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5 ‘Hidden Gem’ Palliative Care News Stories in 2024

Hospice News

Palliative care providers are becoming a larger part of improving outcomes among patients with rare diseases by helping to address nonmedical needs, symptom management, care coordination, spiritual support and ensuring goal-concordant care delivery.

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The Senior Living Opportunity for Hospices

Hospice News

Many seniors are looking to assisted or senior living facilities as they age, Susan Ponder Stansel, CEO of Florida-based Alivia Care, said at the Hospice News ELEVATE conference in Orlando, Florida. My generation, baby boomers, were not going to a nursing home.

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CAPC CEO Brynn Bowman: Palliative Services Are a Fundamental Shift in Health Care

Hospice News

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. While the large majority of U.S.

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4 Pillars Underlying the Amedisys, Option Care Health Transaction

Hospice News

And throughout health care, change is certainly in the air, with value-based payment models as key drivers. For one, care coordination is a watchword within the value-based programs. Historically, home-based care and hospice providers have worked primarily within Medicare fee-for-service models.

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Bartlett Regional Hospital Gets Green Light to Take Over Hospice Services, Executives Step Down

Hospice News

HHCJ received Medicare certification in 2006 and was operated by Catholic Community Services prior to its closure. The home health and hospice provider’s additional services included bereavement care, as well as free medical equipment loans for wheelchairs, walkers, crutches, bath benches, bedside commodes or canes.

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Stratis Health Builds Framework for Expanding Rural Community-Based Palliative Care

Hospice News

Oftentimes it’s either combination of home visits and telephonic services. Sometimes they might be doing consultations either inpatient or in the nursing home or in assisted living. There are things you can bill for, particularly your traditional Medicare; you can bill for some of the clinician visits.

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ACHC Ushers in 2 Home-Based Care Distinction Programs

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The Home Health Distinction in Outcomes is designed to recognize strong performance in three domains — patient outcomes, patient satisfaction and health care utilization. These metrics are rooted in the U.S. Those agencies that score in the top 25% of their cohort are eligible to receive the distinction.