Hospice News

JANUARY 11, 2023

Queen City Hospice has been on a growth trajectory since Addus Homecare purchased the provider for $192 million in 2020. Addus has a personal care presence in Ohio, and co-locating its clinical operations with those locations is a key component of its home health and hospice growth strategy, Allison said.

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Hospice News

JULY 29, 2022

SCAN Group is executing a service diversification strategy designed to identify and address unmet needs of the California-based Medicare Advantage Organization’s beneficiaries. For anyone who is frail or vulnerable, [addressing NEMT needs] is reducing one barrier to actually accessing care.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

South Dakota-based Avera@Home recently formed a joint venture with personal care provider Kore Cares in a move that grew its service line and geographic reach in the state. It had long partnered with Kore Cares before officially joining forces. It had long partnered with Kore Cares before officially joining forces.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 19, 2022

“Like many other hospice and home health programs across the nation, as the national health care worker shortage continues and the cost of health care staff and other expenses skyrocket, we are finding it increasingly difficult to manage the rising costs of doing business.”. Personal care and social work referrals will also end.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 25, 2023

Dallas-headquartered AccentCare is a portfolio company of the private equity firm Advent International, offering hospice, palliative care, personal care, non-medical services, home health, care management and high-acuity home care. There are states for us to fill in.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 12, 2022

billion divestiture of a 60% stake in Kindred at Home’s hospice and personal care segments to the private equity firm Clayton, Dubilier & Rice. Humana’s two Kindred at Home transactions added notches to the company’s belt as it expands its value-based care portfolio as both a provider and payer. This was Humana Inc.’s

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

The organization also plans to add home health, medical services, grief care, personal care, and its Empath Partners in Care (EPIC) services, designed to care for HIV/AIDS patients. Bringing our full life care to the residents of Hillsborough County is an honor and a privilege,” Rafael J.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Texas-based Choice Health at Home’s recent purchase of Instant Care of Arizona is bursting with long-term growth potential. The deal marked Choice’s first steps into the Arizona market and made the company a stronger player in the private duty and personal care arenas. As of 2019, the U.S.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

As more care moves into the home setting, systemic changes may be necessary to keep that momentum going. Demand for home-based care was creeping upward before 2020, but the pandemic that broke out that year accelerated the trend.

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Hospice News

APRIL 21, 2022

(NYSE: HUM) has signed a definitive agreement to sell a 60% stake in Kindred at Home’s (KAH) hospice and personal care business to the private equity firm Clayton, Dubilier & Rice (CDR) for $2.8 The company attributed this primarily to growth in its Medicare Advantage business and state contracts membership.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 19, 2023

Many people living with serious medical illnesses also suffer from comorbid behavioral health issues,” the Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC) indicated in a 2020 report. Integrating care models could help save money downstream, according to Katherine Suberlak, vice president of clinical services at Oak Street Health.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) developed new approaches for enforcing hospice regulations that will become effective on Jan. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) developed new approaches for enforcing hospice regulations that will become effective on Jan. During late 2021 and 2022, the U.S.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Uncertainty earlier this year around Medicare’s proposed 2023 home health payment rates led some stakeholders to expect a swerve towards hospice. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) in August proposed a 4.2% aggregate cut in the home health base rate, reported Hospice News sister publication Home Health Care News.

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Hospice News

JULY 19, 2024

We are thrilled to expand our presence in the Miami area, offering compassionate and personalized hospice care for more patients and their families in Florida’s diverse communities,” Johnston said in a press release. The company merged with Illinois-based Seasons Hospice & Palliative Care in 2020.

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Hospice News

JULY 8, 2022

27, 2020, the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to remain intact. These include 1135 waivers of certain hospice rules that permitted use of telehealth to fulfill requirements typically done in person, such as recertification by physicians and patient visits. Initially declared on Jan.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 16, 2024

New Day Health Care started in mid-2020, the middle of COVID at what seemed to be a peak of uncertainty. Given that timing, we often rethink everything about home care when we’re facing a pandemic that is rapidly changing home care and hospice delivery dynamics. Can you explain that strategy?

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AlayaCare

JANUARY 14, 2020

I) STRATEGIES AND RISK IN NEW PAYMENT MODELS & PAYER SOURCES As our CEO, Adrian Schauer, details in his 2020 forecast from late last year, the industry is quickly embarking on a strategy of having diverse payer sources. Medicare Advantage will soon include non-medical home care services.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 26, 2022

The nonprofit provider offers a range of other senior care services that includes hospice, home health, palliative, PACE, and personal care. Empath reported having more than 22,000 patients enrolled in its “full life care” services. The company merged with Stratum Health in 2020, and has been on a growth trajectory since.

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Traditions Health

AUGUST 21, 2023

To find home care services that fit your budget, consider the duration and frequency of care and the tasks you need help with. The benefits of home health care Before deciding if home health care is right for you, it’s important to understand the advantages.

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Hope Hospice

JULY 12, 2022

But the decision is also empowering, because an array of supportive care and assistance becomes available to both the patient and family. Home health aides for personal care. Spiritual care, whether religious/spiritual related or a life review. Hospice is a vastly underused Medicare benefit in the United States.

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GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

Susan: I got my start working for a member of Congress doing constituent casework and a lot of the casework was supporting older adults with VA, Social Security, Medicare, immigration casework. It was designed to really balance what Medicaid at the time was to provide nursing homes and Medicare is obviously health insurance.

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Nurse.com

APRIL 22, 2023

The renewed focus on how infection control in nursing is presented to healthcare professionals is among the major lessons learned since 2020. Perhaps one of the most impacted was nursing homes and long-term care facilities. According to 2023 data from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services website, more than 1.5

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AlayaCare

OCTOBER 31, 2019

We forecasted increasingly blurred lines between clinical care and personal care. And we foresaw that virtual care and remote monitoring, which long seemed to be just out of reach in the future, would finally start to be considered an important element of servicing home health care. In the U.S.,

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AlayaCare

JANUARY 17, 2021

Accelerated production of PPE and flex care solutions While the overall response to COVID has bee n uneven, to put it one way, there has been a strong push at many levels to bolster PPE production (an acronym everyone now understands), increase hospital ward capacity, and think generally out side the box when it comes to patient care.

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Hospice News

MARCH 20, 2023

.” – Jim Palazzo, CEO, Transitions Care “I was interested in PACE services just because of the similarity that it has to hospice care and the need that it fills, often for some of the poor folks in a community. Because most of the individuals accessing PACE are going to be Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries.

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AlayaCare

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Using the rising trends from the past calendar year, I contemplate what elements are likely to influence the business of home care when that calendar turns. Then, 2020 arrived and swiftly erased the whiteboard. What will follow 2020? As for the near future for home health care, call me an optimist. In the U.S.,

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