Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Utah-headquartered Canyon Home Care & Hospice has acquired Arizona-based internal medicine practice Thomas G. Internists specialize in caring for patients with cancer and infections or diseases affecting the heart, blood, lungs, kidneys, joints, or digestive tracts. “We Dallman, M.D., LLC for an undisclosed sum.

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Hospice News

JULY 14, 2023

Mastrapa since 2021 has been an advisor and consultant to multiple health care companies. Between 2018 and 2021, he was CEO of the personal care company Help at Home. Before Help at Home, Mastrapa led the home infusion provider Option Care Health (NYSE: OPCH). Gerard wrote on LinkedIn Monday.

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Hospice News

MAY 26, 2022

Above & Beyond has provided home health and hospice care across eastern Iowa since 2004. Its home care services include nursing, and physical occupational and speech therapies, among others. Like in much of the country, aging demographics are driving up demand for end-of-life care in the Hawkeye State.

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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. Adventist Health Feather River facility began accepting referrals for new home care and hospice patients in January.

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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

JANUARY 16, 2024

Niagara Hospice is part of The Hospice and Palliative Care Group (HPCG), an organization that provides administrative services. Other providers in the group include Kalos Health, Liberty Home Care, Hospice of Orleans and The Niagara Hospice Alliance. “It Throughout my career, I have tried to make a difference in people’s lives.

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Hospice News

JULY 22, 2024

However, they identified gaps in which patients don’t always receive sufficient post-acute care. “We We found that MA enrollment was associated with lower rates of potentially burdensome hospitalizations and treatments, less skilled nursing facility care and more home care after discharge,” study authors wrote.

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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

MARCH 10, 2023

Croix Hospice since 2018, previously serving as director of marketing and communications. Goodwin also has a memory care program and provides personal services to help seniors age in place, such as assistance with care coordination, home repairs and housekeeping. Pope has been at St.

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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

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Creating a standardized patient data collection system would go a long way towards finding and filling cracks in hospice quality and access among underserved populations, according to Katy Barnett, director of home care and hospice operations at LeadingAge.

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Home Care Pulse

MARCH 15, 2023

R exburg, Idaho, March 15, 2023—HCP, the leading provider of experience management, training, and reputation management in the post-acute industry, has partnered with Hospice pioneer Barbara Karnes to provide exclusive online courses based on her library of renowned end-of-life materials. For more information, visit [link].

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Home Care Pulse

JULY 25, 2023

I’m the senior nurse educator at H C P, Speaker 1 ( 00:25 ): And you’re listening to Vision, the podcast for leaders and forward thinkers in the care industry. Today we’ll be discussing the importance of unifying the care continuum for end of life care. Speaker 3 ( 00:38 ): Hi, glad to be here.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Combined, Asians, African Americans and Hispanics in 2018 represented only 20% of Medicare hospice patients, while the remaining 80% were Caucasian, according NHPCO. Bringing goal-concordant care to populations in need will likely require a reexamination of societal views about death, including the “over-medicalization” of end-of-life care.

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