Hospice News

MARCH 14, 2024

In Calendar Year 2021, the share of hospice care days with nurse visits in the last seven days of life rose to 63%, up from 62% year over year, according to the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO). In 2019, for example, the percentage was 66%.

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Hospice News

JUNE 15, 2022

An overwhelming majority of hospice providers have seen costs of patient care rise 3% to 10% since 2019, and many expect further increases next year. Medicare covers close to 90% of hospice organizations’ patient care revenue. This is prompting calls for Medicare to reconsider proposed 2023 reimbursement rates. .

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Hospice News

MAY 12, 2023

Established in 1979, the nonprofit organization provides hospice and palliative care in three counties near the San Francisco area of northern California. Attorneys at the law firm Blumenthal Nordrehaug Bhowmik De Blouw LLP are representing the health care workers in the matter. Community Hospice, Inc.

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Hospice News

APRIL 5, 2023

A group of hospice and palliative care leaders with nursing experience established 1Care in October 2020. The company began offering services in January 2021 and currently has a census of 217 patients, 133 of whom are pediatric patients. As we started to take pediatric and adult patients, we needed case managers for each side.

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Hospice News

JUNE 16, 2022

In part, the trend of more hospitals and health systems in hospice is a response to growing demand and strain on acute care services. More health systems are looking to expand into community-based hospice and palliative care to complement existing offerings while creating new care delivery channels.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

The hospice provider purchased its first mobile care unit in 2019 through funding support, seeing a growing need for more emergency medical transportation and services. Most medical, nursing and social work students receive little training in hospice and palliative care during the course of their education.

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Hospice News

JULY 14, 2022

With many more patients receiving care in their homes, we will continue to enhance our services to meet this need.” ” UPMC in 2019 merged with Somerset Hospital. during 2018, according to the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization. Though this fell slightly under the national average of 50.3%

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Agape Care Group Appoints M&A VP. Alex Ferguson has stepped into the role of senior vice president of mergers and acquisitions at Agape Care Group. The South Carolina-based hospice and palliative care provider is a portfolio company of the private equity firm Ridgemont Equity Partners. Trustbridge Names New Hospice CMO.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

The nonprofit organization is ramping up efforts to innovate toward more person-centered care models. Ultimately, the decision to disaffiliate from CHN was made with the prioritization of patient care,” YoloCares indicated in a statement. “We The nonprofit provides hospice, supportive and palliative care and adult day services.

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Hospice News

JULY 18, 2023

Fortis offers home health, hospice, palliative and personal care services in Utah and Indiana, with plans to build density in its existing footprint, as well as expand to new markets. Fortis Health Fortis Health Rob Radics, CEO, Fortis Health Grant Avenue was founded by the firm’s managing partner, Buddy Gumina, in 2019.

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Hospice News

MARCH 22, 2024

He most recently served as UnitedHealth Group’s CEO since 2019 president. Prior to that, McMahon was COO of its health care subsidiary Optum. Crouch is also charged with facilitating the growth and operations of the organization’s palliative care services. The organization is a subsidiary of Western Reserve Care Solutions.

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AAHPM (American Academy of Hospice and Palliative)

AUGUST 11, 2023

In our discipline of palliative care, understanding the unique needs and characteristics of the population is essential for providing effective and high-quality care. In our discipline of palliative care, understanding the unique needs and characteristics of the population is essential for providing effective and high-quality care.

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AAHPM (American Academy of Hospice and Palliative)

JUNE 17, 2024

Richard Leiter, MD MA has been recognized as one of the exceptional individuals chosen as a 2024 AAHPM Emerging Leader in Hospice and Palliative Care. First and foremost, I’ve learned from my patients and their families. Who has most influenced your work and how have they shaped your contributions?

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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. Sean Morrison, director at the National Palliative Care Research Center (NPCRC).

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Pallimed

MARCH 21, 2022

To the best of my knowledge, the DOC2 EAT exists largely to better account for these ratios going from IV hydromorphone, considering that Reddy et al is undoubtedly the best/biggest real-patient study looking at this very relevant real-life clinical question. (It I wrote about this in detail in 2019. He founded Pallimed in 2005.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Alex 00:15 We are delighted to welcome back Janet Ho, who is a palliative care doc and addiction medicine doc and associate professor at UCSF. Alex 00:27 And we’re delighted to welcome S a ch Kale, who is a palliative care doc at the Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center. Janet, welcome back to the GeriPal Podcast.

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Hospice News

JULY 15, 2022

The return of sequestration is adding to the financial storms brewing in hospice, as providers contend with rising costs of delivering patient care, inflation and lackluster reimbursement. CMS used 2019 data that included wages and cost reports to calculate the rate.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 2, 2023

Roughly 78% of hospice and palliative care providers around the globe indicated “less or much less” use of volunteers since the pandemic’s onset, according to a 2022 study in the International Journal of Health Policy and Management. Many hospices saw volunteer volumes dip drastically as they suspended activities during the pandemic.

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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 24, 2023

She’s a hospice and palliative care nurse practitioner and Assistant Professor in the School of Nursing at UCSF. And the hard part is, as a provider in palliative care, I actually have very little say of which hospice the individuals we consult to go to. If you do good quality patient care, I believe the other naturally follows.

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NHPCO

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

The findings in this report reflect patients who received care in Calendar Year (CY) 2022, or Fiscal Year (FY) 2022, provided by hospices certified by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and reimbursed under the Medicare Hospice Benefit. This is the first increase in utilization since 2019. With 49.1%

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Pallimed

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Palladian Health described itself as “comprehensive muscular skeletal health care company that integrates physical therapy, chiropractic, health and fitness with patient care advocacy to improve clinical and economic outcomes,” and listed Chou as a member of its Clinical Advisory Board (32).

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The Nurse Break

APRIL 3, 2022

Men make up approximately 11% of the Australian nursing workforce (Nursing & Midwifery Board of Australia, 2019). Palliative Care Nursing. Patient Perspective. Peter | Paramedic to Palliative Care Nurse Practitioner. I’m a Palliative Care Nurse Practitioner in Aged Care. Anton | Palliative Care Nurse.

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GeriPal

APRIL 26, 2024

As I argue on the podcast, ELNEC has likely done more to lift the primary palliative care skills of clinicians than any other initiative. He is a palliative care physician at the Durham VA Medical Center in Duke and blogs on Substack at Notes from a Family Meeting. We started writing this paper in 2019 actually. Bry: Yeah, Eric.

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GeriPal

APRIL 11, 2024

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

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GeriPal

APRIL 17, 2025

And I would love to see how, Farah, you talk about this, but when I look at just the clinical care that I do, you know, three of you are in palliative medicine, right? It would have wasted money and it wouldn’t have improved patient care. I took my kids in 2019, 2020. It is just impossible. It was a foolish change.

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