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

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

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

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

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 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

DECEMBER 15, 2023

“In my new role, I’ll lean on my commitment to excellence and unwavering drive to increase access for the individuals – and their loved ones – who need and deserve Silverado’s unparalleled quality and compassionate care.” 2022, and her appointment will now become permanent. She has held the position on an interim basis since Dec.

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Hospice News

JUNE 29, 2022

Congressional legislators are casting doubts on regulatory oversight of Medicare Advantage plans over concerns about spending, claims denials, and end-of-life care. MedPAC June 2022 report to Congress included similar findings, according to the commission’s Executive Director James E. MA as a whole is rapidly growing.

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Hospice News

MAY 19, 2022

Slightly more than 240 medications were in short supply at the close of Q1 2022, compared to 195 during the same period in 2016, according to data from the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP). These factors can make the always-difficult decision about end-of-life care even harder for patients and families.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Hollie Trogdon, senior vice president of PruittHealth Home, 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

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

The new transaction is Agape’s third during 2022, following the acquisitions of Georgia-based Lanier Hospice in July and Hospice of the Carolina Foothills in May. This further expansion in Georgia and South Carolina strengthens our team and solidifies our position as a leading hospice and palliative care provider across the Southeast.”.

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Hospice News

JULY 12, 2024

Angela’s Hospice provides end-of-life care to adult and pediatric patient populations. Established in 1985, the faith-based nonprofit also offers palliative care, grief support and virtual telehealth hospice services to caregivers and patients. For nearly 50 years, this organization has delivered on that mission.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Demographics are pushing up demand for end-of-life care amid long-standing staffing shortages in hospice. Some hospices have been unable to sufficiently fill their ranks to keep up with that demand for care, resulting in them either temporarily limiting new patients or completely ending services.

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Hospice News

JULY 25, 2023

Data are reshaping the health care space, and hospice is no exception. Data has played a large role in the ability to gauge the impact of end-of life care. Hospice providers have needed a window into access and utilization, as well as how lawmakers are shaping policies around health care.

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Hospice News

MARCH 1, 2024

“If there’s real opportunity, in particular, in partnership with health systems to make sure that mortality rates are in-line and that we’re supporting their end of life care, then that will likely be our approach.”

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Hospice News

MARCH 30, 2023

This move expands a collaboration between the two nonprofits launched called Ohio’s Hospice at United Church Homes, which provides care in more than three communities across the UCH footprint. The UCH partnership will also include Pure Healthcare, the palliative care and supportive services arm of Ohio’s Hospice, established in 2020.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 17, 2023

Members of LGBTQ+ communities often forego conversations about end-of-life care due to fears of discrimination , researchers have found. Though the staff diversity issue is prevalent in health care, a rising number of hospices are working to recruit employees from different cultural, racial and ethnic backgrounds.

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Hospice News

APRIL 7, 2023

“It was our intent that rebasing these rates would adequately cover the costs of providing these higher-intensity levels of care to ensure that hospices have access to the providers needed to comply with the hospice Conditions of Participation (CoPs), and promote patient access to all levels of care,” CMS indicated in the proposed rule.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 12, 2022

This newest Minnesota location marks its fifth de novo in 2022 alone. Growing demand is pushing a need for end-of-life care in the Land of a 1,000 Lakes. Croix has no plans to slow down its expansion, Bartness previously told Hospice News. currently, according to the U.S.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Hayden Jordan, director of palliative care for senior care provider PruittHealth Home, has been named a 2022 Future Leader by Hospice News. . What drew you to hospice and palliative care? A lot of nursing students or nurse practitioners or other clinicians don’t go to school to work in palliative care.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

We identified numerous indicators of such fraud and abuse by hospice agencies, which typically offer palliative end-of-life care to individuals with medical diagnoses of fewer than six months to live.”. Arizona had 239 new Medicare-certified hospices appear between 2018 and 2022, representing 52% of all providers in the state.

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