Hospice News

AUGUST 5, 2022

A direct contracting entity (DCE), CareConnectMD offers primary care, palliative care, and care coordination services. The company’s interdisciplinary care model is “high-touch,” according to Phan. The company expects to begin operating in Las Vegas, Nevada and Arizona next year and in Wisconsin in 2024.

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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

AUGUST 16, 2023

Two barriers interfere with palliative care growth — identifying patients in need and a fragmented reimbursement system, according to Laura Templeton, COO and executive vice president at Compassus. As a nurse, Templeton has leveraged her clinical experiences to help navigate challenges that prevent patients from accessing care.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 30, 2022

The organization, which does business as the Children’s Health Foundation of Oklahoma, will offer the program to practicing physicians in pediatrics and general family medicine, as well as nurses, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, social workers and hospice workers statewide.

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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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Hospice News

JUNE 21, 2023

The serious illness population was a population of focus for us for longitudinal care management, and we needed a toolbox for our providers and for our care coordinators. Meier is the founder, director emerita and strategic medical advisor to the Center to Advance Palliative Care. “Not So, therefore, we had a gap.

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Hospice News

MAY 30, 2023

This type of care is focused on providing relief from the symptoms and stress of the illness. Palliative care is provided by a specialty-trained team of doctors, nurses, social workers, and chaplains who work together with a patient’s other treating clinicians to provide an extra layer of support.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 10, 2024

Valley Health’s palliative care model includes a full interdisciplinary team, including physicians, advanced practice nurses, social workers, chaplains and volunteers.

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Caregiver Support Services

JANUARY 31, 2025

Asking clear questions about treatment options, discussing care goals, and addressing concerns about the future encourage shared decision-making. This ongoing communication helps align everyones expectations, creating a solid framework for care.

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Hospice News

MAY 25, 2023

Nikki Davis: I’m a nurse practitioner and have been working in geriatrics and palliative care for about 21 years now. I have spent about 11 years total with Optum and then worked with Aspire, but now I’m currently working with Contessa and Amedisys to help support palliative care at home programs.

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Hospice News

JUNE 1, 2022

Hospice and palliative care need greater recognition among disciplines across the board, beyond medicine and nursing, according to Eunju Lee, palliative care social worker at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. AAHPM’s chief medical officer, told Hospice News in an email. “The

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Hospice News

AUGUST 29, 2024

The Connecticut Hospice cited several goals of launching the new caregiving program, including implementing best practices in dementia care and assistance managing patient behaviors, among others. billion hours of care provided, valued at nearly $350 billion, the Alzheimer’s Association report found.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 18, 2023

A lack of discussion with an oncologist was a common reason cited for not utilizing palliative care services by about 59% of advanced stage lung cancer patients in a recent survey from the National Cancer Institute. Minneapolis-based Livio Health was later acquired in 2022 by Lifespark, a senior health care company in the state.

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GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

And one of those organizations, Inner City Health Associates, which is a large network of health care professionals who provide health care for people experiencing homelessness, took me up on the offer and basically said, you know, we have some resources. We just hired a nurse. The Peach program has cared for over 1,000 clients.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

. — Beth Klint, CEO, Goodwin Hospice Some of the upfront costs associated with bringing on EOLDs involve those around fine-tuning the referral structure and how these professionals work with care managers, according to Jane Eulers, co-founder and chief doula of Present for You.

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Minority Nurse

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Have you read Part 1 of our interview with popular nurse influencer and nursing advocate Nurse Blake? Whether you know Nurse Blake from his Facebook videos, podcast, live shows, or cruises, he’s proven that he’s a force to be reckoned with! Have you always wanted to be a nurse? Last year, we had 3,500 nurses.

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Home Care Pulse

JUNE 27, 2023

Laura is the executive Vice President of Home Well Care Services. She has been a registered nurse for 29 years and has been with Home well for 10 years. She’s also an active member of Women’s Leadership Group Chief and a Care Switch Advisory Board member. Laura Coyle ( 07:58 ): Our nurses can assist with that.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

So, basically, with a stepped care model, the goal is to tailor care delivery to the patient’s needs while at the same time utilizing less clinician resources. How it works is that all patients will have access or encounters with the specialty trained clinician, a psychologist, a social worker, a palliative care clinician.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

The good news is that the financial case for comprehensive dementia care is changing thanks to a new Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) alternative payment model (APM) called Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) Model. Eric: What got you interested in memory care, dementia, and put you on this path?

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