Hospice News

JANUARY 10, 2025

Long-time hospice leader Keith Everett will take the helm as CEO of ProCare Hospice in Nevada as the organizations previous leader, Dr. Clevis Parker, focuses on his role as chief medical officer. Parker has occupied both the CEO and CMO seats since 2020, leading the company through the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond.

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Hospice News

MAY 28, 2024

Stoneridge Hospice has opened a new palliative care branch in Scottsdale, Arizona. “Our decision to establish a palliative care branch in Scottsdale aligns with our mission to provide comfort, dignity and support to individuals and families during challenging times,” said Patti Brazel, executive director at Stoneridge Hospice.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 4, 2023

Hospice of the Chesapeake has exceeded its growth expectations since its 2020 acquisition of Hospice of Charles County. At the transaction’s closing, the acquisition boosted Hospice of the Chesapeake’s average daily census to more than 620, up from 580. The financial terms of the transactions were undisclosed.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 7, 2024

Hospice reimbursement trends influence palliative care payment and delivery. Among the significant changes coming this year is the end of the hospice component of the value-based insurance design (VBID) model, as of Dec. The North Carolina-based hospice, home health and palliative care provider is part of the Liberty Health system. “The

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Hospice News

JUNE 27, 2022

The interdisciplinary nature of palliative care, especially the inclusion of social workers, positions palliative care nicely to help to address the myriad needs that people have,” Maxwell told Hospice News. “The Programs to address social determinants have likewise been found to reduce health care expenditures. Case in point, the U.S.

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Hospice News

JULY 14, 2022

Margin pressures from the proposed cuts to Medicare home health rates could impact palliative care and hospice. The agency cited budget neutrality requirements to explain the cuts, as well as adjustments related to the Patient-Driven Groupings Model (PDGM), a new payment system introduced in 2020. pay hike for hospice care in 2023.

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Hospice News

APRIL 3, 2025

AccentCare is primed for further hospice growth, with both health system joint ventures and de novo activity as twin cornerstones of its strategy. Dallas-headquartered AccentCare provides hospice, home health, personal and palliative care across 32 states and in the District of Columbia.

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Hospice News

MAY 16, 2022

To successfully negotiate value-based contracts, hospices will need to educate payers about the value of palliative care, according to J. chief innovation officer of the National Partnership for Healthcare and Hospice Innovation (NPHI). Palliative care made its first strides into the value-based care arena in 2020 when the U.S.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 20, 2023

VITAS is among the hospice and palliative providers that have integrated VR into care delivery. VR and AR has the potential to be a new alternative therapy that will hopefully benefit patients by decreasing symptom burden while increasing quality of life,” Shega previously told Hospice News. Around 17.5% About 82.5%

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Hospice News

JULY 26, 2022

Kathy Hochul has signed a bill designed to expand awareness of advance care planning, hospice, and palliative care. The campaign must include education about hospice and palliative care, according to the newly approved legislation. Historically, hospice utilization has been low in New York relative to other states. About 17.4%

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Hospice News

JUNE 28, 2023

This could include demos that fuse palliative care into Accountable Care Organization (ACO) or primary care programs, among others, Ellen Lukens, deputy director of CMMI said at the Hospice News Palliative Care Conference in Washington D.C. “In Initially slated to complete in 2020, CMS later extended the program until December 2021.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 4, 2022

MCCM was designed to test the impact of concurrent hospice and curative care. They also had lower average Medicare expenditures and acute care service use than beneficiaries in the comparison group, due in large part to increases in hospice use among model enrollees. 31, 2021, according to a new CMMI white paper. To date, the U.S.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 30, 2023

A rising number of hospices have undergone name changes in recent years, prompting many to consider the elements of an effective rebranding strategy. Hospices should avoid brand names that are too generic or that focus on one particular service line or portion of their geographic footprint.

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Hospice News

APRIL 19, 2024

Sierra is the palliative care arm of California-based Hospice of the Foothills, designed to care for nonterminal patients who have serious or chronic conditions. Sierra’s parent organization, the nonprofit Hospice of the Foothills, had previously collaborated with Mettle on a conference held last year.

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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. Some states offer hospice- and palliative care-themed license plates or designate an official Hospice and Palliative Care Awareness Month.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Given the critical role of family caregivers in home-based care, hospices have a vested interest in expanding their access to support. And while hospices offer social workers and spiritual care, many families continue to have unmet needs that could impede some patients’ access to hospice.

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Hospice News

APRIL 9, 2024

She recently joined the National Partnership for Healthcare and Hospice Innovation (NPHI) as its innovation lab clinical officer. This is a rise from 180 MA plans in 2023 offering palliative services and 64 MA plans in 2020. Reimbursement for community-based palliative care is gaining ground in the Medicare Advantage realm.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

A systematic overhaul of the nation’s health care education programs is needed to ensure that future clinicians are prepared to provide palliative and hospice care amid rising demand, according to Dr. Leah McDonald of HopeHealth. McDonald is a hospice and palliative care physician at HopeHealth. Photo courtesy of HopeHealth.

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Hospice News

JUNE 19, 2024

Silverstone came on the scene in 2020 as a standalone hospice after CEO Alfonso Montiel’s purchase and rebranding of Comfort Care Hospice in the Dallas-Fort Worth region. Every service line, whether acquired or from scratch, we had mapped and anticipated its synchronization within the whole,” Montiel told Hospice News.

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Hospice News

JULY 30, 2024

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has unveiled its final 2025 hospice rule, which includes a 2.9% The increase represents an estimated $790 million rise in total hospice payments compared to Fiscal Year (FY) 2024. The finalized hospice cap amount for FY 2025 is $34,465.34, up from $33,494.01 this year. “The

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Hospice News

APRIL 11, 2025

A few hospice executives have recently announced their retirement as new leaders step forward at a number of organizations. Texas-headquartered Addus provides personal care, home health and hospice services in 22 states. Established nearly 45 years ago, Hospice of the Chesapeake provides services in four west coast Maryland counties.

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Hospice News

MAY 2, 2022

Without assistance or relief, these difficulties can impede access to hospice. Research has shown that patients who are faced with end-of-life decisions may be less likely to choose hospice unless they have a network of friends or family who can serve as home caregivers. founders of Mettle Health. This only worsened during COVID-19.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Texas-based Choice Health at Home LLC has inked a deal to acquire Lumicare Hospice, growing its presence in two current markets while establishing services in a new state. Lumicare Hospice has locations in Texas and Arizona, two states in Choice’s existing service region. Hospice utilization in the state reached 50.4%

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Hospice News

MAY 6, 2024

New symptoms come up, new side effects,” Frydman told Hospice News. “I She trained as an internist at New York University and then specialized in Hospice & Palliative Medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, where she also completed a Masters in Clinical Research. Dr. Julia Frydman, formerly of Mt.

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Hospice News

APRIL 10, 2024

A 2020 meta-analysis of 15 studies on burnout among palliative care nurses found a 24% prevalence for emotional exhaustion, 30% for depersonalization and 28% for feelings of low personal accomplishment. The post The Emergence of Contemplative Medicine in Palliative Care appeared first on Hospice News.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 24, 2023

For a 12-month period starting August 2020, researchers set up an embedded palliative care consultation service in a 350-bed urban community hospital that saw around 45,000 ED visits annually. In addition, 17% received hospice referrals, and 21% were referred to a palliative care outpatient clinic. ROI,” the authors found.

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Hospice News

JULY 17, 2024

Thyme Care was established toward the end of 2020 following a $16 million funding round, led by Town Hall Ventures and Foresite Capital. The post Palliative Provider Thyme Care Secures $95M in Funding Round appeared first on Hospice News. The company offers palliative care in addition to other services.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 3, 2023

Kathy Hochul (D) has vetoed legislation that would have effectively banned new, for-profit hospices in the state. It would have prohibited the establishment of for-profit hospices in New York state and forbid current for-profit operators from increasing capacity. . Utah had the highest rate at 60.7%.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Calls have grown louder for an overhauled design of the Medicare Hospice Benefit, but the path towards change is riddled with contrasting views over regulation, policy and payment structures. One part of the issue is that hospice reimbursement has not kept pace with evolving patient needs, Grant said.

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Hospice News

JUNE 23, 2023

The creation and subsequent partnership with Radiant Alliance will bring a hospice and palliative care company and senior living operator under the auspices of a payer. Metta Healthcare is the parent company of Ohio’s Hospice and the palliative care provider Pure Healthcare. We are the first to actually do it.”

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Hospice News

JUNE 6, 2022

Physician burnout costs hospices — both literally and figuratively — whether it occurs among their own medical staff or with their referral partners. This not only contributes to hospices’ own labor shortages, but disrupts relationships with other providers. A ripple effect on hospice. Burnout takes a heavy toll.

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Hospice News

MAY 16, 2022

CVS Health Corporation (NYSE: CVS) subsidiary Aetna has selected Ohio’s Hospice and Pure Healthcare as part of the insurance company’s hospice and palliative care preferred provider network for Value-Based Insurance Design (VBID) in the Buckeye State. Participation in the demonstration is voluntary for both payers and providers.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 10, 2023

Oregon in 2020 essentially decriminalized the personal use of a number of drugs that remain illegal at the federal level. billion by 2027, up from $2 billion in 2020. A new, publicly traded company devoted to exploring the use of psychedelics in palliative care is in development. NASDAQ: NCAC) to create the new organization.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Traditions Health Names SVP of Hospice Operations Traditions Health has appointed Tom Moreland as its new senior vice president of hospice operations. Franklin, Tennessee-headquartered Traditions provides hospice, home health and palliative care as well as consulting services across 18 states.

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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. Stoneridge Hospice provides home-based hospice and also contracts with other providers to offer facility-based services. Stoneridge Hospice launched in 2020.

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Hospice News

JULY 12, 2022

More hospice and palliative care providers are pursuing joint ventures with hospitals and health systems. There’s a lot of patients that fall through the cracks because there’s not that longitudinal model of care that’s really in place,” Stein said at the Hospice News Palliative Care Conference. It’s going both ways.”.

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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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