Hospice News

OCTOBER 4, 2022

has acquired Trio Home Health Care and Hospice, growing its reach in the Lone Star State, which is a key focus area for the company. This latest acquisition fills our quest to expand our geographic footprint within our primary service areas,” said Jet Health CEO Stace Bratcher in a statement shared with Hospice News.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Utah-based Canyon Home Health & Hospice recently acquired Uintah Home Health and Hospice for an undisclosed amount, growing its footprint in the Beehive State state. Uintah Home Health and Hospice patients began receiving services under the Canyon umbrella earlier this month. Its hospice utilization rate reached 60.5%

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Hospice News

JUNE 13, 2024

Hospice staff training models with culturally appropriate LGBTQ+ components are key to improving quality outcomes among an increasingly diverse base of underserved seniors. Case in point, a 2018 AARP study found that 60% of the LGBTQ+ community is concerned about a lack of sensitivity to their needs among health care providers.

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Hospice News

JULY 10, 2023

As health care stakeholders work to improve care coordination, more hospices are exploring home-based primary care. Organizations that are delivering hospice and palliative care now are looking to the future and wanting to provide more of a full-service solution for seriously ill patients,” Singleton told Hospice News.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 21, 2024

A number of research papers and stakeholders have advocated for the inclusion of these pharmacists in the interdisciplinary care team, including the fourth edition of the Clinical Practice Guidelines for Quality Palliative Care, published in 2018.

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Hospice News

JUNE 12, 2024

Among the challenges is a general lack of awareness of palliative care and its distinctions from hospice among the public, clinicians in other settings and payers. A 2018 study showed that most students in clinical disciplines do not feel prepared to provide family care at the end of life. Our strategy depends on the market.

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Hospice News

JUNE 13, 2023

Department of Justice (DOJ) is prioritizing hospice as the agency cracks down on health care fraud. DOJ counts hospice claims among the root causes of rising Medicare costs in recent years, according to Lisa Miller, deputy assistant attorney general overseeing the department’s Crime Fraud Section.

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Hospice News

JUNE 22, 2022

The business case for diversity, equity and inclusion in hospice care. It could impact hospices’ sustainability as well as their access to patients. Initiatives to reach underserved populations have been a rising priority among hospice providers. Where hospices swing and miss in diversity. Invest in long-term change.

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Hospice News

MAY 18, 2023

But defining the range of communities that specifically lack access to hospice and palliative care can be a moving target. Hospices should apply a wide and varied lens when examining the populations in greatest need of end-of-life care, Garrett indicated. Hospice News photo.) But it’s important to lean towards other communities.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

If you were to write a book about hospice in 2023, what would you call it? To help answer that question, Hospice News asked the CEOs of eight providers how they would title a book about the state of the field today. Croix Hospice, AccentCare, Chapters Health System, Alivia Care, Enhabit, Inc., We want to make a difference.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Among Medicare Advantage supplemental benefits, in-home support services and caregiver support saw the most year-over-year growth for 2023. I think Medicare Advantage plans are very interested in palliative care, and I think there are other vehicles,” Tumlinson told Hospice News. ” Through Medicare Advantage, the U.S.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Established in 2003, Instant Care of Arizona provides in-home senior care and caregiving support to patients and their families in Phoenix, Mesa, Tempe, Scottsdale, among 15 other cities throughout the Maricopa County area. With that infusion of capital, Choice purchased Kindful Hospice and Amed Home. By 2050, nearly 2.5

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Hospice News

JUNE 24, 2022

The American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (AAHPM) in 2017 proposed that the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services’ (HHS) consider the Patient and Caregiver Support for Serious Illness (PACSSI) model. Development of such a model has been a priority for the hospice community for several years.

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Hospice News

APRIL 9, 2024

She recently joined the National Partnership for Healthcare and Hospice Innovation (NPHI) as its innovation lab clinical officer. Passed in 2018, the Creating High-Quality Results and Outcomes Necessary to Improve Chronic Care (CHRONIC) Act widened supportive avenues for social determinants of health among seriously ill populations.

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Hospice News

JULY 14, 2023

The Florida-based company is a home-based care franchise that provides home health care, hospice care, palliative care, pediatric care and personal care to about 200,000 patients annually from more than 330 U.S. Between 2018 and 2021, he was CEO of the personal care company Help at Home. Canada and Australia.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 14, 2022

“[Arizona has] a fantastic state government, a Medicaid program that truly aims to support families with intermediaries that share that vision, and a demographic that needs our services,” Jackson told Hospice News in an email. Choice entered the home health market in 2012 and stepped into hospice in 2018.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 1, 2022

The four institutions will train these workers to advocate for greater access to palliative care among African American communities, as well as provide support and education to patients with advanced cancer and their caregivers. When it comes to hospice in particular, the numbers paint a clearer picture. They came from the communities.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 4, 2024

The study examined outcomes of 1,250 adults with advanced lung cancer receiving palliative care across 22 health care organizations in the United States from June 14, 2018 to May 4, 2023. However, caregiver participation was lower in the video patient visits compared to in-person care.

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Hospice News

JULY 3, 2023

The seeds of the plan were planted in 2018 when the legislature established the state’s Palliative Care and Quality of Life Interdisciplinary Advisory Council. Improving the state’s understanding of palliative care and how it differs from hospice.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 30, 2023

ID-PALL was piloted in a study among seven internal medicine units at hospitals in Switzerland between January and December 2018. Patients and caregivers benefit from nurse-led guidance resulting in earlier access to palliative care, and patient access nurses have a high degree of readiness to have effective end-of-life conversations.”

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Caregiving resources and social determinants of health programs are also part of some palliative care models. Beginning in 2018, WellSpan began to test the theory that palliative care could be a revenue generator by examining financial metrics associated with its palliative care services, with a focus on cost savings.

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Hospice News

MAY 16, 2023

A 2018 study in the Journal of Pain and Symptom Management found that the annual number of new hospice and palliative care specialists would need to nearly double by the year 2030 to keep up with growing demand. We just presented at the Annual Assembly of Hospice and Palliative Care in Montreal, in March.

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GeriPal

JUNE 8, 2023

When I’m on palliative care consults and attending in our hospice unit we have to counsel patients about deprescribing and de-intensifying diabetes medications. Our last podcast was with Laura Petrillo in 2018 – 5 years ago seems ancient history – though many of the points still apply today (e.g. Goldilocks zone).

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Home Care Pulse

APRIL 26, 2022

– A Hospice CEO’s First Reactions. A Hospice CEO’s First Reactions. Share: We’re Home Care Pulse, a leading provider of experience management & surveys, caregiver/CNA training, and online reputation management. Hospice industry leaders routinely find themselves responding to new or changing regulatory oversight.

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Hope Hospice

MARCH 19, 2020

Hope Hospice is publishing a five-part monthly series about common family caregiver mistakes. This series is written by Debbie Emerson , MS, Hope Hospice Community Health Educator. An Introduction to the Family Caregiver Mistakes Blog Series. We’re not taught how to be caregivers in school. caregiver.org.

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Hospice of the North Coast

OCTOBER 21, 2023

Seek and accept help It is common for caregivers to say that they do not have time for themselves, therapy, or support until their role of caring for others is over. At the Hospice of the North Coast, we offer many resources and support groups that can benefit you. 2018, April 5). References American Psychological Association.

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Hope Hospice

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Overall, flu hospitalization rates during the 2017–2018 flu season were the highest ever recorded. Caregivers of all ages should get an annual flu shot and should take preventive measures, such as washing hands, staying away from people who are sick, and encouraging others to cover their coughs. Fever or cough that improve but then.

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Hope Hospice

JULY 6, 2022

DUBLIN, CA – The 2022 Hike for Hope on May 14 at Del Valle Regional Park broke both attendance and fundraising records with more than 1,300 registrants and over $180,000 in support raised for Hope Hospice’s patient care and community programs. The prior records were 702 hikers in 2011 and $114,758 in 2018. ABOUT HOPE HOSPICE.

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Hospice Law Blog

MAY 2, 2019

With the FY 2020 proposed hospice rule, CMS proposes two material changes for hospice providers: CMS proposes to shift approximately $500 million of hospice funding (2.7% of hospice days of service, with enhanced care comprising just a small fraction (inpatient 2.7%, continuous care.4%, 4%, and respite.3% 4%, and respite.3%

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Palliative care providers help address patients’ various nonmedical, emotional, caregiver and social determinants of health needs, a key point to highlight when seeking to build stronger referral relationships and expand the reach of their services, according to Dr. Arif Kamal, oncologist and palliative care physician.

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Hospice News

APRIL 8, 2024

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) 2025 proposed hospice rule contained requests for information (RFIs) that could signal changes in the agency’s thinking on key issues. Through RFIs, CMS tries to take the pulse of providers’ positions on certain questions that could impact the Medicare Hospice Benefit.

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Hospice News

APRIL 7, 2025

Recent research findings are increasingly getting to the root causes of varying hospice outcomes among diverse patient populations and health care settings. The results support incentivizing referrals to high-quality hospices and improving consumer information about hospice quality.

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Hospice News

JUNE 7, 2024

Providing hospice and palliative care to patients in remote regions can come with significant challenges alongside innovative opportunities to improve quality, according to Cathy Stauffer Wozniak, executive director at Hospice & Palliative Care of Martha Vineyards (HPCMV). Back then it was just Hospice of Martha’s Vineyard Inc.

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Hospice News

APRIL 11, 2024

Black Americans are frequently denied access to hospice and palliative care due to structural racism, and many of those communities lack sufficient information to make end-of-life care decisions, new research has found. Access to hospice and palliative care is perceived as lacking. I’ll say the obvious, racism. were Hispanic; 1.8%

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Hospice News

JUNE 26, 2023

Palliative care patients who receive psychological, emotional and spiritual support are more likely to elect hospice when they become eligible. Researchers in Israel studied 180 hospitalized cancer patients between November 2018 and March 2020. These outcomes directly bear on improved quality of life and reduced costs.”

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Hospice News

MAY 20, 2024

Greater access to advance care planning services can lead to improved caregiver satisfaction and reduced health care costs at the end of life. There are countless poor experiences for those that don’t discuss these end-of-life wishes ahead of time,” Kwan told Hospice News. It also helps increase the median length of stays on hospice.”

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Hospice News

JANUARY 26, 2024

The study spanned data among 199,828 Medicare decedents 50 and older who died in 2018. About 27% were in skilled nursing home care with “heavy use” of home health and hospice. The post Research Finds Home-Based Care Among Top End-of-Life Trajectories for Americans appeared first on Hospice News.

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