Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Some hospice patients rely on these plans for other health needs, such as nursing home costs. This can include payment for long-term care or some services provided in assisted living facilities. “In Close to 12 million people in the United States qualify for both Medicare and Medicaid. Of those, about 3.8

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Hospice News

APRIL 4, 2023

In addition to skilled home health, Enclara’s services include hospice, palliative and personal care, and behavioral health. Established in 1986, Assisted Daily Living provides skilled home care, personal care and private duty services in hospitals, nursing homes and assisted living facilities throughout Rhode Island.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 11, 2023

Referrals from assisted living and skilled nursing facilities represent a large portion of hospice patients, along with hospital and health system referrals. There’s a lot less demand for facility-based general inpatient care and more demand for continuous home hospice care.

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Hospice News

JUNE 1, 2023

“Closing the inpatient facility will allow Hospice Ministries to put more focus on providing end of life care to patients in their ‘homes,’ whether it be their personal residence, a nursing home, or an assisted living facility.” The hospice provides home- and facility-based end-of-life care.

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Hospice News

MAY 16, 2025

We’re going to be talking about the unsung heroes of home-based care: the caregivers at home. You might have a patient in assisted living or a nursing home, and the family member isnt there during your visit. This discussion took place on April 10, 2025, at the Hospice News ELEVATE Conference.

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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

DECEMBER 13, 2024

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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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? If you’ve seen one Assisted Living Community you’ve seen one Assisted Living Community. . Assisted living, I can’t even say the word.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Offering hospice can be a gamechanger for skilled nursing and assisted living operators looking to stand out from competitors and improve patient reach. Home-based care, including hospice, has become an increasingly attractive space for facility-based health care providers of all walks. Among the 1.6 Among the 1.6

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NHPCO

JULY 10, 2023

While hospice and palliative care are often provided in the home, they can also be provided in many other settings, including assisted living facilities, nursing homes, and skilled nursing facilities.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 20, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary In April 2022, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM) issued a report on how the United States delivers, regulates, finances, and measures the quality of nursing home care. We have Alice Bonner, who’s Chair of the Moving Forward Nursing Home Quality Coalition.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Private equity is probably one of the top things that I’m worried about with the future of our field in Palliative care and that because private equity is buying up… And Geriatrics, buying up assisted livings, nursing homes, hospices at an extraordinary rate. They’ve all been laid out for you.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 21, 2024

GIP is used for acute symptom management that cannot be addressed in the home or other setting, according to Hold-Weiss. Operators may not provide that level of care in a home, hospice residential facility, assisted living or a long term care nursing home, she said.

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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. This study explored nursing home organizational factors and staff perceptions that are associated with the variation in care for residents with advanced dementia.

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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. Nurse case management, social worker case management, medications, medical equipment, a home health aid, all that stuff goes away. Melissa: Thank you.

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GeriPal

JUNE 30, 2022

And at some point, she was living in assisted living and fell and broke her hip. And we found out in our work that something like 70 or 80% of patients with dementia who have surgery come from the community, who are coming from home. You’re not going to end up going back home after the surgery.

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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

OCTOBER 27, 2022

ePrognosis started out as just a list of different prognostic indices, so things to predict mortality in hospitalized adults, things to predict mortality in community dwelling adults, things to predict mortality in nursing home residents. Welcome back to GeriPal, James. James: Thanks for having me. Welcome back, Sei. Sei: Howdy.

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Home Care Pulse

JUNE 21, 2022

Wendie Colvin is an amazing nurse author and community nursing subject matter in both acute and post-acute care. She is practiced at the bedside in multiple settings and has extensive experience as a manager and educator in both home health and hospice settings. So that kind of naturally made me wanna do home health.

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Home Care Pulse

APRIL 28, 2022

Vicki Hoak, CEO of the Home Care Association of America (HCAOA) explained that the recognition of home care abounds post-pandemic: “This year, HCAOA released a new report, State of Home Care: Industry at a Crossroads, to illustrate how the pandemic spotlighted how older and vulnerable populations are too often left behind.

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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. It was designed to really balance what Medicaid at the time was to provide nursing homes and Medicare is obviously health insurance. I want to stay in my home as long as possible.”

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Malaz: One day I was in internal medicine residency and I had to take care of a patient who was admitted from a nursing home with dementia. For me, right now, the worst thing, my nightmare is dying from dementia alone in a nursing home. People start thinking about putting them in a nursing home. Diane: Huge.

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