including PGx based on medication regimens or when results are available.
Collaborative
Proven Outcomes
Impact You Can See
With GalenusCare, hospices achieve:
- Safer patients: Fewer ADEs, falls, and hospitalizations
- Lower costs: Reduced utilization and avoided medical spend
- Better performance: Stronger quality scores with HOPE measures assuring compliance
- Stronger referrals: Demonstrated value that builds trust with referral providers and payers
- Supported teams: Less stress, faster interventions, and higher staff satisfaction resulting from the ability to ‘do their jobs better’
Partnering for The Future of Hospice
Hospice care is built on compassion and trust. GalenusCare helps protect that promise by giving your staff the clarity, confidence, and clinical support they need to manage complexity behind the scenes—so every patient’s hospice journey can be written with comfort and dignity.
We support your mission to bring comfort and dignity to every patient and family. With GalenusCare as your precision pharmacy partner, you gain a trusted ally —so your team can deliver the care that matters most.
