Hospice News

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Kusserow – who holds a reputation as a successful turnaround executive – held the Amedisys CEO role from 2014 until early 2022. During that time, he helped spearhead the company’s aggressive hospice expansion, epitomized by the industry-shaping acquisitions of Compassionate Care Hospice, AseraCare and other businesses.

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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. Palliative Care clinicians from Nkhoma Hospital in Malawi visit U.S. So, these U.S.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Want to read more palliative care-focused content like this? Subscribe to Palliative Care News today ! Bicultural and bilingual palliative patient navigator interventions may be a key to improving access to goal concordant care among Hispanic populations with serious illness, according to recent research.

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Hospice News

MAY 27, 2022

These include the audit system created by Improving Medicare Post-Acute Care Transformation (IMPACT) Act of 2014, and the two-tiered reimbursement for routine home care that reduced payment amounts after 60 days. days for all hospice enrollees, according to the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO).

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Telehealth utilization for palliative care during the last decade has been associated with improved quality of life, patient satisfaction and symptom management. Researchers included palliative care professionals and educators at medical colleges and hospitals in India. The analysis comes at a time when current U.S.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Education in palliative care principles for emergency department clinicians could likely improve care for seriously ill patients who present in the ED. Populations who most need palliative care are often chronically ill seniors with complex health conditions. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

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Hospice News

JUNE 17, 2024

Its current census hovers around 340 patients, with expectations to swell this volume up to 400 through expanded hospice and palliative care services and its new Program for All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) set to launch this year. In addition to hospice, Empath offers home health, personal and palliative care.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Stakeholders in the hospice community are lobbying for those funds to be reapplied to supporting hospice initiatives, according to Logan Hoover, vice president of policy and government relations at the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO). For Fiscal Year 2024, the cap is set at $33,494.01 for next year.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Wynsong joined the company in 2014 as an internal management consultant, going on to several other leadership positions. In addition to his current job responsibilities, Wynsong will now oversee the VITAS home medical equipment division, palliative care entities and the hospice provider’s admissions team.

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Hospice News

JUNE 16, 2022

In part, the trend of more hospitals and health systems in hospice is a response to growing demand and strain on acute care services. More health systems are looking to expand into community-based hospice and palliative care to complement existing offerings while creating new care delivery channels.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 19, 2023

The initial partnership between the two companies was established about 15 years ago, but NorthShore folded its in-house hospice and community-based palliative care programs into Residential early this year. Graham went on to acquire Residential Hospice in 2014.

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Hospice News

MAY 30, 2023

Last year, Ohio’s Hospice — and its palliative care arm Pure Healthcare — entered into a VBID network contract with the CVS Health Corp. Branded at Ohio’s Hospice at United Church Homes, it provides care in more than three communities across the UCH footprint. NYSE: CVS) subsidiary Aetna.

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Hospice News

MARCH 13, 2023

Kusserow led Amedisys between 2014 and the first quarter of 2022, when he retired as CEO but stayed on as chairman. He returned to the helm late last year after the company dismissed his immediate successor Chris Gerard following a series of inconsistent quarters on earnings, recruitment and retention.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

.” Kusserow retired as CEO effective April 15 but remained chairman of the board of directors.Kusserow’s first tenure as CEO began in 2014. Under Kusserow, Amedisys also expanded its care continuum from home health and hospice to include palliative care, personal care, hospital-at-home and skilled-nursing-facility-at-home.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 13, 2023

Empath provides hospice, home health care, primary care, palliative care, PACE, AIDS and sexual wellness care, and adult day services to a combined total of more than 23,000 individuals. Empath has also been stepping up its investments in care models like PACE and adult day services.

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Hospice News

JULY 12, 2024

Established in 1975, Alive Hospice provides end-of-life and palliative care across central Tennessee. Her experience combined with her passion to propel our mission, and dedication to innovation and exceptional quality care for our community, makes her invaluable for taking Angela Hospice into the future.”

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Hospice News

JUNE 2, 2022

Supreme Court may take up a False Claims Act (FCA) case involving Georgia-Based Bethany Hospice & Palliative Care LLC, despite indications from the U.S. This is the largest total the Justice Department has seen since 2014. Justice Department that such a review would be unnecessary.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 30, 2022

among Medicare decedents in 2018, which is in line with that year’s national average, according to the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO). Graham went on to acquire Residential Hospice in 2014. In 2018, the holding company formed a new health care investment arm, Graham Healthcare Capital.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

This broader scope of documentation can help demonstrate a need to better support the full range of care delivery, according to Dr. “This validation will also assist in bringing top talent into these roles.” Without those codes, it had become difficult for VA facilities to hire chaplains.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Agape Care Group Appoints M&A VP. Alex Ferguson has stepped into the role of senior vice president of mergers and acquisitions at Agape Care Group. The South Carolina-based hospice and palliative care provider is a portfolio company of the private equity firm Ridgemont Equity Partners.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Whitaker has been at the helm of the nonprofit since 2014, serving as COO prior to that. They and Calvary staff, with generous support from volunteers and donors, live our mission every day, enabling Calvary to care so well for every person we have the privilege to serve.”

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Hospice News

JUNE 14, 2023

“In our NHE accounting, you will find spending on palliative care or hospice care in the hospital, nursing home and home health care sectors. We do not have projections at the level of detail of hospice-specific care for all payers for the NHE accounts.” ” In 2022, CMS paid $23.9

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 19, 2022

in 2018, according to the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO). Though this was a 22.26% increase from the state’s rate in 2014, it still fell below the national average of 50.3% This age group is projected to outpace others by 30% by 2050, reported the Alaska Department of Labor & Workforce Development.

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Evidence-Based Nursing - BMJ blogs

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Chief Executive International Children’s Palliative Care Network and Chair of the Policy and Advocacy Committee for the International Society of Nurses in Cancer Care. Whatever field of nursing we are working in, we will be striving to improve the care that we give, yet the funds to do this are decreasing.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Early in his tenure at Pennant, Walker began making house calls and was struck by the value of engaging patients in their home environment, as well as with clinicians’ extensive capabilities for providing care in the home, he told Hospice News. We started doing the house calls, mobile palliative care, geriatric primary care work.

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Pallimed

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

While following this response, we confirmed that Chou received funding in September 2014 from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), through his role as the Director for the Pacific Northwest Evidence-based Practice Center and employment by Oregon Health and Science University (14). 2014 Sep;(218):1-219. PMID: 30313000.

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AAHPM (American Academy of Hospice and Palliative)

JUNE 6, 2024

Sachin Kale, MD MBOE FAAHPM has been recognized as one of the exceptional individuals chosen as a 2024 AAHPM Emerging Leader in Hospice and Palliative Care. What is the significance to you of being recognized as a “Emerging Leader” in Hospice and Palliative Medicine? It is quite an honor!

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HPNA podcast

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Palliative Nursing Acute to Post Acute Transitions in Care: Challenges and Opportunities. Dr. Gentry is a nurse practitioner with the Duke University Palliative Care Consult Service, faculty at the Duke University School of Nursing, and a member of the Duke Hospital Ethics Committee.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 17, 2024

The health care community should integrate palliative care into all aspects of post-stroke treatments, according to a new scientific statement from the American Heart Association (AHA). Integrating palliative care principles into stroke care is fundamental for all patients and at every stage after a stroke.

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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. In 2014, he launched Empath Health, an integrated network of care.

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AAHPM (American Academy of Hospice and Palliative)

JUNE 17, 2024

Richard Leiter, MD MA has been recognized as one of the exceptional individuals chosen as a 2024 AAHPM Emerging Leader in Hospice and Palliative Care. I am deeply honored and absolutely thrilled that AAHPM has recognized me as an “Emerging Leader” in Hospice and Palliative Medicine. The list stopped me in my tracks.

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SAGE Palliative Medicine & Chronic Care podcast

OCTOBER 11, 2017

This episode features Briony Hudson (Louis Dundas Centre for Children’s Palliative Care, UCL Institute of Child Health, London, UK and Marie Curie Palliative Care Research Department, UCL Division of Psychiatry, London, UK) and Linda Oostendorp, (Marie Curie Palliative Care Research Department, UCL Division of Psychiatry, London, UK).

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Hospice News

APRIL 23, 2024

Palliative care has become a more sought-after treatment plan in recent years, and one agency in California has led the charge in advancing palliative care support among its population. He returned to hospice care part time from 2010 to 2014 from his home base in Napa County.

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GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

I say something like, Palliative care is, in many ways, the apotheosis of great palliative care. Today we talk with Naheed Dosani, a palliative care physician at St. What makes palliative care for people experiencing homelessness challenging? See if you can pick out the moment. Homelessness?

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Hospice News

MARCH 11, 2024

Embedding palliative care-trained social workers in hospital emergency departments can help health care providers effectively serve some of the most vulnerable patients. Populations who most need palliative care are often chronically ill seniors with complex health conditions. Sinai Beth Israel.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 9, 2022

New research is carving out the case for palliative care investment as more hospices dive into this growing market. Additionally, the palliative care patients spent 71% fewer total days in the hospital prior to death. The palliative sector saw large gains last year and is projected to continue to boom.

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GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

Summary Transcript CME Summary Early in my research career, I was fascinated by the (then) frontier area of palliative care in the emergency department. Today we focus on an intervention , published in JAMA, that gave emergency clinicians basic palliative care knowledge, training, and skills. Why do so many (most, all??)

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