Hospice News

MARCH 17, 2023

More hospices are going green, making short-term investments to cultivate long-term sustainability. Among these companies is Agrace Hospice & Supportive Care, which unveiled an initiative last October to become carbon neutral by 2025, according to President and CEO Lynne Sexten. Amedisys, Inc.

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Hospice News

JUNE 16, 2023

After nearly four years at the helm, Alive Hospice President and CEO Kimberly Goessele has decided to step down. Her departure closely follows an announcement that a rumored sale of the hospice would not take place. Goessele has led the Nashville-based nonprofit hospice since October 2019.

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Hospice News

MAY 31, 2023

Research is growing around how certain substances such as psychedelics and cannabis can aid in treating pain, anxiety, depression, trauma, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), grief, migraines and other medical conditions. MDMA and some other psychedelics can really increase your blood pressure and heart rate,” Morgan told Hospice News.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

She became a hospice nurse for By the Bay Health in 1996, then named Hospice of Marin, taking on various roles in clinical leadership throughout her more than 27-year tenure. “It Previously known as Hospice by the Bay, the organization rebranded in 2021 to reflect a broadening scope of services.

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Hospice News

MAY 16, 2023

Nashville-based Alive Hospice recently responded to speculation that the nonprofit will sell its operations to a for-profit company, a move that has sparked cries of opposition within the local community. A spate of news reports have indicated that Alive Hospice may be up for sale to a publicly traded for-profit entity.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

YoloCares has announced its disaffiliation from the California Hospice Network (CHN) after three years of collaborative partnership. CHN is a coalition of nonprofit hospices designed to support the growth of community-based hospice care and leverage their collective scale and resources in value-based payment programs.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 11, 2022

We’re creating a platform really for our own policyholders, but also other users,” Peck told Hospice News’ sister site Home Health Care News. “And not just providers, but also those dealing with transportation, with food delivery and nutrition, with loneliness and isolation, with grief counseling, etc.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 16, 2024

Niagara Hospice CEO Retires Lockport, N.Y.-based based Niagara Hospice will soon have a new president and CEO with the upcoming retirement of John Lomeo, who has led the organization since 2000. Niagara Hospice is part of The Hospice and Palliative Care Group (HPCG), an organization that provides administrative services.

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Hope Hospice

APRIL 23, 2019

Join the 2019 Hike for Hope, a hike that benefits a good cause on May 4, 2019, at Del Valle Regional Park in Livermore! Hike for Hope is a unique celebration of family, friends and remembrance and raises funds for Hope’s patient care, grief support services, and caregiver education programs.

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Hope Hospice

MAY 24, 2019

Registration is now open for the fifth annual Hope 100 Golf Marathon , which will take place on September 30, 2019, at Castlewood Country Club in Pleasanton. Interested parties may contact the Hope Hospice Development Department at (925) 829-8770. Commencing with a shotgun start at 7:30 a.m., Participation is limited to 36 golfers.

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Hospice News

MAY 13, 2022

based hospice provider Bluegrass Care Navigators has named Stephanie Greene as its new chief operating officer of clinical services. She succeeds Cassie Mitchell, who left the organization to become CEO of Colorado-based HopeWest Hospice. Hospice Maui appoints new CEO . She was previously the clinical director at Hospice Maui.

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Hope Hospice

JUNE 7, 2019

The Hope Hospice and Home Health community returned to Livermore’s Del Valle Regional Park on May 4 for the ninth annual Hike for Hope, which raised more than $90,000 for Hope’s patient care and community services. The post 2019 Hike for Hope Raises $90K appeared first on Hope Hospice and Health Services.

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NHPCO

APRIL 17, 2023

For Immediate Release April 17, 2023 (Alexandria, VA) The National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) published the following statement in response to a recent Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) proposed rule that would update key components of hospice reimbursement and regulations in Fiscal Year (FY) 2024.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Some hospices have increasingly recognized the value of collaborating with local educators when it comes to improving community grief support for bereaved children and their families. The nonprofit provides hospice services across 10 counties in its service area and also offers bereavement and veteran programs.

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Hospice News

MAY 9, 2022

This growing need has spurred the National Partnership for Healthcare and Hospice Innovation (NPHI) to recently develop its Community Counseling Guide to help member providers structure bereavement services, including best practices for billing. Demand for mental health care skyrocketed during the pandemic. last year, up from 9.2%

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Globally, the need for hospice and palliative care has been growing faster than people can access them. This was the impetus behind the World Hospice Palliative Care Alliance (WHPCA), which emerged from an Oct. 8, 2005 meeting of health care leaders in South Korea. Case in point, as many as 71% of the U.S.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 6, 2023

A common hurdle to improving access to hospice and palliative care among children is that many clinicians across the health continuum lack the training and skill sets needed to have goals of care conversations. Researchers reviewed electronic medical record data for nearly 2,000 adolescents and young adults who died between 2003 and 2019.

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Hospice News

JULY 22, 2022

They facilitate conversations regarding the dying process, discuss advance care planning, hospice election and advocate the patient’s wishes around ceremony, memorialization and disposition. Carroll and Merelli founded Deathwives in 2019 to assist families facing the death of a loved one. Deathwives was formed in 2019.

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Life & Death Matters

AUGUST 28, 2023

In October 2019 Ted and I flew to join Siobhan. We desired to support her in her grief. Three months later, our […] The post Book Recommendation: Unobservable: Poems of Grief and Grace, by Siobhan Westrop appeared first on Life and Death Matters. We walked the beaches together. Little did we know.

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Hospice News

MAY 19, 2022

Incidentally, as of 2018 Utah also had the highest rate of hospice utilization among Medicare decedents at 60.5%, compared to that year’s national average of 50.3%, according to the National Hospice & Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO). Utah fell short of the top spot due to its low concentration of funeral homes.

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NHPCO

JULY 28, 2023

For Immediate Release July 28, 2023 New Research Shows Hospice Produces Better Outcomes, Lower Medicare Costs (Washington, D.C. billion in Medicare savings in 2019, while also providing multiple benefits to patients, families, and caregivers. Hospice made that happen for mom, for me, and my family.”

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Or when it progresses – will hospice pay? I remember as a fellow, I would come in and our nurse practitioner on our hospice team, I would say the word narcotics, and f or half an hour, she would just lay into me. And it’s supposedly also about his grief with the loss of his father after a long illness.

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Seasons Hospice

APRIL 30, 2021

In 2019, the CDC reported 9,173 deaths of children between one and 14 in the United States. Follow along to learn more about parental grief and a few methods to deal with the loss of a child. Follow along to learn more about parental grief and a few methods to deal with the loss of a child. Familial Issues from Parental Grief.

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NHPCO

MARCH 21, 2023

For Immediate Release March 22, 2023 New Research Shows Hospice Care Reduces Medicare Costs Hospice Care Contributed to $3.5 billion in savings for Medicare in 2019, while providing multiple benefits to patients, families, and caregivers. In other words, earlier enrollment in hospice reduces Medicare spending even further.

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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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Evidence-Based Nursing - BMJ blogs

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

Using children’s hospices as gate keepers (to ensure support for the parents), eight parents were interviewed in seven interviews (one interview involved both parents), about eight children (one mother spoke about the deaths of two of her children). Journal of Pain and Symptom Management 60(1) pp106-115 DOI:10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2019.12.370

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 5, 2024

And so how we’ve done it since is we were either invited by particular institutions, like we’ve been to UCSF or the Palliative Care Fellowship in Toronto, or much larger conferences like the Memorial Sloan Kettering World Hospice Day. It was late on a Friday afternoon in December 2019. So it’s all volunteer.

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Hospice of the North Coast

JULY 14, 2023

Although we grieve differently in our own styles and paces, it can be helpful if we understand grief work from psychologist William Worden’s model called “Tasks of Mourning.” The second task of mourning is “To Process the Pain of Grief.” Grief can stir up many feelings such as sadness, fear, anxiety, anger, regret, shame, etc.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 22, 2022

These cover the innovative partnerships, new technologies, pediatric care, health equity and other key developments in the hospice space. Pandemic Pushes Death Doula Awareness, Hospices Seek Strengthened Ties. In 2019, the organization had just 200 members.

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