Hospice News

AUGUST 17, 2022

Between 2010 and 2019 Medicare paid a total of $6.6 Services and items provided to patients in nursing homes are a particular area of risk for hospices, she said. Case in point, the skilled nursing and long-term care service provider American Senior Communities recently settled an FCA case for upwards of $5.5 million.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

By the Bay Health now serves eight counties statewide and provides hospice, palliative and pediatric care, along with skilled nursing home health and grief support. Comfort has been Calvary Hospital’s COO since 2019. The organization affiliated with the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF) health system in 2015.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 3, 2025

This is the highest rate since 2019. First, there are the two July 2019 reports on hospice quality from the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) in the U.S. A number of large assets purchased by PE firms in 2019 through 2022 are reaching maturity and ready to be sold once again. Hospice utilization reached 51.7%

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Hospice Law Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2021

In addition, a 2019 investigation by the Sacramento Bee stated that California’s hospice system was “marred by lax oversight and an inability of regulators to take meaningful action against hospices that may have violated rules and jeopardized the health of patients.”.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

A dearth of coordination or integration between rehab teams and palliative care teams routinely forces some patients into a cycle between the hospital and the nursing home in their last year of life. These results appeared in a 2019 New England Journal of Medicine study titled “Rehabbed to Death.”

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Hospice News

APRIL 7, 2025

The disparities may result from the geographic availability of high-quality hospices or the referrals that beneficiaries receive from their plans contracted hospitals and nursing homes, the researchers wrote in the study. Consumers need better information on hospice quality.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Providing home-based hospice can be a distinguisher for SNFs and assisted living providers, not only capitalize on growing demand, but also to address a more comprehensive range of their patients’ health needs in the setting that most prefer. Among the 1.6 Redbanks opened the unit through a partnership with St. Anthony’s Hospice.

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Hospice News

MAY 12, 2023

In addition, the company’s innovation arm Contessa Health continues to make new inroads to expanding emerging high-acuity care models like hospital-at-home services, exploring new payer and provider partnerships and making big investments in palliative care. Before that, he was president of Walgreens Co.,

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GeriPal

MARCH 2, 2023

valproic acid and gabapentin), in nursing homes, particularly patients with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias. JAMA Surgery 2018 Gabapentin and mood stabilizers in the Nursing Home Setting: Antiepileptic prescribing to persons living with dementia residing in nursing homes: A tale of two indications.

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GeriPal

MAY 18, 2023

But they were specifically looking at nursing home population. Mike: 2019. Eric: 2019. I was one of the authors on that paper, and tried to do an update in 2019, but for various reasons it fell through. And then when they updated it in 1997, they expanded it to include all older adults. laughter] Todd: Yeah.

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2023

She’s a hospice and palliative care nurse practitioner and Assistant Professor in the School of Nursing at UCSF. The for-profits stepped up and they have been serving people in nursing homes, including with dementia who deserve our care, and the nonprofits haven’t. Alex: We have some wonderful guests.

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AJN Off the Charts

APRIL 7, 2023

There have been a couple of recent studies that confirm what I have observed as a palliative care nurse practitioner (NP) in an academic medical center: that there’s still a tendency to pursue very aggressive care with older people with cancer. Aggressive care common in nursing homes at end of life. Nearly 10% of the 1.5

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GeriPal

AUGUST 25, 2022

Alex: We’re delighted to welcome back Lauren Hunt, who is a Hospice and Palliative Care Nurse Researcher, an Assistant Professor of Nursing at UCSF. Nurse case management, social worker case management, medications, medical equipment, a home health aid, all that stuff goes away. Melissa: Thank you. Great to be here.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Jerry: Probably for the reason a lot of people go into geriatrics, close relationship with grandparents, volunteered to work in a nursing home as a high school student, just felt really good about being around old people and not having a problem with it. Eric: And can I ask you, why did you choose geriatrics? Why did you go into it?

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