Hospice News

JANUARY 20, 2023

A second study found that roughly 88% of palliative patients nationwide who have used virtual reality in the last decade reported improvement in their physical and/or psychological symptoms The journal Palliative Medicine published the research in May 2022.

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Hospice News

APRIL 4, 2023

Established in 1986, Assisted Daily Living provides skilled home care, personal care and private duty services in hospitals, nursing homes and assisted living facilities throughout Rhode Island.

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Hospice News

MAY 24, 2023

Government programs, internet search engines, assisted living operations and hospital discharge planners rounded out the top five with percentages ranging from 7.5% For the research, survey respondents were asked to select their top five revenue-generating sales and marketing sources in 2022.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 25, 2022

Despite slowed intensity thus far in 2022 compared to previous years, the hospice sector has “remained active” and “still outpaces” other markets in health care, according to a recent report from Bass Berry & Sims. But there’s nothing routine about these reviews in today’s current hospice regulatory environment.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 25, 2024

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. in Georgia during the calendar year 2022, hovering around the national average of 49.1% Seniors 65 and older represent 14.5% Census Bureau.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Labor shortages and other headwinds have battered hospices during 2022, including large companies. This has been a longstanding problem since the start of the pandemic, but average length of stay among the publicly traded firms tumbled at a faster rate in Q3 2022 (3%) than they did in the third quarter of 2021 (2%).

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Hospice News

APRIL 5, 2024

Patients in assisted living-based memory care facilities have higher mortality rates and are more likely to enroll in hospice, a new study indicates. In Fiscal Year 2022, 7.5% We find a higher mortality rate and higher rate of hospice use among memory-care residential care/assisted living residents,” the study authors wrote. “We

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

An estimated 82 million Americans will be 65 and older by 2050, a 47% increase from 58 million in 2022, according to the Population Reference Bureau. Skilled nursing and assisted living facilities were the top two opportunities for referral growth, according to more than half of the Hospice News survey respondents.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 17, 2023

Board-certified in hospice and palliative medicine, Howe has more than 20 years of experience as a physician and medical director for various health care organizations in the Denver area, including a number of rehabilitation, assisted living and skilled nursing home facilities.

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Hospice News

MARCH 15, 2024

Even during the record-high flurry of M&A activity between 2019 and 2022, the company abstained from making deals. The transaction also brought VITAS into the assisted living arena, as its acquired assets included one such community.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

The level of Medicare audit activity has increased, with a particular focus on long stay hospice patients and hospice patients who reside in long-term care and [assisted living] facilities,” Young told Hospice News in an email.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 13, 2024

. #8: [UPDATED] VITAS to Acquire Covenant Health and Community Services Hospice Business for $85M Miami-headquartered VITAS Healthcare Corporation in March announced intentions to acquire Covenant Health and Community Services hospice operations and one of its assisted living facility locations for $85 million.

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Comfort Home Care

MAY 15, 2022

Geraldine (Gerri) Flowers assumes the role as Chief Executive Officer of Comfort Home Care, effective May 9, 2022. PRWEB) May 09, 2022. Comfort Home Care provides in-home care services for seniors living at home and in assisted living communities. ROCKVILLE, Md. About Comfort Home Care.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 23, 2022

I personally have aging parents, and they live in an assisted living environment. Samaritan rebranded in 2022 to reflect its expanded scope of services. One of the things that we’re doing also is launch our new program on social isolation and loneliness with the frail elderly. Now, they’re eight miles away.

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AlayaCare

MAY 15, 2023

Turnover rates are even higher in assisted living and skilled nursing, with the latter having a turnover rate of over 90% in 2022. ” “[AlayaCare] conducted a focus group, we wanted to better understand the factors that drive caregivers to resign,” said Billie.

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Minority Nurse

JUNE 26, 2024

Temitope (Temi) Oseromi, MSN, RN, CCRN-K, has been serving as the nurse manager of Greater Baltimore Medical Center (GBMC) HealthCare’s Intensive Care Units—the Medical Intensive Care Unit (MICU) and the Surgical Intensive Care Unit (SICU) since 2022. Still, I wasn’t sure of the specifics until I worked at an assisted living facility.

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Nurse.com

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Utilizing LPNs in acute care Many licensed practical nurses/licensed vocational nurses (LPN/LVNs) seek jobs in post-acute care (nursing homes, skilled nursing facilities, assisted living) or ambulatory facilities. “We Internal staffing pools Southeast Georgia Health System created a Nursing Resource Pool in summer 2022.

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Home Care Pulse

APRIL 18, 2023

Dr. Schwartz is a nationally recognized expert on quality and assisted living and workforce issues in long-term care. In 2022, she launched her consulting firm workforce and Quality Innovations. Another person that I talked to, a provider in Idaho, provides school supplies to his workers’ kids.

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Hospice News

JULY 29, 2022

Richard Honzel, Hospice Admission Nurse for Angels Grace Hospice, LLC, has been named a 2022 Frontline Honors honoree by Hospice News. Honzel: Back when I was working as a social worker in an assisted living program I was able to witness the comfort and compassion a hospice nurse provided to one of our residents and her family.

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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.” The nonprofit offers home- and facility-based hospice, skilled nursing and home health care. “I

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

The organization began as a home health agency and added a hospice segment in 2022, according to Vicki Owens, CEO of Emmaus Catholic Hospice, DBA under the nonprofit Dominican Home Health Agency. Owens: The inception of pivoting from home health to hospice was in 2022. Emmaus Catholic Hospice established services within the last year.

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Home Care Pulse

APRIL 28, 2022

– Get the Full Scoop with the 2022 HCP Benchmarking Report. Get the Full Scoop with the 2022 HCP Benchmarking Report. Be the first to know about the latest 2022 trends no one saw coming that are shaping the industry. 2022 HCP Benchmarking Report Survey. L ooking for the latest news in home care?

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Hospice News

MARCH 10, 2023

Most recently, the company acquired Cardinal Hospice in Michigan for an undisclosed sum, and, in October 2022, licensed a de novo in Ohio. We’ve always tried to keep a heavier balance between our referral sources and have spent more time in independent living and assisted living facilities.

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The Caregiving Years Training Academy

FEBRUARY 9, 2025

After my mom died in 2022, I decided to count how many systems we manage as family caregivers. Deb shared the difficulty of keeping her mom home, the decision to move her mom to assisted living and then the stress of clearing out and selling the family home. We navigate these systems largely on our own. I first counted 10.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 20, 2023

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. Jasmine: Thank you. Happy to be here, Alex. We’re going to be talking about improving nursing home quality.

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NHPCO

MARCH 4, 2022

For Immediate Release: March 4, 2022. Rory Farrand Has 20 Years of Health Care Experience. Alexandria, Va) – The National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) today announced that Rory will join the organization as the Vice President of Palliative and Advanced Care.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

So you can go to skilled facility for short rehab- But if you are permanently living in a nursing home. But if you’re in assisted living, yes. If you are independent living, yes. So we came out with a report in March of 2023, followed it on the heels of a report that we had done in November, 2022.

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