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The Senior Living Opportunity for Hospices

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Alivia Care emerged in 2020 when Community Hospice & Palliative Care, now an affiliate, formed a larger company with a broader range of services. The nonprofit provides home care, hospice, advance care and supportive and palliative care across northern Florida and southern Georgia.

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5 ‘Hidden Gem’ Palliative Care News Stories in 2024

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Palliative care providers are becoming a larger part of improving outcomes among patients with rare diseases by helping to address nonmedical needs, symptom management, care coordination, spiritual support and ensuring goal-concordant care delivery.

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Hospices to ‘Optimize’ Telehealth Amid Regulatory Uncertainties

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Current flexibilities have only scratched the surface of possibilities around virtual care in tandem with in-person services, Pathak said. Examining how these services have impacted health care delivery thus far will be key to understanding and shaping future telehealth regulations, he added.

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Transparency Essential to Hospice Compliance in 2024

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Caris Healthcare provides adult and pediatric hospice care to more than 40,000 patients and families across 28 locations in Georgia, Missouri, South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia. Additional services include palliative care, a veterans program and care coordination.

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Diverse Mix of Opportunities, Obstacles in Palliative Care’s Future Outlook

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But insufficient payment pathways represent a large hurdle for palliative care’s growth potential, Kulik said. “If If palliative care is a common provision of services in the marketplace, then the investor world is definitely looking at that,” Kulik told Palliative Care News. “No They’re going to try to spur growth.

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How Palliative Care Fits in to CMMI’s Enhancing Oncology Model

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A new cancer-focused payment model demonstration from the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) could create opportunities for palliative care providers. The goals of the Enhancing Oncology Model (EOM), which went live on July 1, are to improve the quality and reduce the cost of cancer care with augmented care coordination.

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Why Some Referred Patients Never Make It To Hospice

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But this is definitely still not the norm.”. Our health system doesn’t incentivize the type of care coordination that we might need. “Some hospitals have have reengineered their discharge processes to help put instructions in lay language, which is especially important for older, disabled adults.

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