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NOVEMBER 6, 2022

This blog does not intend to revisit this pathway, but to raise awareness that as healthcare professionals, we have and always will have only one chance to get it right in palliative and end of life care. What is Palliative and End of Life Care? In October each year we recognise Hospice Care Week.

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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. What drew you to this field?

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 13, 2023

VITAS Healthcare Expands Hospital-Based Inpatient Hospice Center Chemed Corp. NYSE: CHE) VITAS Healthcare recently expanded its inpatient hospice care unit at the Florida-based Broward Health Medical Center. Miami-based VITAS has provided community- and facility-based hospice care in the Broward County area since 1980.

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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. Coupled with the telehealth disparities are inequities pertaining to hospice care.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Croix Hospice often looks for markets in which hospice utilization is comparatively low, including historically underserved rural communities, St. Croix Hospice Founder and CEO Heath Bartness previously told Hospice News. The Minnesota-headquartered hospice provider is a portfolio company of the private equity firm H.I.G.

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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. 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.

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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

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. Access to hospice and palliative care is perceived as lacking. were Hispanic; 1.8%

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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 25, 2024

The location will serve as a hub for staff providing hospice services across Pasco County, where seniors 65 and older represent 21.8% 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 Census Bureau reported.

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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

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. Francis Reflections operates two general inpatient hospice care units in Melbourne and Titusville, Florida.

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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

JUNE 7, 2023

” Arizona had 239 new Medicare-certified hospices appear between 2018 and 2022, representing 52% of all providers in the state. In that time frame, Nevada saw 56 newly certified hospices, and 369 emerged in Texas. This was the conclusion of a 2022 report from the California Department of Justice (CDOJ).

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Hospice News

AUGUST 12, 2022

Capital, delivers hospice care in Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, South Dakota, Wisconsin and in its home state of Minnesota. Last month it acquired Michigan-based Corpore Sano Hospice, after purchasing Illinois-based Lexington Hospice Care earlier this summer.

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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. Brickner takes the helm of VITAS’ hospice locations in Kansas City, Kansas, as well as across Dallas, Fort Worth, Houston and San Antonio, Texas.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 26, 2024

Digging into palliative care barriers Not enough cancer patients with malignant ureteral obstruction (MUO) receive concurrent palliative care services when the need arises, according to a study published in January in Urology Practice, a journal of the American Urological Association (AUA). The research spanned data from Jan.

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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. 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.

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Hospice News

JULY 25, 2023

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. Data on CON laws has taken on new significance as regulators zero in on the hospice space.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 20, 2022

SCAN Health Plan is among the Medicare Advantage (MA) payers entering the hospice component of the value-based insurance design (VBID) payment demonstration in 2023. The four-year program — often called the Medicare Advantage hospice carve-in — launched Jan. This number grew to 115 in 2022.

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JANUARY 2, 2023

Many hospices saw volunteer volumes dip drastically as they suspended activities during the pandemic. 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.

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Hospice News

APRIL 7, 2023

.” One key set of data pertains to the utilization of continuous home care (CHC), general inpatient care (GIP) and inpatient respite care (IRC). Despite rebasing payment rates for the higher levels of care, there still remains a high percentage of hospices that provide little to no CHC, IRC, or GIP.”

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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, 2023

Tennessee Quality Care operates 17 locations serving an average of 1,800 patients daily throughout 50 of the 95 counties in its home state. About 70% of its business is home health, including private duty, with hospice care comprising 30%. Its hospice segment represented $49.08 million of that total, about 19.5%.

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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. . 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. Trust the child. Trust the process.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 17, 2023

Language barriers, mistrust of the health care system and a lack of diverse staff are the most common obstacles between hospice care and underserved communities, research from the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) recently found.

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Hospice News

MARCH 1, 2024

We see a huge opportunity for hospice care, in particular in the more rural sections of Texas where we think there’s quite a bit of opportunity for best-in-class care,” Korte said. When you have more resources, you’re able to provide a larger array of care, better supportive care to patients. “If

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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

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Sarah Bush Lincoln Hospice received the green light last April to renovate the structure on a local hospital campus. Construction began in the spring of 2022. The PeaceHealth Richard Nau Hospice House opened on Jan. Patients at the reopened inpatient hospice will receive 24/7 end-of-life care.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Staffing issues have increasingly been at the root of leading causes behind shuttered hospice programs nationwide. Demographics are pushing up demand for end-of-life care amid long-standing staffing shortages in hospice. RoboToaster, SmugMug RoboToaster, SmugMug Joel Wherley at the 2022 ELEVATE Conference.

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JANUARY 19, 2023

Hospice organizations have come under increasing legal and regulatory scrutiny related to medical necessity complaints under the False Claims Act and the closely related anti-kickback statute. The proliferation of new hospices in California, Texas, Arizona and Nevada has stoked concerns around potential fraud and other abuses.

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Hospice News

JULY 14, 2023

Paul Mastrapa becomes CEO of Interim HealthCare Jennifer Sheets is out as CEO of Interim HealthCare and Caring Brands International. The Florida-based company is a home-based care franchise that provides home health care, hospice care, palliative care, pediatric care and personal care to about 200,000 patients annually from more than 330 U.S.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 15, 2022

“As home and community-based medicine continues to garner steam in the national landscape, the ability for organizations like Chapters Health System and Hope Healthcare to continue being front and center in redesigning end-of-life care is paramount,” the two CEOs told Hospice News in a joint email.

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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. 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. What drew you to this industry?

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

The organization began as a home health agency and added a hospice segment in 2022, according to Vicki Owens, CEO of Emmaus Catholic Hospice, DBA under the nonprofit Dominican Home Health Agency. The home health organization has provided care in Denver, Colorado, since 1923. That was a really foundational year for us.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

A systematic overhaul of the nation’s health care education programs is needed to ensure that future clinicians are prepared to provide palliative and hospice care amid rising demand, according to Dr. Leah McDonald of HopeHealth. McDonald is a hospice and palliative care physician at HopeHealth.

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OCTOBER 6, 2022

“That first gathering was a conclave of leaders in global health policy, such as the United Nations and the World Health Organization, among various other bodies,” Connor told Hospice News. “We We met because we recognized the fact that no one was really speaking up about palliative and hospice care in the policy arena.

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