Hospice News

MARCH 12, 2024

The nation’s four largest hospice industry organizations — LeadingAge, the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC), the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) and the National Partnership for Healthcare and Hospice Innovation (NPHI) — in late 2023 conducted a 133-respondent provider survey focused on regulation.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 1, 2022

The first report indicated that about 20% of hospices surveyed by regulators or accreditors between 2012 and 2016 had a condition-level deficiency that posed a serious safety risk. Department of Health & Human Services Office of the Inspector General (OIG) that rocked the industry. The second cited specific examples of those risks.

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Hospice News

APRIL 3, 2024

Weber ascended to the role after serving as vice president of operations for hospice at Phoenix Home Care & Hospice, a New Day Healthcare company. The company’s roughly 7,000 employees provide care to an average daily census of more than 11,000 patients.

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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.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 24, 2023

Hospice regulation has taken a winding path in recent years, representing both a push and pull in terms of quality hospice care delivery, according to William Dombi, president of the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC). Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector General (OIG).

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Hospice News

APRIL 22, 2024

Some in the hospice space have maintained that accreditors should be able to provide such education, but they should not be paid services, including the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC). About 20% of those were condition-level deficiencies that posed serious patient safety risks.

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

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 10, 2022

They include Texas-headquartered Traditions Health, Bridge Home Health & Hospice and Healthflex Home Health & Hospice, both in California. Philadelphia-based All-American Home Care and Innovative Homecare Solutions in Illinois also appeared on the list. said in a statement.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The first report shook the industry with findings that around 20% of hospices surveyed by regulators or accreditors between 2012 and 2016 had a deficiency that posed a serious safety risk. Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector General (OIG).

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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

MARCH 25, 2024

We started initially as a home health agency [Southland Home Care], then sold it in 2020 and began talking about opening a hospice. I worked in Phoenix at the sheriff’s office from 1976 to 2012. We now have a service-mile radius of 60 miles in Maricopa County, Arizona.

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Hospice News

MAY 30, 2023

Empath has also been stepping up its investments in care models like PACE and adult day services. The company’s affiliate Suncoast acquired its PACE program in 2012, prior to the formation of Empath in 2014. Health care historically has just been so fragmented, so siloed and uncoordinated.

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AlayaCare

MARCH 14, 2023

AlayaCare , a developer of end-to-end home-based care technology, today announced a partnership that will offer AlayaCare customers the ability to utilize Forcura’s healthcare workflow management platform as an integrated solution. billion in 2022 as all aspects of home-based care continues to grow nationwide.

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AlayaCare

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Partnership enables agencies to remove countless hours of manual work and expedite payments September 18, 2019 – Toronto, ON – AlayaCare, a leading home care software provider, today announced the deepest Medicaid billing integration of its kind through a partnership with Waystar’s claims management solution.

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AlayaCare

JANUARY 17, 2021

These diseases of course are still present; for families and their health-care teams, it’s just become more challenging to manage them. We’re waging ba ttles on multiple fronts – and, like battles before this, our hospitals, governments and home care industry have tried to step up to provide solutions.

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Freedom Home Care and Medical Staffing

MAY 14, 2024

Welcome Yana Smith to Our Team at Freedom Home Care! We are thrilled to welcome Yana Smith, our new Clinical Nursing Supervisor, to the Freedom Home Care family. Her extensive experience across various healthcare settings has solidified her love for home care, where she feels she can make the most significant impact.

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Nurse Keith's Digital Doorway

MAY 1, 2023

During these past ten years when you've been focusing exclusively on home health, you haven't done any networking, your resume is a mess, and you have few contacts beyond your small universe of home care colleagues. From 2012 until its sunset in 2017, Keith co-hosted RNFMRadio, a groundbreaking nursing podcast.

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Nurse Keith's Digital Doorway

APRIL 25, 2022

As a home health nurse, I've spent more hours than I can count in the homes of many patients over the years. In home care, you're a guest in the patient's castle, and it's up to you to be a non-threatening presence who provides peace of mind along with skilled nursing care.

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Home Care Pulse

AUGUST 8, 2023

19: Keeping Your Care Staff: Simple Strategies to Retain Care Staff for 5+ Years At Synergy Home Care of Carlisle, PA, franchise owner Michelle Lisk’s very first employee is still working alongside her to provide care to their community. Speaker 2 ( 36:44 ): The Home Care Pulse. Any recommendations?

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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. CMS stated in a 2021 document that no precise measure of health care fraud exists.

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Nurse Keith's Digital Doorway

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Nurse Keith's Journey For myself, I'm in my late fifties at the time of this writing, and after more than 25 years as a clinically- oriented nurse in home care, hospice, public health, and ambulatory case management, I chose in 2016 to no longer hold a clinical position for the foreseeable future, except for occasional per diem work.

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High Peaks Hospice

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Most projects of this magnitude take years to come to fruition, but in less than a year High Peaks Hospice opened on a strictly volunteer basis, providing home care in the Tri-lakes. Dr. David Merkel served as Medical Director of Hospice until his death in 2012. Madden’s Storage donated office furniture. Lawrence Counties.

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Nurse Keith's Digital Doorway

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Nursing care is built on the foundation of communication -- both patients and colleagues figure largely in a nurse's world, and being able to listen well and speak your truth clearly is absolutely essential both on the job and in your daily life. From 2012 until its sunset in 2017, Keith co-hosted RNFMRadio, a groundbreaking nursing podcast.

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