Hospice News

JANUARY 31, 2025

Hospices nationwide have been diversifying their services to include palliative care, PACE, home-based primary care and a host of other business lines. A growing number of operators have developed programs tailored to patients with specific diagnoses, providing specialized care tailored to their specific needs.

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JANUARY 31, 2025

The report surveyed thousands of home health, hospice, palliative and home care professionals nationwide about their technology investments in 2025. A large key for hospices to navigate is how quickly technology evolves, and the care delivery and operational challenges associated with that rapid pace, he stated.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Telehealth utilization for palliative care during the last decade has been associated with improved quality of life, patient satisfaction and symptom management. Researchers included palliative care professionals and educators at medical colleges and hospitals in India. The analysis comes at a time when current 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. 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

JULY 10, 2024

Palliative approaches can help address gaps of care among patients with a diverse range of rare chronic and serious illnesses. Although uncommon, the severity of symptoms and increased mortality risks associated with rare diseases is fueling greater demand for more specialized health care professionals.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Interest has mounted in the palliative care arena, but building and sustaining these services requires stronger reimbursement and workforce resources. But insufficient payment pathways represent a large hurdle for palliative care’s growth potential, Kulik said. “If That makes palliative care’s outlook good.

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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 4, 2022

The Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) is developing new reimbursement pathways for palliative care. 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.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 8, 2024

An increasingly diverse base of health care providers have taken an interest in the palliative care space, a trend that could be indicative of how strategic growth is taking shape in the field. As they build out their palliative care programs, many of these organizations are pursuing partnerships to foster coordination and growth.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Researchers are ramping up efforts to better understand the complex trajectories of rare diseases, with evidence mounting around palliative care’s potential to improve outcomes among those patients. This dollar amount includes hospitalizations, health care visits, diagnostic testing and caregiver expenses.

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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.

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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

AUGUST 30, 2023

Oncology nurses at cancer centers across the country are developing ways to improve palliative care referrals for seriously ill patients and families who could benefit from these services. A common thread woven through these referral strategies is expanding palliative care awareness among clinicians across the continuum.

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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. Patients can access palliative care through a number of inroads.

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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

MAY 30, 2023

For Center to Advance Palliative Care’s CEO Brynn Bowman, palliative care represents a fundamental shift in health care delivery as it continues to grow and make an impact on facilities and patients. health care workforce with the skills necessary to care for seriously ill patients and their families.

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Caregiver Support Services

JANUARY 31, 2025

Palliative care plays a significant role in improving the quality of life for individuals managing serious illnesses. 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.

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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. Organizations that are delivering hospice and palliative care now are looking to the future and wanting to provide more of a full-service solution for seriously ill patients,” Singleton told Hospice News.

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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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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

“The investment in Uintah Basin Home Health and Hospice will allow us to enhance the care coordination with Uintah Basin Medical Center and provide better health outcomes for the patients and clients we serve in the Uintah Basin area.”. in 2018, according to the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization.

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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

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

In 2021, Wisconsin-based Aspirus Health System expanded with hospice and palliative care programs in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. That same year EmpRes Healthcare subsidiary Eden Health began offering hospice and palliative care in Idaho Falls. Home health and hospice are critical to the continuum of care.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Hospice care reduces Medicare expenditures by about $3.5 reduction, according to a joint report released in March by the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO), the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC) and NORC at the University of Chicago. It can’t be done in this silo of six months.

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Hospice News

MAY 18, 2022

Data analytics systems are gaining rising levels of attention in health care. Hospice providers in particular are using analytics to identify patients in need of end-of-life or palliative care services further upstream. There is not anything close that measures up to the challenge that they’re seeing.”.

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The Caregiving Years Training Academy

SEPTEMBER 9, 2023

In June, my dad was discharged from the hospital and back to his apartment with home health and palliative care. 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. We step in to provide care.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 3, 2025

For a number of years now, providers have leveraged AI to predict when a patient may become eligible for hospice or to determine the best time to begin palliative care. New frontiers of care Hospice is no longer just hospice, is a saying that has been floating around the space since at least 2019. The Connecticut Hospice Inc.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 24, 2023

There’s also a lack of clarity on disease progression and prognosis, caregiver burden, distress, or difficult to manage symptoms,” Sprauge said at the conference. of patients who were discharged from hospice in 2020 did so while they were still alive, according to the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO).

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Temporary telehealth flexibilities granted during the pandemic have opened up discussions around the future of technology in health care delivery, said Dr. Michael Fratkin, board president at the Institute for Rural Psychedelic Care. Fratkin is also a palliative care specialist at Humboldt Center for New Growth.

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Hospice News

APRIL 11, 2025

Patients with heart failure have multifaceted needs that could be better addressed with stronger palliative care collaborations, recent research has found. Patients who received home-based heart failure management alongside palliative care services also had fewer rehospitalizations over a six-month period compared to others.

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Hospice News

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

AUGUST 13, 2024

A complex web of state regulations and reimbursement systems can challenge pediatric palliative care access for seriously ill children and their families. Our health care system in the United States is really designed for adult illness care. There’s no consistency.”

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Hospice News

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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Hospice News

JULY 8, 2024

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) has launched the Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) payment model with close to 400 participating organizations, including many palliative care providers. The model features reimbursement for care coordination and management, respite services and caregiver education and support.

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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

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. of all patients who received the benefit, the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization reported. Close to 6.7

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Hospice News

AUGUST 23, 2024

Dubbed Julia House, the facility will provide inpatient hospice and serve as an outpatient palliative care clinic. Julia Hospice & Palliative Care is holding a fundraising event on October 5 to garner support to refuel construction efforts. It will be the first hospice center in Erie County, Pennsylvania, the provider indicated.

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