Hospice News

OCTOBER 4, 2022

CMS launched the MCCM in 2016 to explore the idea of allowing hospice patients to receive concurrent curative care. Initially slated to complete in 2020, CMS extended the program until December 2021. Some of those advocates have suggested that MCCM could form the basis of such a model.

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Hospice News

MAY 6, 2024

The National Comprehensive Cancer Network recommends that health care providers integrate palliative services into a cancer patient’s care at the time of diagnosis. Through the program, palliative care will be carefully coordinated with the patients oncology care with an integrated team of providers.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 13, 2023

Empath provides hospice, home health care, primary care, palliative care, PACE, AIDS and sexual wellness care, and adult day services to a combined total of more than 23,000 individuals. Fleece came to Empath via its 2020 merger with Stratum Health, where he had been CEO.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

“Since our founding, Canyon Home Care & Hospice has had a long-standing commitment to driving innovation and increasing access to high-quality home health and hospice care,” Eddie Norris, managing partner at Canyon, said in the announcement. Utah holds the highest rate of hospice utilization among Medicare decedents nationwide.

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Hospice News

JULY 17, 2024

Alivia Care emerged in 2020 when Community Hospice & Palliative Care, now an affiliate, formed a larger company with a broader range of services. The nonprofit provides home care, hospice, advance care and supportive and palliative care across northern Florida and southern Georgia.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 10, 2024

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. There he helped to develop standardized approaches to claims analytics, quality measurement and care coordination strategies aimed at improving cost-savings.

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Hospice News

MAY 18, 2022

Underlying the company’s strategy is a drive to develop solutions designed to support patient care as consumers navigate their way through the health care system. WellSky is jointly owned by two private equity firms, TPG Capital and Leonard Green & Partners, per an agreement made in July 2020. That was a gut-check decision.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

As providers try to keep pace, h ospice workers have seen wage increases of 3% to 6% since the start of the pandemic in spring 2020, according to NAHC. Utilizing technology in their staffing processes can aid hospices in better care coordination, reduce unnecessary patient visits, and cut staff travel costs, Teslik added.

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Hospice News

JUNE 23, 2023

Branded at Ohio’s Hospice at United Church Homes, it provides care in more than three communities across the senior living company’s footprint. The United Church Homes partnership also includes Pure Healthcare, Metta’s palliative care and supportive services affiliate, established in 2020.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 17, 2022

Work also began to slow when COVID struck in 2020, and the council’s plans for quarterly meetings fell to twice a year. “We We had some concrete issues for which we were then making recommendations to DPH, including some related to advanced care planning and others,” Forrow said. “My But the group hit a number of roadblocks.

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Hospice News

APRIL 21, 2022

Through the partnership, Summit Health patients will now have access to palliative care consultations by Partners In Care clinicians. The two providers will use a central medical record platform to further improve care coordination. Seniors represent 18.6% of Oregon’s overall population, according to the U.S.

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Hospice News

MAY 30, 2023

Chapters Health System The nonprofit Chapters Health System provides hospice, palliative and home health care, as well as durable medical equipment and pharmacy services, across 30 Florida counties and eight in Georgia. In 2020, it merged with fellow nonprofit Stratum Health, thus expanding its footprint and scope of services.

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Hospice News

JUNE 5, 2023

In addition to hospice and palliative care, the Florida-based Alivia offers advance care planning, care coordination, home care and PACE services in its home state and in Georgia. Most often, these were community-based palliative services, with hospices representing 41% of these providers, the CAPC data showed.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 1, 2024

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)] believes that primary care is going to be the answer to this fragmented care problem. Primary care is where it’s at.” Alivia Care came into existence in 2020 when Community Hospice & Palliative Care, now an affiliate, formed a larger company with a wider range of services.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Its business model uses a mix of virtual palliative care, advance care planning, care coordination and symptom management services, among others. As my fourth company or health care startup, [Vynca’s] is more of a tech-enabled clinical services company. My last company, Apixio, we sold in 2020.

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Hospice News

MARCH 5, 2024

The changes in a nutshell CMS in 2021 announced revisions to its survey process to emphasize what the agency considers to be four core Conditions of Participation (COPs) — those most associated with the quality of care and services provided directly to the patient. This includes validation of surveys by accreditation organizations (AO).

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Nurse.com

MAY 9, 2022

In this model, nurses provide not only care but also coordination of care and can develop patient-focused care plans, which is necessary to keep everything running smoothly, according to Whitfield. Another nurse and I were the daytime care coordinators,” Whitfield said. Children’s hospitals in the U.S.

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Minority Nurse

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

These laws empower consumers by ensuring they can access and control their health data, facilitating better-informed decisions and coordinated care.” ” “In 2022, about three in five individuals reported being offered and accessing their online medical records, a 50% increase from 2020,” Ross adds.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 24, 2023

of patients who were discharged from hospice in 2020 did so while they were still alive, according to the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO). The post Education, Care Coordination Key to Preventing Unnecessary Revocations of the Hospice Benefit appeared first on Hospice News. About 15.4%

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Hospice News

JULY 29, 2022

A range of factors contributes to the lag between what people value and what they do when it comes to advance care planning, in addition to general fear or discomfort with the subject. Poor care coordination can adversely impact utilization, as can the variation among states and health care organizations in how they manage these processes.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 23, 2024

The nonprofit launched a capital campaign to fuel the center’s development following its establishment in April 2020. Delaware Hospice Expands with New Location Delaware Hospice recently opened a new office location in southern Pennsylvania to improve care coordination.

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Hospice News

JULY 8, 2024

The payment model is designed to improve quality of life for dementia patients and their caregivers by addressing care coordination, behavioral health and functional needs. The model features reimbursement for care coordination and management, respite services and caregiver education and support.

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Hospice News

JULY 19, 2023

As of 2020, those individuals represented only about 10% of Medicare decedents who elected hospice, according to the National Hospice & Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO). The number of people who suffer from heart failure is expected to rise by 46% between 2012 and 2023, the American Heart Association (AHA) reported.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 2, 2023

To an extent, it has also segregated hospice from the rest of the health care system. Now, catalysts are at work that could spur gradual movement towards system integration and care coordination. The utilization rate did take an uncharacteristic dip in 2020, to 47.8% This is down from 51.6% million compared to 1.61

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Hospice News

MAY 19, 2023

The law firm served roughly 550 individuals statewide in 2020. Its volunteer attorneys help hospice and HIV clients to navigate the complexity of end-of-life health care systems. Louis Weber, Carolyn Gilbert and Thomas Mayo founded the nonprofit organization in 1989 as Dallas Legal Hospice before it rebranded under its current name.

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Hospice News

MARCH 10, 2023

The nonprofit offers home- and facility-based hospice, skilled nursing and home health care. Goodwin also has a memory care program and provides personal services to help seniors age in place, such as assistance with care coordination, home repairs and housekeeping. Cottrell joined the hospice in 2016.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Having staff trained in this approach can help seriously ill patients have greater “peace and presence” during critical times of suffering in their health, Wu previously told Palliative Care News. The funds will also allow Thyme Care to deepen its partnerships with health care providers across the continuum, according to Mullangi.

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AJN Off the Charts

APRIL 5, 2023

However, pediatric mental health issues have been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, with a 29% increase in children age 3 to 17 experiencing anxiety and a 27% increase in depression in 2020 compared with 2016.”

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AlayaCare

DECEMBER 20, 2021

While home healthcare has been making big strides towards care meeting the patient at their location (ie: home) on their schedule, we may need to settle for the client/patient choosing the location and the care provider picking the time. Schedule and route optimization tools will rise to meet the need for caregiver-centric scheduling.

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AlayaCare

DECEMBER 21, 2021

While home healthcare has been making big strides towards care meeting the patient at their location (ie: home) on their schedule, we may need to settle for the client/patient choosing the location and the care provider picking the time. Schedule and route optimization tools will rise to meet the need for caregiver-centric scheduling.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has developed some avenues to reimbursement for palliative care services through value-based payment programs and demonstrations. The most visible attempt began in 2020 when CMS began allowing Medicare Advantage (MA) plans to cover palliative care as a supplemental benefit.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary We’ve talked a lot about comprehensive dementia care on the GeriPal podcast but while the evidence is clear that these programs work, the uptake has been limited largely because there hasn’t been a strong financial case for it. laughter] Eric: That was back in 2020. So we had Care Ecosystem.

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Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

APRIL 28, 2022

2020 – Included the voices of patients in performance measures by increasing the number and use of Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) and Patient Reported Outcome Performance Measures (PRO-PMs) on the CY 2020 list of measures under consideration.

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