Hospice News

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Established more than 45 years ago, By the Bay Health is among the oldest nonprofit hospices in California. The organization affiliated with the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF) health system in 2015. The hunt is on for the organization’s new CEO, led by executive search firm Korn Ferry.

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Hospice News

JUNE 13, 2022

What are the difficulties of finding gender-affirming hospice care for patients and their families? In a perfect world, finding hospice and palliative care would not be difficult. Hospice care would be unbiased and equal. What can hospices do to build up support systems for this population in particular?

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Avow Hospice provides pediatric and adult palliative and hospice care across Southwest Florida. Established in 1983, The nonprofit hospice is part of a multi-facility health care system and a member of the Mayo Clinic Care Network.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 27, 2023

The organization is an affiliate of the Home Care and Hospice Association of Colorado, a group of nonprofit providers that care for patients and families across 64 counties in the state. YoloCares is among the nonprofit hospices that make up the California Hospice Network, joining the coalition last year.

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Hospice News

MAY 19, 2023

Coupled with the entry of more payers into the space, the influx of health systems into home health, hospice and community-based palliative care stands to change the competitive dynamics in markets nationwide. This is the last of three articles that explore some of health care macro-trends that could impact hospices.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

About 21% indicated that their own health was poor in 2020, up from 17% in 2015. Potential impact on hospice utilization The strain on caregivers could mean that ultimately fewer patients will be able to receive hospice care in their homes.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 3, 2024

The bill builds upon the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) of 2015, designed to speed transitions to patient-centered, value-based care. MACRA established the 5% incentive, with Congress later passing a 3.5% It gets problematic because of the funds.

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Hospice News

APRIL 26, 2022

Years ago, I thought the customer service side of things in the hospice industry could use some improvement. That, coupled with the increasing age of the [nation’s] population, led me and my wife to start Blue Monarch Hospice. . I often saw slow response times as patients waited sometimes days for nurses to provide care.

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Hospice News

APRIL 19, 2023

Developing an inpatient hospice center has been part of Oasis’ “vision” since the beginning, according to Oasis CEO Sade Bello and Hakeem Bello, director of business development. The faith-based hospice company received Medicare certification in 2015 and primarily serves an urban region around the Chicago area.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 29, 2024

of the country’s total population, according to a 2015 report by the U.S. Fee-for-service Medicare, for example, only covers physician and licensed independent practitioner services and does not cover the full range of interdisciplinary palliative care. Census Bureau.

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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

MARCH 16, 2023

“However, in this sector, with the range of financial performance across providers and the existence of the hospice aggregate cap, there is the potential to focus payment reductions on providers with disproportionately long stays and high margins.” of hospices exceeded the cap, MedPAC estimated. In 2015, for instance, 12.5%

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Hospice News

AUGUST 28, 2024

John Thropay, a former medical director for several hospice companies, to 37 months in prison for his involvement in a $2.8 million hospice fraud scheme. Among the companies for which Thropay worked was Blue Sky Hospice, located in Van Nuys, California. Justice Department.

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Hospice News

MAY 26, 2022

““To improve access to hospice and palliative care, providers must connect with different populations in their communities, build relationships, and deepen understanding about the care they provide,” NHPCO President and CEO Edo Banach said in a statement.

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Hospice News

JUNE 12, 2024

Like hospice, it started as a grass-roots movement in the 1970s, but unlike hospice, it never really took off in a big way. With the passage of the PACE Innovation Act in 2015, and the 2019 Final Rule from CMS, new PACE pilot programs are being approved in multiple states. What aspects of hospice care align with the PACE model?

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HPNA podcast

OCTOBER 1, 2024

She started her career in pediatric oncology, specifically caring for children with brain tumors which she continued through 2015. She founded the Bridges Pediatric Palliative Care Program at OHSU Doernbecher Children's Hospital in 2003 and was the director until her retirement in November 2020.

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HPNA podcast

JUNE 3, 2024

Coats, PhD, APRN-BC, FPCN, FAAN is Director of Research for Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association (HPNA) and faculty at the University of Colorado, College of Nursing, Anschutz Medical Campus, in Aurora, CO.

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Hospice News

MAY 3, 2024

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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Hospice News

JANUARY 21, 2025

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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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. 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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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Brickner takes the helm of VITAS’ hospice locations in Kansas City, Kansas, as well as across Dallas, Fort Worth, Houston and San Antonio, Texas. He joined the hospice provider in 2015 as director of market development before moving up the ranks to general manager in 2018 and senior general manager in 2022.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Previously known as Hospice by the Bay, the organization rebranded in 2021 to reflect a broadening scope of services. The nonprofit organization affiliated with the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF) health system in 2015. And so she said that might be someone that we should chat with.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Seriously ill children represent some of the most underserved populations nationwide in terms of quality and access to supportive health care, according to Katie Leonard, director of pediatrics at California-based Anchor Health. There is a great unmet need for supportive care at home. Each year an estimated 2.5

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Researchers scoured patient data of nearly 680,000 decedents in Ontario, Canada who died between July 1, 2015 and Dec. Individuals with opioid disorders were 16% less likely to receive end-of-life care during the last 90 days of life compared to others, the study found.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Hathaway founded PALS after her husband died of terminal cancer in 2015. She was eight months pregnant at the time and navigating several tasks while grieving and seeking medical care, an extremely challenging feat that came with several financial and logistical burdens, she indicated.

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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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Hospice News

JUNE 2, 2022

We have to get away from that in both palliative care and hospice care. My story is that in addition to running a hospice and palliative care program, I have a child with a chronic disease. I looked for a palliative care program that served pediatrics in my area. I think we’re coming a long way.

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Solace

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Solace Cremation checked in with several leaders in the end-of-life and hospice arena to gather their views on the lessons he gives us with his choice. This can help to increase access to hospice services and ensure that patients receive the tailored care and support that they need.”

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

We additionally discussed hospice care as an option for care that might follow the trial of rehabilitation. I moved to Boston in 2015 to start my PhD and I’ve always worked clinically at MGH during the process, but I was very interested in this notion of measuring function and frailty. Once you discharge them.

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Hospice Red River Valley

JUNE 16, 2023

JJ’s Hog Roast for Hospice began as a celebration of life for Jeffrey “JJ” Bruns, Jr., whose life was cut short from an accidental death in 2015. Hospice of the Red River Valley supported JJ’s family following his death, so his family wanted to memorialize his name in a special way that reminded them of JJ’s fun-loving personality.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 25, 2022

I had looked at a research article that had recently evaluated the prevalence of private equity transactions in the hospice market and noted that there was a pretty substantial uptick in the past decade, and really over the course of say around 2015 to 2019. People across all diagnoses want hospice 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. Support Care Cancer.

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GeriPal

JUNE 29, 2023

Jerry: Well, I started in 2015 doing the Jewish body washing after the death. And specifically around hospice care, end of life care in prisons, is there something that you would change or make sure maybe we do differently or maybe other places do the same? And this is my family, who I spend my time with.

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Home Care Pulse

JULY 25, 2023

She has won the N H P C O Hospice Innovator Award in 2018, and she was the 2015 International Humanitarian Woman of the Year. While at the bedside of hundreds of people during the dying process, a hospice pioneer. Speaker 2 ( 00:40 ): Mm-hmm. , But Barbara is an award-winning, end of life educator and registered nurse.

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