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APRIL 10, 2024

Interest in contemplative medicine may be rising in the palliative and end-of-life care communities as more practitioners realize the potential benefits for clinicians and patients. Ellison is also co-author of the book, Awake at the Bedside: Contemplative Teachings on Palliative and End-of-Life Care. “At

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during 2020 and 2021, up from 30.1% One such is the COVID-19 pandemic, declared a public health emergency of international concern on 30 January 2020 and with the end of its emergency phase on 5 May 2023,” the study indicated. The study focused on cancer and dementia patients. Worldwide, the percentage of home deaths rose to 32.2%

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OCTOBER 4, 2022

MCCM beneficiaries ultimately appeared to have received better-quality end-of-life care according to established quality measures, such as spending more days at home at the end of life,” CMMI authors wrote in a report attached to the paper.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 30, 2023

As hospices nationwide develop new services to engage patients further upstream, some are rebranding to reflect their expanded scope and to avoid the word “hospice” in their company names, hoping to ameliorate patients’ anxiety about end-of-life care.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 14, 2022

National health care expenditures in the U.S. seen in 2020, with the slowdown largely attributed to reduced spending on COVID-19 support, including Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans and the Provider Relief Fund (PRF). These sources continue to provide funding in 2021, but at much lower levels and in 2020.”. to reach $4.3

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Hospice News

APRIL 22, 2022

Race and socioeconomic status continue to deepen disparities in access to end-of-life care across the country. Recent research from Rutgers University-New Brunswick in New Jersey has revealed gaps in hospice referrals and palliative care consultations among underserved patient populations in the state.

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Hospice News

MAY 9, 2023

Fratkin is a chair on American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine’s “Safe Use of Psychedelic Assisted Therapy” forum and also sits on the Compassion & Choices’ health care advisory council. In 2020, Oregon essentially decriminalized the personal use of a number of drugs that remain illegal at the federal level.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Bond is board-certified in family medicine, emergency medicine and hospice and palliative care medicine. He has worked in the end-of-life care space for close to two decades. Prior to that, Bond was national medical director for Seasons Hospice and Palliative Care, which was acquired by AccentCare in 2020.

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Hospice News

MARCH 25, 2024

Arizona-based Stoneridge Hospice launched services in 2020 with an aim to address a swelling aging population’s growing need for end-of-life care. The hospice provider also offers palliative care, veteran and bereavement services, and durable medical equipment (DME) and supplies.

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Hospice News

MAY 9, 2024

Coupled with the fraud issue are those associated with quality of care. Government Accountability Office (GAO) reported that nearly 15% of surveyed hospices were cited with serious quality issues between 2020 and 2022. Yesterday, the U.S. Most had multiple deficiencies.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 11, 2023

Queen City Hospice provides end-of-life care in six counties across the Cincinnati area in the southwest part of the state. Queen City Hospice has been on a growth trajectory since Addus Homecare purchased the provider for $192 million in 2020. This is a rise from 17.8% currently, according to the U.S.

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DECEMBER 22, 2022

This marks the third affiliation that Chapters announced or completed during 2022, following Cornerstone Hospice & Palliative Care early in the year and Hope Healthcare just last week. “In Combined, Chapters Health and Capital Caring Health employ more than 4,000 staff in additional to 3,000 volunteers.

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OCTOBER 10, 2024

During his tenure, he has helped to develop and oversee the launch of the NPHI Innovation Lab, which focuses on designing systematic approaches to improve advanced illness care by examining trends in population health, claims analytics and practice optimization. Muir was previously chief innovation officer at Capital Caring Health.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Like many in the hospice space, VITAS has seen workforce clinical capacity compress and impact revenue to varying degrees since 2020. The Nashville-Tennessee-based home care and hospice provider has seen responses to job postings improve during the past year and recently hired two full-time RN case managers, Turner stated.

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Hospice News

JULY 26, 2022

At 30%, the Empire State ranked 50th in utilization among the states and the District of Columbia in 2018, according to the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization. of the state’s residents were 65 or older in 2020, making New York 25th that year in population growth among seniors, according to the research organization PRB.

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Hospice News

MAY 26, 2023

For the past several years, Chapters Health has been on an aggressive and ambitious trajectory to change the way chronic illness management and end-of-life care is administered in our communities,” Molosky said. “We The two providers have growth and innovation in their immediate sights, he said in a recent combined statement.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 17, 2023

In our collaboration with Family Resource, we have discovered the perfect partner — one that not only shares our passion for care, but also possesses the resources and expertise to provide our caregivers with the support they need to so they can offer the best quality of care to all clients.” Seniors 65 and older represent 16.8%

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 9, 2023

More than 20% of hospice decedents in 2020 suffered from dementia, up from 18.5% in 2019, the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) reported. of terminal diagnoses in 2020, while cancer accounted for 7.2%. Comparatively, circulatory and heart diseases, the next highest, represented 10.2%

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JANUARY 26, 2024

Patients 18 years and older at the Loyola University Medical Center who received an MUO diagnosis from May 2014 and August 2020 were included in the analysis. The illness often presents with an advanced disease progression with a median survival of approximately three to seven months of life following diagnosis, data shows.

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Hospice News

JULY 12, 2024

Angela’s Hospice provides end-of-life care to adult and pediatric patient populations. Established in 1985, the faith-based nonprofit also offers palliative care, grief support and virtual telehealth hospice services to caregivers and patients. For nearly 50 years, this organization has delivered on that mission.

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Hospice News

JUNE 16, 2023

Issues in complex end-of-life care treatments The limited use of these treatments for end-of-life hospice care is also tied to length of stay issues, the NHPCO indicated in its letter to CMS. The median length declined slightly to 17 days, down from 18 in 2020, MedPAC reported.

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MARCH 30, 2023

The UCH partnership will also include Pure Healthcare, the palliative care and supportive services arm of Ohio’s Hospice, established in 2020. Demographics are driving up a need for serious illness and end-of-life care in Ohio.

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Hospice News

JULY 6, 2023

Many patients fall through the cracks of the nation’s health care system, and hospice and palliative care providers can help to fill in some of those gaps, according to Sonya Dolan, director of operations at California-based Mettle Health. Miller serves as president and counselor at Mettle Health.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

“I admire the courage that it took to merge two long-standing non-profit hospice and palliative care agencies in an act to build sustainability and ensure our residents throughout our 12-county service area have access to quality serious illness and end of life care services.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Though new to the hospice arena, Callaway has previously served in both the home health and acute care spaces and has seen how care collaborations across the continuum can improve the quality of end-of-life care among aging populations. “I VIA Health Partners was established in 1978 as Hospice at Charlotte.

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JUNE 6, 2022

“We have to sit face-to-face in that intimate space and talk about care, so that we can develop a trusting relationship. The number of physicians who report feelings of burnout grew to 58% by 2020, up from 40% in 2018, according to a summer 2021 study in the Journal of Medical Practice Management. Burnout takes a heavy toll.

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Hospice News

JUNE 13, 2022

Nearly 1 in 3 transgender adults reported that they had to teach their health care provider about transgender issues in order to receive appropriate care, according to a Center for American Progress 2020 survey. How might care needs and goals of care differ in the LGBTQ+ community?

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Hospice News

APRIL 19, 2024

“We want to also be the team that talks to the person about what hospice care is and helps them understand it before they get there, because there are absolutely misconceptions and ideas around what hospice is and what it isn’t that I think stops people from accessing it.” Miller serves as president and counselor at Mettle Health.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Even as demographics drive up demand for serious illness and end-of-life care, public awareness is driving down utilization. Nearly 50% of residents in a 2020 statewide survey indicated that they were not aware of health care services and support options available to seniors. Seniors are projected to make up 27.5%

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MARCH 1, 2023

Kosciusko Home Care & Hospice (KHCH) has merged with Stillwater Hospice amid mounting financial pressures. The two Indiana-based nonprofit hospices joined forces to ensure continued access to end-of-life care in the Kosciusko County area. in 2020, reported the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO).

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Hospice News

MARCH 11, 2024

A nationwide survey from Pew Research Center in 2020 of more than 8,600 African Americans found that nearly three-quarters identify their belief system as some type of Christian faith, while 3% identify as non-Christians. Spiritual care providers are an important part of addressing historical mistrust issues, according to Praver.

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DECEMBER 15, 2022

“As home and community-based medicine continues to garner steam in the national landscape, the ability for organizations like Chapters Health System and Hope Healthcare to continue being front and center in redesigning end-of-life care is paramount,” the two CEOs told Hospice News in a joint email.

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APRIL 22, 2022

The hospice provider began as an all-volunteer organization in 1977 and provides pediatric palliative care and grief support services in addition to hospice. Francis, the organization rebranded in 2020 to reflect its expanded scope of community-based services in an area with a growing need for serious illness and end-of-life care.

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Hospice News

MAY 16, 2023

The petition cites concerns that a change in ownership could adversely affect quality and access to care among underserved communities. The hospice indicated that any future considerations will not impede the community’s access to end-of-life care, according to Alive Hospice’s executive committee, speaking on behalf of its governing board.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 18, 2022

Through the JV, the two organizations formed the Luminis Health Gilchrist Lifecare Institute as a way to provide an “integrative continuum of care for the elderly across multiple settings,” in communities statewide, according to a recent announcement. About 47.6%

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DECEMBER 5, 2022

The transactions come after the Archdiocese of New Orleans filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in May 2020 and announced shortly after that it would be selling off a portion of its 2,500 rental low-income senior living, according to local news. currently, according to the U.S.

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This is a piece of the puzzle of creating that continuum of care where we have a whole suite of services and support for people with serious and advancing illness.” Alivia Care emerged in 2020 when Community Hospice & Palliative Care, now an affiliate, formed a larger company with a broader range of services.

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