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The Senior Living Opportunity for Hospices

Hospice News

Many hospices in 2025 are driving to expand in the senior housing and assisted living space. More than 818,000 people in the United States dwell in more than 30,600 assisted living communities nationwide with an aggregate 1.2 My generation, baby boomers, were not going to a nursing home.

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St. Croix’s New Minnesota Location Supports Staff Amid Growth

Hospice News

Croix Hospice grows, the vision is to keep the care feeling like it is coming from a small town office, Beary told local news. Now there is a care team that is expected, and its not just one person whos going to be coming in and out. You have a nurse, you have a chaplain, you have a social worker, you have a hospice aide.

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Hospice Organizations Appoint New Leadership, VPs

Hospice News

Smith-Lopez has more than 26 years of experience in hospice and palliative care, beginning her career as a registered nurse before taking on leadership roles. The hospice provider has inpatient care centers at Holy Cross Hospital, St. Annes Nursing Center. Catherines West Rehabilitation Hospital and St.

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Leveraging Sales Strategies in Hospice Payment Cap Management

Hospice News

For one, Sales and marketing staff can benefit from knowing what types of patients each provider is referring to their hospice, as well as the type of diagnosis and site of care, such as the patient’s home or assisted living or other facility. In essence, the number one admitted diagnosis was neurological.

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Capital Caring Health to Expand Home-Based Primary Care Service

Hospice News

The grant will also support efforts to address social determinants of health, according to Dr. Heidi Young, associate chief medical officer for Capital Caring and medical director of the Primary Care at Home program. million home-based primary care visits during 2016, up from less than 1 million in 1996, the study found.

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Incoming Samaritan CEO Phillip Heath: Reduce Dependence on Medicare

Hospice News

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 personally have aging parents, and they live in an assisted living environment. Now, they’re eight miles away.

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Hospice News’ Top 10 Stories of 2024

Hospice News

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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