Hospice News

JUNE 21, 2022

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Chiquita Brooks-LaSure, calling for a payment model demonstration designed to support greater access to palliative care. Signatories on the letter included the co-founders of the Senate Comprehensive Care Caucus, U.S. Senators Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.), John Barrasso (R-Wy.),

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AUGUST 21, 2024

Palliative care providers’ largest referral hurdles have been long-rooted in misunderstandings about their services. Breaking down referral barriers to improve patient access can take vigilant education and outreach efforts. Education has become a cornerstone of palliative care providers’ referral-building efforts, she stated.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Sometimes they might be doing consultations either inpatient or in the nursing home or in assisted living. We do strongly encourage, obviously, the clinic, the hospital, the long term care, the home care (if it exists), hospice (if it exists), assisted living, all the sort of clinical services that might be in the community.

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Hospice News

JUNE 3, 2024

The hospice has more than 950 employees and 1,000 volunteers who serve roughly 1,500 patients daily in the home, at hospitals and at long-term care or assisted living facilities. Increasing our visibility is part of a very strong signal of support for the community.” Audrey Gibson (D-Fla.);

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Hospice of Wichita Falls provides hospice at its inpatient center, in patients’ homes, and at hospitals and assisted living and skilled nursing facilities. “Through the PACE model, WelbeHealth ensures that older adults can see culturally appropriate providers,” Fong said. The hospice’s W.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 26, 2023

The community-based provider offers care in the home, at hospitals and in assisted living or skilled nursing facilities in the region. North Carolina-based Hospice & Palliative Care of Iredell County (HPCIC) has partnered with a local technical school to develop educational videos for family caregivers. Mitchell Mack Hospice House.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 28, 2025

Catholic Health Services provides home health, hospice, palliative care, skilled nursing and assisted living services, as well as acute rehabilitation in hospital and outpatient settings. Arif Kamal recently became the new president-elect of the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (AAHPM). Annes Nursing Center.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

The organization offers inpatient and home-based hospice and palliative care services, collaborates with upwards of 50 hospitals, assisted living and skilled nursing facilities and home care providers. Calvary is the only hospital in the United States thats specifically dedicated to providing hospice and palliative care.

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Hospice News

MAY 15, 2024

The company recently 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. (NYSE: CHE) is gearing up for potential acquisitions.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

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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Hospice News

JUNE 6, 2024

Its parent organization also operates senior living, pharmacy, development, independent living, personal care, assisted living and memory care businesses, among others. Louis-based Dover Health has expanded into the Chicago region with the purchase of Centered Care Hospice and Palliative Care and Cornerstone Home Health.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 1, 2024

Finally, we ask that assisted living be a site of care for in-home respite. Since assisted living varies in what services are offered, there are people who are residing in assisted living who are still receiving substantial help from family members.”

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 22, 2024

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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Hospice News

MAY 14, 2024

Other health care providers, upstream of hospice, are also engaging doula services as well, such as assisted living and skilled nursing facilities, she said. End-of-life doulas support patients and their families in a number of broad and diverse ways, according to Erin Collins, program director of The Peaceful Presence Project.

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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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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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Hospice News

JUNE 30, 2022

EdenHill Communities, established in 1906, offers a continuum of care that includes independent and assisted living, memory care, skilled nursing, rehabilitation, caregiving and now hospice services. The EdenHospice team includes a hospice physician, director of nursing, chaplain, social worker, aides and volunteers.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 10, 2024

Family of Caring Healthcare System includes 10 health and rehabilitation centers that provide subacute care and rehabilitative services, assisted living, and long-term care. New Jersey-based Valley Health System is partnering with Family of Caring Healthcare to offer palliative services to their patients.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

In addition to its own physician offices and hospitals, the company provides care in clinics, assisted living and skilled nursing facilities, and long-term care acute hospitals. Philadelphia-based First Docs is poised for multi-state expansion after securing new investment dollars from the private equity firm Webster Equity Partners.

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Hospice News

JUNE 18, 2024

More recently, Hospice of Marion County has been expanding that training to include local law enforcement and fire departments, as well as medical students and staff at assisted living facilities, among others. In many instances, due to confusion over the circumstances, dementia patients are arrested and taken to jail, Lossada said.

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Hospice News

JULY 17, 2024

Through Alivia Care @ Home, the nonprofit offers rehabilitation (occupational, physical and speech) therapies to homebound patients in community- and facility-based settings, such as assisted living facilities. Florida-based Alivia Care Inc.

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Hospice News

MARCH 13, 2024

VITAS Healthcare Corporation has penned an agreement to acquire Covenant Health and Community Services’ hospice operations and one of its assisted living facility locations for $85 million. The nonprofit provider operates a 32-bed assisted living facility in Pensacola, Florida. increase from the prior-year’s period.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

The Pennant Group (NASDAQ: PNTG) expects emerging rebounds in skilled nursing and assisting living — and its pipeline of forthcoming acquisitions — to offset the impact of continuing labor headwinds. Pennant is also starting to see occupancy rates improve among its skilled nursing and assisted living referral partners.

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Hospice News

APRIL 18, 2024

(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. The nonprofit provider operates a 32-bed assisted living facility in Pensacola, Florida.

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Hospice News

MAY 7, 2024

Recent senior living real estate transactions include the purchase of two Utah-based communities, Capitol Hill Senior Living and Southgate Senior Living. An additional growth factor was the successful integration of Pennant’s recent transactions, Guerisoli stated. Financial terms were not disclosed in these deals.

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Hospice News

APRIL 25, 2024

VITAS earlier this month completed its $85 million acquisition of Covenant Health and Community Services’ hospice operations and one assisted living facility location. (NYSE: CHE) subsidiary VITAS Healthcare is ramping up its strategic growth plans in both hospice and palliative care amid rising demand for these services.

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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. Providers across the continuum have felt the impact of workforce and economic strains in recent years.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 12, 2023

In this case, the illegal payments allegedly went to employees of hospitals, skilled nursing and assisted living facilities, as well as spouses of those individuals, according to Acting U.S. Attorney Phillip Talbert. Some of the recipients also face prosecution.

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Hospice News

JULY 10, 2023

Patients in assisted living facilities, group homes, and other facilities received 3.2 Organizations that are delivering hospice and palliative care now are looking to the future and wanting to provide more of a full-service solution for seriously ill patients,” Singleton told Hospice News. About 12% of the 2.1

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Hospice News

JULY 25, 2022

The couple allegedly paid $2 million in kickbacks to multiple parties in exchange for Medicare beneficiary referrals, including payments to employees of hospitals, skilled nursing and assisted living facilities, as well as spouses of those individuals, according to Acting U.S. Attorney Phillip Talbert.

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Hospice News

JULY 6, 2022

Founded in 1984, CommuniCare Health Services is a family-owned company that provides post-acute services including skilled nursing, assisted living, independent living, behavioral health and long-term care. Hospice utilization among Medicare decedents in West Virginia reached 43.6% This fell below the national average of 50.3%

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

One of the greatest challenges facing bereaved families when a loved one dies is the lack of a will or other estate planning tool (for example, living trust),” Marylander told Hospice News in an email. Others have considered divorcing due to financial reasons, such as the need to finance skilled nursing or assisted living facility placement.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Iowa River Hospice provides community- and facility-based hospice to patients in the home or in hospital, assisted living or nursing facilities. Established in 1983, the nonprofit hospice provides end-of-life care services in Marshalltown, Iowa and surrounding communities in the central part of the state.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

This can include payment for long-term care or some services provided in assisted living facilities. “In Patients in nursing homes on average were in hospice for 109 days of care in 2019, compared to 95 days among those receiving services in a private residence and 161 days in assisted living, NHPCO reported.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 18, 2022

The organization provides services at its three inpatient hospice centers, in patient homes, and in facilities like assisted living, skilled nursing and other residential community care centers. Mitchell Schwartz, president of clinical enterprise and chief physician executive at Luminis Health. independent of the JV. About 47.6%

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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. Pandemic-related headwinds that strained hospice referrals may have lingering impacts on how providers are approaching their community outreach and marketing efforts.

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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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