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VNHS Leveraging Tech to Optimize Hospice Patient Experience

Hospice News

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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Providers Work to Solve Palliative Care’s Biggest Growing Pains

Hospice News

It takes time to build up the payment, referral and workforce resources needed to support a sustainable palliative care program, according to Dr. Stephen Goldfine, chief medical officer at Samaritan Healthcare & Hospice. The New Jersey-based nonprofit offers hospice and palliative care, among other services.

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Executive Shifts at Amedisys, AMOREM, VITAS; Compassus, Hospice of the Chesapeake Appoint New Clinical Leaders

Hospice News

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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Pediatric Hospice Abbey House Gaining Momentum in Texas

Hospice News

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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Predictive Analytics ‘Gives Hospices a Lens’ into Quality, Compliance

Hospice News

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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Hospice Worker, Patient Safety Concerns Impact Access in Underserved Communities

Hospice News

Employee and patient safety concerns represent a barrier to hospice care among underserved, urban communities, particularly those with higher crime rates. The hospice provider has an eight-county service region in the Tallahassee, Florida area. Recent data on hospice home health care workplace violence are sparse.

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Palliative Care Pioneer: Susan Block

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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.