Hospice News

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

In this model, a clinician, often a nurse practitioner, is responsible for overseeing all the care a patient receives. These practitioners are backed up by a care coordination staff. Walker said that these teams are always looking at patients through a palliative care lens.

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DECEMBER 17, 2024

Some research efforts have explored the potential for telehealth to be as effective as in-person care delivery and ways that these services have eased care transitions among pediatric and adult patient populations alike.

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DECEMBER 27, 2024

The project is designed to learn more about the innovative, person-centered care models that can help address common challenges that these patients and their caregivers face including approaches that integrate palliative care services.

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AUGUST 29, 2024

recently unveiled a new caregiving program aimed at improving support for patients with dementia-related conditions. Dubbed as Magnolia Care, the decision to launch these new services was in part driven by rising demand as more seniors with Alzheimer’s disease and dementia reach life’s final stages, according to the hospice provider.

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AUGUST 30, 2024

Arkansas-based Hospice of the Ozarks has launched a non-medical care training program to improve caregiving support. The hospice’s new Care Coaching program is being offered at no cost to family caregivers. Providing care coaching could ultimately result in improved goal-concordant outcomes, he stated.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Support for family caregivers of seriously ill patients is both limited and fragmented, but changing the conversation about the end of life could fill some of the gaps. It’s a very heavy burden of caregiving to then step out and start finding the resources that they need.”.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

We need to educate and raise all boats to improve clinical capacity, Twaddle told Palliative Care News. Weve got to support these caregivers, the patients and their families more effectively, but then theres a cost curve. If you parse it out and try to play it cheap with palliative care, youre not going to get those positive outcomes.

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Hospice News

MARCH 19, 2025

The certification signifies that a hospices heart failure program complies with current AHA standards and evidence-based requirements designed by heart failure and home-based care experts. Close to 6.7 million adults aged 20 or older suffer from congestive heart failure in the United States, according to the U.S.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 12, 2024

The payment model is designed to improve quality of life for dementia patients and their caregivers by addressing care coordination, behavioral health and functional needs.

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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. This telehealth utilization has been the most measurable way to see impacts on cost of care and allocation of staff resources, Hale indicated.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

These services have also been associated with reduced caregiver burden and better care coordination, particularly for patients in rural, remote and underserved communities, according to the research. It enhances communication, reduces the financial burden of travel and increases patient and caregiver satisfaction.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 13, 2024

Current payment structures do not sufficiently support the full scope of interdisciplinary care. Among families’ largest unmet needs is finding pediatric palliative care providers nearby, along with care coordination and caregiver support, he indicated.

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AlayaCare

JUNE 27, 2023

EHR systems serve as a centralized platform that facilitates the seamless sharing of client information among healthcare professionals, reducing the risk of miscommunication and enhancing care coordination. Ultimately, EHRs can empower caregivers to provide more accurate and effective care.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

California-based Legacy Health Endowment recently launched a program to improve care coordinations and seniors’ awareness around their community-based health care options, including hospice. Legacy’s Person-Centered Care program aims to help rural-dwelling seniors to age in place.

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JULY 23, 2024

As dementia-related illnesses continue to rise among hospice patients, caregivers and providers alike are working judiciously to best find ways to support patients and their families in navigating these new diagnoses. And it comes with payment to allow organizations like ours to continue to expand our dementia care programs.”

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Some federal legislators are working to address workforce issues in the hospice space, as well as bolstering support for family caregivers. In a fractious political environment, hospice and palliative care policy is one area in which members of both parties find common ground.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Aetna remains focused on providing benefits and services to help our members age in the place that is best for them – whether that is with caregivers or without, in a family home or in a senior living community,” Terri Swanson, president of Medicare for Aetna, told Hospice News in an email. “We

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AUGUST 23, 2024

The new location will allow for improved support for serious and terminally ill patients that lack caregiver support or need higher levels of care, said Dr. Christopher Strzalka, medical director at Julia Hospice & Palliative Care. An estimated 50 patients will be impacted by the temporary closure.

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JULY 10, 2023

As health care stakeholders work to improve care coordination, more hospices are exploring home-based primary care. million primary care visits in 2016. A watchword for many value-based payment models is care coordination.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 9, 2024

The project is designed to learn more about the innovative, person-centered care models that can help address common challenges that these patients and their caregivers face — including approaches that integrate palliative care services. Data may be mounting that supports this theory.

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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.

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Hospice News

JULY 31, 2023

The Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) Model is designed to improve the quality of life for dementia patients and their caregivers by addressing behavioral health and functional needs, as well as better coordinating care and improving care transitions between community, hospital and post-acute settings.

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JULY 10, 2024

Some gaps exist because they can’t access care without much needed specialists [nearby]. Unfortunately, we also see a lot of caregiver strain and stress taking care of these patients.” A wider base of palliative social workers can also be a key to improved patient and caregiver support, Brown indicated.

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Hospice News

MAY 6, 2024

The oncology-focused value-based enabler Thyme Care has launched a virtual palliative care program, branded as Enhanced Supportive Care. The program is designed to help cancer patients and their caregivers manage physical and psychosocial symptoms at home. Dr. Julia Frydman, formerly of Mt.

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AlayaCare

JULY 27, 2022

What is secure messaging and why is it important for home care organizations? It is vital to have a communication platform that is encrypted and meets health information privacy laws, such as HIPAA and PIPEDA, to keep PHI safe within internal communications between caregivers and other staff. Enhance care team efficiency.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

The diversity and wide breadth of services can be beneficial to patient-centered care, she said. Palliative providers can offer consultative services, care coordination assistance, pain and symptom management, different therapies, respite for caregivers and spiritual and emotional support.

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MAY 13, 2024

The study points to the potential for telehealth utilization to improve care coordination and quality for dying pediatric populations, researchers stated. Patients, caregivers and family members surveyed rated the telehealth hospice services as “highly satisfactory,” including those from bereavement staff members along with clinicians.

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JULY 19, 2023

Contributing factors include a generally poor understanding of palliative therapies, the complexity of determining a prognosis and inexperience with end-of-life issues among caregivers, the study showed. Recently, the Chemed Corp. NYSE: CHE) subsidiary VITAS Healthcare received the certification for its Atlanta locations.

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OCTOBER 4, 2022

“Although their paths varied, 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.”.

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Caregiver Support Services

JANUARY 31, 2025

It can be easy to confuse palliative and hospice care, but one difference between them is that your loved one can receive palliative care at any stage of an illness. For caregivers, understanding the 7 Cs of palliative care can transform the caregiving experience into a meaningful and supportive one.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

“For those who are electing a truly curative treatment (such as a third-line chemotherapy with the intent to cure the disease), we recommend that the billing remain the same while fixing issues with Part B palliative care to enable a more holistic experience.”

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AUGUST 30, 2023

““The role of the new nurse navigators was to connect with newly referred patients before their first appointment and educate them on the wide variety of services we can provide them through palliative care,” Espe Lewis stated, according to Oncology Nursing News.

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AlayaCare

JULY 15, 2021

The project has proved a huge success and funding helped push forward other outcome-focused initiatives including: The foundational research and development of a unique algorithm used to optimize visit schedules in order to reduce caregiver travel and safeguard the continuity of care for clients.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

“Since our founding, Canyon Home Care & Hospice has had a long-standing commitment to driving innovation and increasing access to high-quality home health and hospice care,” Eddie Norris, managing partner at Canyon, said in the announcement. Utah holds the highest rate of hospice utilization among Medicare decedents nationwide.

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AlayaCare

JULY 16, 2021

The project has proved a huge success and funding helped push forward other outcome-focused initiatives including: The foundational research and development of a unique algorithm used to optimize visit schedules in order to reduce caregiver travel and safeguard the continuity of care for clients.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 16, 2023

Your palliative care team can be instrumental in listening to the goals of a patient and helping to guide them around the care they desire. It’s building a care plan that is right for the patient and a care coordination plan that addresses that fragmentation. Palliative care is a good care coordinator.

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APRIL 5, 2024

We provide opportunities for children to have a say in their care plan and end-of-life planning. We do a lot of helping caregivers navigate therapeutic interventions, working with medical supplies, coping tools and helping [them] process everything that’s happening.”

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