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National Alliance’s Scott Levy: Hospices Need ‘Regulatory Relief’ to Protect ‘Sacred Benefit’

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Levy recently sat down with Hospice News to discuss the array of regulatory and legislative evolutions on the horizon in hospice care delivery. Can you share your background in hospice and home over the last decade, starting with your most recent role at Amedisys? I was promoted chief government affairs officer in 2023.

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Breaking the Silence: The Mounting Need for Trauma-Informed Hospice Care

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Additionally, home health and hospice workers face higher safety risks and a myriad of unique challenges compared to other health care providers. Research has found that workplace violence and abuse proliferates among community-based hospice employees.

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How California Began Expanding Palliative Care Via Medicaid

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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. Cotter has been a board certified physician in family medicine since 1981 and worked as a hospice medical director from 1988 to 1989.

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Palliative Radiation, Supportive Care Bring Pain Relief to Cancer Patients

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“Single-fraction radiotherapy plus best supportive care improved pain compared with best supportive care alone in patients with liver cancer and could be considered a standard palliative treatment,” researchers stated in the study. Patients’ pain levels were assessed using the Brief Pain Inventory (BPI) index.

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Oasis Hospice & Palliative Care CEO: The ‘Painful’ Growth of Inpatient Care Delivery

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Our dream initially was to have a hospice house for patients that needed higher levels of symptom management. We obtained our Medicare license in June 2015, and everything really started by faith. I was in restaurant management. Our license to operate the new facility came more recently.

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Illinois Bill to Allow 16 Hospice Locations Per County, Up from 5 

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My mom was in hospice in 2015. She was diagnosed with cancer and received hospice care in the home, and I was her caretaker.” The post Illinois Bill to Allow 16 Hospice Locations Per County, Up from 5 appeared first on Hospice News. And I think that’s true, because of my own experience.

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Rural Providers Weigh Telehealth Investment Against Regulatory Uncertainty

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Fratkin founded palliative care provider ResolutionCare in 2015. Advanced care planning technology company Vynca acquired the company last year in its first move into the clinical care space. They are a bigger barrier to palliative and hospice care than dairy cows.”.

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