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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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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

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

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

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

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

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

JULY 14, 2023

“With the high patient demands facing health care right now, I’m confident in the expertise of our staff and entrepreneurial energy of our franchisees to continue leading the charge in home health care.” Mastrapa since 2021 has been an advisor and consultant to multiple health care companies.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Generally, these are individuals with multiple debilitating conditions who have low incomes and high health care costs. Though D-SNPs have existed in one form or another since 2003, Congress made the programs permanent through the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

“This is a tremendous opportunity to offer experienced, hospital-based hospice care to patients who are too fragile or unstable to be transferred to another location,” Mattson said in a press release. The hospital-based hospice unit marks Hospice of Cincinnati’s fifth inpatient location.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 11, 2023

Increasingly, Medicare Advantage (MA) plans have found real value in offering community-based palliative care as a supplemental benefit. Since 2018, the U.S. Hospice care focuses on quality of life when a cure may no longer be possible. “I So, there is still education to be done about what palliative care is.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 26, 2022

In addition to hospice, the nonprofit provider also offers palliative care and grief support. in 2018, according to the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization. Though utilization runs low compared to other states, the need for hospice care is high in Hawaii. Hospice utilization in Hawaii reached 45.4%

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Empowering the interdisciplinary team to collaborate and work together in providing quality end-of-life care 24/7 – especially when caring for high-acuity patients – recognizes [their] clinical decision skills [and] promotes autonomy and teamwork,” Marion said. “We

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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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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Similar to national trends, demand for serious illness and end-of-life care is expected to swell due to favorable demographics in the Grand Canyon State. More than 58% of Medicare descendants in the state elected hospice during 2018, according to the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization.

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Hospice News

JULY 27, 2022

Though interest in advance care planning has gained steam among people of color during the pandemic, utilization and access still lag, which in turn may be among the factors that contribute to fewer members of those communities electing hospice. About 82% of hospice patients in 2018 were White, compared to 8.2%

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Daily Nurse

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Initial reviews of patient care revealed deviations from best practice, including missed referrals, care team members initiating discussions about donation with families, and misconceptions about the donation process. A series of organ donation presentations in 2018 and 2019 provided staff education.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 16, 2024

But AMOREM wants to ensure its faith communities that they are a priority for the organization and that they feel supported when any of their congregants need end-of-life care.” Part of her new role will be focused on expanded research in data-driven processes and strategies among hospice and home health care providers.

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GeriPal

JUNE 8, 2023

Given how frequent monitoring and prescribing issues arise in the care of patients with diabetes in late life, including the end of life, Eric and I were excited when Tamryn Gray emailed us requesting a follow up podcast on this issue. Goldilocks zone). This is Eric Widera. Alex Smith: This is Alex Smith. This is great.

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JULY 10, 2022

Nurses deliver clinics which mirror community provision; wound care, phlebotomy, managing Long Term Conditions as well as triaging and treating minor illness and injury. Nurses also provide response to medical emergencies and care for people who have self-harmed, those in need of end of life care, support patient safety and risk management.

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Hope Hospice

JANUARY 15, 2019

“The Castlettes are a generous and lively group of women who are passionate about giving back to their community,” says Nicole Murray, 2018 Castlettes’ Captain. Hope Hospice is especially near and dear to our hearts, as this organization has provided care for several past Castlettes and their families.

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