Hospice News

JANUARY 20, 2023

We’ve seen that VR technology can deliver surprising results at a relatively low cost and with little training required for caregivers,” Shega recently told Forbes Health. Joseph Shega, executive vice president and chief medical officer of VITAS Healthcare, a subsidiary of Chemed Corp (NYSE: CHE).

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Hospice News

AUGUST 26, 2024

The certification process takes into account six domains: program management, personnel education, patient and caregiver education, care coordination, clinical management and performance improvement. In 2012, heart failure cost the nation an estimated $30.7 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. death certifications.

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Hospice News

JULY 24, 2023

Gentiva consistently achieves industry-leading quality of care and patient family satisfaction scores by investing in our people and caregiving capabilities,” David Causby, president CEO of Gentiva, said of the deal in a statement. The insurance mammoth sold a 60% stake to the private equity firm Clayton, Dubilier & Rice (CDR) last year.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Westfall came to VITAS in 2012 as senior vice president of field operations. “These promotions reflect our organization’s deep commitment to develop talent and empower our leaders to continue to elevate the care and comfort we provide to our patients and their caregivers,” Westfall said in a statement.

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Hospice News

JULY 19, 2023

The number of people who suffer from heart failure is expected to rise by 46% between 2012 and 2023, the American Heart Association (AHA) reported. The program focuses on six key areas: program management, personnel education, patient and caregiver education and support, care coordination, clinical management and performance improvement.

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Hospice News

JUNE 24, 2022

Census Bureau projects that seniors will comprise more than 20% of the state’s population by 2030, up 25% from 2012. These care models allow patients to recover in their homes while receiving specialized care from Memorial Hermann physicians and caregivers,” a health system spokesperson told Hospice News in an email.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Canyon was established in 2012 and provides community-based home health, hospice, personal and pediatric care services through locations in Utah, Arizona, Colorado, Idaho and Nevada. “We are honored to have provided care to our home health and hospice patients and their loved ones.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Established in 2003, Instant Care of Arizona provides in-home senior care and caregiving support to patients and their families in Phoenix, Mesa, Tempe, Scottsdale, among 15 other cities throughout the Maricopa County area. The transaction also gives Choice its first foothold in the Grand Canyon State.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Established in 2003, Instant Care of Arizona provides in-home senior care and caregiving support to patients and their families in Phoenix, Mesa, Tempe, Scottsdale, among 15 other cities throughout the Maricopa County area. Choice entered the home health market in 2012 and stepped into hospice in 2018.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 10, 2022

The company — currently serving more than 10,000 patients across its business lines — has more than quadrupled in size since its founding in 2012. Our strategy is where we have home health care, we move in our hospice and our caregiving service line as well,” Koshevatsky told Hospice News.

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Hospice News

JUNE 13, 2023

For instance, roughly one-third (31%) of general inpatient hospice stays in 2012 were billed inappropriately, a $268 million cost to Medicare, the U.S. But I want to make sure primarily that the caregivers’ hands are not tied. Medicare hospice claims represent a solid chunk, according to regulators.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Maley joined the hospital system’s home health department in 2012 as a certified nurse assistant, later becoming a registered nurse. Elara Caring saw its caregiver workforce grow by 21% during the second quarter as a result of these efforts. “At

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Hospice News

AUGUST 16, 2023

I worked in acute care prior to coming into the more integrated home-based care scene at Compassus in 2012. A large benefit of palliative care is being able to both identify patient needs and opportunities to help address the full scope of family and caregiving needs as well. What has led your career journey into palliative care?

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Hospice News

JUNE 28, 2023

Her past roles since 2012 have included clinical and executive positions in emergency and palliative medicine, as well as in hospice. Paradigm Health will remain mission-driven, and our main focus will be to support and invest in our caregiving team,” Worswick said in a statement. “We Jarecki announced his retirement last year.

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Hospice News

JULY 11, 2023

Our work has shown that in the past, hospices have inappropriately billed one-third of GIP stays, including billing for GIP care when the patient needed only routine home care or when the patient’s caregiver was not available and inpatient respite care was needed.”

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Hospice News

APRIL 26, 2022

I became a registered nurse in 2012 and received my nurse practitioner degree in 2017. With the labor shortage, there’s just not enough doctors, nurses or caregivers, and just not a lot of just health care providers in general. As a nurse practitioner, what led you to begin a hospice program? We can close that gap.

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Hospice News

MARCH 25, 2024

I worked in Phoenix at the sheriff’s office from 1976 to 2012. There’s a big underserved group and a large percentage of our caregivers are Hispanic. You took the helm at Stoneridge Hospice after retiring from local law enforcement. What led you to hospice, and how has your law enforcement background informed your leadership approach?

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 2, 2022

“A government review of inspection reports from 2012 to 2016 found that the majority of all hospices had serious deficiencies, such as failures to train staff, manage pain, and treat bedsores,” the story read. ” Another allegation in the story involved the issue of improper Medicare payments to hospices.

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AlayaCare

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

They’re paying their caregivers, because the service was provided, but not billing for the time,” said Grunberg. “We Waystar has scored Best in KLAS® every year since 2010 and earned multiple #1 rankings from Black Book surveys since 2012. There are agencies that are losing money because they aren’t tracking quarter or half units.

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GeriPal

MARCH 20, 2025

MCF, which Hope implemented for one of her hospice patients, serves as a middle way between the discomfort to the patient and caregivers of completely withholding food and fluid, and the current practice of comfort feeding only in which food and fluid are routinely offered to patients even in the absence of a symptomatic benefit.

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NHPCO

JUNE 13, 2024

Established in 2012, the NHPCO Trailblazer Award recognizes state organizations demonstrating high levels of excellence, innovation, and leadership that expand access to hospice and palliative care, promote quality, and increase awareness. nhpco.org About HAN The Hospice Action Network is the advocacy affiliate of NHPCO.

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AlayaCare

JANUARY 17, 2021

This was the case well before COVID-19, as hospital-at-home programs have proven successful at improving patient outcomes while reducing health care costs (as evidenced in this 2012 Johns Hopkins study ).

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Solace

MAY 6, 2022

But her own stay in a hospital in 2012 inspired her to embark on a new mission. In another project, Sen Sound created a tranquility room at a hospital to provide caregivers an oasis where they could relax in a culture of quietness. “To As she explained during an EndWell talk , while she was sick, she spent hours and hours in hospitals.

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Freedom Home Care and Medical Staffing

MAY 14, 2024

Yana brings a wealth of experience and passion to our team, having begun her career in healthcare as a private home health aide in 2012 while pursuing her nursing degree. Her ability to connect with patients and families, coupled with her broad experience and dedication, makes her an invaluable addition to our community of caregivers.

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Nurse Keith's Digital Doorway

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

For another nurse, her career nutrition means claiming her place as a dancer, learning to integrate her love of dance with her love of being a caregiver, perhaps through offering movement classes for nurses in need of self-care. From 2012 until its sunset in 2017, Keith co-hosted RNFMRadio, a groundbreaking nursing podcast.

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The Caregiving Years Training Academy

OCTOBER 29, 2023

on July 2 when a nurse enrolled in my Certified Caregiving Consultant training. My anxiety about my overdrawn account while I cared for my dying dad made me wonder: How many family caregivers do some of the most important work of their lives while they can’t meet their own basic needs? My red was short lived.

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Nurse Keith's Digital Doorway

JULY 11, 2022

Pushing Back and Climbing Up Nurses are fierce caregivers and defenders of the wellness of others. Wellness can be an uphill climb when we're wired to be selfless caregivers. From 2012 until its sunset in 2017, Keith co-hosted RNFMRadio, a groundbreaking nursing podcast. Might as well be useful and scrub the floor."

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GeriPal

MARCH 7, 2024

There’s an organization that I took my training from, which began, I want to say, in 2012. Emotional support was offered in 276 visits and 88 caregivers were provided with respite, things like that. Jane: We’re following behind the birth doula movement. I would say 15 to 20 years, death doulas have been around.

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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. 1-3 This three-month minimum promotes hospice’s ability to provide the physical and emotional support that helps patients and their family caregivers. 2012; 43 (4): 732- 738. Unfortunately, for most U.S.

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Home Care Pulse

AUGUST 8, 2023

She’s the c e o of Synergy Home Care of Mid Penn, and Michelle opened her agency in central Pennsylvania in March of 2012. And you know, Michelle, when we heard that you, that the employee who cared for your very first client in 2012 is still on your team, we knew we needed to talk to you. What about with new employees?

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Hospice News

JANUARY 3, 2025

An OIG study of hospice billing claims submitted during 2012 found that 31% of the GIP claims that providers submitted to CMS were inappropriately billed to the tune of an estimated $268 million that year alone. The industry will also likely see efforts continue to combat fraud, including the aforementioned audits and medical reviews.

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Pallimed

MAY 3, 2021

PROP Petition to the FDA on Opioid Labeling The Petition is Filed In its first effort to influence national opioid policy, in July 2012, PROP submitted a Petition to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) calling for a change in labeling of opioid analgesics (8). PROP Petition to FDA, 2012, See [link] 9. August 16, 2012.

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Nurse Keith's Digital Doorway

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

As natural (and sometimes compulsive) caregivers, nurses spend so much time caring for others (in and out of the workplace) that they don't have the skill of tending to and honoring their own needs. From 2012 until its sunset in 2017, Keith co-hosted RNFMRadio, a groundbreaking nursing podcast. Strategy #10: Honor yourself. No kidding.

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