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. Historic run Getting the Global Partners in Care program to this level has been quite the journey for CHC.

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Hospice News

JUNE 28, 2022

New Hampshire, which scrapped CON in 2016, was the most recent. In this day and age, we’ll see how long CONs last,” Freeman Smith, north region president for Traditions Health told Hospice News at the VALUE Conference in Chicago. “In In some parts of the country, having a certificate of need might limit who gets hospice care.

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HPNA podcast

MAY 1, 2025

In this deeply personal and resonant episode, longtime hospice nurse and podcast host of The Heart of Hospice , Helen Bauer, BSN RN CHPN, shares an intimate look at the soul of hospice nursing the part thats rarely documented but always deeply felt.

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Hospice News

MARCH 22, 2024

Treasure Coast Hospice Appoints VP of Medical Services Florida-based Treasure Coast Hospice has tapped Dr. John Crouch as its new vice president of medical services. Crouch in 2016 became a home care and assisted living facilities physician at the organization.

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NHPCO

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

For Immediate Release November 10, 2023 (Alexandria, VA) – The National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) published the following statement in response to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Innovation Center (CMMI) release of the final Medicare Care Choices Model (MCCM) report and At-A-Glance report.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 16, 2024

“A director of faith outreach is not a common position in the hospice industry,” McFalls said. But AMOREM wants to ensure its faith communities that they are a priority for the organization and that they feel supported when any of their congregants need end-of-life care.”

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The Bucket-List Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

For those who have since passed, we share these in their memories with deep appreciation for what they have taught us about life and living. Rob Riddell, a cancer survivor, had a good life: a job he loved, faith and optimism in spades, and a large, happy family. In 2016, at the young age of 54, the cancer returned.

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The Bucket-List Blog

JUNE 10, 2016

Later, we made this simple video to use as part of our 2016 Bucket-List Challenge. When we shared the story of Mr. Ramirez’s very special wish on o ur Facebook page , it reached nearly 400,000 people. Special thanks to his family, and especially his granddaughter, Blue, for sharing their memories and photos with us, and with you.

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Hospice News

JULY 22, 2024

Medicare Advantage (MA) beneficiaries are less likely to receive intensive treatments or burdensome transfers during the last six months of life compared to those in traditional Medicare, a new study has found. For the study, researchers examined Medicare claims data for more than 1 million patients who died between 2016 and 2018.

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Hospice News

APRIL 29, 2022

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) launched the MCCM in 2016 to explore the idea of allowing hospice patients to receive concurrent curative care. The recent report focuses on 4,574 Medicare beneficiaries who enrolled in the program between January 2016 and September 2020 and who died by March of 2021.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Organizations called comfort care homes have been working to fill this gap. These are generally nonprofit residential facilities that will give patients a place to stay while they receive hospice care. Cassidy is a nurse practitioner, board-certified in palliative care, who also worked for 30 years as a professor of nursing.

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Hospice News

MARCH 10, 2023

Most recently the hospice opened a de novo in Wisconsin, its 14th location in that state. “We Croix Hospice continues to grow in response to the need for expert hospice care throughout the Midwest,” Bartness said in a statement. Cottrell joined the hospice in 2016.

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Hospice News

JUNE 22, 2023

For one, hospice utilization has been on a steady upswing nationally for several years. million in 2016, according to the U.S. Also, across the board, more health care has been steadily moving into the home setting, particularly in the wake of the pandemic. More than 1.72 Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).

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