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Global Partners in Care Program Fosters International Collaboration on Palliative Care

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Earlier this year, it was awarded the prestigious 2023 Circle of Life Award from the American Hospital Association, which recognizes programs for their efforts in palliative and end-of-life care. Global Partners in Care became an affiliate of CHC in 2017, but the program’s roots were planted in 1999. So, these U.S.

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Bilingual Patient Navigation Can Improve Palliative Care Outcomes for Hispanic Patients

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The study compared two groups of Hispanic patients across Colorado-based community health care systems, nonprofit providers and academic settings from January 2017 to January 2021. Data were collected and analyzed from July 2022 to July 2023 of self-identifying Hispanic patients with serious noncancer life-limiting illnesses.

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Health Plan Participation in Hospice VBID to Shrink in 2024

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In 2023, 15 MAOs participated in hospice VBID, including 119 health plans in 23 states. As a whole, VBID will have 69 MAO participants in 2024, up from 52 in 2023. million in 2023. Launched in 2017, the VBID demonstration is testing new approaches to reimbursement across a variety of health care settings.

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Hospice Executives Retire as New Leaders Rise

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Wilson in 2008 became the organizations corporate and community relations coordinator before being promoted to manager in 2017. Calvert Hospice and Hospice of Charles County in 2023 unified under the organizations current brand. Prior to that, Posega held her current role at AccentCare from May 2020 through February 2023.

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Hospices Stepping Up Performance on Visits-in-Last-Days-of-Life Measure

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More than $200 million SIA payments were distributed in 2021, compared to less than $100 million in 2017, according to the Abt research. In terms of patients, that’s more than a million beneficiaries receiving SIA services in 2021, versus under 850,000 beneficiaries in 2017, the data found. In 2019, for example, the percentage was 66%.

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Lawmakers Remain Committed to Passing Hospice Workforce Bill

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The bill’s most recent development occurred in July 2023, when it was reintroduced by Sens. PCHETA was first introduced in 2017. Federal legislators plan to continue to work on passing a bill designed to bolster the hospice and palliative care workforce. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wisc.) and Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.).

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New Contessa, UAMS JV to Provide ‘Full Spectrum’ of Home-Based Care

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UAMS Health Comprehensive Care at Home will be up and running in early 2023, though the home health service may begin accepting home health patients later this year. The JV will offer each of these services in the home setting. The JV’s patients will have access to Contessa’s Palliative Care at Home services.