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

MAY 14, 2024

Hospices and other health care providers are increasingly recognizing the value proposition of end-of-life doulas. Collins is also a certified hospice and palliative care nurse and end-of-life doula. She serves as vice-chair of the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization’s (NHPCO) End-of-Life Doula Advisory Council.

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Traditions Health

JANUARY 12, 2025

Hospice care is an option for someone who has been diagnosed with a terminal illness and a life expectancy of six months or less. Your family can arrange hospice care at a hospital, inpatient hospice facility, long-term care facility, or home. People often choose hospice at home because its a familiar, relaxed environment.

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Hospice Promise

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Being a caregiver is a deeply rewarding but often overwhelming responsibility, and it’s more okay to need help along the way. Here are some gentle reminders and tips to support you, courtesy of our own Hospice Promise social workers: Lean on Others: Take classes, research online, or join a support group.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 28, 2025

A range of new hospice executives have been recently tapped to lead organizations nationwide. AAHPM Announces New President-Elect Dr. Arif Kamal recently became the new president-elect of the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (AAHPM). The hospice provider has inpatient care centers at Holy Cross Hospital, St.

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Hospice News

MARCH 12, 2025

This involves more goals-of-care discussions that place patients in decision-making roles as they reach adulthood while also balancing the integration of support from their parents, guardians or caregivers, he stated. The post Transitioning Pediatric Patients Into Adult Palliative Care Programs appeared first on Hospice News.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 29, 2025

Huse and Saint Martin cite interest in a multidisciplinary approach, including physicians, nurses, community health workers, chaplains, and social workers, as well as family caregivers. The post Michigan Center for Rural Health Working to Expand Rural Palliative Care appeared first on Hospice News.

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Hospice News

JULY 2, 2024

With increasing need for programs that aid caregivers, RUSH University Medical Center’s Caring for Caregivers (C4C) as an example of a hospital service that assists family members and friends who care for adults 60-years and older in their homes. population) who provide care for family members with chronic and serious conditions.

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Hospice News

JUNE 13, 2022

As hospices sweat over recruitment and retention, many say that competition on wages and benefits is the leading barrier, as well as widespread misperceptions of their services. The survey was designed to identify best practices related to home health and hospice providers’ most pressing problems.

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Traditions Health

JANUARY 5, 2025

Although you may have heard of hospice care , you may not know how its actually arranged. Because hospice is for terminally ill patients, it can be difficult to talk about for yourself or your loved one. Here is a guide to understanding the hospice admissions process. Why hospice care? Of course, every patient is unique.

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Hospice News

JULY 26, 2024

Hospices combat both operational and financial challenges as they seek to grow and evolve their veteran programs around the diverse and complex needs of patients and their families. I think that’s a challenge that a lot of hospices run into.” So if they see a social worker coming in, they may not be receptive.

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Hospice News

JUNE 30, 2022

Texas-based senior living provider EdenHill Communities recently expanded to offer hospice services. The continuing care retirement community (CCRC) is located on a 27-acre campus, in which eligible residents are now able to access in-house hospice services. The company previously outsourced hospice services for residents.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Wages for hospice aides and CNAs are rising faster than those for other interdisciplinary team members as providers seek to stem rampant turnover among those employees. There’s a shortage of hospice and palliative care trained physicians across the country.”. These nurses saw average national salary increases of 5.95% in 2022.

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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. Nearly two-thirds (63.7%) reported that they used savings, borrowed money or increased credit card debt to pay for costs associated with caregiving.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Medicare Advantage organization SCAN Group has invested an undisclosed dollar amount in tech-enabled hospice startup Guaranteed. SCAN Group, parent company of SCAN Health Plan, is the latest investor in the hospice company. Let’s build the best hospice path that is specific to the patient as possible.”

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 13, 2023

VITAS Healthcare Expands Hospital-Based Inpatient Hospice Center Chemed Corp. NYSE: CHE) VITAS Healthcare recently expanded its inpatient hospice care unit at the Florida-based Broward Health Medical Center. Miami-based VITAS has provided community- and facility-based hospice care in the Broward County area since 1980.

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Hospice News

MAY 20, 2022

have reintroduced the Palliative Care and Hospice Education Training Act (PCHETA), designed to bolster the field’s shrinking workforce with federal support. . If enacted, PCHETA would support hospice and palliative care training programs for physicians, nurses, pharmacists, social workers and chaplains.

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Hospice News

MAY 30, 2023

Los Angeles-based Hospice Home Care recently rolled out a scholarship program for hospice aides in a move towards building career pathways and improving retention. Los Angeles County needs to hear the voices of those who provide Los Angeles hospice care to the residents of this county as they near the end of life.”

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Croix Hospice recently unveiled data showing how the company leveraged predictive analytics technology to improve quality outcomes. In 2019 the Minnesota-headquartered hospice provider began utilizing a predictive analytics tool from Medalogix. Croix Hospice. Through the predictive analytics data, hospice patients at St.

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Hospice News

JUNE 13, 2024

Hospice staff training models with culturally appropriate LGBTQ+ components are key to improving quality outcomes among an increasingly diverse base of underserved seniors. It is important to create a comfortable space for patients to express who they are, feel seen and obtain appropriate medical care,” Fried told Hospice News. “We

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Hospice News

JULY 10, 2024

Palliative care providers can help ensure that these patients don’t “fall through the many cracks” of a fragmented health care system, according to Landon Blankenship, chief nursing officer at Hospice of Southern West Virginia, which provides hospice and palliative care across four counties in the state.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 28, 2023

Employee and patient safety concerns represent a barrier to hospice care among underserved, urban communities, particularly those with higher crime rates. The hospice provider has an eight-county service region in the Tallahassee, Florida area. Recent data on hospice home health care workplace violence are sparse.

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Hospice News

JUNE 27, 2022

Individually, palliative care and social determinants programs both have the potential to improve quality of life and reduce costs — but that potential may be greater when the two are combined. Social and economic factors like these drive 40% of health outcomes, according to the Better Medicare Alliance. Cameron Muir, M.D.,

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Guaranteed’s New SVP of Growth, Strategy Tech-enabled hospice startup Guaranteed has named Ryan Malone as its new senior vice president of growth and strategy. Its technology platform connects patients and family members to palliative and hospice nurses, social workers, spiritual coordinators and other interdisciplinary staff.

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Hospice News

JULY 13, 2023

The health care space — including hospice — is increasingly shaped by numbers. During the past several years hospice providers have had to become experts in data management in order to remain competitive. Hospices’ cost-savings potential A study published in March revealed that hospice saved Medicare roughly $3.5

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Goals-of-care conversations, referrals to hospice, supporting a patient and a caregiver, symptom management,” Chiang said. “We In addition to being a primary care physician, Chiang is board certified in hospice and palliative medicine and to date has made more than 37,000 house calls to more than 3,600 patients.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Hospices are allocating more financial and operational resources on staffing initiatives than ever before to remain afloat and grow. Recruitment and retention have been top of mind for hospice providers amid ongoing workforce shortages that have only worsened with the pandemic. This is a rise from 33% the prior year.

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Hospice News

MARCH 26, 2023

When it comes to labor, hospice providers are walking a balance beam between the need to increase capacity and the long-term sustainability of offering bonuses, tech investments and larger benefits packages. Publicly traded hospice providers have reported improvements on turnover and workforce shortages.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

If you were to write a book about hospice in 2023, what would you call it? To help answer that question, Hospice News asked the CEOs of eight providers how they would title a book about the state of the field today. Croix Hospice, AccentCare, Chapters Health System, Alivia Care, Enhabit, Inc., Heath Bartness, CEO, St.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Once among the nation’s largest home health and hospice providers, Humana Inc. The following year, the insurance giant divested Kindred’s hospice and personal care segments, selling a 60% stake to the private equity firm Clayton, Dubilier and Rice (CDR) for $2.8 The company has its roots in the former Kindred at Home.

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Hospice News

JULY 11, 2023

have reintroduced the Palliative Care and Hospice Education Training Act (PCHETA), designed to bolster the field’s shrinking workforce with federal support. If enacted, PCHETA would support hospice and palliative care training programs for physicians, nurses, pharmacists, social workers and chaplains.

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Hospice News

APRIL 26, 2022

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. . As a nurse practitioner, what led you to begin a hospice program?

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Hospice News

JUNE 7, 2022

Hospice provider Care Dimensions has tapped Dr. Stephanie Patel as its new CEO, upon the retirement of previous top executive Patricia Ahern. Care Dimensions is the largest hospice provider in Massachusetts. Additionally, Patel is a fellow of the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine and speaks locally and nationally.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Workforce shortages have plagued the hospice community for years, along with the health care sector at large. We have thoughtful training programs that teach them even the concept of work-life balance, professional balance,” Lopez-Devine told Hospice News. “It’s The firm later rebranded the hospice provider as Gentiva.

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Hospice News

MAY 7, 2024

Palliative professionals are among the health care providers with room for improvement in their gender affirming practices, according to Zachary Fried, licensed clinical social worker and training supervisor of Optum at Home, a subsidiary of UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH). Or, ‘What name and pronouns would you like me or us to use?’”

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Hospice News

JANUARY 18, 2024

Helios Care is working to change the face of hospice in its update New York service region, with a new partnership with the Bassett Healthcare Network as a cornerstone of its strategy. Formerly known as Catskills Area Hospice and Palliative Care, the organization rebranded as Helios in 2019.

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GeriPal

APRIL 27, 2023

Again, this was not an AHPM or HPNA sponsored thing, but we did go around people on the street asking them two questions: what’s one thing that you’re hoping for in the future of palliative care and hospice, and what’s another thing when you’re thinking about what you’re worried about for the field?

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