Hospice News

AUGUST 30, 2022

. “With the addition of Comfort Hospice of St. Louis Missouri and Grace Hospice of Maumee Ohio, we are poised for expansion throughout the Midwest as we continue our mission of making hospice care more accessible to our communities,” Justin DeWitte, CEO of Residential Hospice, said in a statement.

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Hospice News

MARCH 12, 2024

“To ensure hospice beneficiaries are served by high quality hospice providers, the current oversight system must be reformed and enforcement focused to uncover genuine instances of fraud, waste, and abuse,” said Katie Smith Sloan, president and CEO, LeadingAge, in a statement. “We

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Hospice News

JUNE 21, 2024

Located in Calhoun, Georgia, Tapestry Hospice’s service region spans 10 counties in the state. Dr. David Lovell, its founder and owner, launched the for-profit hospice in 2010, and the enterprise became Medicare-certified in 2012. The case was prosecuted by Assistant U.S.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 13, 2023

Over time, his health care career began to move in a new direction. Empath also offers hospice care through Suncoast Hospice, Empath Hospice, Hospice of Marion County and Suncoast Hospice of Hillsborough. Health care historically has just been so fragmented, so siloed and uncoordinated.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Starting out as a bedside nurse in 2006, Coronado has held multiple roles within VITAS, including team manager, inpatient unit manager and patient care administrator. Anthony Cosma II, a 12-year veteran of VITAS, assumes the role of VP of hospice operations.

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Hospice News

JUNE 13, 2023

“In recent years, data has shown an increase in costs to the Medicare program resulting from claims for hospice care.” The state of hospice fraud Fraudulent or inaccurate Medicare claims cost the federal government an estimated $60 billion annually, according to a 2018 CNBC report.

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Hospice News

APRIL 26, 2022

As a nurse practitioner, what led you to begin a hospice program? I became a registered nurse in 2012 and received my nurse practitioner degree in 2017. I practiced in men’s and women’s health before deciding to start Blue Monarch Hospice. It’s just a matter of time before the need for hospice rises.

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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).

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Hospice News

JUNE 28, 2023

“I am excited to join the executive team at Hospice of the Chesapeake and support future growth of the organization as well as continue to ensure the delivery of the highest-quality supportive and hospice care to the community,” Fetzer said.

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Hospice News

APRIL 3, 2024

She will oversee a hospice average daily census in the high hundreds, across four states and that size organization falls into the upper tier of mid-size providers and has us positioned for expansion.” 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

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. My wife was a nurse in emergency medicine for several years, and my niece was a long-time hospice nurse. I worked in Phoenix at the sheriff’s office from 1976 to 2012.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Hospice News sat down with providers, advocacy groups, legal experts and other stakeholders to uncover the most significant hospice regulatory trends from this year and their anticipated impacts heading into 2024 and beyond. But we know that action can work in a pendulum.

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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. Darlene will build upon our top-tier hospice team culture and expand upon the policies that support a positive work environment. New COO Takes Helm at Compassus.

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NHPCO

JUNE 13, 2024

1330 “Gerald’s Law Act;” a bill which was advocated for during Hospice Action Week. 2024 Courageous Conversations Award – this recognition is presented, when merited, to a standout individual who has inspired and educated the public on the value of hospice.

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Hospice News

MARCH 31, 2025

They face unique challenges when providing support for hospice patients compared to others, recent research has found. Millennials include adults born between the early 1980s and mid-1990s, some of whom are as old as the Medicare Hospice Benefit. Gen Zers include those born between 1997 and 2012. Representation was also key.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

It might make them even fearful about hospice care, which is the last thing we want to see happen. At the same time, [CMS’] implementation misses likely lots of truly poor performing hospices that should be called out and addressed.” Calls for reform This year also saw calls for major reform in the hospice space.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 3, 2025

The number of hospice care days also saw increases, as did average length of stay and average number of patient visits per week. Total Medicare hospice payments in 2023 reached $25.7 It might make them even fearful about hospice care, which is the last thing we want to see happen.

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Hospice News

MARCH 19, 2025

Many patients with heart failure do not receive the hospice care that could significantly improve their final months of life, said Dr. Joseph Shega, executive vice president and chief medical officer at VITAS, in a statement. In 2012, heart failure cost the nation an estimated $30.7 Close to 6.7 death certifications.

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Hospice News

APRIL 8, 2025

Current American College of Cardiology guidelines recommend that patients who have advanced heart failure receive palliative care. The new clinic will allow those patients to receive palliative care outside of an inpatient hospital stay. In 2012, heart failure cost the nation an estimated $30.7 Close to 6.7 death certifications.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 23, 2024

MultiCare Health System operates 12 hospitals and 300 primary, urgent, pediatric and specialty care locations in Washington, Idaho and Oregon. The center, Cottage in the Meadow, opened in September 2012 fueled by more than a decade of philanthropic donations. The hospice facility is projected to reopen in the fall.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Health care has its own language, and at times the New Yorker and ProPublica appeared to be less than fluent. For example, the article indicated that “half of all Americans” die in hospice care, when actually, that figure applies specifically to Medicare beneficiaries rather than the general U.S. Hospice costs money.

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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 Merkels keenly felt the lack of compassionate care options for the dying. So Ann and David decided to do what they could to start hospice services locally. In 1982 Medicare authorized reimbursement for hospice care. David Merkel served as Medical Director of Hospice until his death in 2012.

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Nurse Keith's Digital Doorway

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

When I was first in nursing school, I was certain that I'd graduate and serve the dying with dignity and compassion by opening an inpatient hospice. From 2012 until its sunset in 2017, Keith co-hosted RNFMRadio, a groundbreaking nursing podcast. All things Nurse Keith can be found at NurseKeith.com.

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GeriPal

MARCH 20, 2025

And she was from Oregon, of course, and in Oregon in 2012, she had completed an advanced directive for stopping eating and drinking once she had advanced dementia. And I knew it was a matter of time before this came along. There was a patient who was living in Seattle at a skilled nursing facility. Eric 44:32 And you feel like they are.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Going back to when I was shopping this idea around the health systems in 2012, we landed on the stepped-wedge design because no one was… I said before you couldn’t randomize people to get palliative care or not, specifically. Scott: You can’t say you, Alex Smith, are prohibited from getting palliative care.

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1-800-HOSPICE

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

families, time in hospice falls short of recommendations. That means more than half of Americans receive less than three weeks of hospice care. Why do most people receive less time in hospice than recommended? First, let’s consider the importance of a quality length of stay in hospice. 2012; 43 (4): 732- 738.

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Hospice of the North Coast

JULY 14, 2023

Learning to accept adversities and challenges with a resilient mindset gives us a special meaning and purpose in our lives. References Kessler, D. Finding meaning: The sixth stage of grief. The human quest for meaning: Theories, research, and applications (2nd ed.). Worden, J.

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