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. The issues identified in the report exist across the country. were Hispanic; 1.8%

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Ginn began leading financial teams at Amedisys in 2007, while Guidroz previously served as senior vice president of accounting at Amedisys since June 2018. AMOREM has locations across 12 counties in northwest North Carolina, which include four inpatient care units. Brickner is also a veteran of the U.S.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 26, 2024

Many elderly Americans follow one of three place of care trajectories during the last three years of life, researchers from Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, found in a study recently published in BMC Geriatrics. These include the home, skilled home care and institutional care.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Without widespread change, demand for palliative care in the United States is projected to outstrip the supply of the clinicians trained to provide it during the next decade. A key barrier to building that workforce is that most clinicians receive little to no exposure to those types of care during their training.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Oregon-based Compassion & Choices is a national end-of-life care advocacy organization focused on building health equity. Researchers at the nonprofit examined 58 studies published between 2018 and 2021 on these disparities. Hispanics made up 6.7% Caucasians represented the remaining 80%, NHPCO reported.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 2, 2022

of all Medicare hospice patients in 2018, according to the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO). Similar to other underserved populations, fear of discrimination and mistrust are the biggest walls between Native Americans and hospice care, according to Craig Dresang, CEO of California-based YoloCares.

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Hospice News

JULY 21, 2022

If enacted, the bill would clarify that patients receiving end-of-life care could access Schedule 1 controlled substances that have undergone a Phase 1 clinical trial, including MDMA and psilocybin. A number of states have “Right to Try” laws on their books, and a federal law was instituted in 2018. and Rand Paul (R-Ky.)

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Hospice News

JUNE 7, 2023

” Arizona had 239 new Medicare-certified hospices appear between 2018 and 2022, representing 52% of all providers in the state. But they don’t want to get lumped in with bad actors, and they don’t want us creating needless regulations that are going to hamper their ability to do that care.”

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Hospice News

MARCH 27, 2024

End-of-life care is a critical part of our practice as nurses,” said Usha Menon, senior associate vice president of USF Health and dean of the College of Nursing, in a statement. “We We are dedicated to teaching nursing students how to provide compassionate and comprehensive care.

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Hospice News

APRIL 17, 2024

Since then, the company has grown in terms of census, grown more sophisticated in its approach to end-of-life care and expanded into other business lines. The lawsuit contends that the claims denials denied Partners in Care its right to procedural due process. 1, 2016 and Dec. 31, 2017.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Initially established in 2008 as a rehabilitation service provider, Choice expanded into home health during 2012 and later into hospice in 2018. In 2020 the company partnered with the investment firms Trive Capital and Coltala Holdings to widen its reach as a post-acute care company. The state’s 1.3 million seniors represent 18.3%

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Cassidy is a nurse practitioner, board-certified in palliative care, who also worked for 30 years as a professor of nursing. During her clinical practice in a hospital, she recognized that the end-of-life care needs of some patient populations were not being met. “So It’s a gap in the continuum of care.

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Hospice News

APRIL 22, 2022

Francis, the organization rebranded in 2020 to reflect its expanded scope of community-based services in an area with a growing need for serious illness and end-of-life care. The Sunshine State in 2018 ranked third nationwide for hospice utilization at 57.9% Formerly Hospice of St. Census Bureau. and 59.2%, respectively.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Later that year, the company purchased Serenity Care and Integrity Hospice in separate transactions, both in the town of Dublin, Ga. This further expansion in Georgia and South Carolina strengthens our team and solidifies our position as a leading hospice and palliative care provider across the Southeast.”.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Arizona had 239 new Medicare-certified hospices appear between 2018 and 2022, representing 52% of all providers in the state. In some instances, multiple hospices have been operating out of the same address without a corresponding increase in the population of eligible patients.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 10, 2022

CMS is asking the public whether consolidating provider data could help improve access and care decisions by making it easier for patients to identify, compare and locate services that meet their needs and preferences. This could include improving patient awareness and access about the end-of-life care options in and around their regions.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 12, 2022

Growing demand is pushing a need for end-of-life care in the Land of a 1,000 Lakes. Minnesota ranked 12th in the nation in hospice utilization during 2018 with 52.7% of its Medicare decedents electing hospice, according to the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization. currently, according to the U.S.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Even as demographics drive up demand for serious illness and end-of-life care, public awareness is driving down utilization. Nearly 50% of residents in a 2020 statewide survey indicated that they were not aware of health care services and support options available to seniors.

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Hospice News

JUNE 28, 2022

Few nursing students receive exposure to hospice or palliative care during their education, and most do not feel prepared to provide end-of-life care to patients and families, a 2018 study found. A lack of hospice-specific clinical training is a significant recruitment barrier.

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Hospice News

JULY 14, 2022

The health system cited declining patient admissions as the main reason for ending services. This was largely driven by trends of more serious illness and end-of-life care moving into the home, according UPMC officials. “In during 2018, according to the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

A hope for the bill’s supporters is that it will remove some of the barriers that prevent providers from broaching goals of care conversations with patients, according to Mollie Guran, vice president of home-based and HCBS policy at LeadingAge, which has endorsed the legislation.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

“We identified numerous indicators of such fraud and abuse by hospice agencies, which typically offer palliative end-of-life care to individuals with medical diagnoses of fewer than six months to live.”. This includes Arizona, Nevada and Texas.

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Hospice News

MAY 22, 2023

The survey’s findings show that while Asian Americans may think about end-of-life matters, they aren’t discussing or documenting these plans with health care professionals. Additionally, only 14% of survey respondents indicated a preference to hold advance care planning conversations with a health care professional.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 18, 2022

Through the JV, the two organizations formed the Luminis Health Gilchrist Lifecare Institute as a way to provide an “integrative continuum of care for the elderly across multiple settings,” in communities statewide, according to a recent announcement. About 47.6% This trailed behind the national average of 50.3% that year.

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Hospice News

MAY 18, 2023

Hospices should apply a wide and varied lens when examining the populations in greatest need of end-of-life care, Garrett indicated. Some may be flying under hospices’ radar, she said at the Hospice News Palliative Care Conference in Washington D.C. This is a small spike from 6% compared to last year’s survey.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Concern is mounting around whether current health equity initiatives will be a flash in the pan or yield long term improvement on reducing disparities in hospice care among communities of color. Many people who could benefit from hospice are not getting the care they deserve,” Deese told Hospice News in an email. “We

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Hospice News

JUNE 6, 2022

Through the 18-bed facility, the hospice will provide patients inpatient end-of-life care when their symptoms can no longer be managed in the home. Patients will receive round-the-clock care from an interdisciplinary team of physicians, nurses, nurse practitioners and other medical aides. COVID absolutely pushed it.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 9, 2022

This reflects issues that exist throughout the larger health care system, including among providers upstream of hospice that assist patients with advance care planning. 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

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Demographics are swelling demand for serious illness and end-of-life care in Alaska. Hospice utilization among Medicare decedents in Alaska was the lowest in the nation in 2018 at 22.8% in 2018, according to the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO). during 2018, according to NHPCO.

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Hospice News

MAY 26, 2022

Iowa in 2018 ranked seventh for hospice utilization among Medicare decedents at 56.2%, according to the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization. Like in much of the country, aging demographics are driving up demand for end-of-life care in the Hawkeye State. Utah held the highest rate that year at 60.5%.

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Hospice News

MARCH 15, 2024

decline from 2018. More than 49% of Medicare decedents enrolled in hospice care during 2022, up from 47.3% In order to serve the American public, Congress should ensure hospice providers are reimbursed to provide the end-of-life care people want and deserve.” Of those, 1,169 were nonprofits, a 1.4%

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

A main goal of the new fellowship is to train hospice and palliative physicians to provide more diverse and inclusive serious illness and end-of-life care, according to Dr. Diana Treu, an internist affiliated with the Orlando VA Medical Center. Treu will lead the new program. Hospice utilization runs high in the Sunshine State.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Extending the EMT training into an internship allows Ohio’s Hospice LifeCare to meet a critical staffing need, while training a new generation of health care providers in the world of end-of-life care, Holmes added.

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Hospice News

JULY 5, 2022

Demographic tailwinds are anticipated to drive up demand for serious illness and end-of-life care in Iowa. Iowa ranked seventh nationwide in hospice utilization among Medicare decedents in 2018, with 56.2% electing the benefit, according to the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization. About 17.7%

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Hospice News

JULY 6, 2022

Together, we set the highest standard of care to ensure everyone in our care has access to world-class, end-of-life care,” Andrea Baker, executive director at Ohio’s Hospice of Morrow County, said in an announcement. “We Seniors currently represent 17.5% of its overall population, according to the U.S.

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Evidence-Based Nursing - BMJ blogs

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Currently the differences in the availability of children’s palliative care services vary considerably (Hakanson et al 2017; Renton et al 2018; Mitchell et al 2019), and where these services are available the provision is not consistent (Fraser, Fleming and Paslow 2018; Mitchell et al 2019; Malcolm and Knighting 2021).

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Hospice News

MARCH 1, 2024

The new curriculum is designed to offer “foundational orientation training” for hospice aides, nurses, volunteers, social workers, chaplains and other spiritual care providers, as well as physicians. It covers the essentials of delivering end-of-life care in the home and compliance with regulatory requirements.

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