Hospice News

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

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. This is the first significant expansion of our clinical workforce and related patient capacity since the pandemic began in early 2020.”.

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Hospice News

MARCH 8, 2024

Phoenix Children’s palliative program began in 2009 and includes nine physicians, social workers, mental health therapists, child life specialists and bereavement support professionals. The organization’s pediatric palliative and hospice fellowship program launched in 2020.

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Hospice News

MAY 31, 2023

Additional palliative team members included Kim Danforth, a licensed social worker, and Brooke Simmons as its new medical assistant. The Pine Tree State had the highest volume of seniors compared to any other state across the country in 2020, outranking only Florida and Vermont that year at 21.2% Census Bureau.

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Hospice News

MAY 30, 2023

Hospice aides reported “episodic symptoms” of burnout that were largely driven by workload challenges and administrative demands in a 2020 study from the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. Participants included hospice aides, social workers, nurses, clinicians, chaplains and other staff.

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Hospice News

MAY 8, 2024

Schaefer relays that palliative care social workers can “assess safety and health-related social needs like food insecurity, housing instability, financial stressors and behavioral health needs.” In addition to defining what palliative care is, providers should consider the caregivers—both their role and well-being.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 26, 2022

The clearest example of how this works was the 2020 rebasing of payments for the four levels of hospice care. CMS introduced SIA in 2016 to allow hospices to bill for RHC at the continuous home care rate on an hourly basis for registered nurse and social worker visits during the last seven days of a patient’s life.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 1, 2022

The massive loss of life due to the COVID-19 pandemic — more than 1 million deaths since 2020 — has spurred demand for bereavement care and was a partial impetus for the legislation. . This would include social workers, grief counselors, and chaplains, among others.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 19, 2024

According to a 2020 study by the Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, alarmingly high rates of stress and an extraordinarily high symptom burden among patients with cancer were identified, exceeding those previously benchmarked and on par with noncancer patients with post-traumatic stress disorder.

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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 need to address social determinants has been cited as an impetus for the push toward value-based reimbursement.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

Summary Transcript Summary In a JAMA 2020 systematic review of palliative care for non-cancer serious illness, Kieran Quinn found many positives, as we discussed on our podcast and in our editorial. And then, you chose for the intervention to include a nurse and a social worker. Big randomized control study that came out.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Also in 2020 came the launch of partnership between Livio Health and cancer care provider Minnesota Oncology. Having staff trained in this approach can help seriously ill patients have greater “peace and presence” during critical times of suffering in their health, Wu previously told Palliative Care News.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 15, 2022

Pediatric subspecialists are at a higher risk of burnout than others, according to authors of a 2020 study from the journal of Pediatric Quality & Safety. For example,] a registered nurse acting as a social worker, or a social worker acting as a chaplain, child life specialist, or complementary therapist.

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Hospice News

APRIL 22, 2022

Volunteers, social workers, chaplains and bereavement counselors also make up the center’s staff. Francis, the organization rebranded in 2020 to reflect its expanded scope of community-based services in an area with a growing need for serious illness and end-of-life care. Formerly Hospice of St.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

A state of stress Palliative professionals of all walks are navigating symptoms of burnout, including social workers, grief counselors, chaplains, physicians and nurses. During that time frame, workers reported low levels of well-being that indicated a higher potential risk of burnout.

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Hospice News

APRIL 27, 2023

Like many providers, VITAS has traversed some rough terrain since the COVID-19 pandemic struck in 2020. The company expected the program to bring in roughly 25 new health care workers each month during 2023 at an estimated cost of $40 million, which VITAS hopes to offset with increased volume as staffing gains drive up capacity.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 17, 2023

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.

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Hospice News

MARCH 11, 2024

A nationwide survey from Pew Research Center in 2020 of more than 8,600 African Americans found that nearly three-quarters identify their belief system as some type of Christian faith, while 3% identify as non-Christians. But a chaplain is someone without that can bridge that gap of trust and access.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

And while hospices offer social workers and spiritual care, many families continue to have unmet needs that could impede some patients’ access to hospice. More than a third (34%) of family caregivers were Baby Boomers in 2020, according to a report from AARP and the National Alliance for Caregiving (NAC).

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Like many in the space, the hospice provider has been fighting an uphill battle against COVID headwinds to varying degrees since 2020, including a slower flow in their referral streams, falling lengths of stay, and a reduced average daily census during some quarters. VITAS is a subsidiary of Chemed Corp. NYSE: CHE).

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Pallimed

MARCH 22, 2021

by Vickie Leff ( @VickieLeff ) Another year, another study proving the value of the palliative care social worker. It surprises me that despite much research and team role development, palliative care team members may not be aware of the importance of the palliative care social worker. I was not the only one. Rosa et.al.,

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 24, 2022

These staffing woes have long plagued the hospice industry, but have only worsened since COVID-19 hit the United States in 2020. Roughly 18% of health care workers have left their jobs during the pandemic, while 31% have considered leaving the field altogether, according to a nationwide 2021 Morning Consult survey.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 22, 2023

The program recently saw its second cohort of graduates, which included clinicians, social workers and chaplains who completed the year-long training program that focuses on a peer-based training approach in pediatric palliative care delivery. How has your program taken shape since that first discussion?

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NHPCO

DECEMBER 13, 2023

This continues the downward trend from 2020, likely due to deaths continuing to outpace the growth in hospice due to COVID-19. Despite this rebound from the 2020 decrease, no group has returned to pre-COVID-19 utilization percentages. Decrease in percentage of eligible patients served: Of all Medicare decedents in CY 2021, 47.3%

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Minority Nurse

AUGUST 6, 2024

They work collaboratively with other healthcare professionals, such as psychiatrists, psychologists, and social workers , to provide comprehensive care to patients. They often collaborate with other healthcare professionals, such as psychiatrists, psychologists, and social workers.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Hospice and home health providers saw clinical turnover rise by 16% to 20% in 2020 compared to previous years, according to a study from BerryDunn. Hospices have seen rising turnover in recent years, with clinicians leaving the industry in higher volumes during the pandemic. Other disciplines have also seen high rates of loss.

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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. The behavioral home model for reimbursement is very appealing to us,” Androscoggin CEO Ken Albert told Hospice News at the time of the deal. “We

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

McDonald graduated in 2020 from HopeHealth’s hospice and palliative medicine fellowship program. That is the most important thing as we think about the need for nurses, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, social workers and case managers.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Children are most commonly referred for pediatric palliative care due to cancer or genetic conditions, with each area representing 36% of those who received these services in 2020, the NHPCO data showed. Deeper integrations of pediatric palliative care in the home can help alleviate some of these caregiver strains, she said.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Providers have reported shortages among social workers and nonclinical staff as well. Between 2020 and 2023 policymakers introduced a slew of new regulations, a revamped survey process and developed a new Special Focus Program for hospices. Only LPNs and LVNs had higher rates, reaching 31.52% turnover and 25.12% for vacancies.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 12, 2023

My last company, Apixio, we sold in 2020. As my fourth company or health care startup, [Vynca’s] is more of a tech-enabled clinical services company. The others that I’ve worked with are more data analytics-oriented.

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AAHPM (American Academy of Hospice and Palliative)

JULY 18, 2024

I wrote to her in March of 2020 when I was a fellow and thinking about my life in program administration. I wouldn’t have been able to engage in any of this national work without the local support of Lauren King, social worker and dear friend. Who has most influenced your work and how have they shaped your contributions?

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Minority Nurse

APRIL 27, 2022

“Diverse nurses caring for a diverse patient population” In 2020, many news stories about health care heroes featured white, female nurses, Simonovich said. nurses, doctors, social workers and physical therapists died of COVID-19 between February 2020 and February 2021.

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NHPCO

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Telehealth extension: The legislation extends hospice telehealth flexibilities through the end of 2024, which were initially enacted as part of the CARES Act in 2020. There is no requirement for hospices to use MFTs or MHCs and a social worker is still required if needed under a patient’s plan of care.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 12, 2022

million respectively in 2020 alone, according to a study published in The Lancet. Multiples in the hospice market reached upwards of 29x in 2020, which beat 2019’s record of 26x, reported PwC’s Health Research Institute. This is reflective of a wider trend as demand for behavioral health services continues to grow. million and 76.2

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Social workers saw an average 4.07% hourly wage hike, and medical directors saw the lowest rate of increase at 0.6%, the report indicated. The most recent available utilization data are from 2020, but the hospice community should be watching for updated numbers. Nurses saw average national salary increases of 5.95% in 2022.

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Hospice News

MAY 2, 2022

In November of 2020, I lost my mom to pancreatic cancer. When you talk about an interdisciplinary team coming into your home — nurses, a social worker, chaplain, having access to the physician, volunteers — people are automatically going to think that there’s a cost associated with that. We were able to bring her home.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 8, 2023

If enacted, PCHETA would support hospice and palliative care training programs for physicians, nurses, pharmacists, social workers and chaplains. For nearly a decade, stakeholders have sought passage of the Palliative Care and Hospice Education Training Act (PCHETA). Beth Van Duyne Rep. Elected to the U.S.

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