Hospice News

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Hospice operators in 2024 are navigating a rapidly transforming environment. Providers have reported shortages among social workers and nonclinical staff as well. A potential M&A rebound After a 2023 slump, the hospice space may be ripe for a 2024 rebound. There are lots of reasons to be optimistic about 2024.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Gentiva Health Services has committed to expanding its recently established Advanced Illness Management (AIM) palliative care model in 2024, including its unique approach to reimbursement. Patients enrolled in the program also receive services from nurses, case managers and social workers. NYSE:) acquired the company in 2021.

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Hospice News

APRIL 23, 2024

Thus far in 2024, 625 patients have been active in the program; 1,000 were enrolled in 2023. For individuals who take part in the program, they are required to be visited by a nurse and a social worker once per month. He returned to hospice care part time from 2010 to 2014 from his home base in Napa County.

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Hospice News

MAY 29, 2024

In addition to being named a 2024 Top Leader in Hospice and Palliative Care by AAHPM, Buckholz is co-director of the Sanford Compassionate Communication Fellowship at the UC San Diego. She added that these services are now being offered in diverse settings, including outpatient and home-based care models.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 31, 2024

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. About 3% of respondents indicated plans to start offering PACE programs, while 1% are stepping into home-based pediatric hospice services in 2024.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Of the Class of 2024, 36 students received their Master of Science degree and seven received a graduate certificate. “We Yet, despite this need, significant gaps in training remain , with many professionals lacking exposure to hospice or palliative care during their schooling.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Hospice News spoke with Dr. Benjamin Kornitzer, agilon’s chief medical officer and a co-author of the study about the workings of their palliative care model, the results it achieved and the company’s plans to grow the program in 2024. We can co-invest in resources, whether they’re nurses, care managers, social workers.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

David Bekelman conducted a RCT of a nurse and social worker telephone intervention (ADAPT intervention) for people with heart failure and lung disease (COPD or ILD). ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. The article we discuss today, also published in JAMA , addresses these two gaps.

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Hospice News

APRIL 25, 2024

The company is gearing up for increased acquisition activity as the year unfolds, Westfall indicated in today’s Q1 2024 earnings call. “We We] feel very encouraged about the outlook for those markets and the acquisition of being immediately accretive, and what it will mean for the remainder of 2024 and into 2025 and beyond. “I

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AAHPM (American Academy of Hospice and Palliative)

MAY 6, 2024

Rabia Atayee, PharmD BCPS FAAHPM University of California San Diego AAHPM reached out to the 2024 Visionaries to gain insight into what motivated them to pursue leadership positions and what they find more fulfilling in their experiences. Who has most influenced your work and how have they shaped your contributions?

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Hospice News

MARCH 14, 2024

The number of registered nurse and social worker visits during a patient’s final week is one of the seven quality measures that CMS uses to evaluate providers. Social worker visits in the last days of life also rose to 9% in 2021, up from 7% in 2020. In 2019, for example, the percentage was 66%.

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Hospice News

MAY 14, 2024

Roughly 6% of hospice providers cited plans to diversify their services to include end-of-life doulas this year, according to the Hospice News 2024 Outlook Survey. Curd is also a licensed clinical social worker, and serves as a therapist at Red Wheelbarrow Counseling LLC and BetterHelp.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Gentiva in 2024 and 2025 is laser-focused on staff retention and building out its palliative care platform Empatia. Patients enrolled in the program also receive services from nurses, case managers and social workers. Workforce shortages have plagued the hospice community for years, along with the health care sector at large.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. Summary Transcript Summary In our podcast with palliative care pioneer Susan Block , she identified the psychological/psychiatric aspects of palliative care as the biggest are of need for improvement. All hands go up. All hands go down.

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AAHPM (American Academy of Hospice and Palliative)

JUNE 6, 2024

Sachin Kale, MD MBOE FAAHPM The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center AAHPM reached out to the 2024 Emerging Leaders to gain insight into what motivated them to pursue leadership positions and what they find more fulfilling in their experiences. Who has most influenced your work and how have they shaped your contributions?

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AAHPM (American Academy of Hospice and Palliative)

MAY 13, 2024

Kara Bischoff, MD Dana-Farber Cancer Institute AAHPM reached out to the 2024 Emerging Leaders to gain insight into what motivated them to pursue leadership positions and what they find more fulfilling in their experiences. Who has most influenced your work and how have they shaped your contributions?

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Hospice News

MARCH 18, 2024

The discussion took place on February 29, 2024 during PCN Conference in Tampa. It doesn’t just focus on the physical, it also focuses on the emotional and the spiritual with the use of social workers and spiritual counselors. This article is sponsored by KanTime. The article below has been edited for length and clarity.

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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. Out of these states, 10 have already enacted such laws.

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AAHPM (American Academy of Hospice and Palliative)

JULY 18, 2024

Benjamin, Thompson, MD Prisma Health/University of South Carolina AAHPM reached out to the 2024 Emerging Leaders to gain insight into what motivated them to pursue leadership positions and what they find more fulfilling in their experiences. Who has most influenced your work and how have they shaped your contributions?

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AAHPM (American Academy of Hospice and Palliative)

JULY 10, 2024

Daniel Shalev, MD Weill Cornell Medicine AAHPM reached out to the 2024 Emerging Leaders to gain insight into what motivated them to pursue leadership positions and what they find more fulfilling in their experiences. Who has most influenced your work and how have they shaped your contributions?

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AAHPM (American Academy of Hospice and Palliative)

JUNE 6, 2024

Elizabeth Hart, MD Androscoggin Home Healthcare + Hospice AAHPM reached out to the 2024 Visionaries to gain insight into what motivated them to pursue leadership positions and what they find more fulfilling in their experiences. The nurses, aides, chaplains and social workers on our team teach me daily.

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Hospice News

JULY 26, 2024

The program has provided services to more than 200 veterans thus far in 2024 and is led by chaplains from various U.S. So if they see a social worker coming in, they may not be receptive. military branches including the Air Force, Army, Coast Guard, Marine Corps, Navy and Space Force. “We

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Hospice News

JANUARY 17, 2024

Things that are unique for rural and frontier providers are trying to find qualified staff, registered nurses, physicians, social workers or spiritual care providers,” Wood said. Some telehealth flexibilities that were temporarily implemented during the PHE) are scheduled to sunset at the end of 2024.

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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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GeriPal

JULY 11, 2024

ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. Summary Transcript Summary In May we did a podcast on KidneyPal (the integration of palliative care in renal disease) , which made us think, hmmm… one organ right next door is the liver. Maybe we should do a podcast on LiverPal? (or or should we call it HepatoPal?)

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

To break down those walls, social workers at Pallitus have focused on assisting patients and their families before they even make it into the building. Pallitus Health Partners is forging its own identity apart from its parent organization, Hosparus Health. “We do that through expert symptom management,” Dillon said.We

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Hospice News

APRIL 4, 2024

The letter included a push to pass the Palliative Care and Hospice Education and Training Act (PCHETA), which if passed would provide incentives to expand training programs for physicians, nurses, pharmacists, social workers and chaplains.

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Hospice News

APRIL 3, 2024

I look forward to working with Jeff and the entire leadership team at Aveanna in executing our 2024 strategic plans and positioning Aveanna as a leader in value-based care in the home.” VNAHSR employs more than 250 certified home health aides, rehabilitation therapists, social workers and visiting nurses.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 12, 2023

We can make money with palliative care, and so we hope to achieve that by the beginning of the first half of 2024. What would you say are the biggest opportunities that you see for 2024? In 2022, the company rebranded as VyncaCare to reflect its broadened scope of clinical services. The company has raised at least $40.3

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Chippewa County Health Department to Shutter Hospice Services Michigan-based Chippewa County Health Department recently announced that it will be sunsetting its home health and hospice services at the end of 2024. The health system operates two hospitals, five ambulatory outpatient centers and dozens of medical offices.

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Hospice News

JULY 27, 2023

In addition to nurses, the retention program also aimed to recruit admission nurses, nurse managers, home health aides and social workers. rate increase for 2024 “significantly lags [the] reality” of rising care delivery costs, according to Westfall. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) proposed 2.8%

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Hospice News

AUGUST 5, 2022

The company expects to begin operating in Las Vegas, Nevada and Arizona next year and in Wisconsin in 2024. The company also employs social workers to assist patients with psychosocial needs and offers services to address social determinants of health.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

The proposed legislation in California ibrings attention to the value of health care workers and the need to attract more professionals to the field amid rising demand – especially nurses in senior services, according to Craig Dresang, CEO of California-based YoloCares. After that, the minimum wage would be indexed around inflation or 3.5%.

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AAHPM (American Academy of Hospice and Palliative)

APRIL 29, 2024

On April 17, 2024, AAHPM, in partnership with Patient Quality of Life Coalition (PQLC) participated in a Lobby Day in support of the Palliative Care and Hospice and Training Act (PCHETA).

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Hospice News

JULY 19, 2024

13 among America’s health care and social service companies in Forbes America’s Best Employers for New Graduates list in 2024. Amid industry-wide staff shortages, Interim HealthCare is working to scale recruitment best practices among its franchisees. locations in 42 states. We were just ranked No.

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NHPCO

JUNE 16, 2023

These congressional advocacy actions came a week after NHPCO filed detailed comments on the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ (CMS) Fiscal Year (FY) 2024 Hospice Wage Index and Quality Reporting Proposed Rule, demonstrating the importance of both legislative and regulatory advocacy for protecting and improving hospice and palliative care.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 24, 2023

The new inpatient facility is set to open in spring 2024, and will feature 18 private patient rooms and a family gathering area. Patients at the center receive 24/7 hospice care from an interdisciplinary team of skilled nurses, social workers and spiritual counselors, and families are offered bereavement support services.

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