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The Hospice and Palliative Nurses Foundation (HPNF) is thrilled to announce the 30 outstanding recipients of the 2025 Emerging Leader Award! These exceptional hospice and palliative care nurses represent the future of the field, having demonstrated remarkable leadership, innovation, and dedication early in their careers.

Join Mary Lynn McPherson, PharmD, PhD, FAAHPM and a team of clinical experts for a pharmacology workshop, Down on the Pharm: Contemporary Issues in Pharmacopalliation.

HPNA sent letters to congressional leadership outlining nursing priorities and reiterating FY 2025 funding requests.

HPNA joined a large coalition of nursing organizations in sending a letter to congressional leadership in support of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Long-Term Care Minimum Staffing Standards for LTC Facilities Final Rule.

The designation of Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association (HPNA) Fellow in Palliative Care Nursing (FPCN) is bestowed upon HPNA members who have made significant contributions to HPNA, the Hospice and Palliative Credentialing Center (HPCC), and/or the Hospice and Palliative Nurses Foundation (HPNF), while also impacting the field of hospice and palliative nursing. HPNA fellows are leading the way for the future of hospice and palliative nursing as clinicians, researchers, managers, and advocates.

The Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association (HPNA) congratulates the following individuals on being selected as 2025 HPNA Award recipients.

The Hospice and Palliative Credentialing Center (HPCC) congratulates the following individuals on being selected as 2025 Certificants of the Year, as well as the institution chosen as  Employer of the Year.

As our advocacy team continues to analyze the 2024 election results and their potential impact on our policy priorities as an organization, we wanted to reach out to share what we currently know about the next Congress and administration and our plans for ensuring that the bipartisan issues on which we work will be prioritized in the coming years.

The Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association (HPNA) co-hosted the Team Conference for Hospice and Palliative Care on Saturday, September 28 in Baltimore, Maryland. The event was hosted by six organizations: HPNA, The Association of Professional Chaplains, The Physician Associates in Hospice and Palliative Medicine, The Social Work Hospice and Palliative Care Network, The Society of Pain and Palliative Care Pharmacists, and Transforming Chaplaincy.

Before adjourning until November, Congress passed a stopgap measure to fund the government at current levels until December 20. When they return after the election for a lame duck session, House and Senate leadership will need to prioritize passing a Fiscal Year 2025 appropriations bill. With legislators are home in their districts over the next few months, it is the perfect time to let them know how important it is to fund priorities such as palliative care research in an appropriations bill but also to make sure any end-of-year package includes language to extend COVID-19 telehealth flexibilities, including the option to conduct the hospice recertification face-to-face visit via telehealth, past the deadline of December 31.  For more information, read the letter that HPNA and partner organizations sent to House and Senate leadership last week.

On September 18, the House Energy and Commerce Committee voted 41-0 to pass H.R. 7623, the Telehealth Modernization Act. This bipartisan legislation would extend through 2026 certain flexibilities authorized during the public health emergency related to COVID-19, including the opportunity to use telehealth to conduct the required face-to-face (F2F) encounter under the Medicare hospice benefit. It also would allow rural health clinics and federal qualified health centers to serve as the distant site, the home of a beneficiary to serve as a distant site for all services, and all types of practitioners to furnish telehealth services, as determined by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

Take your education on the go with HPNA’s new mobile-friendly platform, the HPNA Learning Center! All HPNA education materials, including webinars, virtual events, and certification prep courses, are now available in the HPNA Learning Center.

The Subsequent Call for Case Studies and Scholarly Works in Progress is specifically intended for professionals in training (scholars) or early career hospice and palliative care professionals to have an opportunity to present their peer-reviewed work at a nationally accredited conference in addition to having their work published in the Journal of Pain and Symptom Management.

The 2024 Sigma Foundation for Nursing Research Grant awardee is HPNA member Jyotsana Parajuli, PhD for her project “Development and Content Validation of a Palliative Care Readiness Tool for Family Caregivers of Older Adults with Cancer”

The goal of the Judy Lentz Leadership Development Scholarship is to recognize leadership potential, commitment to professional growth, and the ability to contribute to the hospice and palliative care nursing field. This scholarship is available to an HPNA member (CNA, LPN, RN, or APRN).