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

JUNE 26, 2023

What’s happening in these states has caused mounting concern around access to quality hospice care for LGBTQ+ individuals, according to Kimberly Acquaviva, social worker and professor at the University of Virginia’s School of Nursing.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Fueling the growth is an influx of new clinician hires, spurred by a bonus program the company offered between July 2022 and mid-2023. Over the initiative’s 12-month period, VITAS brought on a total of 784 licensed clinicians, the majority of which were nurses. The hiring has resulted in capacity gains. to 15,774.

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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

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. The majority of these hires were nurses, Westfall indicated. For some of those other metrics, results were mixed for both Q4 and full-year 2022.

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Hospice News

JULY 11, 2023

If enacted, PCHETA would support hospice and palliative care training programs for physicians, nurses, pharmacists, social workers and chaplains. This is the latest attempt to pass the bill, which has been reintroduced several times, most recently in May 2022, also by Baldwin and Capito. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wisc.)

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Hospice News

MAY 12, 2025

The move expands VITAS geographic footprint near the metropolitan area, as the hospice provider has served the southern region since 2022. The company is currently in the process of hiring new registered nurses, hospice aides/CNAs, social workers, patient care secretaries, chaplains and community representatives.

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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

MARCH 8, 2023

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. The program included a one-time retention payment ranging from $2,000 to $15,000 per employee for nurses, nurse managers, social workers and home health aides.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

CDR in 2022 purchased a 60% stake from the insurance mammoth Humana, Inc., The tool factors in clinical concerns as well as the home environment, caregiver resources and social determinants of health. The care model is driven primarily by nurse practitioners who visit as often as once a week. NYSE: HUM) for $2.8

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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. year-over-year rise.

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Hospice News

APRIL 27, 2023

VITAS hired 200 licensed clinicians during the first quarter of 2023, 60% of whom are nurses, the company reported. The company expected the program to bring in roughly 25 new health care workers each month during 2023 at an estimated cost of $40 million, which VITAS hopes to offset with increased volume as staffing gains drive up capacity.

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Hospice News

APRIL 13, 2023

In 2022, Hospice & Palliative Care of the Wood River Valley performed 2,622 registered nurse visits and assisted 1,638 individuals in its community, according to a recent newsletter. This is a rise from 1,367 individuals served in 2021, 135 of whom were hospice patients and families, according to an annual report.

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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

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). Participants included hospice aides, social workers, nurses, clinicians, chaplains and other staff.

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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. Nurses also accounted for 16.97% of vacancies. Providers have reported shortages among social workers and nonclinical staff as well.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

The move comes nearly a year after California-based Guaranteed launched in August 2022, when founder and CEO Jessica McGlory began her own provider company two years after her father passed away. Medicare Advantage organization SCAN Group has invested an undisclosed dollar amount in tech-enabled hospice startup Guaranteed.

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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. Nurses also accounted for 16.97% of vacancies. Providers have reported shortages among social workers and nonclinical staff as well.

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Hospice News

MAY 4, 2022

The company directly employs nurse practitioners and licensed clinical social workers who provide direct care, most often in nursing homes. In addition, PalliCare also serves as an incubator that supports nurse practitioners in setting up their own practices.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Strategic palliative education initiatives built on quality outcomes Seriously ill patients nationwide urgently need palliative support, according to Yusimi Sobrino-Bonilla, palliative care clinical supervisor and nurse at New Jersey-based Valley Health System. But many of them go without due to a lack of trained clinicians.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

“We had excess clinical worker retirements, people beyond the normal retirement age … With those developments, we had burnout of the retained employees.”. 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

DECEMBER 13, 2023

The company opened the facility at the Broward Health Medical Center in 2022, which is located in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. An interdisciplinary team of physicians, nurses, social workers, chaplains, volunteers and bereavement experts provide 24/7 care. The length of stay is highly individual, ranging from days to months.”

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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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JULY 26, 2024

So if they see a social worker coming in, they may not be receptive. In 2022 Empath expanded its adult day services to better address veteran populations. The training we offer to our nursing staff lets them understand the processes and terminology that can be very foreign to them.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 17, 2023

Board-certified in hospice and palliative medicine, Howe has more than 20 years of experience as a physician and medical director for various health care organizations in the Denver area, including a number of rehabilitation, assisted living and skilled nursing home facilities. Valley Medical Group’s New CMO.

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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.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 29, 2024

Another barrier is the ongoing shortage of trained palliative care professionals — including physicians, nurse practitioners and physician assistants, nurses, social workers, chaplains and community health workers. For example, the company in 2022 formed a joint venture with Mount Sinai Health System.

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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

AUGUST 23, 2022

I think the last area that’s been important to us to recruit outside of our physicians, and our nurse practitioners have been in our palliative medicine area and our primary care practice. I have people who say, “I love that model, but I don’t want a chaplain, I just want a nurse and a social worker.”.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

A bonus program implemented last year has accelerated hiring, which in turn has relieved some of the capacity constraints that have been a stumbling block for several quarters running.The initiative included a one-time retention payment that ranges from $2,000 to $15,000 per employee for nurses, nurse managers, home health aides and social workers.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 18, 2024

Bassett Healthcare Network is an integrated health system that includes five hospitals, a home health agency and two skilled nursing facilities, as well as dozens of community-based health centers and school-based health centers. We’ve got several social workers working within the medical center with the palliative care director.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

The program began in October 2022 and has since highlighted a growing need to embed palliative skill-building across the health education continuum, particularly for those going into emergency settings that see complex seriously ill populations, according to McDonald.

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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

JANUARY 3, 2024

Nelson helped Memphis-based Regional One Health’s Trauma ICU launch an inpatient palliative care program in July 2022 to better support those patients and their families, along with more typical palliative care patients. The hospital houses the region’s only Level 1 Trauma Center.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

A state of stress Palliative professionals of all walks are navigating symptoms of burnout, including social workers, grief counselors, chaplains, physicians and nurses. Preventing burnout and turnover has become a rising priority amid rising demand and sparse resources.

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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). Baldwin leads PCHETA with Sen.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 26, 2023

The bonus program, which ended in July, included a one-time retention payment that ranges from $2,000 to $15,000 per employee for nurses, nurse managers, home health aides and social workers who completed at least 12 months of employment. VITAS is a subsidiary of Chemed Corp. NYSE: CHE).

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