Hospice News

APRIL 9, 2025

Even with legislation in place designed to provide resources, several barriers exist that prevent expanded access to respite and hospice support for terminally ill pediatric populations and their families. Once open, it will be the states first respite and hospice facility for children facing life-limiting conditions.

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GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

They got a decision support tool that identified hospice patients or those who might benefit from a goals of care discussion. hospice use). Summary Transcript CME Summary Early in my research career, I was fascinated by the (then) frontier area of palliative care in the emergency department. They got training in Vital Talk and ELNEC.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

The home health and hospice provider recently announced the leadership changes in a filing with the U.S. Ginn began leading financial teams at Amedisys in 2007, while Guidroz previously served as senior vice president of accounting at Amedisys since June 2018. VITAS Names New VP of Hospice Chemed Corp.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

A new pediatric hospice and respite facility will soon launch in central Texas, among the first of its kind in the state. My daughter Abbey was born in 2007 as a healthy baby girl, but within two or three months had all these issues and was medically fragile,” Keller told Hospice News. “We Keller Foundation. Keller Foundation.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

After 75 years of service, Georgia-based hospice provider Visiting Nurse Health System (VNHS) has its sights set on the future. Founded in 1948, the organization was the first home-based care provider to operate in Georgia, and in 1975 launched the state’s first hospice program. Seniors represented 14.7% Seniors represented 14.7%

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Hospice News

APRIL 11, 2023

Hospices are leveraging predictive analytics to get a clearer picture of their performance amid regulatory pressures. Hospices have relied on data to enhances their ability to assess the quality and quantity of bedside care delivered during a patients’ final days.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 11, 2022

Eric: So Susan, you have touched so many people in the field of hospice palliative medicine. Myself personally, I was in PCEP at Harvard, I think like 2007 or something with Rachelle Bernacki and a bunch of other great people. And part of that job, they were looking for somebody to be a medical person in the local hospice.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

He wants to know what do you guys think about the effect of private equity on hospice and long-term care? Eric: One out of six hospices, so there is financial concern, not just again with hospices, nursing homes, and now physician groups. So, in front of us today, we have a variety of hot sauces and chicken wings. Anne: Right.

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NHPCO

DECEMBER 19, 2023

The HAN Angel Awards were created to recognize select members of Congress on both sides of the aisle for their ongoing efforts to amplify the voices of patients, families, providers, and those advocating for the vital mission of hospice and palliative care in supporting patients and their families facing serious or life-limiting illness.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Eric: But maybe if their prognosis is less than a year, reconsider it, and certainly if we’re thinking about hospice patients. I guess my question, too, is I’m caring for hospice patients right now. It’s like 2007 or something. Welcome back to GeriPal, Sei. Sei: Great. Thanks for having me. James: Yeah.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

We have a pediatric specialty, and on the flip side, we have many, many of our patients are in the older adult population and we don’t really take into account some of the complexities of that care in the same way, and I really wanted to learn about hospice and palliative care and how to best guide patients. Alex: The Wayback Machine.

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GeriPal

JUNE 30, 2022

She went to an inpatient hospice and they kept her comfortable for a couple of weeks and she passed away. But the 90 and six-month mortality is exceptionally high in individuals with advanced dementia, where it’s basically a hospice diagnosis when somebody has a hip fracture with advanced dementia. Joel: Talk about it.

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Americare Hospice

AUGUST 24, 2021

Hospice care in the United States is a type and philosophy of end-of-life care which focuses on the palliation of a terminally ill patient's symptoms. The concept of hospice as a place to treat the incurably ill has been evolving since the 11th century. In 2007, hospice treatment was used by 1.4

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1-800-HOSPICE

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Hospice sends nurses, aides, and other caregivers to the homes of patients with advanced, terminal illnesses. Expert consensus holds that people should receive hospice for three to six months. families, time in hospice falls short of recommendations. families, time in hospice falls short of recommendations.

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Pallimed

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

By 2007, the Washington State Agency Medical Directors Group (AMDG), which included several eventual PROP members (23), published an “Interagency Guideline on Opioid Dosing for Chronic Non-Cancer Pain (26) that introduced the concept of hard dosing thresholds for opioid analgesics, which was later incorporated into the 2016 Guideline (2, 3).

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Pallimed

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

By 2007, the Washington State Agency Medical Directors Group (AMDG) published its “Interagency Guideline on Opioid Dosing for Chronic Non-Cancer Pain (8),” which was updated in 2010 and 2015 (11). Kollas currently serves as the Secretary of the Board of Directors of the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (AAHPM).

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Hospice News

JANUARY 21, 2025

From the establishment of the Medicare Hospice Benefit under Ronald Reagan to the unveiling of Programs for All-Inclusive Care of the Elderly (PACE) under the first Bush administration, this track record can be source of optimism, according to Edo Banach, partner at Manatt Health, a division of the law firm Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP.

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