Hospice News

MAY 1, 2023

. “LifeTouch Hospice has a wonderful reputation for providing high quality, patient-centered care, and we look forward to learning, growing and serving together for many years to come.” The organization finished 2017 with a net income of slightly more than $107,000. Meanwhile, Arkansas Hospice has fared better.

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JUNE 17, 2022

One of the defining principles of hospice care is honoring the wishes of terminally ill patients. Now, with increasing frequency, a health care provider’s failure to honor those directives can lead to litigation or penalties by regulators. This can prevent or delay hospice care for individuals who chose to receive it. .

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

The hospice portion, often called the Medicare Advantage carve-in, is one component of the larger VBID demonstration that includes providers from across the continuum. Launched in 2017, the VBID demonstration is testing new approaches to reimbursement across a variety of health care settings. “It’s been a rocky road.

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JUNE 26, 2024

Previously, he was COO of Big Bend Hospice. Wood joined Big Bend Hospice in 2017 as a consultant, later becoming CFO and ultimately the COO. “Jon Wood’s promotion is a testament to his dedication, leadership and vision,” said Bill Wertman, CEO of Big Bend Hospice and Seven Oaks Health, in a statement.

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Hospice News

APRIL 11, 2025

Wilson in 2008 became the organizations corporate and community relations coordinator before being promoted to manager in 2017. Maryland-based Montgomery Hospice & Prince Georges Hospice provides grief support and spiritual counseling, veteran services and pediatric hospice care.

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Hospice News

MARCH 27, 2024

Many hospices may be unprepared to cope with a large-scale disaster or a future pandemic. Operators need to be prepared to deliver care and support their communities’ responses to catastrophic events. In 2017, the U.S. Last year, The Joint Commission implemented similar requirements for hospices.

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OCTOBER 6, 2022

Care Synergy is also part of Responsive Care Solutions, an Accountable Care Organization (ACO) with 10 members nationwide, including hospice and senior services providers like Empath Health, Bluegrass Care Navigators, and Ohio’s Hospice.

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Hospice News

JUNE 24, 2024

“Senator Baldwin and I are committed to getting this bill across the finish line so the next generation of hospice and palliative care providers can be trained,” Moore Capito told Hospice News. “As PCHETA was first introduced in 2017. PCHETA was first introduced in 2017.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

He has accepted a position at a not-for-profit continuing care retirement community in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Brady joined the Maryland-based hospice provider as CFO in Dec. 2017 and was promoted to CEO in early 2021. Miller came to the hospice as its chief clinical officer and became COO in 2022.

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Hospice News

MARCH 29, 2023

But perhaps ironically, patients with longer hospice stays may ultimately save payers more money due to reductions in high acuity and other aggressive forms of care in a patients’ final year of life. Recent data show that hospice stays of six months or longer can reduce health care costs in a patient’s last 12 months by as much as 11%.

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Hospice News

JUNE 21, 2024

Justice Department, Angel Care enrolled 24 patients in hospice between 2009 through 2017 who did not meet Medicare eligibility requirements. Patients and their family members testified that they had no knowledge of being enrolled in hospice care. According to the U.S. The case was prosecuted by Assistant U.S.

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JUNE 29, 2022

billion in 2017 alone, she indicated. One potential factor is that historically MA does not cover hospice care. Those beneficiaries who elect hospice typically transition to the Medicare Hospice Benefit. Payments related to those assessments cost Medicare $2.6 Subcommittee chairwoman Diana DeGette (D-Colo.)

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Hospice News

JANUARY 17, 2023

Valley Health System’s services include inpatient and outpatient programs, along with home care services such as hospice, palliative, skilled nursing and rehabilitative therapies, among others. ALC Hospice Care Names COO. I took on the challenge.

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Hospice News

JUNE 24, 2022

A group of researchers have modified a proposed reimbursement system for palliative care that they say would improve access for patients and make the service more lucrative for providers. The American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (AAHPM) in 2017 proposed that the U.S.

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Hospice News

APRIL 26, 2022

As a nurse practitioner, what led you to begin a hospice program? I became a registered nurse in 2012 and received my nurse practitioner degree in 2017. I practiced in men’s and women’s health before deciding to start Blue Monarch Hospice. It’s just a matter of time before the need for hospice rises.

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JUNE 13, 2023

“The Health Care Fraud Unit and its partners are prioritizing the investigation and prosecution of schemes that affect vulnerable populations, including, but by no means limited to, sober homes fraud, illegal prescribing of controlled substances and hospice fraud,” Miller said. “In According to the U.S.

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JANUARY 17, 2024

Among the signatories were 63 hospice and palliative care providers across the country, 14 state hospice and palliative associations, the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) and the health care technology company Axxess.

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Hospice News

JUNE 20, 2023

Rinn has been CEO of VNA of Central New Jersey Community Health Centers (CHC) since 2017. ” VNA Health Group is a multi-state provider of home health, hospice, primary care and public health services, among others. At that time, the organization was called Hospice of Larimer County.

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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. Dr. Howe has more than 14 years of experience in hospice.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 29, 2024

Their desire to remain at home dovetails with the drive among payers and providers to reduce health care expenditures by reducing avoidable hospitalizations, readmissions and emergency department visits. Palliative care in general can reduce health care costs by more than $4,000 per patient, according to a July 2017 study in Health Affairs.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Since then, he has sponsored a number of bills designed to improve the quality of hospice care as well as combat fraud in the space. He has co-led a number of bipartisan initiatives to improve program integrity within the Medicare Hospice Benefit, often in partnership with Van Duyne. But for now, his work in Congress continues.

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Hospice News

APRIL 4, 2024

“We hear from countless community providers and state association leaders that rural hospices are in financial trouble,” Hoover wrote in a recent letter to the U.S. With Medicare accounting for the overwhelming majority of hospice payments, hospice care is at the mercy of the federal government to continue providing high quality care.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

The program is designed to recognize up-and-coming industry members who are shaping the next decade of senior housing, skilled nursing, home health, and hospice care. The role of COO allowed me to learn about the entire organization and begin learning more about the hospice and palliative philosophy and industry as a whole.

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Hospice News

MAY 23, 2024

Adoray Home Health & Hospice Announces Interim CEO Wisconsin-based Adoray Home Health & Hospice has named Mary Aaby as its new interim CEO. Aaby previously served as CFO from 1998 to 2017 at the hospice, home health and palliative care organization. She will step into the role this June.

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In fact, as one of our home hospice patients, he recently talked with his Hospice Care Plus chaplain, Sally Shepherd, about the adventures in his life. On Tuesday, August 8, 2017, Mr. Murray’s dream came true. Conley Murray has always loved adventure. “That was so much fun!”

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1-800-HOSPICE

APRIL 11, 2023

The most common misunderstanding of palliative care is the belief that it’s identical with hospice care. Palliative Care Commonly Provided by General Practitioners Family physicians/general practitioners who are closest to the community and easily accessible have a major role to play in providing palliative care.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

1, 2017, to July 31, 2022, and examined inequities among pediatric palliative populations. The needle is slowly moving closer to improvement around pediatric palliative payment incentives that could make this care more affordable and accessible. Similar regulations were unveiled during 2017 in Nebraska.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Ginn served in that same role before being promoted to CFO in 2017 and executive vice president in 2021. The company in June announced plans to acquire the massive home health and hospice provider Amedisys for $3.3 The news comes as Amedisys inches closer towards acquisition integration with Optum.

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Hospice News

JUNE 27, 2024

Earl Blumenaur (D-Oregon) is in the process of drafting legislation designed to tackle the fraud issue as well as improve the quality of hospice care. Blumenauer announced the bill, the Hospice Care Accountability, Reform, and Enforcement (Hospice CARE) Act, at the Hospice News Elevate conference in Washington D.C.

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Hospice News

MAY 19, 2023

Unity Hospices and Palliative Care Appoints New Strategic Director Unity Hospice and Palliative Care has named a new director of strategy with the recent hiring of Scott Hensley. Hensley was previously the national vice president of managed care at Encompass Health (NYSE: EHC), serving in the role since 2017.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

About 72% of respondents to a National Partnership for Healthcare and Hospice Innovation (NPHI) survey said they do not believe that the U.S. health care system does a good job of caring for the aging population. Though 74% expressed a positive view of hospice care, only 31% said they trusted the health care system as a whole.

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OCTOBER 2, 2024

Most recent data available show that 41 states have adopted some type of laws permitting the use of “investigational drugs” since the passing of the Right to Try Act of 2017 , as has Congress. For a palliative or hospice care organization, it’s learning more to expand help for their patients.”

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Hospice News

JANUARY 26, 2024

Digging into palliative care barriers Not enough cancer patients with malignant ureteral obstruction (MUO) receive concurrent palliative care services when the need arises, according to a study published in January in Urology Practice, a journal of the American Urological Association (AUA). The research spanned data from Jan.

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Hospice News

JULY 16, 2024

The Pennsylvania state Senate has approved a bill proposing to expand staffing requirements around death proclamations to include a wider breadth of hospice clinicians. If enacted, the legislation would allow licensed practical nurses (LPNs) providing hospice care to make death pronouncements. Census Bureau.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 5, 2022

With the launch of Serenity First, Johnston transitioned from her career in home health and personal care. In those fields, she previously had founded the company Care Advantage, which telecommunications firm Bell South acquired in 2017. Serenity’s website describes the services as “innovative hospice care.”

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

“Health care providers should receive training in palliative care and addiction medicine to provide equitable end-of-life care for people with OUD and other substance use disorders.” Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Wide-Ranging Online Data for Epidemiologic Research (WONDER) database.

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Hospice News

JULY 1, 2022

The nonprofit provider in 2017 originally set a $24 million goal to expand its hospice and palliative care services across 41 counties in Kentucky and Southern Indiana, reporting last year that it surpassed this with a $28 million fundraising campaign. “In No similar facilities exist in Caroline County.

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