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Leadership Transitions at 4 Hospice Providers

Hospice News

Hospices coast-to-coast have undergone leadership transitions, including changes in legal executives and a slew of newly appointed CEOs, among other roles in the industry. Texas-based New Day provides home health, hospice, palliative and personal care services across 31 locations in Illinois, Kansas, Missouri and in its home state.

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The Case for a Palliative Care Medicare Carve-Out

Hospice News

Though unlikely to take shape anytime soon, the potential for a palliative care carve-out in Medicare has been building in recent years, according to Rory Farrand, vice president of palliative and advanced care at the National Alliance for Care at Home.

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Systematic Change Needed to Support Family Caregivers of Hospice Patients

Hospice News

Given the critical role of family caregivers in home-based care, hospices have a vested interest in expanding their access to support. Families caring for seriously ill loved ones face systemic barriers that could threaten patients’ ability to receive care at home, including at the end of life.

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Capital Caring Health to Expand Home-Based Primary Care Service

Hospice News

Virginia-based Capital Caring Health is expanding its home-based primary care program. The nonprofit hospice and senior services provider plans to offer primary care to a larger population of chronically ill patients with an emphasis on the Arlington County, Virginia, region. million primary care visits in 2016.

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Maribel Health Secures $25 Million in Series A Round, Aims to Build High-Acuity Home Care, Hospice Programs

Hospice News

Maribel partners with health care providers to support their efforts to design and expand the services they offer in the home setting, including home health agencies, hospices, palliative care providers and health systems. Maribel’s mission is to make home the center of the health system.

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Challenges for children’s palliative care

Evidence-Based Nursing - BMJ blogs

Rather, it is suggested that the preferred place of death is a “safe” place which may or may not be home (Rainsford et al 2018; Dunbar, Carter and Brown, 2019). Where home is not felt to be a safe place, a hospice can be considered as such (Simpson and Penrose, 2011; Price, McCloskey and Brazil, 2017; Rainsford et al 2018).

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Prognosis Superspecial: A Podcast with Kara Bischoff, James Deardorff, and Elizabeth Lilley

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It’s modeled off the Karnofsky performance scale, but it was adapted for palliative care populations, and it was developed in canadian palliative care units in the 1990s, about 30 years ago. But it’s still the prognostic tool used most often by palliative care clinicians. God, it must have been like 2015, 2016.