Hospice News

MARCH 21, 2025

The hospice industry is undergoing a transformative period of rising demand and regulatory changes. Levy recently sat down with Hospice News to discuss the array of regulatory and legislative evolutions on the horizon in hospice care delivery. What is key for hospices to navigate these challenges?

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Hospice News

MARCH 28, 2025

Dual pieces of legislation are circulating in New York proposing to block the entry of new for-profit hospices and limit expansion of existing entities in the state. If enacted, the bills would prohibit the establishment of new for-profit hospices in New York. Despite growing demand, hospice utilization runs low in the Empire State.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 31, 2025

Hospices see improved quality and operational efficiency as their biggest return on technology investments in three key areas. Keeping pace with the evolving technology landscape can be pivotal for hospices sustainability as rising demand pressurizes workforces, Pathek indicated. Croix Hospice.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 29, 2025

Grief support service lines can be an important pathway for hospices to reach communities outside of their patient populations. Ensuring that hospices bereavement programs are equipped to support grieving families of all walks takes thoughtful consideration and a two-pronged strategic approach, she stated.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Rising competition in the hospice space has fueled pivotal changes in end-of-life care delivery both for better and for worse, according to Arizona-based Hospice of the Valley Executive Director Debbie Shumway. We began in 1977 as a nonprofit hospice, and we are still a nonprofit today.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 11, 2024

The Chicago-based Elea Institute is seeking to improve public awareness of hospice and palliative care as well as convene discussions about ways to rethink the Medicare benefit. One is access to hospice and palliative care and serious illness care, then education and awareness. We boiled it down to three major areas.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Hospice providers have leveraged data in various ways to both identify and address the biggest barriers to access and unmet needs among underserved terminally ill patient populations. CBPR practices allow hospices to ask deeper questions beyond patient and family health care experiences, such as their values, beliefs and daily challenges.

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Hospice News

MARCH 21, 2025

Staff development, technology adoption and steady organic growth are top priorities for Family Hospice CEO Charles Hall as he takes the helm at that organization. Family Hospice was founded by Jack Draughon and Mark Kempsey three years ago. My father had been in hospice. Army officer.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Aveanna Healthcare Holdings (Nasdaq: AVAH) is ramping up its merger and acquisition activity in the home health and hospice space heading into next year. The Atlanta-headquartered company has set its strategic sights on both private duty nursing and hospice and home health, according to Aveanna CEO Jeff Shaner. The company saw a 6.5%

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Family caregiver support is lacking across organ transplant centers nationwide. Most transplant centers require that a caregiver be present and available to patients in order for them to be considered for a transplant, Montoya told Palliative Care News. Only 3% of transplant centers perform caregiver reviews at regular intervals.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 17, 2025

Some hospices have delved deeper into service diversification to improve timely access and expand their patient reach, while others remain focused on end-of-life care delivery. The San Antonio, Texas-headquartered company provides hospice, home health, veterans services, assisted living and skilled nursing services.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Hospice News explores the issues garnering growing attention in end-of-life care delivery in seven of this years hidden gem stories. Topics span trends related to program integrity, workforce development, health equity, service diversification and the keys to hospices growth strategies. Optum completed its $5.4

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Hospice News

APRIL 9, 2025

Providing support and care to seriously ill loved ones comes with myriad difficulties for todays family caregivers. A new documentary film, Caregiving, depicts the most pressing issues among these unpaid caregivers, as well as the historic and novel efforts to address them. All of us can help to raise the banner for caregivers.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has issued a memo to accreditation bodies and state agencies advising surveyors to watch out for potential hospice fraud. These actions were spurred by a rash of fraudulent hospices that have emerged primarily in California, Texas, Nevada and Arizona.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Blue Ridge Care Hospice is partnering with Laurel Ridge Community College to provide greater exposure to hospice care to students in its emergency medical services and nursing programs. The Virginia-based nonprofit expects the partnership to help bolster the hospice clinical workforce.

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Hospice News

APRIL 7, 2025

Social media has emerged as a crucial engine for hospice marketing, allowing them to reach consumers directly rather than through a referral source. Hospices can post on social media with a few clicks of a mouse, but marketing effectively via those channels requires a bit more thought.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Georgia-based Hospice Savannah Inc. Relatively few CAPABLE programs exist in the Southeast, according to Kathleen Benton, president and CEO of Hospice Savannah. Hospice Savannahs CAPABLE program is designed to help improve general safety, reduce falls and increase accessibility and improve functional abilities in the home.

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Hospice News

APRIL 30, 2024

Given the significance of family caregivers in hospice care, providers can benefit from having tools to assess whether or not they are experiencing burnout. Caregiver burnout carries high risk for emotional, social and financial consequences for caregivers. There’s a very high number of U.S.

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Hospice News

MAY 2, 2022

The nation’s health care system is lacking in support for caregivers of the terminally ill, who are often left with a heavy financial and logistical burden. Without assistance or relief, these difficulties can impede access to hospice. The California-based company provides palliative care and offers caregiver support group series.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Given the critical role of family caregivers in home-based care, hospices have a vested interest in expanding their access to support. And while hospices offer social workers and spiritual care, many families continue to have unmet needs that could impede some patients’ access to hospice.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Hospice providers have made recent moves to boost family caregiver support as access to respite care and other resources lags. Massachusetts-based NVNA and Hospice is among these providers. The company recently launched a new support group for adult caregivers of oncology patients.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 23, 2025

The Foundation of Community Hospice & Palliative Care is fueling the launch of a new pediatric center in northern Florida that will support serious and terminally ill youths and their families. The building is going to offer a sense of community for our kids care families, Tuttle told Hospice News.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Several executives are stepping into new roles at hospice organizations across the country as the new year draws near. Brand was previously senior vice president of hospice and palliative care at New York-based VNS Health, holding a similar role at CareCentrix prior to that. Nasdaq: PNTG). million in Fiscal Year (FY) 2022.

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Hospice News

MARCH 21, 2025

Croix Hospice has opened a new office in its home state to support clinical capacity during a time of expansion. Located in Eagan, Minnesota, the office will serve as a hub for the companys interdisciplinary hospice team in the area. Croix Hospices new location. In addition to hospice, St. Minnesota-headquartered St.

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Hospice News

APRIL 19, 2024

Improving education and training for family caregivers may give hospices’ quality scores a boost. Maryland-based Hospice of the Chesapeake has introduced a standardized caregiver training program designed to enhance the work they had previously done in this area. Caregivers] might be in need of support themselves.

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HopeHealth

APRIL 30, 2024

With each experience, she discovered another aspect of hospice — and another way she wanted to pay it forward. The post Daughter, friend, “caregiver to the caregiver”: The path & passion of a hospice volunteer appeared first on HopeHealth. Joan’s mother, father and dear friend passed away on HopeHealth’s care.

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Hospice News

MARCH 13, 2025

Aveanna Healthcare Holdings (Nasdaq: AVAH) is putting home health and hospice at the forefront of its growth sights in 2025 through a mix of strategic approaches. Aveanna has seen consecutive periods of growth in its home health and hospice business line. Additionally, the companys home health and hospice revenues reached $54.4

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Hospice News

MARCH 18, 2025

Indiana-based Center for Hospice Care (CHC) has revamped its respiratory care program for patients with lung disease after a temporary pause during the pandemic. Home-based hospice patients with primary pulmonary diagnoses are eligible to receive services through CHCs BreatheEazy program.

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Hospice News

MARCH 17, 2025

While Congress has avoided another telehealth cliff and we are grateful for the six-month extension provided, access to care for millions of Medicare patients, including six million seniors that rely on telehealth services, remains at-risk, Mirich said in a statement shared with Hospice News.

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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. Patients do not need to be hospice eligible for caregivers to receive these services.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 5, 2024

Forging stronger interdisciplinary relationships with behavioral health experts could help hospice providers ease caregiver burdens that can impact quality of end-of-life care. A growing aging population is putting pressure on today’s family caregivers with competing priorities. Photo by Merz Photography.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Without family caregivers, many hospice patients would be unable to receive care in their homes. To help keep patients at home — the lowest-cost setting of care — the federal government recently unveiled a National Strategy to Support Family Caregivers, which has more than two decade’s worth of advocacy behind it. .

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Hospice News

APRIL 3, 2024

Palliative care delivered via telehealth is effective at improving access to caregiver support. For the study, caregivers of hospitalized patients who dwell in rural areas participated in a randomized, 8-week intervention consisting of video visits conducted by a palliative care-certified registered nurse.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

In today’s hospice environment, providers are continually asked to do more with less. The Impact of AI on Hospice Operations AI’s impact on hospice care is accelerating, primarily due to its capacity to streamline processes and reduce the administrative workload for staff. Enter artificial intelligence (AI).

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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

JUNE 28, 2024

Dallas-based senior care provider Elara Caring has acquired Caregivers Home Health, expanding its footprint in Kansas and Iowa. We are excited to welcome our new caregivers and patients in Kansas and Iowa,” said Scott Powers, CEO and chairman of Elara Caring, in a statement. “Our

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Hospice News

JANUARY 18, 2024

Without family caregivers, most hospice and palliative care patients would be unable to receive care in the home. Now, some emerging payment models are including caregiver support as a key component. The model comes at a time when dementia-related illnesses are on the rise among hospice patients.

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