Hospice News

APRIL 7, 2023

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is seeking answers from the hospice community — including some around utilization patterns and non-hospice spending. The recently proposed 2024 hospice payment rule contained a 2.8% In Fiscal Year 2022, routine home care accounted for 98.8% of hospice days and 93.7%

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Hospice News

JANUARY 5, 2024

in 2012–2013. One such is the COVID-19 pandemic, declared a public health emergency of international concern on 30 January 2020 and with the end of its emergency phase on 5 May 2023,” the study indicated. 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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Hospice News

JULY 6, 2022

Hospice of Morrow County has joined forces with Ohio’s Hospice of Central Ohio, a member of a regional partnership of providers in the state. . Hospice of Morrow County has joined forces with Ohio’s Hospice of Central Ohio, a member of a regional partnership of providers in the state. Seniors currently represent 17.5%

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Ohio’s Hospice Lifecare has partnered with a local college to grow its workforce through an emergency medical technician (EMT) internship program. The hospice began offering the EMT certification program to staff in January before recently expanding it as an internship through a collaboration with The College of Wooster.

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Hospice News

MAY 30, 2023

Though nonprofit hospices now represent a smaller slice of the industry than in years past, they continue to care for more than half of patients in the United States who elect the benefit. The number of hospices operating nationwide rose to 5,3,58 in 2021, according to the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Natarajan’s role expanded after previously serving as the post-acute company’s chief medical officer for hospice since 2005. In addition to oversee AccentCare’s hospice and palliative care programs, he will also support its clinical care operations and patient experience initiatives.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

While private residences are the most frequently occurring location of care for hospice patients, long-term care facilities come in second, followed by assisted living facilities, according to the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO). The post U.S.

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Hospice News

JUNE 28, 2023

Hospice of the Chesapeake Appoints New CMO Maryland-based Hospice of the Chesapeake recently named Dr. Marny Fetzer as its new chief medical officer. Fetzer is currently system medical director for palliative care and hospice services at Illinois-based Ascension Health.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

The Indiana-based palliative care provider Center for Hospice Care (CHC) is looking beyond its immediate community and has developed networks that impact palliative care on a global scale. Historic run Getting the Global Partners in Care program to this level has been quite the journey for CHC. hospice leaders.

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Evidence-Based Nursing - BMJ blogs

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

In considering the potential impact of providing children’s palliative and end of life care to an increasing number of children, some assumptions need to be challenged. There is a belief that the preferred place of death for adults and children is home (Ellingsen et al 2014; Pollock, 2015; Rainsford et al 2018).

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AJN Off the Charts

APRIL 7, 2023

Aggressive care common in nursing homes at end of life. The other recent JAMA study ran in February: Incidence of Aggressive End-of-Life Care Among Older Adults With Metastatic Cancer Living in Nursing Homes and Community Settings. Nearly 10% of the 1.5

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Pallimed

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Ironically, in 2013 Chou had co-authored an AHRQ-sponsored article in which he stated, “Since evidence syntheses depend on the published literature accurately representing what’s known about medical therapies, reporting biases threaten the veracity of what we know (italics ours, 28). AHRQ Methods for Effective Health Care. 2013 Nov 18.

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Hospice News

MAY 23, 2023

The focus to date has been concentrated on three areas: mental health, palliative and end-of-life care. The growing range of indications that are currently being explored will hopefully benefit millions of people suffering from treatable conditions,” Filament CEO Ben Lightburn, told Hospice News. “I

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GeriPal

MARCH 3, 2022

GeriPal podcast with Tom Gill on the Precipitating Events Study, distressing symptoms, disability, and hospice. Julien: He basically had an end of life care discussion with this patient. Additional links: GeriPal podcast with Lauren Ferrante and Nathan Brummel on geriatricizing the ICU.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

times higher among 1,822 patients without cancer who received palliative care services at an academic tertiary hospital in Toronto, Canada, from 2013 to 2019, according to a study published in Palliative Medicine. Physicians in a survey of more than 240 oncologists cited a lack of understanding of palliative care as a leading barrier.

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