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JANUARY 31, 2025

We are very pleased with how technology in concert with caregiver judgment has positively impacted our patient care and engagement, as well as the ability to empower staff throughout the organization to work at the top of their skill set, Arnold told Hospice News in an email. ROI is huge when looking for long-term solutions.

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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 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 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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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

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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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

APRIL 29, 2025

The organization has been building a pipeline of disease-specific programs, including a congestive heart failure program designed to ensure high-quality care coordination and caregiver support, among other goals. VIA Health Partners palliative program has an annual census of roughly 3,000 patients, Forman said.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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

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 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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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 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

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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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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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Technology, cost control, and family caregiver support have emerged as cost-saving strategies as headwinds mount for hospice providers. Utilizing technology in their staffing processes can aid hospices in better care coordination, reduce unnecessary patient visits, and cut staff travel costs, Teslik added.

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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. Even more importantly, it’s helping with staff satisfaction.

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AlayaCare

APRIL 18, 2023

The AlayaLabs group at AlayaCare took this challenge on by applying advanced algorithms to analyze workforce availability, client preferences, and skillsets to match patient care needs for continuity. Visit Optimizer removes these time-consuming pain points within a fraction of the time.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 8, 2024

More primary care providers are seeing community-based palliative care as an opportunity to bridge gaps among underserved populations, such as seriously ill patients in rural regions, according to Baumgardner. Similar reasons are driving more hospitals and health systems to collaborate with palliative providers, Baumgardner stated.

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MAY 30, 2023

Palliative care services including skilled conversations with patients and families to understand their goals of care, managing pain and other symptoms, support for family caregivers, care coordination, and addressing patients’ social, psychological, and spiritual sources of suffering.

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Caregiver Support Services

MARCH 17, 2024

You’re a caregiver juggling the demands of caring for a loved one. Caregiving can feel overwhelming and isolating. But, caregiver support services are always changing. And, it’s all tailored to your unique caregiving situation. They are especially useful for caregiver support services.

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AlayaCare

JUNE 13, 2023

In home care, there’s about a 100,000-person administrative workforce that gets very little training, and with every scheduler that you lose, you would lose approximately five or ten caregivers. Training helps address the issue of caregiver turnover. However, it’s essential not to lose sight of the clients and their needs.

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Hospice News

MAY 18, 2022

Hanging onto great caregivers has been the number one issue and concern of all of our clients, bar none,” Miller said. Now roll the tape forward 15 months, [CarePort] has been more critical to our growth and that network and care coordination capabilities than anything else we’ve done, particularly over the last two years,” Miller said.

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AlayaCare

JULY 3, 2023

The importance of secure communication in home care agencies Home care agencies deal with a lot of sensitive client information every day. Effective and safe communication allows caregivers, clinicians, and administrative staff to share sensitive information, coordinate care plans, and keep everything running smoothly.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Some hospices have been successful in being a partner in research, education and filling gaps in care. The bottom line is that by helping provide the right care, it also really does include providing great education and support for family caregivers because ultimately, this staffing shortage is going to affect all of health care.”.

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