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The Fastest Growing US Hospice Companies

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Our hospice has taken off over the last three years in a pretty steady trajectory. Our strategy is where we have home health care, we move in our hospice and our caregiving service line as well,” Koshevatsky told Hospice News. Hospice isn’t always as welcomed as home health.

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How 3 Hospice Companies Are Beating the Workforce Shortage

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Her idea was to return hospice to its mission-focused roots, leveraging technology for the timely identification of patient needs and reduced burden on staff, as well as developing a culture that has an emphasis on supporting employees as well as family caregivers.

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How to Diversify Services Within the Medicare Hospice Benefit

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Even if you aren’t ready yet to step outside of the hospice box, diversification is possible within the hospice payment system. These types of programs have proliferated among hospice companies in recent years. The hospice and palliative care provider VIA Health has long invested in disease-specific programs.

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New Inpatient Centers Unveiled as Other Hospice Programs Consider Closure

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VITAS operates 55 hospice programs in 15 states and has 11,679 employees. The company has an average daily census of 21,977 and operates 27 inpatient hospice units across its geographic service area. Cherish Hospice has 25 caregiver employees and operates a volunteer program. As we grow, we need more staff.

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SCAN Group Invests in Guaranteed’s ‘Inclusive’ Hospice Technology Services

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The move comes nearly a year after California-based Guaranteed launched in August 2022, when founder and CEO Jessica McGlory began her own provider company two years after her father passed away. SCAN Group, parent company of SCAN Health Plan, is the latest investor in the hospice company.

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Silverstone Hospice’s Pathway to 700% Growth During a Pandemic

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For a year I held the hands of people who were alone,” Montiel told Hospice News. The only thing I’m good at is launching new businesses, so I bought a hospice company. We are caregivers, but before we can do that we have to be educators.”. It was crazy. There are many other ways to make money.

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Blue Monarch CEO: Hospice Startup Seeks to Raise Bar on Quality

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Nurse practitioner Raphael and registered nurse Britt Akobundu, a married couple, launched San Diego-based Blue Monarch Hospice this past March, with the intent of improving the quality of life for not only patients and families, but also health care workers. . We can close that gap. The health care system is strained.

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