Hospice News

AUGUST 1, 2024

Some stakeholders in the hospice space have spoken out against the potential new limitations on respite care, including the NAHC-NHPCO Alliance. This is the temporary name of the recently combined National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC) and National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO).

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Hospice News

MARCH 13, 2024

In case you missed it, Hospice News has launched a new specialty publication for palliative care professionals. You can subscribe to Palliative Care News here: Subscribe today! Covenant Care has provided hospice, palliative care, home health and personal care for more than 36 years.

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Hospice News

JULY 25, 2024

VITAS Healthcare, a subsidiary of Chemed Corp. NYSE: CHE), is reaping the benefits of this recent $85 million purchase of Covenant Health and Community Services hospice business, along with one assisted living facility location. The nonprofit provider operates a 32-bed assisted living facility in Pensacola, Florida.

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Hospice News

APRIL 18, 2024

VITAS Healthcare, a subsidiary of Chemed Corp. NYSE: CHE), has completed its $85 million acquisition of Covenant Health and Community Services’ hospice operations and one assisted living facility location. The transaction also marks VITAS’ entry into the assisted living space.

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Hospice News

JUNE 13, 2024

“This would be giving more time for families to figure out what the best next step is, whether they need to go to a nursing home and they need to get the paperwork done for that, or assisted living, or just the family getting ready in the home environment for people to come home.”

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Hospice News

JULY 25, 2023

There are new training models, like combined internal medicine and geriatrics residency programs, that include more teaching about geriatrics and clinical experiences in settings like the home, assisted living, or skilled nursing facilities.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

First Docs is a physician-led internal medicine practice that offers a range of health care services and frequently collaborates with hospice, palliative care, and home health providers, among others. CEO Dr. Sanjay Bhatia founded First Docs in 2010, introducing its proprietary 360 Community Medicine Care Model.

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Hospice News

APRIL 24, 2024

Health systems are increasingly growing their hospice and palliative care service lines, with philanthropy among the key ways to fuel these programs’ sustainability. Funding palliative, bereavement care Illinois-based Endeavor Health serves more than 1.3

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Assisted Living Communities (no longer preferable to call them Assisted Living Facilities, as we learned on the podcast) are…what, exactly? The problem is the tremendous heterogeneity in services offered and quality of care. If you’ve seen one Assisted Living Community you’ve seen one Assisted Living Community. .

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 13, 2023

The acute care hospital’s Hospice of Care program provides home- and facility-based services in Texas County, Missouri and eight surrounding counties. The nonprofit hospice is supported by TCMH Healthcare Foundation’s Hospice Memorial Fund.

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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. Agrace Expands Medical Team.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

In 2021, Wisconsin-based Aspirus Health System expanded with hospice and palliative care programs in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. That same year EmpRes Healthcare subsidiary Eden Health began offering hospice and palliative care in Idaho Falls. David’s HealthCare President and CEO David Huffstutler. “It

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Hospice News

MAY 8, 2023

Guidry also recently published a book to help guide doctors who are considering a career in hospice and palliative care called “Dr. G at the Heart of Healthcare.” Mourning Dove Medical Mourning Dove Medical Mourning Dove Medical CEO Dr. Kaishauna Guidry What drew you to the hospice and palliative care field?

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Hospice News

MAY 24, 2024

Case in point, VITAS Healthcare, a subsidiary of Chemed Corp. NYSE: CHE), made its first acquisition in several years with the $85 million acquisition of Covenant Health and Community Services’ hospice operations and one assisted living facility location. for an undisclosed amount.

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Hospice News

MARCH 22, 2024

Crouch in 2016 became a home care and assisted living facilities physician at the organization. Crouch is also charged with facilitating the growth and operations of the organization’s palliative care services. The nonprofit provides palliative care and hospice to adult and pediatric patients.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

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Home Care Pulse

JANUARY 26, 2023

2023 Leader in Training Award Winners 4 U Home Health Care 6EMS, LLC A 1 Home Health Care LLC A Better Care Option A Caring Touch Home Health & Hospice A Heavenly Hand Home Healthcare, Inc. Avila Home Care Bay Nursing, Inc. Utilize HCP Training for at least 3 months.

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GeriPal

MARCH 10, 2022

If you develop dementia, odds are you will spend the last months to years of your life in a nursing home or assisted living facility. The Lived Experience of Providing Feeding Assistance to a Family Member with Dementia. Palliative Care in Nursing Homes: Discussion of a Multinational Trial with Lieve Van den Block.

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NHPCO

MARCH 4, 2022

(Alexandria, Va) – The National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) today announced that Rory will join the organization as the Vice President of Palliative and Advanced Care. With her leadership, we can lead the next evolution of palliative care.” .

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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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Caregiver Support Services

APRIL 10, 2024

They play a key role in coordinating patient care and may specialize in areas like geriatrics or palliative care. NPs often serve as primary healthcare providers and may specialize in areas such as family medicine, pediatrics, or gerontology. They can prescribe medications, diagnose diseases, and provide treatment plans.

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Seasons Hospice

JANUARY 16, 2023

This can make the thought of hospice care depressing for those facing the prospect of utilizing this type of healthcare service. It is important to remember that hospice care does not have to mean defeat or surrender in the face of illness. Many people associate it with death, sadness, and hopelessness.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 25, 2022

Alex: We’re delighted to welcome back Lauren Hunt, who is a Hospice and Palliative Care Nurse Researcher, an Assistant Professor of Nursing at UCSF. I saw that as a major problem because when people get disenrolled from hospice, they lose all of those interdisciplinary palliative care services that hospice was offering.

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Nurse.com

MAY 23, 2022

Assisted Living/Rehabilitation. American Assisted Living Nurses Association (AALNA). The association’s mission includes providing a forum for black nurses to advocate for and implement strategies to ensure access to the highest quality of healthcare for persons of color. Palliative Care.

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Hospice News

MAY 19, 2023

As more care moves into the home setting, more hospitals and health systems are throwing their hats into the ring. 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.

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Home Care Pulse

APRIL 28, 2022

What this means for home care: The industry is reaching new heights after earning an increased level of appreciation in the healthcare space due to the pandemic. For the home care industry, it has only strengthened our focus on efforts to provide quality care and keep older Americans in their homes and safe.”.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 12, 2023

A federal court has sentenced Akop Atoyan, former co-owner of three California home health and hospice agencies, to 25 months in prison for health care fraud and kickback schemes. He and his wife Liana Karapetyan owned ANG Health Care, Excel Hospice, and Excel Home Healthcare in the Sacramento area. Attorney Phillip Talbert.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Alex Smith: And we’re delighted to welcome back Sei Lee, who is a geriatrician and palliative care doc and is professor of medicine in the UCSF Division of Geriatrics. ” Alex Smith: Maybe that’s where our palliative care language came from. Welcome back to GeriPal, James. James: Thanks for having me.

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Home Care Pulse

JUNE 21, 2022

Uh, but yeah, I grew up in emergency rooms for about eight years and, um, I’ve always done wound care, PRN ostomy stuff on the side. Um, did a lot of work with the local palliative care group that did home visits, um, and that really piqued my hospice interest. I still stayed in healthcare. And I love that.

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GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

Talking about palliative care here on this podcast, in our state, gosh, this was in the early ’90s, physician assisted death was on the ballot. And so- Eric: A lot of care was just a tiny, tiny baby by that back then. It’s a healthcare crisis, it’s lack of tenant protections, death of a spouse.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

So it’s been a privilege to be given the opportunity to get engaged on specifically the dementia care side of this. Eric: And looking back at that time, what do you think the healthcare system could have done to help with that? Eric: We had a podcast on Care Ecosystem, another evidence-based model for dementia care.

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Home Care Pulse

JULY 25, 2023

And so all of us in the healthcare profession, in in the he caring profession, I like, that’s my new thing, health, right? We can guide them to have a more total experience without the denial that that goes through our healthcare system. And so we need to teach the way to take care of people at end of life.

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GeriPal

JUNE 30, 2022

Really, a smart and caring woman. And at some point, she was living in assisted living and fell and broke her hip. I use it in teaching in palliative care, where the main character says, “Do I have a chance,” to this girl that he’s really, this woman he’s really interested in.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 20, 2023

Eric: So before we talk about improving… So first of all, we just had a podcast not too long ago on assisted living facilities, so it seems very timely. We have on our steering committee, we have Lori Porter from NAHA, which is the National Association of Healthcare Assistance, and she’s been very active.

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GeriPal

APRIL 20, 2023

” I take care of a lot of patients where I’m like, “Gosh, this person needs a geriatrician, but they’re 52.” So they need mainstream healthcare, and they need housing support. A lot of them need what we would call in the middle class world assisted living, right? But nothing in healthcare.

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