Hospice News
OCTOBER 18, 2024
The Indiana Association for Home & Hospice Care (IAHHC) has unveiled a new employee support program designed to help with retention of much needed workforce resources in end-of-life care. The association’s staff also help manage the Kentucky Home Care Association (KHCA). Development of the C.A.R.E.
Hospice News
SEPTEMBER 13, 2024
The new location will allow for expanded access to end-of-life care and caregiver support, according to Robert Watson, who will serve as its new executive director. When medicine cannot provide a cure, hospice redefines hope in terms of a patient’s quality of life,” Watson said in a statement.
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Hospice News
AUGUST 20, 2024
The new center provides a location for the development and implementation of a “robust work plan” focused on increasing hospice and palliative care access across New York, according to the state’s health department. Kathy Hochul approved a bill designed to expand awareness of advance care planning, hospice and palliative care.
Hospice News
JULY 10, 2024
Demographics are driving a need for serious illness and end-of-life care in Ohio. In 2021, close to 80,150 Medicare beneficiaries in Ohio utilized the hospice benefit, according to the U.S. This is a rise from 17.8% currently, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
Hospice News
JULY 9, 2024
After this effort was initiated in 2021, about 54% of eligible patients elected the hospice benefit, compared to 22% in years prior, a new study in JAMA Network Open indicated. For most of these patients, hospice care began within one to two days of prognosis.
Seasons Hospice
JANUARY 7, 2021
After a tumultuous year in 2020, many are looking forward to 2021 as a year of renewed hope. Look for Joy in 2021. Look for new ways to find and share joy in 2021. Gratitude is a great contributor to joy as it gives us perspective on the blessings that we have in this life. Look for Strength in 2021.
Hospice News
NOVEMBER 21, 2024
End-of-life care models have increasingly diversified to reach a broader range of patients with different beliefs, values and spiritual outlooks, according to Altonia Garrett, COO of Blue Ridge Hospice. Improved health equity outcomes in part drove Kentucky-based Bluegrass Care Navigators to launch a PACE program in 2022.
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