Hospice News

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Patients at the Northeast Georgia Medical Center can now take advantage of a new palliative care program that brings the care from the clinic or hospital into the patient’s home. The center, which covers 14 counties in the northeast corner of the state, began offering the in-home palliative care program during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 29, 2024

Palliative care is an evolving field. Though long-established as a medical specialty, these health care services have yet to reach their full potential due to reimbursement pressures, poor awareness and staffing headwinds. Rising demand In 2024, demand will continue to rise, driven by a number of factors.

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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

APRIL 21, 2022

Partners In Care has formed a strategic partnership with the primary and urgent care provider Summit Health aimed at increasing access to palliative care in Central Oregon. Beginning this July, Summit Health patients will have access to palliative care consultations and expanded services through the partnership. .

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Hospice News

MARCH 19, 2024

Connecticut legislators recently introduced a bill that aims to create a statewide pediatric hospice and palliative program. The legislation comes at a time of critical need for supportive services, according to Kerry Moss, palliative care division head at Connecticut Children’s. The plan would have to be completed by Jan.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

That’s why we do this podcast- to address real world issues in palliative care, geriatrics, and bioethics. We additionally discussed hospice care as an option for care that might follow the trial of rehabilitation. Summary Transcript Summary Often podcasts meet clinical reality. Ann, welcome to the GeriPal podcast.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Despite obstacles to expanding pediatric hospice care, Community Hospice & Palliative Care, has seen its program’s census and workforce grow. The Florida-based provider is an affiliate of Alivia Care Inc. Its pediatric program, dubbed Community PedsCare, has been more than 20 years in the making.

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Hospice News

JULY 13, 2023

This is the first of a two-part service that will detail key findings from recent research on hospice care, featuring numbers that could influence they ways hospices communicate and operate. Hospices’ cost-savings potential A study published in March revealed that hospice saved Medicare roughly $3.5

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Hospice News

AUGUST 15, 2022

The unique needs of families and children facing life-limiting can wear pediatric palliative and hospice care clinicians especially thin, and the potential for burnout can leave providers even more short-staffed than many already are. Even outside of hospice, caring for seriously ill children can take a mental and emotional toll.

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Hospice News

JULY 11, 2024

Calvary Hospital in New York City is a progenitor of the hospice and palliative care models, but it has its eyes on the future nevertheless. The only hospital in the nation that is specifically devoted to hospice and palliative care, Calvary is celebrating the125th anniversary of its founding this year.

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Hospice News

MARCH 11, 2024

Spiritual hospice care providers are an important link to building bridges of access and trust among underserved African American populations. The hospice and palliative care provider also offers advance care planning and grief counseling services.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Some hospices have recently expanded the reach of their inpatient services while other providers have temporarily shuttered these programs. AMOREM Set to Launch Inpatient Facility North Carolina-based AMOREM will soon unveil a new inpatient hospice care facility to help improve access in its home state.

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Hospice News

APRIL 17, 2023

As the demand for palliative care continues to grow, so too has the way businesses have bolstered their programs to better serve patients. Hospice News spoke with three palliative care providers that have risen to these challenges. Hospice News spoke with three palliative care providers that have risen to these challenges.

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Hospice News

MAY 29, 2024

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) may not have accounted for the financial and administrative burdens associated with its implementation of the Hospice Outcomes and Patient Evaluation (HOPE) Tool. The tool will replace the Hospice Item Set (HIS) quality reporting system.

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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

JULY 26, 2024

The hospice and palliative care provider last November launched its military program Challenge Coin, which provides individualized recognition of veterans’ accomplishments and accolades. The program has provided services to more than 200 veterans thus far in 2024 and is led by chaplains from various U.S.

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Hospice News

APRIL 22, 2022

Francis Reflections Lifestage Care recently opened a new inpatient hospice care center inside the Melbourne Regional Medical Center. A swelling demand for hospice in the community spurred the unit’s development. Volunteers, social workers, chaplains and bereavement counselors also make up the center’s staff.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Hospices are reaching an inflection point when it comes to breaking down communication barriers around spiritual care among underserved communities, according to William Williamson, who recently became the new director of faith outreach at AMOREM. What has been your experience in hospice thus far? Photo courtesy of AMOREM.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 13, 2024

The data illustrate a swelling homeless population with unmet end-of-life care needs who are suffering and dying alone, said Michaela Chase, assistant vice president of access at the Wisconsin-based hospice and palliative care provider Agrace. Interim HealthCare Inc. is part of the Great Lakes Health Partners system.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Jennifer Ritzau, vice president of medical staff services at HopeHealth, a Rhode Island-based hospice, palliative and home care provider. She also serves as medical director of palliative care at the nonprofit organization. “I Evolving state laws represent a key challenge in striving toward more gender-affirming hospice care.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Bereaved families often face tremendous challenges fielding a barrage of tasks following a loved ones’ death, according to Grant Marylander, grief counselor at Trail Winds Hospice, which provides adult and pediatric hospice and palliative care.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 17, 2023

The Denver Hospice recently tapped Dr. Robert Howe as its new medical director following the retirement of Dr. Shirlee Turner after 11 years of service at the company. Established in 1978, The Denver Hospice provides care to more than 4,000 hospice and around 1,200 palliative care patients annually in nine counties in Colorado. .

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Changes to the SFP will be top priority for industry groups that will work with policymakers in the new year, according to Logan Hoover, vice president of policy and government relations at the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO). “We He also wrote some sections of the Affordable Care Act.

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Hospice News

MAY 30, 2023

“The scholarship is a dependable way to assist hospice home care aids in furthering their careers, voicing their stories on the importance [of] what caregiving means to them and emphasize the changes that have occurred in their patients’ lives,” Winthorpe said in a statement. Recipients will be announced in December 2023.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

In 2019 the Minnesota-headquartered hospice provider began utilizing a predictive analytics tool from Medalogix. The post-acute data analytics company develops machine learning solutions designed to identify patients in need of home health, hospice or palliative care services as early as possible in the course of their illnesses.

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Hospice News

JUNE 29, 2023

As with nursing, the industry-wide labor shortage has impacted bereavement care, which is an underfunded service, according to Dr. Dawn Gross, palliative care physician at University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) Health. Gross is also a medical director at ANX Hospice Care.

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Hospice News

MARCH 22, 2024

Hospice providers need to evolve with their changing patient populations and the larger health care system, according to Greg Hagfors, CEO of Partners In Care. A group of volunteers had brought the hospice concept from the United Kingdom to Oregon, according to Hagfors. W hat’s next for your palliative care program?

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Hospice News

MARCH 25, 2024

Arizona-based Stoneridge Hospice launched services in 2020 with an aim to address a swelling aging population’s growing need for end-of-life care. Stoneridge Hospice provides home-based hospice and also contracts with other providers to offer facility-based services. Stoneridge Hospice launched in 2020.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Agape Care Group Appoints M&A VP. Alex Ferguson has stepped into the role of senior vice president of mergers and acquisitions at Agape Care Group. The South Carolina-based hospice and palliative care provider is a portfolio company of the private equity firm Ridgemont Equity Partners.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

The four largest hospice industry organizations have been working to present a united front to address widespread program integrity issues. The four groups also called for a national moratorium on hospice licensing until regulators devise better methods of swiftly identifying fraudulent actors. reduction, the report indicated.

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Hospice News

APRIL 4, 2024

Current reimbursement structures within the federally established Medicare Hospice Benefit do not sufficiently support the level of care needed in rural-based communities, according to the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO).

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

While the term “behavioral health” refers to a broad spectrum of services, including services for mental health, autism, addiction and eating disorders, among others, some aspects have dovetailed with hospice care since the foundation of the benefit.

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Hospice News

MARCH 2, 2023

As lawmakers wrestle with necessary improvements to hospice program integrity, they should seek input from the professionals who provide that care, Dr. Holly Yang, incoming board president of the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (AAHPM) told Hospice News. We really try to foster growth and mentorship.

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Hospice News

JUNE 2, 2022

This article is based on a Q&A session with Jason Banks, Senior Director of Post Acute Sales at nVoq, during the Hospice News Palliative Care Conference. Hospice News: Jason has an incredible background in post-acute care that we’re going to talk about today. Banks: I ran a hospice and palliative care.

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Hospice News

JULY 1, 2022

The nonprofit provider in 2017 originally set a $24 million goal to expand its hospice and palliative care services across 41 counties in Kentucky and Southern Indiana, reporting last year that it surpassed this with a $28 million fundraising campaign. It currently operates an inpatient hospice facility in Centreville, Maryland.

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Shining Light Hospice

JUNE 4, 2023

When we think of hospice care, it’s common to associate it with older adults nearing the end of their life. However, hospice care is not exclusive to the elderly. Pediatric hospice care exists for children facing life-limiting illnesses, a topic that is less spoken about but is equally crucial.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 22, 2024

In collaboration with the professional chaplains on the team, the hospice social workers can help facilitate communication within the family system and support involvement with their support system, which often includes their faith community.”

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