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Future Leaders: Logan Hoover, VP, Policy and Government Relations, National Alliance for Care at Home

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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. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS)] efforts there. To see this year’s Future Leaders, visit [link]. It’s slow.

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The Senior Living Opportunity for Hospices

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Many seniors are looking to assisted or senior living facilities as they age, Susan Ponder Stansel, CEO of Florida-based Alivia Care, said at the Hospice News ELEVATE conference in Orlando, Florida. My generation, baby boomers, were not going to a nursing home.

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The Problematic State of Health Equity in Hospice

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Peeling back problematic barriers Caucasians and individuals in urban areas have historically been the largest patient populations to access hospice care. White Medicare decedents represented 86% of individuals who utilized hospice in 2023, reported the National Alliance for Care at Home. in 2023, compared to 17.9%

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Incoming Samaritan CEO Phillip Heath: Reduce Dependence on Medicare

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I think the last area that’s been important to us to recruit outside of our physicians, and our nurse practitioners have been in our palliative medicine area and our primary care practice. Why is it important to reduce that dependence on Medicare reimbursement? We say that we can skip and modify the care plan.

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Renovus Capital Partners Acquires Hospice Provider Superior Health Holdings

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. “We are excited to partner with the seasoned and accomplished team at Renovus as we look forward to bringing Superior’s high-quality and compassionate care to more patients and families across the region,” said Superiors CEO David Martin, in a statement. This is a rate of 48.2%.

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Contessa’s Lessons Learned on Risk-Based Palliative Care

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As Contessa Health pioneers a growing value-based palliative care-at-home program, they’ve encountered some learning curves when it comes to operating within a new payment system. Contessa is a subsidiary of Amedisys (NASDAQ: AMED), which the home health and hospice provider acquired in 2021 for $250 million.

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

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The Alliance hinted that it was inching closer to a leadership decision earlier this month after completing an affiliation in June between the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC) and the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO). Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), the U.S.