Hospice News

MAY 25, 2023

This article is sponsored by Netsmart. 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 conversation took place on April 20, 2023, during the Hospice News Palliative Care Conference.

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Hospice News

JUNE 9, 2022

This article is sponsored by Axxess. This article is based on a Palliative Care conference Q&A with Tina Taylor, Vice President of Palliative Care Compassus and Christina Andrews, Director of Professional Services at Axxess. I am responsible for our national palliative care programs across the nation.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 15, 2022

This article is sponsored by KanTime. In that role, I worked on improving outcomes and surveys along with chart reviews, which are critical to my role as the VP of Hospice and Palliative Care Services today. The post Voices: Deanna Heath, VP of Hospice and Palliative Care Services, KanTime appeared first on Hospice News.

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GeriPal

APRIL 27, 2023

Palliative Care the Next Generation: How the Service May Grow and Evolve AccentCare , a portfolio company of private equity firm Advent International, is another example. We’ve got a very large palliative care practice,” Rodgers told PCN. These are excerpts – not everybody was included. Eric: What is PCHETA?

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GeriPal

MAY 5, 2022

Screening for addressing hearing loss should be an integral part of what we do in geriatrics and palliative care, but it often is either a passing thought or completely ignored. On today’s podcast, we talk to Nick Reed and Meg Wallhagen about hearing loss in geriatrics and palliative care. Transcript.

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Hospice News

JULY 18, 2022

When it comes to communication and quality of care for Black patients, recent data reinforces the notion that hospices have room to grow. Last year, CAPC launched a “Project Equity” workgroup, which examined health equity studies, articles and various other literature. Hospice utilization among diverse populations is sorely lacking.

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Hospice News

JUNE 5, 2023

This article is sponsored by Axxess. This article is based on a discussion with Fred Bentley, Managing Director for Medicare Innovation and ATI Advisory, Allison Silvers, Chief of Healthcare Transformation at the Center to Advance Palliative Care and Ryan Klaustermeier, Vice President of Professional Services at Axxess.

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Hospice News

MARCH 18, 2024

This article is sponsored by KanTime. This article is based on a Palliative Care News discussion with Deanna Heath, Senior Vice President of customer experience at KanTime, Jared King, Vice President of business development and sales at Hospice Dynamix and Sundar Kannan, CEO of KanTime. That’s not the case anymore.

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Hospice News

MARCH 22, 2023

A trio of organizations published these findings today in a joint report , including the National Hospice & Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO), the National Association for Home Care and Hospice (NAHC) and NORC at the University of Chicago.

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Hospice News

APRIL 25, 2022

Jain initially voiced these concerns in an April 12 article in Forbes , but elaborated in a subsequent interview with Hospice News. This includes a January article in the journal Health Affairs by senior CMS leadership, in which they pledged to ensure that 100% of Medicare beneficiaries would be covered through a value-based model by 2030.

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AAHPM (American Academy of Hospice and Palliative)

APRIL 11, 2024

In the realm of medical research for hospice and palliative care, access to high-quality content is paramount. Open access publishing has increasingly gained prominence, offering unrestricted access to scholarly articles. Today, we delve into the realm of pain and symptom management.

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Hospice News

MAY 16, 2025

This article is sponsored by Betterleave. It is based on a discussion with Cara McCarty Abbott, Founder and CEO at Betterleave; Sara Nigro, Director of Partnerships at BetterRX; and Lloyd Wilson, CEO at Sonder Hospice & Palliative Care. This discussion took place on April 10, 2025, at the Hospice News ELEVATE Conference.

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Hospice News

MAY 31, 2023

This is the first of a series of Hospice News articles that will cover the industry’s response to the proposed rule. In public comments on the proposal, the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) called for a 3.7% Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to reconsider the proposed 2.8%

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GeriPal

JANUARY 23, 2025

Eric 16:36 Okay, Connie, I got one last question about your article. Michelle 35:24 So we did a little different study design than the other articles we’ve heard about today. We’ll go in order of how we did your articles. You don’t know if you’re getting placebo or your allergen. Why is that?

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Hospice News

JUNE 8, 2023

This article is sponsored by nVoq. This article is based on a discussion with Jason Banks, Post-Acute Business Development Vice President for nVoq. The conversation took place on April 20, 2023 during the Hospice News Palliative Care Conference. The article below has been edited for length and clarity.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 19, 2022

These were some of the key themes in the most-read Hospice News articles of 2022 that centered around the merger and acquisition landscape as well as the regulatory climate. The following are the most-read Hospice News articles of 2022. #1 1 Social Workers Leaving Hospice, Health Care in Record Numbers (July 11). . #2

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Hospice News

MAY 19, 2023

Coupled with the entry of more payers into the space, the influx of health systems into home health, hospice and community-based palliative care stands to change the competitive dynamics in markets nationwide. This is the last of three articles that explore some of health care macro-trends that could impact hospices.

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NHPCO

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

(Alexandria, Va ) – An article on the hospice industry published by ProPublica on November 28 ( Endgame: How the Visionary Hospice Movement Became a For-Profit Hustle ), 2022, gives readers an inaccurate view of the Medicare hospice benefit, a uniquely person-centered program that brought comfort to 1.7 Contact: Madison Summers. 571-412-3973.

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Hospice News

JUNE 7, 2023

These organizations included the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC), National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO), National Partnership for Healthcare and Hospice Innovation (NPHI) and LeadingAge.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Sonali Advani and Lona Mody talk about their recent JAGS article highlighting three recent articles that every clinician caring for older adults should be aware of in the treatment of infectious diseases (hint: I’ve never finished a course of antibiotics, and maybe your patients don’t need that full course either).

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Hospice News

JANUARY 12, 2023

The issue of hospice fraud has gained national attention in recent weeks following the publication of a New Yorker/ProPublica article that delved into instances of potential illegal or unethical behavior. Though the CDOJ report focused on hospice, it indicated that similar problems existed among home health companies in the state.

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HPNA podcast

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Related Resources: Down on the Pharm: Contemporary Issues in Pharmacopalliation About the Speakers: Mary Lynn McPherson, PharmD, PhD, FAAHPM Dr. McPherson has practiced hospice and palliative care as a clinical pharmacist her entire career. in Palliative Care (University of Maryland Graduate School) programs.

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Hospice News

JULY 25, 2023

Data has played a large role in the ability to gauge the impact of end-of life care. Hospice providers have needed a window into access and utilization, as well as how lawmakers are shaping policies around health care.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

This article is sponsored by Netsmart. This article is based on a Hospice News discussion with Maria Warren, Vice President of Clinical Consulting at Netsmart that took place at the Hospice News Elevate Conference in Chicago. The article below has been edited for length and clarity.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Though operators often feel siloed within the Medicare Hospice Benefit, they are not shielded from the shifting currents in the health care system at large. But, for now, hospices continue to be the resident experts in those types of care models in today’s fragmented health care system.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Though hospices operate within the dedicated Medicare benefit, market forces in the system at large wield considerable influence on how they operate — including the meteoric rise of managed care. This is the second of three articles that will explore some of these trends.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 12, 2023

If you want to do a deeper dive in ACE units, check out some of the following articles: The original NEJM paper on ACE units from 1996. Kellie Flood’s paper in JAMA IM showing that not only ACE units deliver better care, but also help with the hospitals bottom line. Kellie: Yes. Just gigantic.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 13, 2024

The following are the most-read Hospice News articles of 2024. #1: Longer stays reduce health care costs in the last year of life by as much as 11%, according to a 2023 report from the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO), the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC), and NORC at the University of Chicago.

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AJN Off the Charts

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Some articles may be free only to subscribers. This article explores key nursing liability issues associated with the pandemic, including immunity, documentation, crisis standards of care, delegation and assignment, scope of practice, floating, travel nursing, telehealth, and misinformation and social media.

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AJN Off the Charts

JULY 25, 2024

See also the extensive health care news sections, the Journal Watch and Drug Watch sections, a Perspectives on Palliative Nursing article on palliative care in rural communities, a Nursing Resources column on addressing compassion fatigue, and more. Browse and subscribe.

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GeriPal

MARCH 14, 2024

Summary Transcript Summary Almost a decade ago, our hospice and palliative care team decided to do a “Thickened Liquid Challenge.” We also talk about the importance of a proactive approach to involving speech-language pathologists in the care of individuals early on with neurodegenerative diseases like dementia and ALS.

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Hospice News

JUNE 12, 2024

This article is sponsored by Enclara Pharmacia. In this Voices interview, Hospice News sits down with Deanna Douglass, PharmD, SVP, Business Development, Enclara Pharmacia, to learn about the parallels between hospice and the Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly, or PACE.

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Pallimed

JANUARY 28, 2021

by Christian Sinclair ( @ctsinclair ) Most palliative care teams love to have medical students on service, but the access may be variable. Some schools make palliative care rotations mandatory, some optional, while others make it hard to find or "build your own." People laugh and turn away. What gives?

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SAGE Palliative Medicine & Chronic Care podcast

OCTOBER 13, 2024

This episode features Professor Scott Murray (Primary Palliative Care Research Group, Usher Institute, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK). We are delighted with this special edition, and that Palliative Medicine has turned its focus on this important topic.

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SAGE Palliative Medicine & Chronic Care podcast

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

This episode features Professor Scott Murray (Primary Palliative Care Research Group, Usher Institute, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK). We are delighted with this special edition, and that Palliative Medicine has turned its focus on this important topic.

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AAHPM (American Academy of Hospice and Palliative)

JULY 18, 2023

Here’s a roundup of the 6 most-read Journal of Pain and Symptom Management (JPSM) articles of the past 30 days, documenting key concerns, emerging trends, and topics of interest that were most relevant to the hospice and palliative care community.

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Pallimed

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Kollas, MD, Beverly Schechtman and Carrie Judy Several important developments have occurred since the publication of our article, “ Undisclosed Conflicts of Interest by Physicians Creating the CDC Opioid Prescribing Guidelines: Bad Faith or Incompetence?” in Pallimed on September 12, 2022 (1).

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