Hospice News

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Hospice nurses pointed to this issue as their number-one concern about their jobs in a recent survey by The Amity Group. Nurses are saying, ‘I love being a hospice nurse. ’ I think we’re losing a lot of nurses because of this because their family is so unhappy.” NYSE: CHE). “We

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Hospice News

JULY 28, 2023

In addition to The Denver Hospice, its affiliates include Colorado Visiting Nurse Association (CVNA), Pathways, and Pikes Peak Hospice and Palliative Care, among others. The hiring of Lopez as president comes about six months after The Denver Hospice also named a new medical director in Dr. Robert Howe.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Contessa’s specialties are high-acuity care in the home, including hospital-at-home and skilled nursing facility-at-home programs. million in 2022. That model is a mix of in-person and virtual visits, nurse practitioners, RNs, social workers and community health workers,” Baumgardner said at the NHPCO conference.

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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. The nonprofit was established in 1979 and now cares for more than 2,000 patients in their homes, at skilled nursing facilities, and at its 16-bed inpatient Alexander Cohen Hospice House.

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Hospice News

JUNE 28, 2023

Hospice of the Chesapeake Appoints New CMO Maryland-based Hospice of the Chesapeake recently named Dr. Marny Fetzer as its new chief medical officer. Fetzer is currently system medical director for palliative care and hospice services at Illinois-based Ascension Health. He was previously medical director at Compassus since 2017.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Many of its hospice patients are those who receive denials for skilled nursing facilities or inpatient care and respite stays, Moore said. million that the organization reported in 2022. Hospice utilization rates in the state reached 40.96% in 2022, which fell below the national average of 49.1% million in 2023, a rise from $5.33

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Dr. Leena Dutta, medical director of hospice and in-home palliative care for the center, joined the program in May, 2022 and oversaw the initiative. The Northeast Georgia model provides a nurse practitioner, who works under the advice of a physician, and a social worker. That’s when we started to revamp the program.

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Hospice News

APRIL 26, 2022

Nurse practitioner Raphael and registered nurse Britt Akobundu, a married couple, launched San Diego-based Blue Monarch Hospice this past March, with the intent of improving the quality of life for not only patients and families, but also health care workers. . As a nurse practitioner, what led you to begin a hospice program?

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 13, 2024

It also removed three nursing home items from the survey, revised the existing Hospice Team Communication and Getting Hospice Care Training measures and added a new Care Preferences measure. The events surrounding the case began in 2022 when Enhabit became a standalone home health and hospice business after its spinoff from Encompass.

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Hospice News

MAY 23, 2024

She has served as COO at Virginia-based Good Samaritan Hospice since 2022 after joining the organization as chief strategy officer two years prior to that. board of directors chair, said in a press release. Additionally, he will serve as medical director of The Denver Hospice.

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Hospice News

APRIL 25, 2022

The panel took place virtually on March 23, 2022. When COVID started, the first thing I witnessed for us was that our nurses back then were afraid to go and see patients. This is what we’re going to do,” and two or three nurses saying, “We’re not doing it.” My name is Jim Parker. Montiel: Yes.

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Minority Nurse

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Shelise Valentine, RNC, MSN, C-EFM, CPPS, CPHRM, is the Director of Clinical Education, Healthcare Risk Advisors, part of TDC Group and chairs nursing, co-chairs obstetric and simulation initiatives, and directs risk management and obstetric education for insured hospital clients to improve patient safety and reduce malpractice risk.

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Daily Nurse

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Courtney Shihabuddin DNP , APRN-CNP, is a member of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners, educator and breast cancer survivor. Daily Nurse spoke with Shihabuddin about her deep passion for breast cancer advocacy and her unique perspective on survivorship. I had just started nursing school at that point.

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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 3, 2025

Pendulum swings on M&A tThe hospice industry will likely see a resurgence in mergers and acquisitions this year, though likely not to the record-breaking levels of 2019 through 2022. Rate hikes are the Feds primary weapon against inflation, which climbed at a record pace during 2022 and last year. in 2022 to 2.5%

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Scott Ginn held the role since November 2022 prior to Guidroz’s ascension. “In He joined the hospice provider in 2015 as director of market development before moving up the ranks to general manager in 2018 and senior general manager in 2022. In connection with Ms. Guidroz’s appointment, Scott G.

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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. We have Alice Bonner, who’s Chair of the Moving Forward Nursing Home Quality Coalition.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 23, 2024

The new location will allow for improved support for serious and terminally ill patients that lack caregiver support or need higher levels of care, said Dr. Christopher Strzalka, medical director at Julia Hospice & Palliative Care. The organization planned to begin construction in 2022 and open by the end of 2023.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 24, 2024

Recruiting and retaining palliative care professionals can be a difficult feat for organizations, in part because not enough medical and nursing students are exposed to palliative care during their education. In 2022 Nashville-based HCA Healthcare Inc. Luke’s Hospice & Palliative Medicine’s program.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 30, 2024

Because if I leave you on that heart medicine, that cost anywhere from $1,000 a month up to $20,000 a month, depending on which brand of medication it is,” a hospice nurse speaking on condition of anonymity told Hospice News. Everything is based on cost. A medicine that will keep that patient alive for probably six months.

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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. Owens: The inception of pivoting from home health to hospice was in 2022. Emmaus Catholic Hospice established services within the last year.

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Hospice News

APRIL 8, 2024

Hospice News recently sat down with pediatrician Dr. Rebecca MacDonell-Yilmaz, medical director of HopeHealth’s pediatric supportive services. Our team officially began towards the end of 2021 heading into 2022. It’s not always that they are more medically complex, but sometimes that can be a heavier lift.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 19, 2023

billion in 2022, a report from ResearchandMarkets estimated. Last year VNA Health Group enhanced its dementia care training programs for social work and nursing staff, with an emphasis on its home health patients. I know how helpless physicians and nurse practitioners can feel when confronted with patients struggling with dementia.

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Hospice News

APRIL 17, 2023

Smith said Prospero’s global measure of success is providing more days for patients at home, rather than keeping them in hospitals, nursing homes or rehab facilities. Reimbursement for palliative care in fee-for-service Medicare currently only covers physician or nurse practitioner services.

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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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Hospice News

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Furthermore, nearly half (49.4%) indicated they had never met with a palliative care physician or nurse (58.4%) as part of their overall cancer care experience. Minneapolis-based Livio Health was later acquired in 2022 by Lifespark, a senior health care company in the state.

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Pallimed

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

We also explore additional COIs from the 2016 Guideline’s creation group before the final release of the updated CDC 2022 Clinical Practice Guideline on Prescribing Opioids for pain, hereafter the 2022 Draft Guideline (6,7). The HHS Draft Report on Pain Management Best Practices quietly faded into obscurity. opioid policy.

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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. 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.

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High Peaks Hospice

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

The program was unique, providing family oriented comprehensive services which included medical, nursing, social work, spiritual care, volunteer support, bereavement services as well as the availability of specialty care by physical therapists, nutritionists and speech therapists. Ann and David gathered a team. Lawrence Counties.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 31, 2023

He spent a long time as hospice medical director and he founded a national model of care that many of our listeners will be familiar with, AIM, which stands for the Advanced Illness Management program, which has influenced CMS policy. Bill: Thank you. Alex: And we are delighted to welcome Brad Stuart, who is an internist.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Malaz: One day I was in internal medicine residency and I had to take care of a patient who was admitted from a nursing home with dementia. For me, right now, the worst thing, my nightmare is dying from dementia alone in a nursing home. People start thinking about putting them in a nursing home. They can be nurse if you want to.

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