Evidence-Based Nursing - BMJ blogs

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

This weeks blog has been written by Ebenezer Akore Yeboah, a nurse and PhD candidate at Coventry University, UK, specialising in nursing, climate change, and sustainability. The review findings showed that a significant proportion of nurses were unaware of how their daily practices impact climate change.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 27, 2025

Currently the company has achieved a turnover rate of 12% for nurses and 10% for CNAs. According to 2022 data from the University of Southern California, average turnover rates throughout the health care continuum hover around 27% for registered nurses and 35.5%

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Evidence-Based Nursing - BMJ blogs

MARCH 9, 2025

The nursing workforce in the United Kingdom (UK) has been under capacity for a long time [1]. According to the latest published figures from NHS Digital (2024) [2], there are currently 34,709 qualified nursing vacancies in England. Introduction This week’s blog is by Rebecca Garcia and Irtiza Qureshi.

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Hospice News

MAY 23, 2022

With hospice providers reporting fewer staff in quarantine, many hope to reduce their utilization of temp nursing services — as well as the higher labor costs that come with them. Indicators suggest that demand for temp nurses is dipping slightly, and rates may be starting to fall. But the reality won’t be that simple.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 15, 2022

Aging Media”) is pleased to announce the Future Leaders Class of 2022, showcasing the most promising talent in senior housing, skilled nursing, home health and hospice industries. The 2022 awards program is sponsored exclusively by PointClickCare Technologies , the leading cloud-based software platform for the senior care market today.

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AlayaCare

JUNE 21, 2022

Infusion nurses -- a specialty most certainly on the rise -- are not only health-care professionals but serve as educators and resources to the clients they see on a regular basis. Nurses must possess a firm knowledge of intravenous access and phlebotomy within their medical and surgical experience. Offer flexible work schedules.

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Hospice News

APRIL 11, 2025

My generation, baby boomers, were not going to a nursing home. In 2022, more than 907,000 Medicare hospice decedents were older than 85, out of 1.7 Were looking at assisted living, senior living, that sort of thing, Ponder Stansel told Hospice News. The lions share of assisted living residents are aged 85 or older, AHCA/NCAL reported.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 8, 2025

Superior provides home-based skilled nursing care, therapy services, home health aides and hospice. More than 27,550 Medicare decedents elected the hospice benefit in 2022, according to the National Alliance for Care at Home. This is a rate of 48.2%. The national rate that year was 49.1%, the Alliance reported.

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Evidence-Based Nursing - BMJ blogs

DECEMBER 8, 2024

By implementing advanced EHR systems and telemedicine solutions, the programme is improving patient care and operational efficiency (Department of Health and Social Care, 2022). Department of Health and Social Care, 2022. AlwinP13 @alwingp.bsky.social @UniofGreenwich References: Christiansen, P. & & Knudsen, J.,

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Hospice News

JUNE 14, 2023

annually between 2022 and 2031, reaching $7.1 “In our NHE accounting, you will find spending on palliative care or hospice care in the hospital, nursing home and home health care sectors. ” In 2022, CMS paid $23.9 per year on average between [2022 to 2031]. These data from the U.S. compared to 4.4%

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Hospice News

JANUARY 18, 2023

NASDAQ: AMED) is seeing glimmers of improvement on the labor pressures that contributed to uneven earnings performance during 2022. With broader demand for home nursing remaining robust, gains in clinician capacity should translate to incremental growth.”. Amedisys’ net service revenue rose to $558 million in Q3 2022, up from $533.5

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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

AUGUST 30, 2023

Oncology nurses at cancer centers across the country are developing ways to improve palliative care referrals for seriously ill patients and families who could benefit from these services. Nurses and physicians can be complete it based on their clinical observations. Other oncology centers have since begun using the tool.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Contessa’s specialty is high-acuity care in the home, including hospital-at-home and skilled nursing facility-at-home programs. Since at least 2022, Contessa has been pursuing palliative care reimbursement through Medicare Advantage. “We’re million in Q3 2022. million, compared with $3.5

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Founded in 1985, the home health company will soon also offer a physician and nurse practitioner house call service and a new remote patient monitoring program. Hospice utilization among Medicare decedents reached more than 54% in 2022, according to the National Alliance for Care at Home.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 1, 2023

The national average hourly rate for Hospice registered nurses rose 4.58% in 2023, down from a 5.95% increase in 2022, according to a new report by the Hospital & Healthcare Compensation Service (HCS) in cooperation with the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC). “For

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

He was a hospital floor nurse for years and saw patients that had a real need for care when being discharged, so he and a few of his closest friends decided to engage in the post-acute space, as they had a real love for providing more care in 1-on-1 settings, Mauricio said. I met the owner, Alfred, and we connected very easily. About 17.4%

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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. Future Leaders are individuals nominated by their peers.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

The bonus program included a one-time retention payment that ranged from $2,000 to $15,000 per employee for nurses, nurse managers, home health aides and social workers. Since its implementation in July 2022, VITAS has bolstered its ranks with 275 newly hired licensed clinicians, including 103 during Q4, the company reported.

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Hospice News

APRIL 27, 2022

drop in admissions to 16,530 in Q1, with referrals from senior housing and nursing homes staying below pre-pandemic levels for the time being. Our 2022 guidance anticipated sequential improvement in senior housing-based patients in the first quarter of 2022, with an acceleration and senior housing admissions anticipated throughout 2022.”.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

This is particularly true for people living in the nation’s 15,000-plus nursing homes. The grant, spread out over a five-year period, will be put toward the team’s creation of a national network structure that seeks to include more nursing home residents in clinical trials. According to July 2022 research from the U.S.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Established in 2008, IntellaTriage provides after-hours nurse triage services for a range of health care providers, including hospice and home health providers, hospitals, physician groups, health plans and specialty practices. IntellaTriage has acquired NurseLine, a national provider of hospice and home health triage services.

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Hospice News

MARCH 15, 2023

The close of Q3 in 2022 marked Enhabit’s first quarter as an independent company following its spinoff from Encompass Health (NYSE: EHC) in July. For instance, Enhabit’s average daily hospice census reached 3,588 in Q4 2022, representing a 2.9% This fit a pattern that extended throughout 2022. increase sequentially, but a 1.2%

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Enhabit saw its pool of full-time nursing candidates rise 19% during the fourth quarter of 2022 as well as hiring 101 new nurses, 41 of whom work in the company’s hospice segment. Nevertheless, Enhabit remains aggressive on recruitment, particularly for full-time nurses. Enhabit is implementing the system in phases.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Carlyle also credited Enhabit’s case management system , which it implemented in 2022, as a contributor to its hospice growth. The company has added 243 full-time nurses to its ranks since its 2022 spinoff from Encompass Health (NYSE: EHC), CEO Barb Jacobsmeyer said in a recent earnings call. Enhabit brought in $260.6

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Today she is a hospice- and palliative care-certified nurse practitioner at MJHS Health System in Brooklyn. As her devotion to the field grew, she sought training to become a licensed practical nurse (LPN) before advancing in time to her nurse practitioner role. And unfortunately, those staff are no longer available.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Hayden Jordan, director of palliative care for senior care provider 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.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

The national average hourly rate for hospice aides and CNAs rose 9.09% in 2022, compared to a 4.52% increase in 2021, according to the 2022-2023 Hospice Salary & Benefits Report , published by Hospital & Healthcare Compensation Service (HCS) in cooperation with the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC). . “We

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Hospice News

JUNE 7, 2022

The forthcoming spinoff from Encompass Health (NYSE: EHC) has allocated $2 million to $3 million to fund de novo locations for the remainder of the year, according to 2022 guidance released today. Enhabit also has set its sights on increasing hospice admissions by 10% to 15% during 2022, as well as 10% for home health. billion to $1.12

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

The Pennant Group (NASDAQ: PNTG) expects emerging rebounds in skilled nursing and assisting living — and its pipeline of forthcoming acquisitions — to offset the impact of continuing labor headwinds. We are on track to make significant improvement in the second half of 2022 and are positioned to produce strong results going into 2023.”.

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Hospice News

APRIL 15, 2024

Recent research has found that more than 90% of board certified palliative physicians and nurse practitioners nationwide were located in metropolitan and urban areas in 2022. Only one palliative care physician existed per 8,632 seniors 65 and older in 2022, according to the research.

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Evidence-Based Nursing - BMJ blogs

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Chief Executive International Children’s Palliative Care Network and Chair of the Policy and Advocacy Committee for the International Society of Nurses in Cancer Care. As a newly qualified staff nurse, working in a cancer unit , I first got involved in policy decision making. Professor Julia Downing.

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Hospice News

MARCH 31, 2023

In 2022, legislators in Oswego County in New York state voted to shutter its hospice services within the year. Prolific nursing shortages were among the reasons legislators cited for the hospice’s proposed closure. However, The Caring Coalition of Central New York, d.b.a.

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DECEMBER 15, 2023

Agape Care Names New Palliative Medical Director Agape Care Group, a portfolio company of Ridgemont Equity Partners has appointed Kari Bradford, a doctor of nursing practice, as its new palliative medical director. 2022, and her appointment will now become permanent. She is based in Charleston, South Carolina.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 21, 2024

They can bring an enhanced understanding of laws governing controlled substances, awareness of symptom complexity for the seriously ill, provide medication counseling and monitor effective utilization, a 2022 study found.

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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 27, 2023

All told, VITAS Healthcare has recruited 784 workers since the bonus program’s launch a year ago, the majority of whom were nurses. In addition to nurses, the retention program also aimed to recruit admission nurses, nurse managers, home health aides and social workers. million compared to the first half of 2022.

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