Hospice News

OCTOBER 30, 2023

A rising number of hospices have undergone name changes in recent years, prompting many to consider the elements of an effective rebranding strategy. Hospices should avoid brand names that are too generic or that focus on one particular service line or portion of their geographic footprint.

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Hospice News

MARCH 26, 2025

Todays hospice landscape is reaching a pivotal point of evolutionary growth that has come with increased oversight as regulators seek to curb fraudulent activity in the space, according to Bill Dombi, senior counsel for the law firm Arnall Golden Gregory (AGG). What are the leading legal concerns facing hospice providers right now?

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Hospice News

MARCH 26, 2025

Blair Burton, Registered Nurse at Elara Caring, has been named a 2024 Frontline Honors honoree by Hospice News. Burton: I learn something new every day in the hospice world. Its like the old saying, Dont judge a book by its cover. I believe its that unknown that makes hospice feel overwhelming.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

s (NYSE: EHAB) hospice segment buoyed the company’s Q3 financial results amid losses in its home health business. Consistent sequential gains in Enhabit’s hospice average daily census ADC, coupled with the Fiscal Year 2025 payment increase of 2.9% Hospice ADC rose 6.9% Q3 net service revenue for the hospice segment reached $52.6

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Debbie Jonhston is a registered nurse who founded Viriginia-based Serenity First Hospice in 2021, inspired by the care her father recieved as he reached the end of his life. Johnston is the author of two books, including The Hospice Handbook, which published in June by Advantage Media Group. So it’s capital intensive.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

If you were to write a book about hospice in 2023, what would you call it? To help answer that question, Hospice News asked the CEOs of eight providers how they would title a book about the state of the field today. Croix Hospice, AccentCare, Chapters Health System, Alivia Care, Enhabit, Inc.,

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Hospice News

AUGUST 31, 2022

Building up clinical ranks through education, training and tuition reimbursement programs is an increasingly common thread that hospices are weaving into their recruitment and retention initiatives. Building career paths for hospice clinicians. Heath will become the organization’s CEO effective October 1.

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Hospice News

JUNE 21, 2023

Our bill appropriately updates laws that have been on the books for a long time: it removes barriers for patients and providers, embraces the growing availability of advanced technologies and empowers the capabilities of the medical community.” Congress has extended hospices’ ability to do recertifications via telehealth through Dec.

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Hospice News

MAY 17, 2024

Misconceptions about and limited awareness of hospice is among the industry’s largest headwinds, a problem that one hospice nurse in California is working to solve. After about eight years in the ICU, she “took the leap” into hospice nursing and hasn’t looked back. Hospice was a slower pace. I was in people’s homes.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Jason Hotchkiss, author, chaplain and psychologist, has unveiled new research on the ways online reviews can help drive hospice quality and staff morale. Prior to this work, he spent more than a decade as a hospice chaplain working for national and regional providers. We can do well in hospice. That’s heartening.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 15, 2024

M&A, utilization trends and legislative action could be major drivers of change in the hospice space, according to Tom Moreland, the newly appointed senior vice president of hospice operations at Traditions Health. Moreland joined the company last month, the next step in a decades-long career in hospice.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

hospice providers have the same problem — a workforce shortage — many seek to address it using unique solutions. Worsening workforce shortages have been keeping hospice leaders awake at night for several years running. Hospices, in turn, have taken new steps to gain or keep their staff, particularly clinicians. Though most U.S.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 3, 2024

In this episode, we share the joy of talking with Wendy MacNaughton (artist, author, graphic journalist) and Frank Ostaseski (Buddhist teacher, author, founder of the Metta Institute and Zen Hospice Project) about using drawings and images as tools for creating human connections and processing death and dying. She has a TED talk.

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Hospice News

JUNE 2, 2023

Hospice providers can face legal repercussions if they don’t strike the right balance in their payroll practices. Miscalculated compensation or miscommunicated policies are among the most common reasons that hospices are facing legal concerns related to staff compensation, according to Russell Bruch, partner at Morgan Lewis.

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Hospice News

JUNE 1, 2022

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) designed the Hospice Care Index (HCI) to paint a picture of care processes that occur between a patient’s admission and discharge, but as currently designed it may not be an effective measure of quality. This difficult to gauge which hospice achieved the desired results more consistently.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 20, 2023

As more members of “Gen Z” come into the hospice workforce, employers will need to adapt to their unique perspectives, needs and priorities in order to maximize recruitment and retention. Gen Z includes individuals born between 1997 and 2025, according to the Pew Research Center. My older generations very much like in-person [communication].

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Hospice News

JANUARY 13, 2023

Empath provides hospice, home health care, primary care, palliative care, PACE, AIDS and sexual wellness care, and adult day services to a combined total of more than 23,000 individuals. We were a service family, and it was just a wonderful sector to be in,” Fleece told Hospice News. I wasn’t seeking hospice.”

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Hospice News

JUNE 28, 2022

Certificate of need (CON) laws have a huge influence on hospices’ ability to expand, patients’ access to care, as well as the competitive landscape and quality of care in a given market. . It really depends on the current culture of the state,” Lund Person told Hospice News. Currently, 14 states have CON laws that include hospices.

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Life & Death Matters

DECEMBER 10, 2023

He wanted to know about the big picture […] The post Book Recommendation: Hope for the Best, Plan for the Rest appeared first on Life and Death Matters. So, when he was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia and had to make a quick decision about treatment, I shouldn’t have been surprised that for Dave, it wasn’t an automatic yes.

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Hospice News

MAY 9, 2022

Advance care planning by necessity occurs upstream of hospice, but those providers nevertheless have a role to play in helping patients and families understand the importance of making their end-of-life wishes known. I think everybody in hospice and palliative care has to be really vocal about this. That’s hard to do.

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Hospice News

MAY 8, 2023

Kaishauna Guidry, a former teacher turned hospice physician, continues to leverage her background in education to help terminally ill patients find the care they need. Few businesses have to work as hard as hospices to dispel myths and misconceptions about their practices. G’s H.O.S.P.I.C.E G at the Heart of Healthcare.”

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Life & Death Matters

JULY 17, 2023

I have just the book for you! I […] The post Book Recommendation: The Boy, The Mole, The Fox, and The Horse appeared first on Life and Death Matters. Time for light reading. But also, a time for inspiration. The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, and the Horse. When I first read it, I fell in love.

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GeriPal

MAY 9, 2024

Summary Transcript Summary On today’s podcast, we’ve invited four hospice and palliative care social media influencers (yes, that’s a thing!), We’ve invited: Julie McFadden (aka Hospice Nurse Julie ): Julie is a social media superstar, with 1.5 And then Hospice Nurse Julie. Julie McFadden goes by Hospice Nurse Julie.

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Life & Death Matters

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Talking About Death Won’t Kill You sounds like a story-book title, but it is actually a nonfiction book packed with “informational how-to’s” – as in how to talk about death and is written by Kathy Kortes-Miller – a palliative care educator and researcher.

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Life & Death Matters

AUGUST 28, 2023

Three months later, our […] The post Book Recommendation: Unobservable: Poems of Grief and Grace, by Siobhan Westrop appeared first on Life and Death Matters. Four months earlier, her eldest son, Saren, who was 22 years old died in a freak accident in the mountains, doing what he loved. Little did we know.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 10, 2024

The many arguments, theories, & approaches across settings and conditions are explored in detail in the book they edited, “ Intentionally Interprofessional Palliative Care ” (discount code AMPROMD9). Alex 01:39 And C ara Wallace, who is a hospice social worker and endowed chair and professor in the St. Like, what is this book?

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Hospice News

JANUARY 31, 2024

Palliative care, pediatric end-of-life care and end-of-life doula (EOLD) services are top of mind for hospices that are diversifying their services in 2024. There’s going to be so much change around value-based care coming in some way, shape or form for hospices,” Kudner told Hospice News. But it goes both ways.

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary In November of 2022, Ava Kofman published a piece in the New Yorker titled “How Hospice Became a For-Profit Hustle.” Some viewed this piece as an affront to the amazing work hospice does for those approaching the end of their lives by cherry picking stories of a few bad actors to paint hospice is a bad light.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 31, 2023

He spent a long time as hospice medical director and he founded a national model of care that many of our listeners will be familiar with, AIM, which stands for the Advanced Illness Management program, which has influenced CMS policy. Brad, why did you write a book? Today we talk with deep thinkers about this issue. inaudible].

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

This is the subject of Connelly’s recent book, The Journey’s End: An Investigation of Death & Dying in America. Connelly argues that end-of-life care has become “over-medicalized” and that more patients would choose hospice and palliative care if they had a better understanding both of those services and the alternatives.

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Hospice News

APRIL 10, 2024

Ellison is also co-author of the book, Awake at the Bedside: Contemplative Teachings on Palliative and End-of-Life Care. “At The post The Emergence of Contemplative Medicine in Palliative Care appeared first on Hospice News.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 9, 2024

This article is based on a virtual discussion with Kathleen Benton, President and CEO of Hospice Savannah. Hospice News: I’m now pleased to introduce our speaker. Dr. Kathleen Benton is the CEO at Hospice Savannah. This article is sponsored by CareXM. This discussion took place on October 3rd, 2024.

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Hospice News

JUNE 30, 2022

Two Oregon locations included in Humana’s (NYSE: HUM) divestiture of Kindred at Home’s hospice assets are currently under review by the state’s health authority — part of the diligence process involved in any M&A transaction. Last year Humana acquired total ownership of the hospice, home health and personal care provider for $5.7

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GeriPal

JUNE 29, 2023

On last week’s podcast we interviewed the medical director and the chaplain of the prison’s hospice unit (Hospice in Prison Part 1 ). We also had the pleasure to take a walk through the hospice unit garden with Mr. Gerald Hite. Eric: And Alex, last week we did episode one of Hospice in Prison. So take a listen.

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GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

link] Kensington Hospice & ‘Radical Love’ Equity-Oriented Hospice Palliative Care Naheed Dosani also serves as the Medical Director of Kensington Hospice, Torontos largest hospice. Eric 14:48 And even at hospice, a lot of hospices will not. those experiencing homelessness). People who.

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Hospice News

JUNE 14, 2023

Cancer patients in states with laws that require health care providers to provide palliative consultations were more likely to die in the home or in an inpatient hospice setting versus the hospital, a JAMA Network Open study found. More than half (50.1%) of cancer decedents in the study died at home or in hospice, the JAMA study found.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 9, 2023

But last year, all of our clients, every hospice client and tissue bank, was struggling with staffing, burnout and shortages,” Emma Payne, Help Texts founder and CEO, told Hospice News. “So The startup’s business model includes partnerships with hospices. We can’t even read a whole book.

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