Hospice News

OCTOBER 25, 2024

VITAS Launches New Florida Location VITAS Healthcare has opened a new location in Florida, expanding the hospice provider’s footprint in its home state. The location will serve as a hub for staff providing hospice services across Pasco County, where seniors 65 and older represent 21.8% Dozier Hospice House.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Hospice and palliative care will be a “strong focus” of services provided at the new senior living facility, Heartlinks Adult Family Home, said Shelby Moore, the organization’s executive director. Heartlinks provides hospice and senior living services across two counties in southern Washington. Census Bureau.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 1, 2024

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. It risks limiting people’s access to the health care and support they need at the end of their lives.

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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. For this reason, the National Partnership for Healthcare and Hospice Innovation (NPHI) has developed a guide for those patients and families, in partnership with the American Cancer Society.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Home-based care, including hospice, is an increasingly attractive space for health systems and hospitals — a trend that accelerated during the pandemic. Health systems are bringing care to the home by a number of routes. Vargas oversees the organization’s Southern California and Hawaii markets.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 13, 2023

As Contessa Health pioneers a growing value-based palliative care-at-home program, they’ve encountered some learning curves when it comes to operating within a new payment system. Contessa is a subsidiary of Amedisys (NASDAQ: AMED), which the home health and hospice provider acquired in 2021 for $250 million.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Our bold strategy focuses on regions where there are significant gaps in care for underserved adults,” Williams told Hospice News. With South Carolina being part of the Stroke Belt … it has growing aging populations with limited health care options tailored to their unique needs. The PACE and hospice relationship is important.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

While hospice and home health M&A continue to burgeon, non-medical home care is starting to slip out from under their shadows. Deal volume for non-medical home care companies outstripped that for hospice or home health during the first half of the year. Hospice market to stay mighty.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

For now, Amedisys shows no signs of slowing down on palliative care. Expanding palliative care relationships and joint venture partnerships is a priority for 2024, the Louisiana-based home health and hospice provider indicated in a filing with the U.S. million in 2022. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).) “Our

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Hospice News

MAY 26, 2022

Encompass Health’s forthcoming spin off of Enhabit Home Health & Hospice is expected to complete July 1. ” In addition to Jacobsmeyer herself, eight professionals from the health care, technology and financial fields comprise the board. Encompass Health’s hospice business saw net operating revenues fall 2.4%

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NHPCO

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Facts and Figures – the leading resource for hospice providers and others interested in understanding the work of the community – has been published annually for over two decades by NHPCO. of all Medicare decedents in 2022 choosing hospice care, utilization of hospice increased in 2022 for the first time since 2019.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Home health and hospice giant Amedisys Inc. Nasdaq: AMED) has repeatedly voiced its enthusiasm for its palliative care business in early 2023. Generally, Amedisys’ palliative care services will benefit BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee’s members living with complex and serious conditions such as cancer or heart failure.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 8, 2024

A range of palliative care joint ventures , care collaborations and partnerships have evolved in recent years as more health care providers work to address the needs of a swelling aging population. For example, the company in 2022 formed a joint venture with Mount Sinai Health System.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 8, 2024

AccentCare is a portfolio company of the private equity firm Advent International, offering hospice, palliative care, personal care, non-medical services, home health, care management and high-acuity home care. The post AccentCare Appoints New CFO appeared first on Hospice News.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 16, 2022

The article is based on a webinar hosted by Zaundra Ellis, Vice President of Hospice Solutions at Axxess with input from Cristina Montanez, Care Advocate and Lead Educator at Hospice of the North Coast and Dr. Jennifer Kennedy, VP for Quality and Standards at Community Health Accreditation Program. To learn more, visit: [link].

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Hospice News

AUGUST 16, 2022

In this Voices interview, Hospice News sits down with Todd Austin, President of HCP, to learn the strategies that hospice providers can use right now to improve staff engagement, not just with the aim of keeping staff members in their own hospice agencies, but more broadly in the industry at large.

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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

AUGUST 23, 2022

A veteran of the senior services sector, Health has spent his 30-year career as a leader of hospice, senior housing, long term care, and PACE programs, in addition to a stint as a health care lobbyist. As a hospice leader, what are some of the things that have been keeping you up at night? And we see that in the hospice.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 5, 2022

In this Voices interview, Hospice News sits down with Dr. Khai Nguyen , National Medical Director, Geriatrician for CHAP, to talk about the age-friendly care movement. Hospice News: What career experiences do you most draw from in your role today? That roundtable approach is key in hospice as it is at CHAP.

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Home Care Pulse

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

R EXBURG, I daho , November 9, 2022 —HCP, the l eading provider of e xperience m anagement ,? leads the home-based care industry in? Care Intelligence Platform ,?HCP HCP empowers providers in home care, home health, and hospice to attract and retain employees during workforce shortages.

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Hospice News

JUNE 9, 2022

This article is based on a Palliative Care conference Q&A with Tina Taylor, Vice President of Palliative Care Compassus and Christina Andrews, Director of Professional Services at Axxess. The Q&A took place on April 27, 2022. Hospice News: We have Tina Taylor and we also have Christina Andrews here today.

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Hospice News

APRIL 26, 2022

The panel took place virtually on March 23, 2022. Hospice News: We’re joined by Joe Randesi, Evelyn Keegan-Wright, and Eric Gordon, from Element5. Then I think the pandemic also just rocked our industry in a couple of different ways, shifting more focus to the care at home, so the demand increased.

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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? T he future of home-based care might change forever, and faster than you think.

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Palliverse

MAY 7, 2022

I have finally completed it today, and it serves as a sneak preview chapter for my upcoming book Bedsides Lessons which will be available for purchase on Amazon Kindle on 09 June 2022. Dad wanted to take her home, he knew that he could feed her food she would like, and that home rehabilitation could be considered. Photo by Sooz.

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Home Care Pulse

AUGUST 11, 2022

98% of agencies were negatively impacted by care staff shortages last year, meaning only 2% of providers are confident that they have adequate staff to run their agency—the worst it’s been in 3 years. While this is great news, the average care staff turnover rate has stayed at a steady 65% for 3 years in a row.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Receiving palliative care could help avoid the risk of death in a hospital setting for patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), a type of liver cancer, according to a study published in Scientific Reports. Researchers analyzed the outcomes of more than 5,400 emergency calls placed from April 1, 2020 to March 31, 2022.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Fraudulent operators in the hospice space have misspent millions of Medicare dollars in recent years. This is the first of a two-part Hospice News series that examines the financial and operational pressures weighing on the minds of hospice providers amid instances of fraud, waste and abuse occurring in the industry.

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