Hospice News

JANUARY 28, 2025

With a robust and growing membership and an engaged board, the Academy is strongly positioned to be a leading voice for hospice and palliative care physicians and professionals. He was also a member of the Palliative and End-of-Life Care Standing Committee at the National Quality Forum. Annes Nursing Center.

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Hospice News

MARCH 7, 2025

As a result of that and because I knew that this is part of my mission, I decided to advocate for representation, to advocate for closing that utilization gap among underserved communities and to advocate for challenging the stigma of care at home. You cant just pick up a model of care and drop it into a different city or region.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 3, 2024

A coalition of hospice, home health and palliative care organizations has called on Congress to extend temporary telehealth flexibilities implemented during the pandemic. Doing so would help ensure continued access to quality care among vulnerable patient populations, according to the organizations. Currently set to expire Dec.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Hospice and palliative care will be a “strong focus” of services provided at the new senior living facility, Heartlinks Adult Family Home, said Shelby Moore, the organization’s executive director. There are very limited respite care options in our region. Launching this adult family home gives us a way to fill those gaps.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

The new location will allow for expanded access to end-of-life care and caregiver support, according to Robert Watson, who will serve as its new executive director. When medicine cannot provide a cure, hospice redefines hope in terms of a patient’s quality of life,” Watson said in a statement.

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NHPCO

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 20, 2024 Photo Link (Alexandria, VA) – The National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) hosted its annual leadership conference (ALC2024) in Denver, Colorado September 14–18, 2024. Attendees joined the Opening Keynote, Daniel Kraft, MD, healthcare futurist, innovator, physician, and scientist.

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Hospice News

JULY 17, 2024

Dubbed Alivia Care @ Home, its services include home health, private duty and supportive care (community-based palliative care). Featuring these three service areas was key in designing a care model aimed at meeting patients’ individualized needs, according to Susan Ponder-Stansel, Alivia Care’s president and CEO.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 25, 2024

The expansion is driven by growing demand for end-of-life care in the northern Tampa Bay area, according to Jalisha Wynn, general manager for VITAS. “At The company most recently expanded in with two new locations in California, which will provide hospice, palliative care and veteran services, among others.

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Hospice News

JUNE 6, 2022

.” Future partnerships could also fuel the expansion of the company’s core home health and hospice assets in large markets, where they can offer a continuum of care from hospital-at-home to end-of-life care, according to Gerard. But according to Gerard the company is just getting warmed up. “We

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NHPCO

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Award presentations began on Sunday, September 15 with the NHPCO Founders Awards , honoring exceptional individuals whose pioneering vision, leadership, and innovative spirit have significantly contributed to the advancement and success of the hospice and palliative care community. NHPCO’s We Honor Veterans program presented two awards.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

The program is designed to recognize up-and-coming industry members who are shaping the next decade of home health, hospice care, senior housing, skilled nursing, and behavioral health. Unfortunately, I was told, “Oh, no, don’t start your career in end-of-life care. It may be where you end your career.”

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Hospice News

APRIL 4, 2024

Calls are growing louder for Congress to build stronger reimbursement and workforce incentives aimed at improving the availability and sustainability of rural-based end-of-life care. The letter described experiences of rural-based hospice and palliative care providers, highlighting examples of common challenges they experience.

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Hospice News

MAY 12, 2022

The Elizabeth Hospice is a San Diego-based nonprofit provider that in 2021 cared for 2,667 hospice patients as well as 756 who received palliative care. McSpadden also serves on board of directors for the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) and as the committee chair of the Quality and Standards Committee.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 13, 2024

The case illustrates the scale of activity occurring among fraudulent actors seeking a profit while providing poor or negligent care and exploiting the vulnerability of specific patient populations. #3: NAHC and NHPCO have since joined forces to form the National Alliance for Care at Home. reduction. . #4:

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NHPCO

AUGUST 10, 2023

Some 12 million patients depend on home care and hospice providers, who depend on NAHC for the best in advocacy, education, and information. NAHC is a nonprofit organization that helps its members maintain the highest standards of care. To learn more, visit nahc.org.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 30, 2024

For decades, the Carter family has championed open dialogue about the needs of patients at the end of life, Dr. Vicki Jackson, board president of the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (AAHPM), told Hospice News in an email.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Temporary telehealth flexibilities granted during the pandemic have opened up discussions around the future of technology in health care delivery, said Dr. Michael Fratkin, board president at the Institute for Rural Psychedelic Care. Fratkin is also a palliative care specialist at Humboldt Center for New Growth.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Carters hospice experience illustrated a tremendous need for change around end-of-life care delivery while elevating a larger conversation about these services in the public eye, according to a spokesperson at Enhabit Inc. NYSE: EHAB). Regardless of length of stay, hospice saves Medicare roughly $3.5

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

End-of-life care models have increasingly diversified to reach a broader range of patients with different beliefs, values and spiritual outlooks, according to Altonia Garrett, COO of Blue Ridge Hospice. Improved health equity outcomes in part drove Kentucky-based Bluegrass Care Navigators to launch a PACE program in 2022.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Hospices’ public outreach efforts have evolved in recent years, with providers finding new strategies to dispel myths that have long impeded access to care. Nearly half, or 49.1%, of all Medicare decedents utilized hospice services in 2022, reported the National Alliance for Care at Home.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Initiatives like these allow health systems the opportunity to not only capitalize on growing demand, but also to address a more comprehensive range of their patients’ health needs in the setting that most prefer, according to Angel Vargas, vice president of Care at Home for Kaiser Permanente. Census Bureau.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 22, 2024

Eduardo Bruera is a true pioneer in the field of palliative care. Bruera founded the first academic fellowship program in palliative care at the University of Alberta in Canada. This department has emerged as the largest clinical and academic palliative care program in the world. What drew you to the palliative care field?

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Evidence-Based Nursing - BMJ blogs

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

In this week’s blog, the 5th and final of our CYP series, Gilda Davis @GildaMDavis, Senior Lecturer in Children’s Nursing at the University of Worcester discusses challenges affecting children’s palliative care. As such, the services that are currently available are going to find themselves under further increasing pressure.

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NHPCO

JUNE 18, 2024

and Alexandria, VA – On June 10, the Board Chairs and chief executive officers of the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC) and the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) met in Washington, D.C. Together, we will make home the center of health care.”

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NHPCO

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

NHPCO is currently integrating into the Alliance, a newly-formed national organization that is combining the two leading organizations supporting the care-at-home community – NHPCO and the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC).

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NHPCO

JULY 28, 2023

The study was funded by the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC) and the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO). Susan Lloyd, CEO of Delaware Hospice shared her personal experience with her mother’s end of life care. With hospice, you can provide that care at home.”

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NHPCO

DECEMBER 19, 2023

The HAN Angel Awards were created to recognize select members of Congress on both sides of the aisle for their ongoing efforts to amplify the voices of patients, families, providers, and those advocating for the vital mission of hospice and palliative care in supporting patients and their families facing serious or life-limiting illness.

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NHPCO

MARCH 21, 2023

The study was funded by the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC) and the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO). Key findings from the study include the following: NORC estimates that Medicare spending for those who received hospice care was $3.5

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Traditions Health

MAY 6, 2024

Home health care, when a health provider comes to your loved one’s home to provide professional care, can be a great option for patients who are recovering from a stroke. For patients with terminal health problems after a stroke, hospice care may be an alternative to provide palliative, end-of-life care.

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SAGE Palliative Medicine & Chronic Care podcast

MAY 7, 2019

Research suggests that people generally would like to receive their end of life care at home. The authors found that people's preferences for place of end of life care depended on various factors. This study aimed to examine the decision making process of how preferences are formed.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Fraudulent hospice billing practices are slowing growth among legitimate providers and impairing their ability to enhance quality care delivery, said Patrick Harrison, senior director of regulatory and compliance at the National Alliance for Care at Home.

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Hospice News

MARCH 11, 2025

I started as a hospice CNA in 2006 and worked in hospice and palliative care across various clinical roles before transitioning to the operations side and eventually into executive leadership. If the industry can navigate this shift intentionally, hospice will be well-positioned to continue delivering the compassionate care its known for.

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