Hospice News

JUNE 21, 2022

While the availability of palliative care is improving, fewer than 5% of patients with serious illnesses who stand to benefit from palliative care actually receive it, according to a May 2019 report by the National Academy of State Health Policy. Signatories on the letter included the co-founders of the Senate Comprehensive Care Caucus, U.S.

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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. An Irish study found that 4 in 10 adults prefer not to think or discuss palliative care. study indicated. study indicated. “An

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Only 7% of community-based palliative care programs are operated by home health organizations, compared to about 50% for hospices and 7%, according to 2019 data from the Center to Advance Palliative Care. Currently, the palliative care space is dominated by hospices and health systems.

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Hospice News

JUNE 8, 2023

The four legislators in 2019 co-founded the Senate’s bipartisan Comprehensive Care Caucus to focus on legislation and policy to raise awareness of and improve access to palliative care. The bill’s sponsors include Sens. Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.), John Barrasso (R-Wy.), Tammy Baldwin (D-Wisc.), and Deb Fischer (R-Neb.).

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 10, 2023

In 2019, leaders set up a collaborative with researchers from the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing and the Bloomberg School of Public Health to diversify patient-care perspectives. To help combat the issue of burnout, Wu and his team met with a facilitator in 2019 and co-designed a wellness program called Thrive by Design.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Formerly known as Catskills Area Hospice and Palliative Care, the organization rebranded as Helios in 2019. The hospice and senior care provider Helios Care is partnering with the integrated health system Bassett Healthcare Network to bring more extensive access to hospice and palliative care to patients in central New York.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

These results appeared in a 2019 New England Journal of Medicine study titled “Rehabbed to Death.” 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.

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Hospice News

JUNE 7, 2023

of roughly 100 heart failure patients admitted to the West Haven, Connecticut-based VA hospital between October 2019 and September 2020, according to the study’s findings , recently published in the BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care journal. Palliative care was utilized by 6.5% Palliative care was utilized by 6.5%

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 11, 2023

” Health systems provide close to half of the palliative care delivered in the United States, according to 2019 research by the Center to Advance Palliative Care. .” Connecticut-based Stamford Health has relaunched an enhanced version of its shuttered palliative care program. Hospices provide most of the remaining 50%.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 19, 2022

At least 49 programs statewide provided community-based palliative care during 2019, reported the Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC). Pennsylvania-based Homeland at Home recently added community-based palliative care to its repertoire of services in response to rising demand for this care.

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Hospice News

JUNE 27, 2022

Home-based palliative care could reduce societal health care costs by $103 billion within the next 20 years, the nonprofit economic research group Florida TaxWatch indicated in a 2019 report. Programs to address social determinants have likewise been found to reduce health care expenditures. million in savings within the first six months .

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Hospice News

JULY 21, 2023

The study included patients between the ages of 18 to 64 who were newly diagnosed with stage 4 cancers between 2010 and 2019. More cancer patients have been receiving palliative care since the Affordable Care Act expanded Medicaid. About 18.9% 1, 2014, according to American Cancer Society research recently published in Health Affairs.

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Hospice News

JUNE 2, 2023

Close to half of community-based palliative care programs are operated by hospice agencies and 7% are operated by home health operators, according to 2019 data from the Center to Advance Palliative Care and Palliative Care Quality Collaborative data. The Washington, D.C.-based nTakt helps organizations launch palliative care programs.

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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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Hospice News

OCTOBER 6, 2022

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. Globally, the need for hospice and palliative care has been growing faster than people can access them.

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Hospice News

MAY 20, 2022

Tammy Baldwin (D-Wisc.) and Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) have reintroduced the Palliative Care and Hospice Education Training Act (PCHETA), designed to bolster the field’s shrinking workforce with federal support. . The bill would also expand continuing education and career development programs and incentives in these fields.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The researchers examined hospitalization statistics for 10,323 deceased patients from the National Inpatient Sample between January 2016 to December 2019. Lymphoma patients who receive palliative care have fewer hospitalizations that those who do not, but racial and ethnic disparities persist. Of those 5,464 had received palliative care.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

A research team led by Qinjin Fan, senior scientist, health services research at the American Cancer Society, examined National Cancer Database data for more than 333,000 adults who had been newly diagnosed with stage IV cancer in 2018 and 2019 in the contiguous United States. Health outcomes are unequal. The post U.S.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 16, 2023

Researchers analyzed records for 43,200 veterans with prior hospitalization who had received primary care at a VA site between October 2016 and September 2019. Patients are more likely to receive palliative care if they can access social workers through their primary care providers, Veterans Health Administration (VA) research has found.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Muir joined the organization in 2019 as its chief of clinical innovations. He first joined that company as its executive vice president of clinical services and CMO in 2002 while holding a similar role at Hospice of the Piedmont from 2019 to 2020. Muir was previously chief innovation officer at Capital Caring Health.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Home-based palliative care could reduce societal health care costs by $103 billion within the next 20 years, the nonprofit economic research group Florida TaxWatch said in a 2019 report. Among Medicare Advantage supplemental benefits, in-home support services and caregiver support saw the most year-over-year growth for 2023.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 17, 2022

Stretching back more than a decade, a rising number of states have passed laws designed to raise awareness of hospice and palliative care, but to date, few if any have achieved measurable results. The reasons for this run the gamut. Palliative care does that. Five flavors of palliative care laws.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 10, 2024

From March 2019 to August 2024, these companies allegedly submitted more than $54 million in fraudulent claims to Medicare for services that were never provided and not needed.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Private equity transactions represented half of all home health and hospice deals in 2018 and 2019, resulting in a 300% increase in patients enrolled under PE-backed providers, according to research published in the Journal of Palliative Medicine. But research has found that the tide is shifting. Morrison is also the Ellen and Howard C.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

AccentCare is a portfolio company of the private equity firm Advent International, which purchased the provider from Oak Hill Capital Partners in 2019 for an undisclosed sum. Foundation since 2017, serving as its president from 2019 to 2021. Prior to joining AccentCare, Natarajan founded Chicago Primary Care Sports Medicine.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

This was in response to July 2019 reports on hospice quality from the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) in the U.S. The program, set to begin Jan. The Alliance was formed by the merger this year of the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization and the National Association for Home Health & Hospice. “We

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Hospice News

JUNE 21, 2024

The patient records came from 280 cancer centers nationwide between 2015 and 2019. The study highlights a need for oncologists to revisit goals-of-care conversations with patients as they near the end of life, including discussions of hospice.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 8, 2023

The legislation was developed in response to July 2019 reports on hospice quality from the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) in the U.S. We are severely concerned with the direction that CMS has taken on this program. We don’t have confidence in the algorithm that they proposed. But for now, his work in Congress continues.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 5, 2024

If enacted the bill would significantly expand federal resources to support advance care planning and end-of-life care decision making. The legislation would also finance public awareness campaigns about hospice and palliative care. One such strategy is to encourage early conversations about death, dying and associated health care goals and wishes.

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Hospice News

JUNE 27, 2024

PCHETA was first introduced in 2017 and again in 2019. Hospices have been advocating for lawmakers and regulators to take action on curbing fraud, supporting veterans and bolstering the health care workforce. In their meetings with legislators, providers made known their policy priorities.

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HPNA podcast

JANUARY 15, 2024

In 2019, Amisha received the 2019 Hospice and Palliative Nurses Foundation Scholarship to fund a study in advance care planning through simulation with registered nurses. Amisha received her PhD in Nursing from the University of Connecticut (2020), and BS and MPH in Global Health from George Washington University (2001 & 2005).

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Hospice News

MAY 27, 2022

Researchers from George Washington University and the University of Chicago examined data from more than 11 million unique hospice care episodes that occurred between 2008 and 2019. The 2019 average for dementia patients was 126 days, compared to 92.6 But the longest lengths of stay tend to be associated with particular diagnoses.

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Hospice News

JULY 3, 2023

Rosen and Murkowski, initially tried to pass the palliative care training bill in 2019, and then again 2021. Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.) and Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) recently re-introduced legislation designed to expand the palliative care workforce. They also would provide primary care during their time of service with NHSC.

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Hospice News

APRIL 25, 2023

The hospital is located in Robeson County, North Carolina, which as of 2019 had a total population of roughly 116,000 people. The hospital is located in Robeson County, North Carolina, which as of 2019 had a total population of roughly 116,000 people. Census Bureau. About 585 died while receiving hospice care that year.

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Hospice News

MARCH 4, 2024

The Medicare Advantage hospice carve-in has been a source of controversy since CMS announced its plans for the program in 2019. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will end the hospice component of the value-based insurance design model (VBID) as of Dec.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

million Medicare decedents who died in 2019. million Medicare decedents who utilized hospice in 2019, about 591,272 had dementia, the research found. Researchers from New Jersey-based Rutgers University’s School of Nursing have found that patient preferences leaned toward home-based hospice services following home health experiences.

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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.).

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