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Reps. Van Duyne, Panetta Introduce Bill to Reform Hospice Special Focus Program

Hospice News

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

This was in response to July 2019 reports on hospice quality from the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) in the U.S. Medicare beneficiaries and their families deserve clear, accurate information to make informed choices,” said Dr. Steve Landers, CEO for the National Alliance for Care at Home, in a statement.

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CMS Unresponsive to Congressional SFP Concerns

Hospice News

DECEMBER 12, 2024

The SFP program was developed in response to July 2019 reports on hospice quality from the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) in the U.S. Congress mandated the SFP in the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021 , which contained language from the Helping Our Senior Population in Comfort Environments (HOSPICE) Act.

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Aggressive Cancer Treatment at End of Life Does Not Extend Survival

Hospice News

JUNE 21, 2024

The patient records came from 280 cancer centers nationwide between 2015 and 2019. “Since we don’t see an improved survival benefit, oncologists should revisit their goals-of-care conversations with patients, and this information in the study should be explained to patients,” Canavan said in the release.

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Bridging the gap between clinical services and research

Evidence-Based Nursing - BMJ blogs

MARCH 14, 2025

There is a growing body of evidence that patients treated in research active organisations have improved outcomes (Downing et al 2017, Jonker & Fisher 2018, Jonker et al 2019). Rees, M & Bracewell, M (2019). This will be an area of continued focus for the UHBW research training team going forward. Jonker, L et al.

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New CEO at Optum as UnitedHealth Group Revamps C-Suite

Hospice News

MAY 1, 2025

Heather Cianfrocco, CEO of the companys health services subsidiary Optum, has been promoted to serve as UnitedHealth Groups executive vice president of governance, compliance and information security. Prior to joining Optum, Conway was president and CEO of the insurance company BlueCross BlueShield of North Carolina until 2019.

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AlayaCare Embraces Digital Health Week 2019

AlayaCare

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Across the country right now, seven in 10 Canadians access personal health information online, a utility that helps them proactively manage their health. Register here to join us for this informative discussion. The post AlayaCare Embraces Digital Health Week 2019 appeared first on AlayaCare.

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U.S. Senate Takes Up Supporting Our Seniors Act

Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Patients in nursing homes on average were in hospice for 109 days of care in 2019, compared to 95 days among those receiving services in a private residence and 161 days in assisted living. Rosen in 2019 co-founded the bipartisan Comprehensive Care Caucus with Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.). The post U.S.

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Study: 40% of Adults Don’t Want to Talk About Palliative Care

Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

population has little to no understanding of what palliative care is, including many clinicians in a position to refer patients and their families, according to a 2019 study in the Journal of Palliative Medicine. Prior research has shown that as many as 71% of the U.S. study indicated. “An

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Prospero Health to Merge with Landmark within UnitedHealth Group’s Optum

Hospice News

MARCH 8, 2023

LinkedIn information posted by Wenners specifies that Prospero was acquired in January 2022. Wenners founded Propero Health in 2019 and took the helm at Optum at Home early last year. Tennessee-based Prospero provides interdisciplinary services to 30,000 seniors with complex health needs in 28 states.

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CMS Seeks Answers on Hospice Utilization Trends, Spending

Hospice News

APRIL 7, 2023

Further, it included a trove of data and requests for information that could portend future rule making or other actions. bump from FY 2019. Between 2010 and 2019 Medicare paid a total of $6.6 CMS, per the proposed rule, is now seeking additional information from providers as to why these expenditures occur.

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Hospice Advocacy Groups Ask Congress for Action on Proposed 2023 Medicare Rates

Hospice News

JULY 13, 2022

The rule also contains a model for phasing in changes to the way CMS will use the wage index to inform payment rates in future years. The 2023 proposal also contains a model for phasing in changes to the way CMS will use the wage index to inform payment rates in future years. .

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GAO: CMS Should Update Rules for Hospices Reporting Abuse or Neglect

Hospice News

JANUARY 11, 2023

Strengthening hospice reporting requirements to align with the requirements for nursing homes and hospitals providing extended care will provide CMS with the information necessary to ensure that hospice care providers are taking appropriate steps within the scope of their authority to protect vulnerable individuals,” GAO indicated in a report.

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CMS to Sunset Hospice VBID in 2024

Hospice News

MARCH 4, 2024

Despite ending the hospice component, CMS hopes to glean valuable information from the results to date. The Medicare Advantage hospice carve-in has been a source of controversy since CMS announced its plans for the program in 2019. About 6.5% of hospice VBID patients received supplemental benefits associated with the program.

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Hospices Striking Back Against Cyberattacks

Hospice News

MARCH 9, 2023

In the United States, the average cost of a cyberattack on a health care provider reached $15 million in 2019, a study in the journal Healthcare found. Hospices are among the providers seeing an increase in cyberattacks, including incidents that have exposed private information belonging to thousands of patients. Nearly 164.4

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2023’s Most Impactful Hospice Regulatory Moves

Hospice News

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The patient safety concerns bubbled up in 2019 with two reports from the U.S. The bill was spurred by the two 2019 OIG reports. There’s opportunity to continue to advocate for regulatory change around that program in some of the [requests for information (RFIs)], so that’s something to watch out for as well.

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A perspective on funding, doing and publishing qualitative research

Evidence-Based Nursing - BMJ blogs

APRIL 3, 2025

If only a couple of people arrive for a focus group, it might be prudent to continue anyway as participants are often late, (have participant information and consent sheets ready) and later an informal snowballing effect can encourage others to come forward. Available from [link] 2. Available from [link] 3. Siverio, s., Sandall, J.

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Inside The Pennant Group’s Hospice Growth Strategy

Hospice News

JULY 18, 2024

The Pennant Group purchased some of Signature’s assets in 2019. The health system retains ownership of HHCAH, with Pennant providing financial support services, human resources advising, information technology and other management consulting services.

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Hospices Climbing ‘Steeper Stairs’ as UPIC, TPE Audits Spike

Hospice News

MARCH 7, 2023

million in FY 2019 But UPICs and hospice providers sometimes disagree on what constitutes an improper payment. The overpayment issues that result in millions for hospices can sometimes feel like a disconnect between data analysis and identifying problems around credible information,” Pekarske said. “To This is a jump from the $113.6

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Regulatory Focus in Hospice Giving Buyers Pause in M&A Deals

Hospice News

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

Two OIG reports in 2019 shook the industry with findings that condition-level deficiencies posed safety risks to patients. In response to the 2019 OIG reports, Congress included hospice quality checks amid the requirements established by the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021. As part of the legislature’s requirements, the U.S.

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Preventing Adverse Drug Events in Hospice Care

Hospice News

MARCH 15, 2024

Another really important intervention is making sure patients, families and informal caregivers have sufficient understanding of the medications. “It’s challenging when a patient is in a facility-based setting, because they keep their own medical records and sometimes the medication changes don’t transfer to the hospice side.

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Entrepreneur Tim Peck, Genworth Launch CareScout Venture

Hospice News

OCTOBER 11, 2022

The venture’s financial details are scarce, but more information will likely surface with publicly traded Genworth’s third-quarter earnings report in the coming weeks. The company raised $34 million before eventually shutting down in 2019 and leading to Curve Health. Peck continues to serve on the Curve Health board. .

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Hospice Industry Groups: CMS Must Retool Proposed Special Focus Program to Ensure Accuracy, Fairness

Hospice News

AUGUST 30, 2023

Congress included the language in response to July 2019 reports on hospice quality from the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) at the U.S. But NAHC contends that hospices need more detailed information about how CMS will choose SFP participants before the program can be implemented. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

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From Sea to Shining Sea: State Palliative Care Laws Yield Mixed Results

Hospice News

AUGUST 17, 2022

Others, such as New Jersey, Wisconsin, Oregon, and Florida, require certain providers to inform patients of those health care options in particular circumstances. The Oregon advisory group began producing a website to inform health care providers about palliative care, with a particular focus on long term care organizations.

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Wage Litigation Rising Among Hospices

Hospice News

JUNE 2, 2023

“Once it is determined whether an incentive payment should be included in the regular rate, employers should work with their payroll team to confirm that they can perform the regular rate calculation correctly and properly display the information on the employee’s wage statement.”

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Congress Members Call on CMS to Revise Proposed Hospice Special Focus Program

Hospice News

OCTOBER 4, 2023

The proposed methodology places too much emphasis on data from the Hospice Care Index (HCI) and the Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS) surveys data, because large numbers of hospices do not report that information.

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Hospice Groups, AOs Speak Out on Proposed Accreditor Oversight Rule

Hospice News

APRIL 22, 2024

Legislators added the hospice language in response to July 2019 reports on hospice quality from the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). In 2022, for example, CMS revamped the hospice survey process as mandated by the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021.

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How Avita Home Health & Hospice Eased Communication and Scheduling for Hospice Staff

Hospice News

APRIL 29, 2022

When Catherine Sapp took the role as executive director of Avita Home Health & Hospice in September 2019, one of the first areas of improvement that she identified was communication. As such, staff members could not speak freely to each other without risking a patient’s protected health information (PHI). Broadcast messaging.

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CMS’ Proposed Method of Selecting SFP Hospices May Be Flawed

Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Congress included the hospice language in response to July 2019 reports on hospice quality from the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) in the U.S. The CMS website shows that “hospice provider and survey information will only be accurate and complete through September 29. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

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Two CEOs Retire, Three Hospice Leadership Teams Grow

Hospice News

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Comfort has been Calvary Hospital’s COO since 2019. Hospice Source’s New CIO Tim Hines has been tapped as the new chief information officer of Hospice Source LLC, a durable medical equipment (DME) company based in Texas. Vincent’s Hospital and Medical Center and later joined NYC Health + Hospitals Corp.

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Hospice Leaders: Change Must Come to the Medicare Hospice Benefit

Hospice News

OCTOBER 9, 2023

in 2019, the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) reported. CMS in its proposed 2024 hospice rule included a request for information on the GIP, continuous home care and respite levels of care and why they may be underutilized. More than 20% of hospice decedents in 2020 suffered from dementia, up from 18.5%

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Hospices Strengthening Ties to Tech, Pharmacy Companies to Support Families, Staff

Hospice News

JANUARY 25, 2023

The information available through remote monitoring has allowed our clinicians to decide if a patient needs an immediate visit. Remote patient monitoring allows us to capture small changes in a patient’s status prior to an exacerbation or need to transfer to the hospital,” Bratcher told Hospice News.

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Hospice Sustainability Rides Hand in Hand With Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Hospice News

JUNE 22, 2022

Organizations that focused on ethnic and cultural diversity outperformed others in profitability by 36% during Q4 2019, according to a global study by McKinsey & Company. Providers can leverage this information to identify unmet patient needs, with the caveat that the insights gleaned may be limited in scope.

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Alive Hospice Execs: Reports of For-Profit Sale Purely Speculative

Hospice News

MAY 16, 2023

“This puts us at a distinct disadvantage in the current environment where some members of our community, who are well aware of the restrictions on our ability to speak, use the absence of information to fashion their own version of events.” Alive Hospice’s revenue reached $38.87 million in 2021, up from $38.03 of revenue.

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In Booming – and Changing – U.S. Home Infusion Market, Technology Can Propel Providers to Seize Opportunities

AlayaCare

MARCH 21, 2019

A team from AlayaCare, one of the world’s fastest-growing software companies to specialize in home care, attended the 2019 National Home Infusion Association (NHIA) conference earlier this month in Orlando. We look forward to how this industry has progressed this time next year at the 2020 NHIA conference,” says Schauer.

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Rehumanizing the Patient Experience

Minority Nurse

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

When we’re kept waiting, it’s the lack of information about when things may or may not happen that can make it worse. Information is power, and the lack of information can be supremely disempowering. healthcare quality since the survey began in December 2019.”

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AlayaCare integrates with Home Care Pulse to improve operational efficiencies through evidence-based quality metrics

AlayaCare

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

NOVEMBER 7, 2019 Leading home care software platform, AlayaCare, announced their partnership and integration with Home Care Pulse – a leading organization for quality assurance and performance benchmarking in the home care industry.

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Impact of Section GG, ANAs and Social Risk Factors (SRFs) on PAC outcomes

Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

AUGUST 18, 2022

These measures are designed to improve care quality and to enable Medicare beneficiaries to make informed choices when selecting a healthcare provider. Statistical Imputation: Another approach to handle ANAs is to use the information collected through the assessments (e.g., Activities Not Assessed (ANA).

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Developing cultural humility in CYP nurses through decolonisation of the curriculum

Evidence-Based Nursing - BMJ blogs

AUGUST 30, 2024

Cultural Competence models have been criticised for implying that knowledge of cultures can be mastered by learning or gathering information without challenging individual biases and assumptions (Sedgwick & Atthill 2020, Allwright et al 2019). and Wilson, R., Public Health Nursing , 36 (4), pp.551-556. Amoaka Kayser, A.

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CBI Health Group Selects AlayaCare as Key Strategic Partner

AlayaCare

APRIL 29, 2019

TORONTO, ON – April 30, 2019 – To focus on what it does best, CBI Health Group, Canada’s largest community-based healthcare services network, is partnering with AlayaCare, an end-to-end market-leading technology platform, for its Home Health operations. AlayaCare was founded in 2014.

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AlayaCare bolsters leadership team to accelerate growth strategy

AlayaCare

JULY 28, 2019

link] Media Contact Information: Amy Cole, amy@colecomms.ca, 647-287-0025 The post AlayaCare bolsters leadership team to accelerate growth strategy appeared first on AlayaCare. AlayaCare is providing the platform for home and community care organizations to propel towards innovation and home care of the future. AlayaCare was founded in 2014.

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Nurses caring for people in a social care setting

Evidence-Based Nursing - BMJ blogs

MAY 29, 2022

These experiences will inform their decisions as to future careers, jobs and roles in nursing within the social care sector. Skills for Care (2019) Recognising the skills and responsibilities of registered nurses within social care. Mitchel, G (2019) social care nursing is much more than giving out medication.

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“Delivering our future workforce is ultimately dependent on a sustainable and high quality educator workforce to support education and training, both in practice and in academic settings” (Health Education England 2023, pg. 3)

Evidence-Based Nursing - BMJ blogs

MAY 28, 2023

Health-care expectations continue to shift, new information technologies emerge, practice requirements continue to evolve and as a consequence the educator role has increasingly diversified 2 with evolving competencies and skills 3. J Contin Educ Nurs, 2019; 50: 228–232. The clinical nurse educator role: a snapshot in time.

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Canadian Health-Care Technology Success Story AlayaCare Turns Five

AlayaCare

AUGUST 19, 2019

Better Outcomes 2019 On September 18-20, 2019, AlayaCare will host its fourth annual Better Outcomes conference, which explores the challenges and opportunities in home health care and helps agencies understand how to best use technology to position themselves for future growth. AlayaCare was founded in 2014.

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Bedside Handovers: An efficient, reliable, and inclusive Nursing handover process

Evidence-Based Nursing - BMJ blogs

MARCH 5, 2023

I have over the years come across many methods of the delivery of handover, and the information shared is only as accurate and reliable as the methods utilised and information shared, in ensuring a continuity of care is provided. 2016 ; Cornell et al. 2014; Poot et al. 2013 ; Street et al. 2016 ; Forde, Coffey and Hegarty 2020 ).

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Reps. Van Duyne, Panetta Introduce Bill to Reform Hospice Special Focus Program

CMS Unresponsive to Congressional SFP Concerns

Trending Sources

Aggressive Cancer Treatment at End of Life Does Not Extend Survival

Bridging the gap between clinical services and research

New CEO at Optum as UnitedHealth Group Revamps C-Suite

AlayaCare Embraces Digital Health Week 2019

U.S. Senate Takes Up Supporting Our Seniors Act

Study: 40% of Adults Don’t Want to Talk About Palliative Care

Prospero Health to Merge with Landmark within UnitedHealth Group’s Optum

CMS Seeks Answers on Hospice Utilization Trends, Spending

Hospice Advocacy Groups Ask Congress for Action on Proposed 2023 Medicare Rates

GAO: CMS Should Update Rules for Hospices Reporting Abuse or Neglect

CMS to Sunset Hospice VBID in 2024

Hospices Striking Back Against Cyberattacks

2023’s Most Impactful Hospice Regulatory Moves

A perspective on funding, doing and publishing qualitative research

Inside The Pennant Group’s Hospice Growth Strategy

Hospices Climbing ‘Steeper Stairs’ as UPIC, TPE Audits Spike

Regulatory Focus in Hospice Giving Buyers Pause in M&A Deals

Preventing Adverse Drug Events in Hospice Care

Entrepreneur Tim Peck, Genworth Launch CareScout Venture

Hospice Industry Groups: CMS Must Retool Proposed Special Focus Program to Ensure Accuracy, Fairness

From Sea to Shining Sea: State Palliative Care Laws Yield Mixed Results

Wage Litigation Rising Among Hospices

Congress Members Call on CMS to Revise Proposed Hospice Special Focus Program

Hospice Groups, AOs Speak Out on Proposed Accreditor Oversight Rule

How Avita Home Health & Hospice Eased Communication and Scheduling for Hospice Staff

CMS’ Proposed Method of Selecting SFP Hospices May Be Flawed

Two CEOs Retire, Three Hospice Leadership Teams Grow

Hospice Leaders: Change Must Come to the Medicare Hospice Benefit

Hospices Strengthening Ties to Tech, Pharmacy Companies to Support Families, Staff

Hospice Sustainability Rides Hand in Hand With Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Alive Hospice Execs: Reports of For-Profit Sale Purely Speculative

In Booming – and Changing – U.S. Home Infusion Market, Technology Can Propel Providers to Seize Opportunities

Rehumanizing the Patient Experience

AlayaCare integrates with Home Care Pulse to improve operational efficiencies through evidence-based quality metrics

Impact of Section GG, ANAs and Social Risk Factors (SRFs) on PAC outcomes

Developing cultural humility in CYP nurses through decolonisation of the curriculum

CBI Health Group Selects AlayaCare as Key Strategic Partner

AlayaCare bolsters leadership team to accelerate growth strategy

Nurses caring for people in a social care setting

“Delivering our future workforce is ultimately dependent on a sustainable and high quality educator workforce to support education and training, both in practice and in academic settings” (Health Education England 2023, pg. 3)

Canadian Health-Care Technology Success Story AlayaCare Turns Five

Bedside Handovers: An efficient, reliable, and inclusive Nursing handover process

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