Hospice News

AUGUST 22, 2023

The nation’s supply of pediatric palliative care professionals pales in comparison to the demand for these services, according to Dr. Colin O’Reilly, vice president and chief medical officer at Children’s Specialized Hospital (CSH). What led to the start of your Pediatric Palliative Care Anchor Training Program?

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Hospice News

JANUARY 27, 2023

New CEO Takes Reigns at Sangre de Cristo Community Care Colorado-based Sangre de Cristo Community Care named Melinda Egging as its new CEO. Egging will oversee operations of the hospice, home health and palliative care organization. This marks her return to the organization.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

More than two-thirds (67%) of liver cancer patients receiving radiotherapy concurrently with supportive/palliative care reported reduced pain intensity levels after one month of treatment in a study published in The Lancet Oncology, a Science Direct journal.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Headquartered in Cleveland, the nonprofit Hospice of the Western Reserve serves more than 1,200 patients daily across nine counties throughout northern Ohio, providing palliative care and hospice to adult and pediatric patients. The organization is a subsidiary of Western Reserve Care Solutions.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 1, 2024

This partnership marks an important milestone in our mission to deliver exceptional hospice and palliative care. The organization is a subsidiary of Western Reserve Care Solutions and serves 15 counties throughout northern Ohio. Photo by Pixelate Photography.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

This innovative virtual reality program aims to train medical professionals in effective communication skills specific to palliative care,” Ouchi told local news. “By Opportunities for non-palliative care clinicians to learn these skills are limited due to various constraints such as time and cost,” Ouchi said in the local news report.

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Hospice News

JUNE 8, 2022

Case in point, the Providence Institute for Human Caring last year launched a tele-palliative care program aimed at addressing rural patients’ unmet needs. palliative?care care services for?patients Fratkin founded palliative care provider ResolutionCare in 2015. patients who?need

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Hospice News

AUGUST 14, 2023

Led by co-founder and CEO Travis Messina, Contessa Health became an innovator in the palliative care arena, with the company’s success reflected in its multiple health system joint ventures. Messina co-founded Contessa in 2015, remaining with the company in a leadership capacity during its transition into Amedisys Inc.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

NorthShore folded its in-house hospice and community-based palliative care programs into Residential in 2023, a transition that is expected to be completed this month. of the country’s total population, according to a 2015 report by the U.S. Census Bureau.

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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. If people have the opportunity to understand hospice and if they’re eligible for that or need palliative care support, then those resources and coordination of care are made better available to them.”

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Hospice News

AUGUST 23, 2024

North has been with the company since 2015, beginning as senior vice president of operations. Franklin, Tennessee-headquartered Traditions provides hospice, home health and palliative care as well as consulting services across 18 states. (NASDAQ: AMED) is departing the home health and hospice company as of Aug. NYSE: HUM). “In

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Hospice News

APRIL 11, 2024

Angela Hospice provides adult and pediatric hospice, palliative care and grief support across Oakland County in southern Michigan. Oasis Hospice & Palliative Care Announces New Facility Plans Oasis Hospice & Palliative Care Inc. has opened a new inpatient center in Illinois.

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Hospice News

JUNE 28, 2023

Fetzer is currently system medical director for palliative care and hospice services at Illinois-based Ascension Health. Fetzer was previously associate medical director at Rainbow Hospice and Palliative Care, now part of the AMITA Health system. He’ll continue to serve as CMO of both organizations.

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Hospice News

JULY 12, 2024

Established in 1975, Alive Hospice provides end-of-life and palliative care across central Tennessee. Angela’s Hospice provides end-of-life care to adult and pediatric patient populations. Coplia joined Angela Hospice in 2015 as its executive director, stepping into her current role in 2019.

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Hospice News

JUNE 13, 2022

Balu Natarajan, chief medical officer of AccentCare’s hospice division, recently connected with Hospice News on the end-of-life care experiences and needs of individuals in the LGBTQ+ community, and what hospices can do to better serve these patients. In a perfect world, finding hospice and palliative care would not be difficult.

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Hospice News

MAY 19, 2023

As more care moves into the home setting, more hospitals and health systems are throwing their hats into the ring. 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.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 5, 2022

This represents 46% growth in the senior population since 2015. among Medicare decedents in 2018, according to the National Hospice & Palliative Care Organization. By 2030, one out of every five people living in Indiana will be older than 65, according to the Indiana Business Research Center. states that year at 59.4%.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

The organization affiliated with the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF) health system in 2015. By the Bay Health now serves eight counties statewide and provides hospice, palliative and pediatric care, along with skilled nursing home health and grief support.

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Hospice News

MAY 26, 2022

Racial and socioeconomic disparities in hospice and palliative care have been persistent problems in the field for decades, including among communities of Asian origin. To help providers close some of those gaps, the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) has released a new Chinese American Resource Guide. .

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Joining forces under one umbrella is a move to beef up their combined presence in an increasingly competitive hospice market, improve access to care and improve quality, according to spokespeople for By The Bay Health (BTBH) and Mission Hospice & Home Care.

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Hospice News

JUNE 12, 2024

There has long been a substantial overlap between home care and hospice, but we’re now seeing these providers looking into other areas of health care. Hospices are finally seeing more traction in terms of palliative care reimbursement. What aspects of hospice care align with the PACE model?

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Hospice News

JULY 8, 2022

Telehealth has become an important component in serious illness and end-of-life care as more providers leverage technology to build staffing efficiencies, reduce travel times and increase touch points with patients and families. Fratkin founded the home-based palliative care provider in 2015.

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Hospice News

APRIL 19, 2023

Hospice of the Midwest’s services within the Marshalltown community include assistance with medical equipment and medication order and delivery, developing patient care plans, providing home assessment consultations and a veteran honors program. This is another level of care that we can provide,” Sade Bello told local news.

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HPNA podcast

JUNE 3, 2024

Moderated by Dr. Betty Ferrell, this episode discusses the adult-gerontology nurse practitioner's role in hospice and palliative care. The Role and Professional Standards of the Adult-Gerontology Nurse Practitioner in Hospice and Palliative Care. Journal of Hospice & Palliative Nursing 26(3):p 116-121, June 2024. |

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AAHPM (American Academy of Hospice and Palliative)

AUGUST 11, 2023

In our discipline of palliative care, understanding the unique needs and characteristics of the population is essential for providing effective and high-quality care. In recent years, with the rise of value-based care, palliative care has expanded beyond the realms of hospital and immediate cancer pain care.

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HPNA podcast

OCTOBER 1, 2024

In this episode, pediatric palliative care nurse practitioner Mallory Fossa, MS, CPNP-PC, CCRN, CHPPN® discusses her experiences in pediatric palliative care with Kathy Perko, MS, PPCNP-BC, CHPPN®, CPON, CPLC, FPCN, FAPHON, a pediatric nurse for 40 years and PNP for 30 years. Related Resources: NEW!

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Pallimed

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

The new Guideline does not apply to patients with pain from sickle cell disease, cancer, or those receiving palliative care and end-of-life care (2, 19), and it cites other clinical guidelines as providing guidance for managing those patients (21-24). 2015 Nov 26;373(22):2098-9. J Gen Intern Med. Epub 2020 Nov 6.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 21, 2025

Illinois-based Oasis Hospice & Palliative Care Inc.s The inpatient facility marks an important growth milestone for Oasis Hospice & Palliative Care, which stepped into the hospice landscape nearly a decade ago, Bello told Hospice News. Photo courtesy of Oasis Hospice & Palliative Care Inc.

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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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Hospice News

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Reimbursement pressures, workforce strains and lagging awareness represent pain points preventing greater utilization of palliative care. There are so many things that need to be addressed to improve quality and access to pediatric palliative and hospice care,” Leonard told Palliative Care News in an email.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

She replaces Cathy Swanson, who has led the nonprofit hospice and palliative care provider since 2021 when it rebranded as AMOREM following the merger of Burke Hospice & Palliative Care and Caldwell Hospice and Palliative Care. McLeod was most recently a health care consultant at CD&M Consulting.

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Hospice News

JUNE 2, 2022

This article is based on a Q&A session with Jason Banks, Senior Director of Post Acute Sales at nVoq, during the Hospice News Palliative Care Conference. Hospice News: Jason has an incredible background in post-acute care that we’re going to talk about today. Banks: I ran a hospice and palliative care.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 8, 2022

“Hospitals should be more of an emergency room and [intensive care unit (ICU)] setting of care, while the home should be the future.”. of the country’s total population, according to a 2015 report by the U.S. For most, this extends to end-of-life care. Census Bureau. As early as 2011, more than 90% of U.S.

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Hospice News

MARCH 22, 2023

between 2015 and 2016, according to a report from the American Association of Colleges of Nursing. The reintroduction of the Palliative Care and Hospice Education Training Act (PCHETA) last May died in committee. The average age of nursing professors nationwide was 62.2 respectively.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 8, 2022

We discussed it with today’s guests Heather Coats, palliative care NP-scientist, and Thor Ringler, poet. Journal of Palliative Medicine , 23 (6), [link]. This episode of the GeriPal Podcast is sponsored by UCSF’s Division of Palliative Medicine , an amazing group doing world class palliative care.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

That’s why we do this podcast- to address real world issues in palliative care, geriatrics, and bioethics. At the end of the day, I lamented that physical, occupational, and speech therapists aren’t more tightly integrated with palliative care teams. Summary Transcript Summary Often podcasts meet clinical reality.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

Summary Transcript Summary The CDC’s Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain excludes those undergoing cancer treatment, palliative care, and end-of-life care. Jessie Merlin is an addiction and palliative care physician, and professor of medicine at the University of Pittsburgh. That was from our what?

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