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Hospice CEO’s Top Predictions for 2025

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Cheryl Hamilton Fried, CEO, Kirva Hospice Demand grows despite blustery staffing headwinds We will begin to see a more significant increase in utilization in 2025 (vs 2024) as education regarding the benefit, increased [long term care] occupancy versus the pandemic era, and a growing senior demographic all converge on the sector.

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Silverstone Health Expands Care Continuum Beyond Hospice, Sees Skyrocketing Census Growth

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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. Since then, the company has built a palliative care service and is developing a personal care business.

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Empath Health, American Health Plans Launch ISNP Joint Venture

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“As we’ve been developing this model and this expertise, what really piqued our interest about the ISNP program is that this is another value-based reimbursement program that focuses on taking care of the frail elderly and ensuring that they have access to full-life care.”

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Why Hospice Providers Are Ready to Spend Big on Technology

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In another example, Hospice Care of South Carolina has been using predictive analytics to risk-stratify patients since at least 2020. Meanwhile, to keep patients connected during the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic, Crossroads Hospice & Palliative Care launched a video-chat platform for patients in long-term care settings.

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BoldAge PACE Launches New Center to Address ‘Significant Gaps’ Among Underserved

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Seniors 60 and older are projected to represent nearly a third (27%) of South Carolina’s overall population by 2030, a 5% rise from 2020, the U.S. that year, according to National Alliance for Care at Home. Demographic trends are fueling BoldAge’s strategic growth. Census Bureau reported.

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Sanford Health, Good Samaritan Society’s Mobile Clinic Offers Support to Hospice Patients

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These clinicians partner closely with the nurses in the long term care and assisted living facilities. The clinic launched in 2020, initially serving 14 locations. The mobile clinic is staffed with physicians, nurse practitioners, and other mid-level providers, according to Tess.

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From Sea to Shining Sea: State Palliative Care Laws Yield Mixed Results

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The Oregon advisory group began producing a website to inform health care providers about palliative care, with a particular focus on long term care organizations. Work also began to slow when COVID struck in 2020, and the council’s plans for quarterly meetings fell to twice a year. Bureaucracy is byzantine.