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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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Stratis Health Builds Framework for Expanding Rural Community-Based Palliative Care

Hospice News

Oftentimes it’s either combination of home visits and telephonic services. Sometimes they might be doing consultations either inpatient or in the nursing home or in assisted living. It leverages those resources to offer a wraparound suite of services for seniors and seriously ill patients.

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U.S. Senate Takes Up Supporting Our Seniors Act

Hospice News

While private residences are the most frequently occurring location of care for hospice patients, long-term care facilities come in second, followed by assisted living facilities, according to the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO). Friedman, president of the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine.

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GeriPal Special: Hopes and Worries for Hospice and Palliative Care

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Furthermore, direction to external websites is not an endorsement from AAHPM or HPNA, or the Annual Assembly. 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.

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[UPDATED] Rep. Earl Blumenauer Plans Landmark Hospice Reform Bill

Hospice News

When people are coming on the benefit in that moment of crisis, they don’t necessarily have a plan,” Mollie Gurian, vice president of home-based and HCBS policy at LeadingAge, told Hospice News. In the current draft of the legislation, this would include dialysis, chemotherapy, radiation and blood transfusions.

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Leveraging Sales Strategies in Hospice Payment Cap Management

Hospice News

The simple math is just that you need to have a balance right between your long length of stay and your short length of stay patients, and also be watching where those live discharges are occurring and what types of diagnoses that you’re admitting to your program,” Klaustermeier said.

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CMS to Sunset Look-Alike Dual-Eligible Special Needs Plans in 2023

Hospice News

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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