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 Promise

JUNE 26, 2023

Meet Mikaela, BSW, one of our newest Social Workers! Mikaela recently graduated from NAU in the Spring of 2022. “I could not imagine starting my career in social work at a greater place other than Hospice Promise.

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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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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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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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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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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

JANUARY 22, 2024

Social workers have an increasingly important role to play in breaking down barriers among underserved populations, including misconceptions about hospice that can deter or dampen utilization. The New York-based health system offers home care, hospice and behavioral health, among other services.

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Evidence-Based Nursing - BMJ blogs

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? The Cornerstone of Humanity.

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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

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

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. We changed our name and pivoted to provide home hospice care.

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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

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

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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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

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

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

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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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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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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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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GeriPal

AUGUST 15, 2024

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