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[UPDATED] NAHC-NHPCO Alliance Taps Dr. Steven Landers as First CEO

Hospice News

Landers is a board-certified physician in hospice and palliative care, as well as family and geriatric medicine. We will ensure that health care at home continues to evolve as an integral and vital partner in the continuum of care in America.” He also holds a masters degree in public health policy and management.

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Hospices Leverage Partnerships to Scale Palliative Care Programs

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Limited pathways to reimbursement and workforce shortages are the largest hurdles for growth among community-based palliative care programs. Some providers have a learning curve around the complex process of working out payer contracts and sustainable business models for their community-based palliative care programs, according to Goldstein.

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Steve Landers, MD, MPH, Named Inaugural Chief Executive Officer of NAHC-NHPCO Alliance

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Landers brings almost two decades of experience as a physician, executive leader and health policy advocate to The Alliance, which represents care at home and community providers across the country. Dr. Landers has dedicated his career to seeking home- and community-based health care solutions for people of all ages.

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Voices: ??Dr. Khai Nguyen, National Medical Director, Geriatrician, CHAP

Hospice News

What is age-friendly care, and why is it important now? One of the significant innovations that I’m very happy to bring forward on behalf of CHAP is Age-Friendly Care at Home. Hartford Foundation for bringing age-friendly care and the 4Ms Framework into the home and community-based health care settings—especially hospice.

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Palliative Care Panel: A Discussion with Axxess

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Tina Taylor: I’m Tina Taylor, vice president of palliative care at Compassus. I am responsible for our national palliative care programs across the nation. I am an acute care and adult and geriatric certified nurse practitioner. Andrews: That loss leader strategy, and the right level of care at the right time.

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Hospice Researchers Seek to Untangle Possible Relationships Between Tax Status and Outcomes

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Sean Morrison, director at the National Palliative Care Research Center (NPCRC). Katz Professor and chair of the Brookdale Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine at Mount Sinai. Live discharges occur in less than 10% of patients at nonprofit hospices, study author Lauren Hunt indicated.

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Evaluating Alternate Payment Models in Hospice and Palliative Care

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Contessa has done high acuity care, relatively new to the palliative part of the business, but Amedisys has palliative that stretches over both the traditional hospice side of the business, as well as on the Contessa side. How do we create a win-win-win type of scenario within the VBID program or alternate payment models? It only makes sense.