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Dr. Steven Landers: Hospice SFP Could Spread Misinformation About Quality

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1, 2025, could potentially lead patients away from quality providers and into the arms of bad actors in the space, according to Dr. Steven Landers, newly appointed CEO of the National Alliance for Care at Home. It might make them even fearful about hospice care, which is the last thing we want to see happen.

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Asian-American Communities Face ‘Digital Divide’ in Health Equity, Hospice Care

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The data come at a time when hospices are striving to better understand how to improve those groups’ end-of-life trajectories. Technology utilization has gained momentum in health care, including in hospice care delivery. Coupled with the telehealth disparities are inequities pertaining to hospice care.

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Reps. Van Duyne, Panetta Introduce Bill to Reform Hospice Special Focus Program

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In addition to jeopardizing access to care, fraudsters have stolen millions of taxpayer dollars which is why we’re working to provide accountability, restore integrity to the hospice benefit and ensure access to compassionate, high-quality care.” NAHC and NHPCO have since combined into the National Alliance for Care at Home.

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Key Trends to Watch: Health Systems Moving into Hospice, Home-Based Care

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The first addressed the intersection of hospice care, behavioral health and chronic disease management, and the second focused on the rise of managed care. The division offers home health care, palliative care and hospice in addition to high-acuity services like hospital-at-home. “We

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Hospices’ Mythbusting Strategies: ‘It’s Not Brink-of-Death Care’

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Nearly half, or 49.1%, of all Medicare decedents utilized hospice services in 2022, reported the National Alliance for Care at Home. National hospice utilization rates have hovered around this vicinity for the past decade, with 44% of decedents receiving these services in 2010, the Alliance report found.

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VITAS, Big Bend, Heart to Heart, Family Hospice Unveil New Locations

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The company provides continuing education credits to health care providers in other settings, such as assisted living facilities, to help spread awareness about the benefits of hospice care. Established nearly four decades ago, Big Bend Hospice in 2021 formed a new parent company, Seven Oaks Health. Census Bureau.

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Systematic Change Needed to Support Family Caregivers of Hospice Patients

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Given the critical role of family caregivers in home-based care, hospices have a vested interest in expanding their access to support. Families caring for seriously ill loved ones face systemic barriers that could threaten patients’ ability to receive care at home, including at the end of life.

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