Hospice News

DECEMBER 1, 2022

We identified numerous indicators of such fraud and abuse by hospice agencies, which typically offer palliative end-of-life care to individuals with medical diagnoses of fewer than six months to live.”. “The state’s weak controls have created the opportunity for large-scale fraud and abuse,” CDOJ indicated in its report. “We

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Hospice News

MARCH 8, 2023

“I look forward to partnering with this team and all its employees, immersing myself in the culture and executing on strategies that ultimately contribute to ensuring VITAS as the premier provider of end-of-life care.” He held the role for two years after serving as CFO at Tenet’s North Shore Medical Center from 2006 to 2012.

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Hospice News

JUNE 21, 2024

Decisions regarding end-of-life care are incredibly difficult and personal, and families must be able to trust the intentions of their chosen providers,” Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr said in a report from the U.S. million to settle alleged anti-kickback statute violations of the False Claims Act (FCA).

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Hospice News

JULY 25, 2022

The state sharpened its gaze on the hospice space in the wake of two 2019 OIG reports showing that about 20% of hospices surveyed by regulators or accreditors between 2012 and 2016 had a condition-level deficiency that posed a serious patient safety risk.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Initially established in 2008 as a rehabilitation service provider, Choice expanded into home health during 2012 and later into hospice in 2018. In 2020 the company partnered with the investment firms Trive Capital and Coltala Holdings to widen its reach as a post-acute care company. The state’s 1.3 million seniors represent 18.3%

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Hospice News

MARCH 12, 2024

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. Department of Health & Human Services Office of the Inspector General(OIG) launched a national audit of GIP utilization.

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Hospice News

MARCH 13, 2024

We identified numerous indicators of such fraud and abuse by hospice agencies, which typically offer palliative end-of-life care to individuals with medical diagnoses of fewer than six months to live.” “The state’s weak controls have created the opportunity for large-scale fraud and abuse,” CDOJ indicated in its report. “We

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Hospice News

JANUARY 12, 2023

The state sharpened its gaze on the hospice space in the wake of two 2019 OIG reports showing that about 20% of hospices surveyed by regulators or accreditors between 2012 and 2016 had a condition-level deficiency that posed a serious patient safety risk.

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Hospice News

MARCH 25, 2024

Arizona-based Stoneridge Hospice launched services in 2020 with an aim to address a swelling aging population’s growing need for end-of-life care. I worked in Phoenix at the sheriff’s office from 1976 to 2012. You took the helm at Stoneridge Hospice after retiring from local law enforcement.

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Hospice News

JUNE 28, 2023

Fetzer was previously associate medical director at Rainbow Hospice and Palliative Care, now part of the AMITA Health system. Her past roles since 2012 have included clinical and executive positions in emergency and palliative medicine, as well as in hospice.

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Hospice News

APRIL 26, 2022

I became a registered nurse in 2012 and received my nurse practitioner degree in 2017. My parents are both nurses and my wife is a nurse as well, so I’ve been around clinical care my entire life before we decided to branch out into hospice. As a nurse practitioner, what led you to begin a hospice program?

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Since joining the company in 2012, Templeton has served as senior vice president and chief of clinical operations. Through the partnership, the hospice developed a wellness initiative to help staff cope with the stress of providing end-of-life care. New COO Takes Helm at Compassus.

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Hospice News

MAY 30, 2023

“We envision a large network of not-for-profit, community-based hospice providers working collaboratively to create standards for what a community should expect from an end-of-life care provider.” Empath has also been stepping up its investments in care models like PACE and adult day services.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Established in 2012, Canyon’s service region stretches across locations in Utah, Arizona, Colorado, Idaho and Nevada. “We Similar to national trends, demand for serious illness and end-of-life care is expected to swell due to favorable demographics in the Grand Canyon State. Dallman, M.D., LLC for an undisclosed sum.

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AJN Off the Charts

APRIL 7, 2023

The study found that more than half of ED visits among patients with cancer, 51.6%, were identified as potentially preventable, with the absolute number of potentially preventable ED visits increasing substantially between 2012 and 2019. Aggressive care common in nursing homes at end of life. Nearly 10% of the 1.5

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NHPCO

JUNE 13, 2024

It’s about sharing why hospice holds personal significance and why serious illness and end-of-life care policy should resonate with our lawmakers,” said Logan Hoover, NHPCO’s VP of Policy & Government Relations. “The cornerstone of effective advocacy is storytelling.

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Evidence-Based Nursing - BMJ blogs

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Dignity Therapy (DT) is a brief psycho-therapeutic intervention that assists individuals with shortened life expectancies to have meaning and purpose (Chochinov, 2012). DT was developed following the construction of the Dignity Conserving Model of Care (Chochinov, 2002). 2012) Dignity Therapy: Final words for final days.

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Hospice News

MAY 13, 2022

They need to see us as more than just end-of-life care; they need to see us as part of that care continuum as we move up through palliative care, and that’s really what I hope comes from this.”. Hospice of the Northwest’s executive director steps down.

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Minority Nurse

JULY 12, 2023

Flores, RN, CHPN, BS, a hospice nurse in Colorado since 2012. In 2020 Flores was a featured guest on the TV Show, The Doctors , sharing his expertise on end-of-life hospice care. He’s also written two books to increase knowledge of end-of-life care. Nursing is a second career for Derek J.

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High Peaks Hospice

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

The Start of End Of Life Care in the Tri-Lakes Area and Expanding Throughout the Adirondacks. Dr. David Merkel served as Medical Director of Hospice until his death in 2012. We invite you to watch the video below and leave your comments. Lawrence Counties.

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1-800-HOSPICE

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Hospice is tailored to symptom control, emotional support, and care coordination during end-of-life care. When patients receive too little time in hospice, families are more likely to be dissatisfied with the end-of-life care. 2012; 43 (4): 732- 738. Hospice is unique among healthcare benefits.

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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. It was started by a social worker who really saw some gaps in care with those at end-of-life, particularly those with chronic long-term illness, having important conversations. It’s been around for a while.

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Pallimed

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Chou had originally announced his intention to help influence opioid policy in a 2011 article that he co-authored with PROP’s founders (5), and he was a bold signatory to PROP’s 2012 Petition to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to change opioid labeling (6; See Figures 1a and 1b: First page and signatory page.) August 31, 2012.

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