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 launched in 2020. We started initially as a home health agency [Southland Home Care], then sold it in 2020 and began talking about opening a hospice.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Investors poured heaps of money into digital health in 2020 and 2021, but this year they are clutching their purse strings a little tighter. Hospices may be somewhat insulated from the digital health downturn due to the ever-present need for in-person services, Booker said.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Even when a caregiver is present, that person may be elderly or ill themselves, or unable to be in the home around the clock due to work or other obligations. The financial burden on caregivers is associated with a range of negative outcomes , according to a 2020 BMC Palliative Care study.

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Hospice News

APRIL 4, 2023

The acquisition presents opportunities for Elara Caring to fill gaps between its adjacent markets in Connecticut and Massachusetts. Roughly 265,000 adults will be 60 or older by 2040 statewide, representing nearly a quarter (23%) of the state’s overall population, according to projections from the 2020 Rhode Island Health Aging Data Report.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Since the company launched in 2020, Founder and CEO Alfonso Montiel had days when he feared Texas-based Silverstone Hospice would not survive. Today, on average, one salesperson talks to 20 to 30 patients a month, which is unheard of, because of the way we present ourselves is as an educational resource.

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Hospice News

MARCH 14, 2024

Social worker visits in the last days of life also rose to 9% in 2021, up from 7% in 2020. The greatest barrier to further improvement is the ever-present workforce shortage affecting the health care industry at large and hospices in particular. In 2019, for example, the percentage was 66%.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 27, 2023

This can put a strain on employee’s home life, which can cause them to leave their jobs, Shelley Henry, president of The Amity Group said in a presentation at the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization’s (NHPCO) Annual Leadership Conference in Little Rock, Arkansas. “We

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Hospice News

MARCH 8, 2024

Alivia Care emerged in 2020 when Community Hospice & Palliative Care, now an affiliate, formed a larger company with a wider range of services. The hospice and palliative provider launched services in the Las Vegas region in 2020. You have to walk in line with the [patient] demand and regulatory requirements.”

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Summary Transcript CME Summary In todays podcast we were delighted to be joined by the presenters of the top scientific abstracts for the Annual Assembly of the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine ( AAHPM ) and the Hospice and Palliative Medicine Nurses Association ( HPNA ). Who would/should be on that board?

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Hospice News

JUNE 28, 2023

She has also presented and published literature on the different types of supportive services, including palliative, hospice, acute and post-acute care. “We Hospice of the Chesapeake Appoints New CMO Maryland-based Hospice of the Chesapeake recently named Dr. Marny Fetzer as its new chief medical officer.

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Nurse.com

AUGUST 5, 2022

During my hospital residency in 2020, I worked in several ICUs, all of which had been converted to COVID-19 wards. The post COVID-19 Class of 2020: My Hospital Residency’s Twists and Turns appeared first on Nurse.com Blog. Graduation and Beyond. That’s what nursing means to me — find a need, fill a need.

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Hospice News

JULY 7, 2022

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) as of 2020 allows Medicare Advantage plans to cover supplemental non-medical benefits , including those designated as “general supports for living,” which can include some forms of housing assistance. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). For about 8.6 As of 2021, 2.7%

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Hospice News

MARCH 29, 2023

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 bottom line is in many ways the same issues that hospices have wrestled with for some time: what’s your average length of stay?” Young told Hospice News.

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Hospice News

MARCH 10, 2023

Clark, our new board chair, and the other board trustees to carry out the mission of Goodwin Living by planning for the future and meeting the needs of the present through the Goodwin Living retirement communities, programs and services.” Under Cottrell’s leadership, the hospice in 2020 expanded its service lines to include palliative care.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 24, 2022

Prior to 2020 much of their board’s work focused on fundraising and customery financial oversight. As part of this process, the hospice’s board performed a self-assessment in 2020 to identify areas in which they could enhance their efforts, according to North Hawaii’s board chair Susan Hunt. Among these were North Hawaii Hospice.

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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. Basically, there are gaps in need, and that both presents an opportunity for entrepreneurship and social entrepreneurship. This is such a big issue.”

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Many links: VA Presents: My Life, My Story: George: A Voice To Be Heard on Apple Podcasts. Summary Transcript Summary. Eric and I weren’t sure what to call this podcast – storytelling and medicine? Narrative medicine? We discussed it with today’s guests Heather Coats, palliative care NP-scientist, and Thor Ringler, poet. SPONSOR:

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

I’m just thinking we all went through a major traumatic event in 2020 and the subsequent years. Alex 00:03 This is Alex Smith. Eric 00:04 And Alex, we have somebody in the room with us. Alex 00:07 We do. We have Anne Kelly, who’s back with us today. She is a guest host and she’s a palliative care social worker.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Executives from almost every publicly traded hospice company raised this issue in earnings calls and presentations throughout the year. The most recent available utilization data are from 2020, but the hospice community should be watching for updated numbers. Hospice utilization fell in 2020 for the first time in years, to 47.8%

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HPNA podcast

JANUARY 2, 2025

She has received several research grants and among many awards, she is the recipient of the Research Nurse of the Year Award 2020, from North Carolina Nurses Association. She has several publications and presentations done locally, nationally, and internationally. She was inducted as the Fellow in Palliative Care Nursing in 2024.

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Hospice News

JULY 18, 2023

Fortis is the parent company of Valeo Home Health and Hospice and Select Home Health, which Grant Avenue acquired in late 2020 and 2021, respectively. Back in 2020, Grant Ave. Most recently, he served as the president of the home health and hospice segments at Aveanna Healthcare Holdings (NASDAQ: AVAH).

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Evidence-Based Nursing - BMJ blogs

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

The need for increased funding in children’s palliative care has long been recognised (Together for Short Lives 2024), but consideration also needs to be given to how this is presented across the children’s palliative care sector. References Bluebond-Langner, M. Bluebond-Langner, M., Beecham, E. and Jones, L. DOI:10.1136/bmj.h6123.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Factors deemed suspicious, like live discharges or recertifications, were often presented as clear indicators of fraud, even though they could be matters of medical necessity. The story lacked sufficient context to reflect a clear and accurate picture of the hospice community, according to the Hospice News editorial.

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Evidence-Based Nursing - BMJ blogs

DECEMBER 11, 2022

At this present time, regardless of where we live, we are facing a time of inflation and uncertainty. 2020) State of the world’s nursing 2020: Investing in education, jobs and leadership. Professor Julia Downing. At the time, I didn’t think that I was impacting policy – policy at the ward, unit and hospital levels, but I was.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Though his narrow definition of suffering as injured or threatened personhood has been critiqued , the central concept was a motivating force for many of us to enter the fields of geriatrics and palliative care, Eric and I included. Today we talk about suffering in the many forms we encounter in palliative care. Pain Manag Nurs. doi: 10.1016/j.pmn.2023.11.004.

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NHPCO

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

As a community, we are profoundly disappointed with this decision. Over the past two years, the national hospice associations have presented CMS — in letters, in-person meetings and via other channels — with a wide array of research and well-supported advocacy outlining our concerns.

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Nurse.com

AUGUST 5, 2022

During my hospital residency in 2020, I worked in several ICUs, all of which had been converted to COVID-19 wards. The post COVID-19 Class of 2020: My Hospital Residency’s Twists and Turns appeared first on Nurse.com Blog. Graduation and Beyond. That’s what nursing means to me — find a need, fill a need.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 19, 2023

As you mentioned, it was published in JAGS in 2020, and we really started from the time of inception of POLST, so in the early 1990s, up until about February 2020 was the date that we cut off. Welcome, Abby. Abby: Thanks for having me. He’s been a hospice and nursing home director. We changed our name. Good to know.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 16, 2024

I would like to personally thank every employee, past and present for taking this journey with me. He previously served in similar roles at Seasons Hospice & Palliative Care since 2016 prior to its merger in 2020 with AccentCare. Throughout my career, I have tried to make a difference in people’s lives.

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Evidence-Based Nursing - BMJ blogs

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

Where the child has an oncology diagnosis, there is an established body of evidence, but for children with a life limiting condition, the evidence is more limited (Duc, Herbert and Heussler 2017; Johnston et al 2020). 12389 Johnston E et al (2020) Hospital or home? 12389 Johnston E et al (2020) Hospital or home?

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

And so in that way, it’s not the letterhead or the four walls and the roof that are perpetuating the present, it’s the people. And also, by the fall of 2020, I was pretty sure that I didn’t want to be a leader anymore. Jane, welcome to the GeriPal podcast. Jane, welcome to the GeriPal podcast. Thanks for having me.

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Pallimed

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

WLF’s complaint compelled the CDC to re-open a second open comment period for the public, lasting 30 days in duration, rather than the two-day period for comment which CDC had originally presented via a September 2015 webinar (4, 35). Terri Lewis, a beloved colleague and tireless advocate for patients with disabilities and chronic pain.

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High Peaks Hospice

APRIL 21, 2022

Thank you to all the staff and volunteers who were present. Despite all the struggles that we have encountered since early 2020, you have been willing to help as much as possible with so many of our families. Each year we choose two of our Volunteers to Honor with the title of Volunteer of the Year.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 4, 2022

We used a large online survey panel, the Ipsos Knowledge Panel, and we presented older adults with two vignettes. And after each vignette, we presented seven rationales that a trusted clinician could use to explain why the person should stop taking that medicine. ” Ariel: Exactly. It’s kind of the chronic care model, right?

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Pallimed

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Lewis PhD, Beverly Schechtman and Carrie Judy “I'm present. Chou publicly acknowledged his funding from AHRQ in a presentation at AMDG's "Patient-Centered Approach to Chronic Opioid Management Conference," held on August 9, 2019 (45). Kollas MD, Terri A. Uh … I do have a conflict.

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The Nurse Break

AUGUST 6, 2022

She has since founded EQ Minds and works as a corporate wellness presenter and coach. Self-care has been defined by many, with most definitions sharing a similar theme around a proactive self-approach to health and well-being. Exploring the meaning and practice of self-care among palliative care nurses and doctors: a qualitative study.

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NHPCO

OCTOBER 5, 2023

During the conference at the National Hospice Foundation’s 2023 Gala, NHPCO honored the outstanding contributions of Judi Lund Person and Norman McRae to the community by presenting each of them with the Galen Miller Leadership Award. He presently serves on the NHPCO Board as Immediate Past Chair.

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