Hospice News

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Hospice leaders have kept their eyes on four key numbers as 2022 progressed: clinical capacity, length of stay, labor costs and utilization. The workforce shortage had an influence on each one of these indicators, making it perhaps the most significant, though unfortunate, hospice trend of 2022. Clinical capacity. Length of stay.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

CAPC surveyed 150,000 health care professionals between December 2021 and January 2022 to gauge the efficacy and scope of their quality improvement efforts to advance equity among Black patients with serious illnesses. Chuang is also a researcher who focuses on community-based end-of-life care and equity topics.

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Hospice News

MARCH 4, 2025

The nonprofit organization provides hospice, palliative care and advanced care planning services across 44 counties in Arkansas. The shelter will offer hospice care and other services for terminally ill homeless individuals in need of food, clothing, shelter and end-of-life care.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Shradha Aiyer, vice president of products at Axxess, has been named a 2022 Future Leader by Hospice News. The program is designed to recognize up-and-coming industry members who are shaping the next decade of senior housing, skilled nursing, home health, and hospice care. Future Leaders are individuals nominated by their peers.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Bailey Woodhams, business development manager for consulting firm Maxwell Healthcare Associates, has been named a 2022 Future Leader by Hospice News. Trogdon recently shared her thoughts with Hospice News about her career in hospice and palliative care, and the biggest forces of change at play in serious illness and end-of-life care.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

“Rural communities often encounter numerous obstacles in accessing high-quality end-of-life care as they struggle with scarce resources, geographical barriers and a shortage of experienced professionals,” Bartness said in a statement. This is in addition to six that launched in 2022. In October 2022, St.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 23, 2024

“For people who don’t have a caregiver in their home, we can put them in our facility and they can live there until their natural death, and they’ll have access to specially trained caregivers in end-of-life care,” Strzalka told local news. The organization planned to begin construction in 2022 and open by the end of 2023.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Combined, the inpatient centers have served more than 25,000 patients and their families, according to the end-of-life care provider. In addition to its inpatient operations, Hospice of Northwest Ohio delivers end-of-life care and support in homes and nursing facilities.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 26, 2024

“The numbers have continued to grow in terms of building these quality indicators to ensure that heart failure patients get adequate and high-value, quality end-of-life care in their trajectory and get enrolled in hospice and palliative care.” The disease in 2022 was mentioned on more than 457,000 U.S. Close to 6.7

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Recent research has found that receiving high-acuity services alongside supportive care can help ease pain. The findings come as regulators navigate the future outlook of these services in end-of-life care delivery. Patients’ pain levels were assessed using the Brief Pain Inventory (BPI) index.

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Hospice News

JUNE 23, 2023

The HAP Foundation is an independent nonprofit that provides experienced hospice and palliative care management staff who can assist organizations by leading their operations, education and advocacy efforts. The foundation also offers consulting in end-of-life care and expanding the community health worker profession.

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Hospice News

APRIL 11, 2024

Black Americans are frequently denied access to hospice and palliative care due to structural racism, and many of those communities lack sufficient information to make end-of-life care decisions, new research has found. The issues identified in the report exist across the country. were Hispanic; 1.8% were Native American.

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Hospice News

JUNE 7, 2023

” Arizona had 239 new Medicare-certified hospices appear between 2018 and 2022, representing 52% of all providers in the state. But they don’t want to get lumped in with bad actors, and they don’t want us creating needless regulations that are going to hamper their ability to do that care.”

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

The move comes nearly a year after California-based Guaranteed launched in August 2022, when founder and CEO Jessica McGlory began her own provider company two years after her father passed away. The platform also connects patients to in-person end-of-life care services.

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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. Census Bureau.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Having this reimbursement path available could ease pressures for palliative care patients making decisions about their serious illness care options. These patients can often receive fragmented care and expensive treatments. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 22, 2022

This marks the third affiliation that Chapters announced or completed during 2022, following Cornerstone Hospice & Palliative Care early in the year and Hope Healthcare just last week. “In NPHI NPHI Capital Caring Health CEO Tom Koutsoumpas.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

The organization is a subsidiary of Western Reserve Care Solutions. In 2022, Western Reserve acquired Stein Hospice in Sandusky, Ohio. Before joining the organization, she had served as executive director at New Life Hospice where she led an $11 million hospice program with more than 80 full-time employees.

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Hospice News

MAY 26, 2023

For the past several years, Chapters Health has been on an aggressive and ambitious trajectory to change the way chronic illness management and end-of-life care is administered in our communities,” Molosky said. “We The two providers have growth and innovation in their immediate sights, he said in a recent combined statement.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Scott Ginn held the role since November 2022 prior to Guidroz’s ascension. “In AMOREM has locations across 12 counties in northwest North Carolina, which include four inpatient care units. He has more than 25 years of health care experience, including a role as assistant medical director at Compassus from 2010 to 2017.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

“Instead of earning an honest living by treating patients and billing fairly, this doctor chose to defraud the government and the taxpayers of money that was intended to help terminal patients needing end-of-life care,” Clay Joyner, U.S. billion in the fiscal year ending Sept. 30, 2022, according to the U.S.

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Hospice News

JULY 28, 2023

The Denver Hospice – an affiliate of the Care Synergy network – has named a new president. The end-of-life care provider announced the hiring of Ernesto Lopez on July 11. The Denver Hospice is one of the largest end-of-life care providers in its region. 21, according to the organization. “We

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Hospice News

MARCH 15, 2024

Continued growth in the number of for-profit providers (an increase of at least 10% in 2022) and reports of strong investor interest in the sector suggest that capital is available to these providers,” MedPAC indicated in its report. More than 49% of Medicare decedents enrolled in hospice care during 2022, up from 47.3%

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Hospice utilization rates among Medicare descendents in Florida reached 55.97% in 2022, according to the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization’s Facts and Figures report. Senior populations are projected to more than 30% of Florida’s population by 2045, reported the state’s Department of Elder Affairs.

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Hospice News

MAY 9, 2024

Coupled with the fraud issue are those associated with quality of care. Government Accountability Office (GAO) reported that nearly 15% of surveyed hospices were cited with serious quality issues between 2020 and 2022. Yesterday, the U.S. Most had multiple deficiencies.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Millicent Burke-Sinclair, president and CEO of the hospice and palliative care provider Four Seasons, has been named a 2022 Future Leader by Hospice News. At multiple times in my life when facing loss, hospice was there. Future Leaders are individuals nominated by their peers. What drew you to the hospice industry?

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 20, 2022

This number grew to 115 in 2022. The main opportunity is to ensure continuity of care for our members from primary care to end-of-life care. The VBID hospice carve-in allows SCAN to develop the capabilities to oversee end-of-life care in a meaningful way for our members,” Parvinchiha and Kappel said.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Katie Leonard, director of pediatrics at Anchor Health, has been named a 2022 Future Leader by Hospice News. . I found my passion for pediatric palliative and hospice care working at George Mark Children’s House, where I provided respite and end-of-life care to children with life-limiting diagnoses.

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Hospice News

JULY 31, 2023

“We believe very strongly that hospice — through outside pressures, whether that be reimbursement, payers, value-based care or managed care providers — we believe all of those are already redefining end-of-life care in this country. Meanwhile, its palliative care program has thrived.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

The labor environment inside hospice and palliative care is showing greater signs of improvement, according to Nick Westfall, CEO of VITAS Healthcare, a subsidiary of Chemed Corporation (NYSE:CHE). “We We will have more VITAS team members in 2023 than we did in 2022,” Westfall told Hospice News.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 1, 2024

A large aim of the transaction is to expand access to quality, comprehensive end-of-life care across a broader region in the state amid challenges such as rising competition and economic pressures. The nonprofit in 2022 picked up Stein Hospice for an undisclosed amount, which is based in north central Ohio.

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Hospice News

MAY 21, 2024

There’s been tremendous progress in a relatively short amount of time that has yielded improvements in end-of-life care,” Tucker told Hospice News. Congress passed the Breakthrough Therapies Act in 2022, which widened opportunities to utilize certain controlled substances.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 25, 2024

The expansion is driven by growing demand for end-of-life care in the northern Tampa Bay area, according to Jalisha Wynn, general manager for VITAS. “At We are committed to providing compassionate end-of-life care for those facing a life-limiting illness.” of the county’s overall population, the U.S.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 16, 2024

“It became clear to us that we needed to offer an option for our patients and their families, a place where they can access respite care,” she said. Additionally, many families struggle to find appropriate end-of-life care in a setting that feels like home. million that the organization reported in 2022.

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Hospice News

MARCH 6, 2024

“We object to the prospect of any savings from this extension being used to pay for activities that would not be focused on improving care for hospice patients and their families,” the groups said in the letter. “At Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has been working to implement since 2022, according to their letter.

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Hospice News

MARCH 8, 2023

“I look forward to partnering with this team and all its employees, immersing myself in the culture and executing on strategies that ultimately contribute to ensuring VITAS as the premier provider of end-of-life care.” This includes having the financial means to recruit and retain clinical staff. “We

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Hospice News

JANUARY 2, 2023

Roughly 78% of hospice and palliative care providers around the globe indicated “less or much less” use of volunteers since the pandemic’s onset, according to a 2022 study in the International Journal of Health Policy and Management. Many hospices saw volunteer volumes dip drastically as they suspended activities during the pandemic.

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