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. In November, industry organizations called on CMS to examine the issue nationally.

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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. The hospice provider also offers palliative care, veteran and bereavement services, and durable medical equipment (DME) and supplies.

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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.” Branded at Ohio’s Hospice at United Church Homes, it provides care in more than three communities across the UCH footprint.

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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. The Tennessee-based company offers community-based hospice, infusion therapy, home health, and palliative care across 200 locations in 30 states. New COO Takes Helm at Compassus.

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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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NHPCO

JUNE 13, 2024

For Immediate Release PHOTO LINK June 13, 2024 (Alexandria, VA) – More than 100 hospice and palliative care advocates from across the country met with over 150 congressional offices this week to discuss key legislative and regulatory priorities for ensuring and expanding access to hospice and palliative care.

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Hospice News

MAY 13, 2022

That same year, it launched a community-based pediatric palliative care program that offers specialized medical care to infants, children, adolescents and young adults suffering from serious illness. He built our Hospice Maui Hale to provide a space for patients and families when care at the home is no longer an option.”.

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Hospice News

APRIL 9, 2025

Marcum is also the founder of Sarah House, a pediatric respite and end-of-life care center. Once open, it will be the states first respite and hospice facility for children facing life-limiting conditions. Theres a missing link for kids that have a life-limiting illness.

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Hospice News

MAY 23, 2025

Law makers in several states have proposed legislation supporting the establishment of pediatric hospice, respite and palliative care facilities in recent years. Another report from Pediatric Research estimated that 1-in-100 children are cared for in home settings annually.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 23, 2024

Julia Hospice & Palliative Refuels De Novo Plans Pennsylvania-based Julia Hospice & Palliative (JHPC) has reignited plans to launch a de novo after experiencing pandemic-related setbacks. Dubbed Julia House, the facility will provide inpatient hospice and serve as an outpatient palliative care clinic.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 26, 2024

Hospice and palliative care provider VIA Health has long invested in disease-specific programs. The numbers have continued to grow in terms of building these quality indicators to ensure that heart failure patients get adequate and high-value, quality end-of-life care in their trajectory and get enrolled in hospice and palliative care.”

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Hospice News

JANUARY 5, 2024

Researchers examined data on the place of death among adults in 47 countries that took place between January 2012 and December 2021, according to a new study in the Lancet. in 2012–2013. Studying the impact of the pandemic on place of death matters because it may signal critical disruptions in end of life care.

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AJN Off the Charts

APRIL 7, 2023

There have been a couple of recent studies that confirm what I have observed as a palliative care nurse practitioner (NP) in an academic medical center: that there’s still a tendency to pursue very aggressive care with older people with cancer. Palliative care could prevent many ED visits.

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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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GeriPal

MARCH 7, 2024

** In the last several years, I’ve seen more and more articles about end-of-life doulas ( like this NY Times article from 2021 ). Despite this, in my 20-year career as a palliative care physician, I have yet to see a death doula in the wild. Eric: Again, we’re going to be talking about end-of-life doulas.

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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. 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.

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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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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.) Ann Intern Med.

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GeriPal

APRIL 17, 2025

So it is my experience that I can have conversations about end of life that none of you can have because I walk in the room and you do not have that trust. Just in January, I remember having a conversation with a family that came in with a plan for end of life care. And I have had recent conversations.

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