Hospice News

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Leading concerns in the industry include the bill’s suggested regulatory reforms to address program integrity in the hospice industry, along with potential changes to reimbursement, caregiver support and palliative care payment pathways. Earl Blumenauer (D-Oregon) introduced the Hospice CARE Act last month. this summer.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 16, 2024

million that the organization reported in 2022. The organization provided hospice to 457 patients and served 121 palliative care patients last, according to its annual report. Hospice utilization rates in the state reached 40.96% in 2022, which fell below the national average of 49.1% Its overall revenue reached more than $6.22

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 25, 2024

The new location is an extension of the Texas-based hospice’s services in the region, where the organization has provided care since 2009, according to Heart to Heart CEO and Founder Kelly Mitchell. Its launch is in part intended to ease caregiver burden, Mitchell stated. that year, reported the National Alliance for Care at Home.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 8, 2024

More primary care providers are seeing community-based palliative care as an opportunity to bridge gaps among underserved populations, such as seriously ill patients in rural regions, according to Baumgardner. For example, the company in 2022 formed a joint venture with Mount Sinai Health System.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 16, 2022

Agencies need to communicate their value back to the client and the caregiver to consistently articulate how and what they’re doing and how it ties back to their mission, vision and values. Finish this sentence: “The top strategy that hospice providers should employ in 2022 to best prepare for 2023 is…”?

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Hospice News

JUNE 10, 2022

“These innovative at-home solutions will empower those we serve, enhancing the recovery process and improving outcomes.”. The new care model offers an alternative to conventional inpatient hospitalization or skilled nursing care at home. It also gives patients, families and caregivers additional options for support.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Additionally, I draw on my own personal experience as a caregiver to my older adult father, which started when I was twelve. He was in his early 60s when I was born, and he suffered a stroke in 1989, which threw our family into the post-acute medical care space and encouraged me to take on a caregiving role.

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Home Care Pulse

AUGUST 31, 2022

Share: We’re Home Care Pulse, a leading provider of experience management & surveys, caregiver/CNA training, and online reputation management. What does Amazon’s One Medical acquisition mean for the home-based care industry? Let’s look at existing technology it might leverage in home care: .

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Home Care Pulse

AUGUST 11, 2022

Invest in Solutions that Simplify the Experience for Care Staff and Clients. Share: We’re Home Care Pulse, a leading provider of experience management & surveys, caregiver/CNA training, and online reputation management. Paying your care staff more won’t keep them around longer. Here’s how.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 3, 2025

For some, rightfully so, but the possibility exists that some better quality hospices could erroneously be swept up into the program, according to Dr. Steven Landers, CEO of the National Alliance for Care at Home. Rate hikes are the Feds primary weapon against inflation, which climbed at a record pace during 2022 and last year.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Without family caregivers, many patients would not be able to receive hospice, palliative or other forms of home-based care. The Advanced Cancer Care Patient & Caregiver Guide is designed to help ensure patients can stay in their homes as much as possible, avoiding unnecessary 911 calls and emergency department visits.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Hospices’ public outreach efforts have evolved in recent years, with providers finding new strategies to dispel myths that have long impeded access to care. Nearly half, or 49.1%, of all Medicare decedents utilized hospice services in 2022, reported the National Alliance for Care at Home.

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The Caregiving Years Training Academy

FEBRUARY 9, 2025

Our Caregiving System Navigation is an overwhelming, frustrating experience managing and advocating within 19 systems. After my mom died in 2022, I decided to count how many systems we manage as family caregivers. Then, during discussions with family caregivers, I would hear another system that led to adding another system.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 1, 2024

“A reliance on virtual health care can exacerbate inequities for Asian Americans if attention is not paid to ensuring language access, improving cultural competency amongst providers and supporting patients and caregivers in gaining greater digital literacy,” Tsze told Hospice News in an email. “It This is compared to 51.6%

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Hearts for Home Care

JANUARY 14, 2022

2021 has been an incredible year for home care advocates, who continued to discover that meeting with legislators and sharing their personal home care stories did not have to occur in-person only. In-home nurses, home health aides, and other caregivers are the backbone of the home health care industry.

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NHPCO

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

NHPCO is currently integrating into the Alliance, a newly-formed national organization that is combining the two leading organizations supporting the care-at-home community – NHPCO and the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC). The total number of beneficiaries enrolled in hospice care in 2022 was 1.72

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Hospice News

JANUARY 6, 2025

Rural-based caregivers have increasingly faced tremendous burdens as a result of hospices sustainability challenges, according to Dr. Steve Landers, CEO of the National Alliance for Care at Home (the Alliance). Ensuring access to high-quality hospice and home care in rural communities is critical, Landers said in a statement.

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The Caregiving Years Training Academy

MAY 4, 2025

(I feel lucky that we could care for my mom in her home until she died in August 2022.) It’s hard not to make a promise like that, that our carees always will remain at home. We can’t know what future obstacles and challenges we’ll face that can make care at home simply impossible.

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