Hospice News

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

The Pennant Group has been quietly building palliative care programs driven by its local leaders with support from the corporate offices Service Center. Pennant is the holding company for a group of independent hospice, home health and senior living providers located across 13 states.

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Hospice News

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. The post 5 Hidden Gem Palliative Care News Stories in 2024 appeared first on Hospice News.

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Hospice News

APRIL 29, 2025

Heart to Heart Hospices return on investment in its community-based palliative care service line has come in the form of improved quality and financial outcomes. The results are a product of the hospices recently formed value-based partnership with a leading unnamed Medicare Advantage plan in its home state.

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Hospice News

APRIL 29, 2025

Hospices are taking myriad pathways toward greater service diversification. Service diversification is more than a growing trend in the hospice space, according to Kirva Hospice CEO Cheryl Hamilton Fried. Thats disjointed care, and so we need a solution that allows people to move more smoothly through that process.

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Hospice News

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. “The

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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

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. Hospices will need to be nimble as the future of telehealth unfolds in health care, he said. Currently set to expire Dec.

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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. Earl Blumenhauer (D-Ore.)

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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

JULY 10, 2023

As health care stakeholders work to improve care coordination, more hospices are exploring home-based primary care. Being that full-service solution requires the incorporation of a lot of different kinds of care along the continuum, including longitudinal home-based primary care. About 12% of the 2.1

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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. Also participating in the model are primary care operators that also offer palliative care. Many of those providers agree. million people.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Aetna, a subsidiary of CVS Health (NYSE: CVS), is leveraging a series of new benefits that, coupled with existing palliative care programs and ongoing hospice payment demonstrations, promise to keep patients in their homes and out of facilities. Aetna is now in its second year of participation in the program.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Utah-based Canyon Home Health & Hospice recently acquired Uintah Home Health and Hospice for an undisclosed amount, growing its footprint in the Beehive State state. Uintah Home Health and Hospice patients began receiving services under the Canyon umbrella earlier this month. Its hospice utilization rate reached 60.5%

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Croix Hospice recently unveiled data showing how the company leveraged predictive analytics technology to improve quality outcomes. In 2019 the Minnesota-headquartered hospice provider began utilizing a predictive analytics tool from Medalogix. Croix Hospice. Through the predictive analytics data, hospice patients at St.

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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. Efficiency has become a watchword in the hospice space. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) raised hospice per diems by 3.8% While we believe the 3.8%

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

This year has brought both tumultuous challenges and evolving opportunities for hospices that will steer hospice leadership during 2024. Hospice News spoke with a group of industry leaders about the most impactful forces that will shape the space in the coming year. CEOs and other hospice executives also noted emerging themes.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

As health and hospital systems show a growing interest in home-based care, the competitive landscape for hospices could change — both in terms of market share and staff recruitment. . Some hospice providers feel that this represents a conflict of interest for health systems,Dresang said.

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Hospice News

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

JULY 10, 2024

Palliative care providers can help ensure that these patients don’t “fall through the many cracks” of a fragmented health care system, according to Landon Blankenship, chief nursing officer at Hospice of Southern West Virginia, which provides hospice and palliative care across four counties in the state.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Obstacles in palliative care’s path More physicians offices, primary care providers, hospitals, oncology centers and other facility-based health care providers are stepping into the community-based palliative care space. The diversity and wide breadth of services can be beneficial to patient-centered care, she said.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 4, 2022

As part of that process, CMMI is applying elements of its Medicare Care Choices Model (MCCM) demonstration, which ended Dec. MCCM was designed to test the impact of concurrent hospice and curative care. CMS launched the MCCM in 2016 to explore the idea of allowing hospice patients to receive concurrent curative care.

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Hospice News

JULY 31, 2023

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has unveiled a new payment model demonstration geared toward dementia-related illnesses, which are becoming more prevalent among hospice patients. Patients will be stratified into one of five tiers, based on a combination of their disease stage and caregiver status. million people.

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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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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

JANUARY 8, 2024

A range of palliative care joint ventures , care collaborations and partnerships have evolved in recent years as more health care providers work to address the needs of a swelling aging population. Growth in palliative care will be driven by more promising and sustainable payment, according to Baumgardner.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 16, 2023

As a nurse, Templeton has leveraged her clinical experiences to help navigate challenges that prevent patients from accessing care. Tennessee-based Compassus provides home health, home infusion, hospice and palliative care across 200 locations in 30 states. Palliative care is a good care coordinator.

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Hospice News

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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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 18, 2022

“That gives us powerful insight into how care is being delivered in the home. I would argue there’s been more acuity being moved into the home, and I suspect that genie won’t go back in the bottle,” WellSky CEO Bill Miller told Hospice News. “So Data analytics systems are gaining rising levels of attention in health care.

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Hospice News

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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Hospice News

JANUARY 19, 2024

Hospices and other post-acute health care providers lag behind hospitals and ambulatory settings when it comes to electronic health record (EMR) interoperability. Interoperable technology is designed in part to improve care coordination, transitions of care and administrative functions like quality reporting.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 4, 2023

In this Voices interview, Hospice News sits down with Melissa Kozak, Founder and Head of CitusHealth, to talk abou t the most common deficiencies found in hospice plans of care, and how Citus is helping providers to address them. Hospice News: What are the most common deficiencies found in hospice plans of care?

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Hospice News

APRIL 1, 2024

In this interview, Hospice News sits down with Tim Smokoff, General Manager, Home Health and Hospice, MatrixCare , to talk ab out the most pressing challenge facing providers in today’s hospice landscape — staffing. Hospice News: What life and career experiences do you most draw from in your role today?

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The Caregiving Years Training Academy

SEPTEMBER 9, 2023

I attended a home care conference last week and had an opportunity to listen to the directors of home care, home health and hospice organizations discuss their business. As these directors talked about the direct care worker shortage , I realized something incredibly obvious: Family caregivers solve the shortage.

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Hope Hospice

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

I don’t trust anyone else to provide care for my mother — they may not do things the way I’d like; I’ll just have to fix the mistakes they make, so I might as well do it myself. I’ve often heard these statements and others like them from family caregivers. Providing care for an elderly loved one is full of joys and sorrows.

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Hope Hospice

OCTOBER 5, 2020

The Family Caregiver Alliance has an excellent article that covers almost everything you need to know about hiring in-home care. If you feel uncomfortable requesting help, ask a trusted friend or family member to be your care coordinator. At the end of this article is a worksheet that can help you get started.

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Hope Hospice

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Hope Hospice is publishing a five-part monthly series about common family caregiver mistakes. This series is written by Debbie Emerson , MS, Hope Hospice Community Health Educator. The Family Caregiver Alliance has an excellent article that covers almost everything you need to know about hiring in-home care.

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