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Stillwater Hospice CFO: A Winning Recipe for Improving Rural Hospice Care

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Launched in 2017, the hospice company serves predominantly rural-based populations in Montana, northern Wyoming and South Dakota. For example, we try to buy vehicles for our nurses, home health aides, social workers and chaplains. If youre a rural hospice, you may have higher reimbursement needs.

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

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The number of registered nurse and social worker visits during a patient’s final week is one of the seven quality measures that CMS uses to evaluate providers. Social worker visits in the last days of life also rose to 9% in 2021, up from 7% in 2020. In 2019, for example, the percentage was 66%.

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The Benefits of Palliative, Home-Based Primary Care Integration

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A 2017 analysis of Northwestern’s program showed significant cost reductions, reduced hospital readmissions and increases in hospice enrollment and length of stay, Chiang said at the symposium. The program is in the process of hiring its first social worker as a part-time employee.

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How Palliative Care Could Address Unmet Needs of Patients With Rare Diseases

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Palliative a quality, cost driver An estimated 25–30 million Americans have some type of rare disease (RD) and experience unique challenges as a result, according to a 2017 study published in the Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases.

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Hospices Call on Congress to Support Rural Hospices, Patients

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About 845 hospices provided care in rural-based regions in 2021, a drop from 878 organizations in 2017, the MedPAC report found. Things that are unique for rural and frontier providers are trying to find qualified staff, registered nurses, physicians, social workers or spiritual care providers,” Wood said.

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Amedisys Makes Executive Moves, Bristol Hospice Names New CFO

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The hospice is among the largest multi-regional players and has grown seven times larger since private equity firm Webster Equity Partners purchased the company in 2017. Hospice of Southern Maine’s is also onboarding social workers Elizabeth Leclaire and Sara Olmsted, as well as Maria McCann as bereavement support counselor.

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Global Partners in Care Program Fosters International Collaboration on Palliative Care

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Global Partners in Care became an affiliate of CHC in 2017, but the program’s roots were planted in 1999. So, in 2017 Global Partners in Care moved from NHPCO and is now affiliated with the Center for Hospice Care.” Historic run Getting the Global Partners in Care program to this level has been quite the journey for CHC.