Hospice News

MAY 16, 2022

CVS Health Corporation (NYSE: CVS) subsidiary Aetna has selected Ohio’s Hospice and Pure Healthcare as part of the insurance company’s hospice and palliative care preferred provider network for Value-Based Insurance Design (VBID) in the Buckeye State. Participation in the demonstration is voluntary for both payers and providers.

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Hospice News

JUNE 4, 2024

Suicide rates among cancer patients saw a “sharp slump” between 2013 and 2017, with researchers attributing the decrease to several potential factors. Among these was greater integration of hospice and palliative services in coordinated care models across the continuum, they indicated.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Hospice services right now really can’t be provided concurrent with SNF care, which means if a person is approaching the end of their life, if they’re really doing poorly, many times the easiest route is back to the hospital,” the study’s lead author, Dr. Lynn Flint, told Palliative Care News.

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Hospice News

JUNE 23, 2023

The creation and subsequent partnership with Radiant Alliance will bring a hospice and palliative care company and senior living operator under the auspices of a payer. Metta Healthcare is the parent company of Ohio’s Hospice and the palliative care provider Pure Healthcare. We are the first to actually do it.”

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Hospice News

JUNE 17, 2024

Blue Ridge Hospice Welcomes New VP of IT Virginia-based Blue Ridge Hospice has named Mohamad Hamad as its new vice president of information technology. Technology will play a key role in Blue Ridge Hospice’s ability to grow and sustain its services in the face of rising demand, according to President and CEO Jason Parsons.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 16, 2022

(NASDAQ: PNTG) has purchased California-based Ardent Hospice and Palliative Care in the San Diego area for an undisclosed amount. Ardent, which also offers home health care, serves between 20 and 50 hospice patients per day, according to National Hospice Locator. The company received its Medicare certification in 2013. “We

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Hospice News

AUGUST 31, 2022

Building up clinical ranks through education, training and tuition reimbursement programs is an increasingly common thread that hospices are weaving into their recruitment and retention initiatives. Building career paths for hospice clinicians. Heath will become the organization’s CEO effective October 1.

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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. hospice leaders. hospice leaders. hospice leaders went on this trip, saw the need and felt like more could be done to help the situation.”

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

The home health and hospice provider recently announced the leadership changes in a filing with the U.S. The company in June announced plans to acquire the massive home health and hospice provider Amedisys for $3.3 She also served as COO of Camellia Healthcare’s hospice division before leaving the organization in 2013.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Guaranteed’s New SVP of Growth, Strategy Tech-enabled hospice startup Guaranteed has named Ryan Malone as its new senior vice president of growth and strategy. Previously, he was head of growth at Mavencare, and served in sales manager and director roles at Hometeam from 2013 to 2016.

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Hospice News

MARCH 30, 2023

Ohio’s Hospice is deepening its relationship with United Church Homes (UCH) to expand hospice and palliative care options for the senior living and support services organization’s residents. Ohio’s Hospice is a statewide alliance of nonprofit providers established in 2013.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Agape Care Group has expanded into Alabama and Louisiana with the acquisition of Journey Hospice. Both [Alabama and Louisiana] are tremendous markets with compelling demographics and strong workforces,” Agape CEO Troy Yarborough told Hospice News. “We Hospice utilization among Medicare decedents in Alabama reached 47.4%

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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

MAY 19, 2023

Hospice of the Panhandle Promotes New CEO from Within West Virginia-based Hospice of the Panhandle has appointed Chief Clinical Officer Nikki Bigiarelli as its new CEO. The hospice world is constantly changing,” Bigiarelli said. Bigiarelli will work alongside its current CEO Margaret Cogswell before she retires on June 1, 2023.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Hospices tend to see an increase in dementia patient admissions as well as home-based utilization following an acquisition by a private equity firm or a publicly traded company. After an acquisition by a public company, hospices saw a 1.4% A little more than 20% of hospice decedents in 2020 suffered from dementia, up from 18.5%

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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

JUNE 30, 2023

We remain semi-autonomous as an organization, uphold our own legacy and history and business operations,” Daniel told Hospice News. Metta Healthcare is the parent company of Ohio’s Hospice and the palliative care provider Pure Healthcare. Ohio’s Hospice is a statewide alliance of nonprofit providers established in 2013.

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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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GeriPal

APRIL 27, 2023

Again, this was not an AHPM or HPNA sponsored thing, but we did go around people on the street asking them two questions: what’s one thing that you’re hoping for in the future of palliative care and hospice, and what’s another thing when you’re thinking about what you’re worried about for the field?

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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). Senate Takes Up Supporting Our Seniors Act appeared first on Hospice News.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Five hospice providers made Inc. They include Texas-headquartered Traditions Health, Bridge Home Health & Hospice and Healthflex Home Health & Hospice, both in California. Bridge Home Health & Hospice crossing state lines. magazine’s annual list of the 5,000 fastest-growing companies in the United States. .

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Hospice News

MARCH 29, 2023

Though evidence shows that longer hospice stays reduce costs, providers are still walking a regulatory tightrope. On one hand, longer hospice stays can lead to improved patient and family satisfaction and greater cost saving opportunities. Young told Hospice News. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the U.S.

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Hospice News

JULY 5, 2022

The availability of post-acute resources, including hospice and palliative care, has a significant impact on hospital readmissions, but greater coordination among providers could drive improvement. Then you increase your likelihood of being bounced back to the hospital as your health declines.”.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 5, 2024

in 2012–2013. The availability of palliative care, inclusive of hospice, also played a role. “A The post Deaths at Home Rose Globally During COVID Pandemic appeared first on Hospice News. The study focused on cancer and dementia patients. Worldwide, the percentage of home deaths rose to 32.2%

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

of hospice care days during 2022, according to the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO). The widespread labor shortage in hospice is one of several barriers to patients’ receiving CHC, according to Sarah Simmons, director of quality at NHPCO. and the hospice provides continuous in-home care until 4 a.m.,

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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

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% of hospice days and 93.7% In Fiscal Year 2022, routine home care accounted for 98.8%

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Hospice News

JANUARY 6, 2023

Hospice leaders can benefit and improve by staying engaged with bedside care. Sciullo joined Suncoast Hospice in 2013, which is now an affiliate of Empath Health. Empath offers hospice care through Suncoast Hospice, Suncoast Hospice of Hillsborough and Tidewell Hospice. She’s absolutely right.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

In day-to-day practice, It’s hard to imagine providing excellent hospice or palliative care services without access to a team social worker. Whether in direct practice or in research and academia, we should work together to help Hospice and Palliative Care Social Work meet its full potential. . Barbara: Oh, I think it was 2013.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The needs of today’s seriously ill patients necessitates the development of new, longitudinal care models that integrate the patient-centered principles of hospice and palliative care, Dr. Darren Schulte, CEO of VyncaCare, told Hospice News. million since its formation in 2013, according to the online startup database Crunchbase.

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Hospice News

MARCH 12, 2024

In case you missed it, Hospice News has launched a new specialty publication for palliative care professionals. Ohio’s Hospice is among the providers experiencing staffing pressures amid lagging reimbursement rates and rising inflation. Currently, Ohio’s Hospice has roughly 1,400 employees.

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Evidence-Based Nursing - BMJ blogs

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

This belief is based on adult studies (Bluebond-Langner et al 2013; Bluebond-Langner et al 2015), and both Pollock (2015) and Rainsford et al (2018) argue that the assertion that home is the preferred place is not supported by evidence.

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NHPCO

DECEMBER 15, 2022

(Alexandria, Va) – The National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) published the 2022 edition of NHPCO Facts and Figures , an annual report on key data points related to the delivery of hospice care, including information on patient characteristics, location and level of care, Medicare hospice spending, and hospice providers.

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AJN Off the Charts

APRIL 7, 2023

The study looked at claims data from January 2013 to December 2017 among 146,329 older patients with metastatic breast, colorectal, lung, pancreas, or prostate cancer. Palliative care could prevent many ED visits. This study reviewed data on almost a billion (854,911,106) ED visits, of which 4.2% were made by patients with cancer.

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Pallimed

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Despite PROP’s optimism, CDC observed that “age-adjusted overdose death rates involving synthetic opioids, psychostimulants, cocaine, heroin, and prescription opioids during 2013–2019” increased 1,040%, largely as the result of illicit fentalogues (62-64). Kollas provided testimony at a 2004 Congressional Hearing on OxyContin. ISSN 0885-3924.

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NHPCO

MARCH 8, 2022

(Alexandria, Va) – In recognition of a lasting legacy of leadership and innovation in the field of hospice and palliative care, the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) today honors Rafael J. Sciullo is a longstanding leader in the hospice community. Sciullo with the Galen Miller Leadership Award.

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