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Hospices’ Collaboration with Discharge Planners Key to Effective Care Transitions

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Lissy Hu, president of connected networks, CarePort, a WellSky company Among the challenges associated with a hospice discharge is ensuring the timeliness of care — finding a hospice that can be with the patient in their home as soon as possible, according to Joan Carpenter, assistant professor at the University of Maryland School of Nursing.

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Addus Projects ‘Strong, Steady’ Hospice Growth Amid Lingering Pandemic Census Headwinds

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Though same-store hospice average daily census (ADC) volumes rose sequentially by 2.7%, ADC rates fell year-over-year by 1%. State of hospice segment Higher volumes of hospice discharges impacted its ADC and length of stay, according to Bradley Bickham, executive vice president and chief operating officer at Addus. “If

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What New Allegations that HCA Healthcare Pressured Patients Mean for Hospices

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We don’t have all the personal things that are really between the caregiver and the patient,” Joe Lyons, research coordinator for SEIU’s health care division, told Hospice News. “It’s These data trends are especially concerning since HCA has been rapidly expanding in the hospice/home health space in recent years.