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

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Though increased virtual health care access can help hospice providers reach patients upstream, the trend may be worsening disparities and outcomes among Asian American populations, according to Victoria Tsze, an outpatient hospice social worker at Tucson Medical Center (TMC) Hospice. This is compared to 51.6% of more than 2.1

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Hospice News

JULY 26, 2024

So if they see a social worker coming in, they may not be receptive. Empath offers hospice, home health, primary and palliative care. The Florida-based nonprofit health system also provides adult day services, PACE, AIDS and sexual wellness care. Some veterans have attached a very bad stigma around mental health support.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 7, 2023

Jane Schell, section chief of palliative care and medical ethics in, division of Nephrology at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC), told Palliative Care New. All palliative care, no matter the setting, seeks to alleviate symptoms and pain for people living with chronic illnesses. In May 2022, Sen.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 13, 2023

The company opened the facility at the Broward Health Medical Center in 2022, which is located in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Patients at the hospital-based center receive care in a home-like clinical setting that includes overnight accommodations for friends and family.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

In May 2023 McDonald was added to a pilot program at The Miriam Hospital that combines palliative care and emergency medical services. Resources are limited among an aging population with high care needs. This allows for appropriate transition to end-of-life care when that makes sense for families.

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Hospice News

JULY 28, 2022

Caitlin Berry, Registered Nurse, Hospice for Advocate Aurora Health, has been named a 2022 Frontline Honors honoree by Hospice News. Hospice News caught up with Berry to discuss their time in the hospice care industry. HSPN: What drew you to the Hospice Care industry?

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Hospice News

JANUARY 31, 2024

Palliative care, pediatric end-of-life care and end-of-life doula (EOLD) services are top of mind for hospices that are diversifying their services in 2024. The nonprofit’s pediatric program grew its capacity to 120 patients in 2022, a rise from a previous census volume of 40.

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Hospice News

APRIL 8, 2024

I started advocating pretty early on that I thought it would be really beneficial to form a separate, dedicated team of nurses, physicians, social workers and chaplains to take part in this care. Our team officially began towards the end of 2021 heading into 2022.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

More than 67% of the 203 hospice care professionals surveyed indicated that staffing would be their greatest non-COVID related challenge this year, according to the 2022 Hospice News Outlook Survey and Report. This is a rise from 33% the prior year. It’s a mix of our culture and us taking actions after listening to staff feedback.”.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 17, 2023

Howe to the care team at The Denver Hospice,” Interim President Tricia Ford said in an announcement. “Dr. Established in 1978, The Denver Hospice provides care to more than 4,000 hospice and around 1,200 palliative care patients annually in nine counties in Colorado. .

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Hospice News

JULY 11, 2023

In this Voices article, Josie Aquino, Director, Product Management, VNS Health talks about how VNS Health is using data and analytics to improve end-of-life care. Additionally, she discusses VNS’s outcomes-driven approach to end-of-life care, and how they are helping other organizations employ a similar approach.

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NHPCO

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Trends in quality of care: CY 2021 saw an increase in visits in the last days of life by both nurses and social workers after a decline in 2020. Although COVID-19 accounts for only 2% of primary diagnoses, it may still have been a secondary or contributory diagnosis.

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Hospice News

MAY 2, 2022

As a leader at UnityPoint, what are your priorities for 2022? End-of-life care is very personal, and it’s emotional. Our programs are growing, and so with that I have to be focused on recruiting and retaining our staff, but the communities also need to know who we are.

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Hospice News

APRIL 26, 2022

I thought the customer service needed to be better at being very communicative with a patient’s care team and their family, and that lack gave the idea to start a hospice. When did you begin offering hospice services, and what is your scope of care thus far? We started in March 2022 and are very much still in the startup phase.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

This followed other 2022 acquisitions of Georgia-based Lanier Hospice in January and Hospice of the Carolina Foothills in May. I look forward to engaging our talented medical staff to lead the industry in providing end-of-life care.”. Agape has been working to stretch its footprint across the Southeast.

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NHPCO

JUNE 16, 2023

for the combined FY 2021 and FY 2022 market baskets, in addition to the FY 2024 market basket adjustment of 2.8%, to ensure Medicare payments more accurately reflect the cost of providing hospice care today. NHPCO provides education and resources to support that mission.

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NHPCO

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Prior to joining NHPCO, Lund Person led The Carolinas Center for Hospice and End of Life Care, where she worked with other early hospice leaders to establish the Medicare Hospice Benefit in Congress and was a part of the initial discussions that formulated the original conditions of participation.

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Hospice News

JUNE 2, 2022

This article is based on a Q&A session with Jason Banks, Senior Director of Post Acute Sales at nVoq, during the Hospice News Palliative Care Conference. The Q&A took place on April 27, 2022. Hospice News: Jason has an incredible background in post-acute care that we’re going to talk about today.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Furthermore, we also developed certifications of the people who run the programs in the house, career-specific certifications for hospice operations, home health operations, health care sales, and even ongoing coaching and support. Being open and ready for Age-Friendly Care at Home. The question for me is why wouldn’t it?

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GeriPal

AUGUST 15, 2024

Also, as some of you may know, BTS as a group actually came and visited the White House in 2022 to talk about the importance of asian inclusion and representation in response to the rise in anti-asian hate. And I think that in the height of the pandemic, programs like unlock, I think, was really trying to address the social isolation.

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Hospice News

MAY 23, 2023

The focus to date has been concentrated on three areas: mental health, palliative and end-of-life care. recently introduced a federal bill that would revise current rules to permit some end-of-life patients to use psilocybin and other investigational treatments. Clinical psychedelics may become a $6.85

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GeriPal

JANUARY 20, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary In April 2022, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM) issued a report on how the United States delivers, regulates, finances, and measures the quality of nursing home care. For example, bachelor’s degrees for social workers.

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