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Improving Nursing Home Quality: Jasmine Travers, Alice Bonner, Isaac Longobardi, and Mike Wasserman

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Summary Transcript Summary In April 2022, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM) issued a report on how the United States delivers, regulates, finances, and measures the quality of nursing home care. We have Alice Bonner, who’s Chair of the Moving Forward Nursing Home Quality Coalition.

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Hospices Acquired by PE Firms, Publicly Traded Companies See Increases in Dementia Patients

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increase in home-based care delivery. Researchers analyzed data on hospice acquisitions between 2013 and 2020 to compare changes in sites of care or patient population compared to other for-profits that did not undergo a transaction. A little more than 20% of hospice decedents in 2020 suffered from dementia, up from 18.5%

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AMOREM Launches New Inpatient Center, Agrace Temporarily Closes Facility

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The house was slated to launch in the fall of 2020, with construction halting due to financial constraints. To the families and the people, were going to make them a home, Susan Mitchell-Macfarlane, chairman and president of Mitchell House, told local news. Is this [facility] ever going to happen?

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Empath Health, American Health Plans Launch ISNP Joint Venture

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Empath Health Jonathan Fleece speaks at Hospice News’ 2023 Elevate Conference Empath Health, in its current form, emerged in 2020 from a merger with Stratum Health, where Fleece was previously CEO. The ISNP program will in time extend throughout the state of Florida, according to Fleece.

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Hospice Length of Stay: Balancing Patient Needs Against Regulatory Compliance

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In 2020, the average length of stay for Medicare patients enrolled in hospice was 97.0 The median length declined slightly to 17 days, down from 18 in 2020. The question will be whether we start to see that longer length of stay as nursing homes and [skilled nursing facilities (SNFs)] get back after the public health emergency is over.

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CommCare Expands with Notre Dame Hospice, Home Health Acquisitions

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CommCare’s purchase of Notre Dame’s home health and hospice operations marks the transaction of this divestiture Its nursing home services are next in line as part of a separate deal set to close in 2023. For us, home health is a new business that we believe has great future potential.”.

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VITAS Community Access Program Spurs Upward Trend, but Staffing, COVID Headwinds Still Sting

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Since 2020, the company has been beleaguered by the staffing shortage, reduced lengths of stay, and disruption in skilled nursing, senior housing, and to some extent acute-care referrals. The company saw nursing home admissions jump 6.2%, but sustained a 23.4% drop among those referred from hospitals.