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The Senior Living Opportunity for Hospices

Hospice News

Many hospices in 2025 are driving to expand in the senior housing and assisted living space. More than 818,000 people in the United States dwell in more than 30,600 assisted living communities nationwide with an aggregate 1.2 My generation, baby boomers, were not going to a nursing home.

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Leveraging Sales Strategies in Hospice Payment Cap Management

Hospice News

For one, Sales and marketing staff can benefit from knowing what types of patients each provider is referring to their hospice, as well as the type of diagnosis and site of care, such as the patient’s home or assisted living or other facility. In essence, the number one admitted diagnosis was neurological.

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

Hospice News

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%

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Incoming Samaritan CEO Phillip Heath: Reduce Dependence on Medicare

Hospice News

I personally have aging parents, and they live in an assisted living environment. Samaritan rebranded in 2022 to reflect its expanded scope of services. There are four areas that we primarily focus on as we look at what we call life-enhancing care and care around serious illnesses.

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Hospice News’ Top 10 Stories of 2024

Hospice News

Longer stays reduce health care costs in the last year of life by as much as 11%, according to a 2023 report from the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO), the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC), and NORC at the University of Chicago.

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Caregiving System Navigation: 19 Systems

The Caregiving Years Training Academy

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.