Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

“So when you think about a home-based palliative care program, and you were hoping to include RNs and social workers in there, they’re not considered billable clinicians. This year, the number of MA plans swelled to 3,998 nationwide, up 6% from 2022.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 4, 2023

After the tumultuous years of the pandemic, VITAS Healthcare expects a stable growth trajectory heading into 2024. Though the company has not yet released financial guidance for 2024, VITAS anticipates a “predictable” 2024 in terms of earnings and growth, executives said at Monday’s Bank of America Healthcare Conference. NYSE: CHE).

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Hospice News

MARCH 8, 2023

NYSE: CHE) VITAS Healthcare has appointed Alexander Fernandez as its CFO and executive vice president (EVP). Prior to that, Fernandez was COO of Tenet Healthcare Corp.’s We want to be able to add clinical capacity to absorb the demand we see, and we’re still ramping up to that,” Westfall said in a Q4 2022 earnings call.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

NYSE: CHE) subsidiary VITAS Healthcare is banking on improved recruitment and retention to spur upward movement on patient census, admissions and length of stay. To recap, we have now generated two quarters of sequential growth in licensed healthcare workers, sequential growth and admissions, as well as [average daily census].

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Hospice News

JULY 27, 2023

NYSE: CHE) subsidiary VITAS Healthcare, but financial pressure points remain. All told, VITAS Healthcare has recruited 784 workers since the bonus program’s launch a year ago, the majority of whom were nurses. million compared to the first half of 2022. rise from the same period in 2022. year-over-year rise.

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Hospice News

APRIL 27, 2023

Investments in their workforce have spurred VITAS Healthcare forward on the road to pre-pandemic financial and clinical performance. Aging Media Network photo Aging Media Network photo VITAS Healthcare CEO Nick Westfall In Q1, the company’s ADC rose 3% year-over-year to 17,830. from the first quarter of 2022 but represents a 9.1%

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Hospice News

MARCH 26, 2023

One consistent message these providers reported in their Q4 2022 earnings was that — while labor is improving —the upward swing comes with a hefty price tag. This is evidenced by VITAS expanding our licensed health care staff by 275, coinciding with the launch of our hiring and retention program, beginning on July 1 of 2022.

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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. The company opened the facility at the Broward Health Medical Center in 2022, which is located in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

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Hospice News

MAY 30, 2023

Aides in 2022 represented a large percentage of job vacancies in the hospice space at nearly 20%, according to research from Hospital & Healthcare Compensation Service (HCS) and the National Association of Home Care & Hospice (NAHC). They also had high turnover rates, reaching 29.84% last year.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Hospice executives in December 2022 shared their predictions for what would happen in the space during 2023. Providers have reported shortages among social workers and nonclinical staff as well. Nurses also accounted for 16.97% of vacancies. Only LPNs and LVNs had higher rates, reaching 31.52% turnover and 25.12% for vacancies.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

The interventions that VITAS Healthcare has implemented in response to the industry-wide labor shortage have generated some positive momentum that extends beyond the number of workers on the payroll. Those struggles have continued through 2022, but developments in the second half of the year are showing signs of an upward trend.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Labor shortages and other headwinds have battered hospices during 2022, including large companies. This has been a longstanding problem since the start of the pandemic, but average length of stay among the publicly traded firms tumbled at a faster rate in Q3 2022 (3%) than they did in the third quarter of 2021 (2%).

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Referral rejection rates among hospices reached a record high of 41% in 2022, according to data from CarePort, a WellSky company. Providers have reported shortages among social workers and nonclinical staff as well. Only LPNs and LVNs had higher rates, reaching 31.52% turnover and 25.12% for vacancies.

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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. NYSE CHE) subsidiary VITAS Healthcare. This is a rise from 33% the prior year.

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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. Bettis also has held leadership roles at Kaiser Permanente and Bloss Memorial Healthcare District and Castle Family Health Centers. “I Mission Healthcare Make Clinical Leadership Moves.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 18, 2024

Helios Care is working to change the face of hospice in its update New York service region, with a new partnership with the Bassett Healthcare Network as a cornerstone of its strategy. We’ve got several social workers working within the medical center with the palliative care director.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Capacity gains driven by a slate of new hires has propelled VITAS Healthcare to pre-pandemic performance. VITAS’ continued improvement in operating metrics is the result of our 12-month retention and hiring program launched in July of 2022,” McNamara said in a Q4 2023 earnings call. The program ran between July 2022 and July 2023.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 17, 2023

Howe is passionate regarding education as he leads teams of specially trained clinical staff, including nurse practitioners, registered nurses, social workers, chaplains and certified nurse aides, all of whom he believes are experts in the care of patients with advanced and terminal illnesses.”.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 8, 2023

If enacted, PCHETA would support hospice and palliative care training programs for physicians, nurses, pharmacists, social workers and chaplains. For nearly a decade, stakeholders have sought passage of the Palliative Care and Hospice Education Training Act (PCHETA). The staff will continue to play a major role on these issues.”

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

The last few years in particular carried exacerbated pressures on palliative care workers, according to Beth Lown, chief medical officer at the Schwartz Center for Compassionate Healthcare based in Boston. Lown is also an associate professor of medicine at the Harvard Medical School.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Though its temporary bonus program has ended, VITAS Healthcare has built on the momentum it created with accelerated hiring and corresponding gains in capacity. Since July 1, 2022, our staffing has methodically increased on a sequential basis over this 12 month period. VITAS is a subsidiary of Chemed Corp. NYSE: CHE).

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CareAcademy Blog

APRIL 30, 2025

In 2022, 17.3% At the heart of a hospice care is its staff, including nurses, doctors, social workers, and chaplains. Maintaining patient privacy requires compliance with healthcare regulations, particularly HIPAA laws. The first step is to determine which healthcare licenses you need.

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Daily Nurse

JULY 29, 2024

Hand hygiene plays an important role within any healthcare system, but particularly within oncology, and definitely within a stem cell transplant unit,” Corbett says. This wearable technology comes in the form of a card worn along with a nurse’s ID. “We

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Hospice News

JULY 11, 2023

Josie Aquino: With 20+ years in healthcare, I have embraced a range of roles, each providing unique and invaluable experiences that have shaped my career and that I draw upon in my role today. If successful, it could culminate in that ‘triple win’ scenario, benefiting the healthcare providers, members, and the healthcare system as a whole.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Why does CHAP have a national medical director, registered nurse and social worker on staff who all specialize in hospice? Hartford Foundation with a grant to the Institute for Healthcare Improvement in partnership with the Catholic Health Care Hospitals of America and the American Hospital Association.

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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. These challenges speak to the need for reevaluating hospice reimbursement as outlined above.

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Home Care Pulse

AUGUST 11, 2022

To make matters worse, hospices have lost social worker employees at a faster rate than any other health care setting in the care continuum as turnover rises to 27%. The Ultimate Guide to Caregiver Training in 2022. Yet it also ranks among the top 5 industries with the highest workforce shortages.

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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. NYSE: CHEM) VITAS Healthcare. “So

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Hospice News

APRIL 11, 2024

Some had experienced racism and noticed they were treated differently than white people Some healthcare providers continued medical treatment even when the patient with a serious illness wanted to stop curative care. The research began in August 2022 with participation from NORC, the HAP Foundation and Arreola Research.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Turnover remains a big risk Health care workers have increasingly dropped out of the workforce in the past few years, according to a report from Definitive Healthcare (NASDAQ: DH). This is in addition to widespread attrition among registered nurses, social workers, back-office staff and other professionals.

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Hospice News

MAY 23, 2023

In May 2022, federal health officials indicated in a letter to the U.S. Ladybird Morgan, registered nurse and social worker, Mettle Health, co-founder of The Humane Prison Hospice Project Despite the evidence showing benefits, risks do exist, and more attention should be paid to these in ongoing research, Morgan said.

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Hospice News

JUNE 7, 2024

Up until we became Medicare certified in September 2022, we were licensed as a hospice but all of our hospice services delivered were supported through philanthropy and fundraising. Our social workers play a particularly big role for our palliative care support, because there is such fragmentation in the health care system.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 19, 2023

billion in 2022, a report from ResearchandMarkets estimated. chief innovation officer for the National Partnership for Healthcare and Hospice Innovation (NPHI). The hospice market is expected to nearly double in the next decade, reaching $64.7 billion in 2030 from $34.5 For behavioral health, projections run as high as $105.14

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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. Healthcare in general, and the science of hospice and palliative medicine especially, is changing so rapidly that doing (or not doing!) Ask “why” or “why not?”

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GeriPal

JULY 11, 2024

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

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Hospice News

JUNE 2, 2022

The Q&A took place on April 27, 2022. Do you have a doctor and a social worker that can work on, for instance, Medicaid eligibility. I had my standard two times a week nursing, one time a week social worker, once a month chaplain, once every other month music therapist. To learn more visit: [link].

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary In November of 2022, Ava Kofman published a piece in the New Yorker titled “How Hospice Became a For-Profit Hustle.” Some viewed this piece as an affront to the amazing work hospice does for those approaching the end of their lives by cherry picking stories of a few bad actors to paint hospice is a bad light.

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