Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Patients with HCC who cannot undergo surgical resection often present with varying degrees of comorbidity burdens,” researchers stated. A large portion of patients also presented with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, anemia, cirrhosis and hypertension, among other conditions. Nearly half, or 46.1%

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Most hospices are sliding into 2023 between a rock and a hard place, beset by headwinds, labor shortages and questions with no easy answers. Government oversight of hospice providers will tighten during 2023. These concerns will be a hot topic in the new year, but other regulatory actions are also underway for 2023.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 23, 2022

We’ve seen strong historical interest here in our own transactions and anticipate that continuing in 2023 as buyers continue to develop their platforms and acquire new ones.”. Illinois-headquartered Unity Hospice & Palliative Care has expanded to Houston, Texas, following its acquisition of an existing license in that market.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 4, 2024

The study examined outcomes of 1,250 adults with advanced lung cancer receiving palliative care across 22 health care organizations in the United States from June 14, 2018 to May 4, 2023. The findings were presented at the 2024 American Society of Clinical Oncology’s annual meeting and first reported in the American Journal of Managed Care.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Earlier this year, it was awarded the prestigious 2023 Circle of Life Award from the American Hospital Association, which recognizes programs for their efforts in palliative and end-of-life care. In 2013, CHC won the Global Partnership Award presented for a model partnership that others should look at.” So, these U.S.

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Evidence-Based Nursing - BMJ blogs

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

When considering the future of children’s palliative care within the UK, it is recognised that an equitable palliative care service is needed (Together for Short Lives 2023). As such, the services that are currently available are going to find themselves under further increasing pressure. References Bluebond-Langner, M. and Brown, J.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 15, 2022

The ability to present customer satisfaction scores, attention to HQRP measures and a means for providing quality hospice services in a cost-effective manner directly impacts those plans. What are some of the key steps providers can take to best prepare for VBID in 2023 and beyond? Can you walk us through that landscape?

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Hospice News

APRIL 23, 2024

The organization recently concluded their third annual conference in September 2023 and an inaugural neuropalliative care research symposium in April. “We We were able to fund 13 junior investigators to come to Denver to present research into neuropalliative care.” A huge need exists for neuropalliative care, Dr. Claire J.

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Hospice News

MAY 25, 2023

The conversation took place on April 20, 2023, during the Hospice News Palliative Care Conference. This article is based on a discussion with Anthony Spano, Director of Client Development at Netsmart and Nikki Davis, Vice President of Palliative Care Programs at Contessa Health. The article below has been edited for length and clarity.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Salinas made these remarks during a presentation at the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) Annual Leadership Conference. This allows for greater flexibility in providing care to those in need.” Regulators and other stakeholders have been keeping an increasingly close eye on the payment cap.

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EAPC (European Association of Palliative Care)

MARCH 29, 2023

Our Reference Group on Public Health and Palliative Care are presenting this webinar on 31 May 2023. The Case for Public Health Palliative Care’ will feature presentations from Julian Abel (UK), Julia Verne (UK) and Phil Larkin (Switzerland). The webinar will start at 2pm (CEST). Register to attend on this link.

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Hospice News

MAY 26, 2023

Leff is the co-presenter of a 10-hour intensive social worker training program tailored to the hospice and palliative care fields with Terry Altilio, a social work coordinator at New York City’s Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and editor of the Oxford Textbook of Palliative Social Work, second edition.

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NHPCO

JUNE 13, 2024

The evening training included a presentation from Brad Fitch of the Congressional Management Foundation on how to build upon connections with one’s representatives after the fly-in is over. HAN also presented three MyHospice Ambassador annual awards on Tuesday, recognizing advocates who stood out, led by example, and took action in 2023.

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EAPC (European Association of Palliative Care)

JUNE 26, 2023

The theme of the seminar ‘A Human Rights based approach to Palliative Care: Towards Solutions for Public Health Palliative Care’ is highly relevant as 2023 marks 75 years since the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights was proclaimed by the United Nationals General Assembly in Paris on 10 December 1948.

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EAPC (European Association of Palliative Care)

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Presented by the EAPC Reference Group on Palliative Care for Children & Young People. The webinar may start at a different time in your country. Here is a link to a handy time converter The post EAPC Webinar: Advance Care Planning in Children’s Palliative Care appeared first on EAPC.

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EAPC (European Association of Palliative Care)

MAY 16, 2023

Our EAPC Reference Group on Neurology are presenting a free webinar on Palliative Care and Multiple Sclerosis. Click on the image above to register to attend. Please note all EAPC webinars are scheduled in Central European Summer Time. Use this handy world time converter to find out what time it starts where you are.

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Hospice News

JUNE 27, 2024

revived PCHETA in 2022 and again in July 2023, but the bill has yet to pass. Hospices have been advocating for lawmakers and regulators to take action on curbing fraud, supporting veterans and bolstering the health care workforce. In their meetings with legislators, providers made known their policy priorities. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wisc.)

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Hospice News

MARCH 14, 2024

visits in the last seven days of life between May and November 2023. The greatest barrier to further improvement is the ever-present workforce shortage affecting the health care industry at large and hospices in particular. In 2019, for example, the percentage was 66%. Through the predictive analytics data, hospice patients at St.

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EAPC (European Association of Palliative Care)

JUNE 26, 2023

The Association for Paediatric Palliative Medicine invites colleagues working with life limited children and families to submit abstracts for our Annual Conference being held on Thursday 16 and Friday 17 November 2023 ( Birmingham, UK). We welcome abstracts related to all aspects of care.

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EAPC (European Association of Palliative Care)

MARCH 28, 2023

Free EAPC Webinar Our Reference Group on Public Health and Palliative Care are presenting this webinar on 31 May 2023. The webinar will start at 2pm (CEST). ‘The Case for Public Health Palliative Care’ will feature presentations from Julian Abel (UK), Julia Verne (UK and Phil Larkin (Switzerland).

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Hospice News

JANUARY 20, 2023

Eden Health will take over Community’s inpatient services effective May 1, 2023. The pandemic and resulting economic climate presented new financial challenges,” Zelazny told local news. Financial terms of the transaction were undisclosed. The move to acquire CHHH’s inpatient services advances Eden Health’s strategic growth plans.

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Hospice News

MARCH 12, 2024

The nation’s four largest hospice industry organizations — LeadingAge, the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC), the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) and the National Partnership for Healthcare and Hospice Innovation (NPHI) — in late 2023 conducted a 133-respondent provider survey focused on regulation.

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HPNA podcast

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

She has presented at regional and national meetings on a variety of topics related to serious and advanced illness as well as operation of community-based programs and has served on the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (AAHPM) Task Force for Quality, and on the Home-Based Workgroup for the Center to Advance Palliative Care.

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NHPCO

OCTOBER 6, 2023

For Immediate Release October 6, 2023 Photo Link (Alexandria, VA) – The National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) hosted its annual leadership conference (ALC2023) in Little Rock, Arkansas, September 30 – October 4, 2023. In many ways, this is our time,” said Marcantonio. “We

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

We are on track to make significant improvement in the second half of 2022 and are positioned to produce strong results going into 2023.”. But executives indicated that they would be back on the hunt during the second half of 2022 and into 2023. . “We’ve We’re seeing strength build in many of our markets and clusters.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

The four largest hospice industry organizations have been working to present a united front to address widespread program integrity issues. At the same time, we are also working hard to address LeadingAge members’ concerns, which we presented to Congress in late January 2023.”

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AAHPM (American Academy of Hospice and Palliative)

JUNE 20, 2024

AAHPM conducted interviews with our inaugural group of Next Generation Scholars, who joined the program in August 2023. While I have several tangible accomplishments over the years from presenting and championing various diversity initiatives, I am also very proud of myself for pursuing a fellowship in Hospice and Palliative Medicine.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 2, 2024

billion in improper payments during 2023, though a smaller proportion of those dollars went to hospices than in years prior. of improper payments from Medicare in 2023, down from 12% in 2022, according to the U.S. They are also useful in prevention as well as response to an ongoing audit. Medicare fee-for-service programs made $31.23

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NHPCO

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

As a community, we are profoundly disappointed with this decision. Over the past two years, the national hospice associations have presented CMS — in letters, in-person meetings and via other channels — with a wide array of research and well-supported advocacy outlining our concerns.

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Hospice News

JUNE 1, 2022

In enacted, the recently reintroduced Palliative Care and Hospice Education Training Act (PCHETA) could make a dent in the recruitment barriers that hospices keep hitting. But clinical education will need a much larger boost to ensure a sustainable workforce, according to many providers. This tracks with available data.

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Hospice News

JULY 21, 2023

Transaction activity is slightly behind where we thought it would be for 2023, particularly the pace of lower middle market add-on activity.” “The decline certainly is not due to buyer interest, which remains incredibly strong, but rather a limited number of actionable targets of scale,” Palamara told Hospice News.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 19, 2022

In 2022, the hospice community laid the groundwork for a transformational 2023. Factors deemed suspicious, like live discharges or recertifications, were often presented as clear indicators of fraud, even though they could be matters of medical necessity. Pay Raise for 2023 (July 27). During late 2021 and 2022, the U.S.

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NHPCO

OCTOBER 5, 2023

For Immediate Release October 5, 2023 Photo Link (Alexandria, Va) – This week the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) honored standout members of the hospice and palliative care community during the 2023 NHPCO Annual Leadership Conference in Little Rock, Arkansas.

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Hospice News

JULY 11, 2022

Starting in 2023, the U.S. For hospice provider Transitions Care, the Illinois House Calls Project presents an opportunity to expand their primary care footprint as well as to increase access to care for seniors in need. . The agency says the new program reflects its “refreshed” priorities for payment system demonstrations.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 31, 2024

About 16% of the survey respondents indicated plans to start palliative care programs this year, a decline from 56% of respondents in 2023. 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. But it goes both ways.

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AAHPM (American Academy of Hospice and Palliative)

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

On January 1, 2023, I became an American Advocacy Focal Point (AFP) for the International Association for Hospice and Palliative Care (IAHPC). Having just come off the opiate epidemic in Appalachia, I moved to Washington, D.C. and my urban hospital was immediately inundated by the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Executives from almost every publicly traded hospice company raised this issue in earnings calls and presentations throughout the year. Length of stay will be a factor in the OIG’s planned national audit of hospice eligibility in 2023. “I Others included Amedisys and Chemed Corp. NYSE: CHEM) VITAS Healthcare. “So

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