Hospice News

JANUARY 22, 2025

Our expansion is a means of ensuring that Agrace meets the growing demand for patient-centered end-of-life care to underserved communities and residents throughout Wisconsin, Kirkland told Hospice News in an email. The Wauwatosa office is home base for our interdisciplinary care team.

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Hospice News

MAY 31, 2024

These efforts come at a time when telehealth utilization is making waves in hospice staff and patient engagement, as well as operational efficiency and care coordination. Legislators recently proposed to extend the telehealth flexibilities temporarily granted during the pandemic.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 19, 2024

We have some core specialty programs here [focused on sleep hygiene, care coordination within facilities and dementia care],” Bristol Hospice CEO Alex Mauricio previously told Hospice News. The company has been a prolific buyer in the M&A market, but more recently has leaned harder into its de novo strategy. “We

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Hospice News

AUGUST 23, 2024

“For people who don’t have a caregiver in their home, we can put them in our facility and they can live there until their natural death, and they’ll have access to specially trained caregivers in end-of-life care,” Strzalka told local news.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 4, 2022

MCCM beneficiaries ultimately appeared to have received better-quality end-of-life care according to established quality measures, such as spending more days at home at the end of life,” CMMI authors wrote in a report attached to the paper.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 30, 2023

The Expanding Access to Palliative Care Act, introduced in June, would direct the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) to develop a dedicated palliative care payment demonstration. One of the obstacles to this is the layers of bureaucracy that pervade the health care system, he said.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 26, 2024

Case in point, the organization recently achieved a Heart Failure Certification from the American Heart Association, which evaluates provides in accordance with evidence-based standards designed to ensure high quality care and adherence to clinical practice guidelines. Close to 6.7

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 10, 2024

During his tenure, he has helped to develop and oversee the launch of the NPHI Innovation Lab, which focuses on designing systematic approaches to improve advanced illness care by examining trends in population health, claims analytics and practice optimization. 3HC Announces New CEO 3HC Home Health & Hospice Care Inc.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Creating a directory of certified providers and services could help facilitate better care coordination and transitions of care, reduce some administrative tasks, and support interoperability throughout the health sector, CMS indicated.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Its services include nursing care, meal preparation, companionship, housekeeping, transportation, assistance with activities of daily living and companionship, and a senior care coordination program. “By Even as demographics drive up demand for serious illness and end-of-life care, public awareness is driving down utilization.

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Hospice News

JULY 17, 2024

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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Hospice News

OCTOBER 20, 2022

The main opportunity is to ensure continuity of care for our members from primary care to end-of-life care. The VBID hospice carve-in allows SCAN to develop the capabilities to oversee end-of-life care in a meaningful way for our members,” Parvinchiha and Kappel said.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

But it’s looking for ways to partner with them and provide true quality end-of-life care. Some hospices have been successful in being a partner in research, education and filling gaps in care. Home health and hospice are critical to the continuum of care. It has not turned out to be a good thing for patients.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

The post-acute data analytics company develops machine learning solutions designed to identify patients in need of home health, hospice or palliative care services as early as possible in the course of their illnesses. Having] these unique insights and focus on end-of-life care also helps St.

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Hospice News

MAY 9, 2022

If there was a way for hospice and palliative care to connect with people, that would be a big step forward.”. ” Fragmentation and variation in advance care planning processes are undermining the effectiveness of those services, according to recent research.

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Hospice News

APRIL 21, 2022

Witnessing the success of that oncology collaboration led physicians in other Summit departments to recognize the benefits of offering palliative care, according to Partners In Care CEO Greg Hagfors. ” Partners In Care offers palliative, home health and community- and facility-based hospice care, among other services.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Changing public messaging around end-of-life care options, as well as community outreach, could help move the needle on hospice utilization and programs to aid caregivers, Dolan told Hospice News.

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Hospice News

JULY 10, 2024

Other often unaddressed aspects include a lack of financial resources, education about their disease progression, advance care planning and goals of care discussions, as well as lagging care coordination and caregiver support, according to Selke. There just aren’t enough of us to go around.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 4, 2023

Patients and families benefit from longer hospice stays in terms of quality experiences and supportive end-of-life care, while Medicare could reap the benefits of lowered health care costs, according to Gurian. We would ultimately see those savings accrue by having people on hospice longer with more care coordination.”

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Hospice News

AUGUST 2, 2023

The focus on gathering data to both measure and understand gaps in access and quality signal an increased drive toward reducing disparities in end-of-life care — a goal regulators and hospice providers can agree upon, according to Ben Marcantonio, COO and interim CEO of the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO).

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

We find that the combination of our death doula plus our spiritual care coordinator gives each patient the flexibility to tailor their hospice experience to best fit their final wishes.” It’s having a different level of expertise when it comes to end-of-life care and helping families process things and have someone they can confide in.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Skilled nursing operators stretching their arms into hospice could help to fill gaps in access to end-of-life care, especially for terminally ill patients who lack caregiver support, according to Hosparus Health CEO David Cook.

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Hospice News

MARCH 10, 2023

The nonprofit offers home- and facility-based hospice, skilled nursing and home health care. Goodwin also has a memory care program and provides personal services to help seniors age in place, such as assistance with care coordination, home repairs and housekeeping.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

These services can be easier to wrap your head around than the last six months of life prognosis for hospice. It’s a way for these diverse populations to build trust with serious illness and end-of-life care providers. This improves patient and family satisfaction and reduces the overall cost burden to the system.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

This entails closer integration with palliative care and innovative payment models that allow for holistic, end-of-life care. Despite the margin pressures witnessed in home health, this shift opens doors to value-based arrangements for end-of-life care.

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Hospice News

MAY 30, 2023

“We envision a large network of not-for-profit, community-based hospice providers working collaboratively to create standards for what a community should expect from an end-of-life care provider.” It makes the patient experience less than ideal,” Fleece said. “It

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Hospice News

MARCH 5, 2024

Some participating plans had certain levels of success – and we have been proud to partner with a number of organizations that used the VBID demonstration effort to find innovative ways to support end-of-life care.

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Hospice News

JULY 11, 2023

In this Voices article, Josie Aquino, Director, Product Management, VNS Health talks about how VNS Health is using data and analytics to improve end-of-life care. Additionally, she discusses VNS’s outcomes-driven approach to end-of-life care, and how they are helping other organizations employ a similar approach.

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1-800-HOSPICE

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Hospice is tailored to symptom control, emotional support, and care coordination during end-of-life care. When patients receive too little time in hospice, families are more likely to be dissatisfied with the end-of-life care. Surprise question effective at predicting end of life.

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AUGUST 18, 2017

This episode features Professor Matthew Allsop (Leeds Institute of Health Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK) who describes a study that outlined and applied an evaluation framework to examine how and when electronic documentation of advance care planning is occurring in end of life care services.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Fried: I think end-of-life care truly needs to be reimagined. The solution really is to redefine end-of-life care, and I really believe that if we don’t own the continuum of that serious and frail population, we will never be able to provide them with a hospice experience.

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AAHPM (American Academy of Hospice and Palliative)

AUGUST 11, 2023

In our discipline of palliative care, understanding the unique needs and characteristics of the population is essential for providing effective and high-quality care. By addressing these dimensions, clinicians enhance the quality of care and the overall well-being of patients. Center to Advance Palliative Care (2015).

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Driving these trends forward is growing recognition around the leading barriers to equitable care, said Altonia Garrett, COO of Virginia-based Blue Ridge Hospice. Garrett is also executive director Blue Ridge Care’s Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging Committee. ““In

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Home-based care providers are able to leverage their experience with community-based care and reach a larger patient population, with palliative care appearing as a key feature of many of these partnerships. To Accelerate Hospice Growth, It’s Time to Embrace ‘The Social Determinants of Death’.

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Hospice News

MAY 13, 2024

This article details recent key research findings on hospice care, including the effects of telehealth utilization among terminally ill pediatric patients, along with barriers to improved goal-concordant end-of-life care in Asia, Canada and Europe.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Now we can talk later on about the different models of paying for care coordination. And if they have symptoms, you address symptoms, and at some point, you might elicit goals and values, and at some point, you might talk about end of life care. So implementing stepped wedge would be hard. Pallavi 09:26 Yeah.

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