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Hospices Call on Congress to Support Rural Hospices, Patients

Hospice News

Hospice providers, industry groups and other stakeholders recently penned a letter urging Congress to improve payment infrastructures that would increase access to end-of-life care among rural populations.

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CommCare Expands with Notre Dame Hospice, Home Health Acquisitions

Hospice News

The home health and hospice acquisition extends CommCare’s reach across Louisiana and in parts of Mississippi where Notre Dame provides services. The Notre Dame Health System launched services in 1977, and in the past two years provided roughly 131,000 days of hospice care to more than 1,800 patients. Census Bureau.

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Enhabit Appoints General Counsel; The Denver Hospice Gets New Medical Director

Hospice News

Wisconsin-based Agrace Hospice & Supportive Care has hired a new hospice and palliative care physician, Dr. Raj Hiranandani, expanding its medical services team amid growth. Prior to joining Agrace, he was an internal medicine physician and hospice medical director at the Marshfield Clinic Health System. “We

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Global Partners in Care Program Fosters International Collaboration on Palliative Care

Hospice News

The Indiana-based palliative care provider Center for Hospice Care (CHC) is looking beyond its immediate community and has developed networks that impact palliative care on a global scale. Historic run Getting the Global Partners in Care program to this level has been quite the journey for CHC.

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Agape Care’s New M&A VP, New CEO Takes Helm at Community Hospice

Hospice News

Katherine Brazzale as its new chief medical officer of hospice services. Brazzale was the first physician to be selected for Trustbridge’s fellowship program when it launched in 2008 and has stuck with the nonprofit hospice provider ever since.

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NHPCO Celebrates the Life of Dr. Bernice Catherine Harper

NHPCO

Bernice Catherine Harper, MSW, MScPH, LLD, and celebrate her remarkable life of leadership and service to our professional community and the world. Dr. Harper’s lifelong leadership had profound and lasting positives impact across social work; hospice care; and diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEIB).

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High Peaks Hospice celebrates National Doctors Day with a Spotlight on our Medical Director

High Peaks Hospice

For 20 years he continued to have a career working in hospice, becoming a full-time Medical Director first in Idaho where he got the bulk of his hospice experience, then in Arizona, followed by providing palliative care and training physicians in hospice and palliative care at MercyONE in Iowa.