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 health system offers hospice and palliative care, along with urgent and emergency services, primary and pediatric care, as well as women’s health services, among others.

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Hospice News

MAY 29, 2024

The tool will replace the Hospice Item Set (HIS) quality reporting system. In contrast to the HIS system which extracts item set data from a patient’s medical record using a standardized mechanism, the HOPE tool will measure aspects of hospice care at different points in the patient’s experience.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Northeast Georgia’s home-based palliative system started through their hospice operations. According to Dutta, because hospice care is home based and home-focused, it made sense for that group to initiate the in-home palliative care model. two full-time social workers, and part-time chaplains and volunteers.

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Hospice News

JULY 11, 2023

If enacted, PCHETA would support hospice and palliative care training programs for physicians, nurses, pharmacists, social workers and chaplains. The bill would also expand continuing education and career development programs and incentives in these fields.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 13, 2024

“Coordinating care between health care providers, social services and other community partners can ensure comprehensive support,” Chase said. “In In addition to helping avoid costly unnecessary ER visits, hospice care can help manage pain and symptoms, providing better comfort and quality of life.”

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Hospice News

JANUARY 21, 2025

Photo courtesy of Oasis Hospice & Palliative Care Photo courtesy of Oasis Hospice & Palliative Care Oasis Hospice & Palliative Care’s inpatient facility, House of Goshen Can you elaborate on the challenges in hospice care delivery, and how your organization has navigated them?

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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. Francis Reflections Melbourne Care Center includes a private bathroom and overnight space for loved ones.

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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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GeriPal

MARCH 13, 2025

She retrained as a social worker, and it was while she was a social worker that she began to formulate her ideas for better kind of end of life care, which was to become hospice care, modern hospice care. It’s a cloaking palliative care maneuver. She put her back out.

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Hospice News

JULY 26, 2024

I think that’s a challenge that a lot of hospices run into.” The hospice and palliative care provider last November launched its military program Challenge Coin, which provides individualized recognition of veterans’ accomplishments and accolades. So if they see a social worker coming in, they may not be receptive.

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Hospice News

MARCH 19, 2024

Other stakeholders will include hospice and palliative care providers, as well as hospital-based practitioners, along with various other subject matter experts in the field, Wodatch stated. It’s a much different skill set than caring for a terminally-ill adult with adult children.”

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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.

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Hospice News

MAY 20, 2022

If enacted, PCHETA would support hospice and palliative care training programs for physicians, nurses, pharmacists, social workers and chaplains. Access to high quality palliative and hospice care services is vital for patients and their families,” Capito said in a statement.

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Hospice News

JUNE 29, 2023

Dawn Gross, palliative care physician at University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) Health. Gross is also a medical director at ANX Hospice Care. Hospices are not reimbursed enough to support grief care teams,” Gross told Hospice News.

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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

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Can you share some of your history and what led your organization to launch a hospice program? Owens: The inception of pivoting from home health to hospice was in 2022. We changed our name and pivoted to provide home hospice care. I was employee number five when I started at Emmaus Catholic Hospice.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

“What we found with this tool is that we could transition patients in need quicker, identify declines faster and get the appropriate team members there to be with them in a timely fashion, especially during those last and important days of care.” Croix Hospice cares for more than 4,400 patients daily across its 10-state service region.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Gender-affirming hospice care hard to find Not only are hospices in rural regions often stretched thin in terms of available clinical resources, they can also face regulatory challenges around providing gender-affirming training for staff. Nurses have a right to speak out.

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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

APRIL 8, 2024

HopeHealth is also a hospice and palliative medicine teaching affiliate for The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University. The health system in 2021 began providing inpatient and community-based pediatric palliative and hospice care to infants, children and young adults. The numbers were pretty striking.

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Hospice News

JULY 22, 2022

What areas can death doulas offer hospices the most support? Carroll: Since we’ve both been hospice volunteers, we knew that hospices are only capable of spending so much time with each person and their loved ones. Nurses and social workers are especially stretched thin. We have both been hospice volunteers.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 17, 2023

Howe to the care team at The Denver Hospice,” Interim President Tricia Ford said in an announcement. “Dr. 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. . ALC Hospice Care Names COO.

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Hospice News

APRIL 26, 2022

Right now, we’re a community-based provider, and we also work with a hospital system to provide general inpatient hospice care. . It’s just a matter of time before the need for hospice rises. The health care system is strained. I get into the field right alongside our staff to provide hospice care.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 29, 2024

Fee-for-service Medicare, for example, only covers physician and licensed independent practitioner services and does not cover the full range of interdisciplinary palliative care. Today, many palliative programs are supported by philanthropic donations or treated as a loss leader that can feed referrals to other services like hospice care.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Also, more care is going to a home-based environment. A big part of this transformation for us is leveraging our expertise as a home-based care organization at our roots because most hospice care has been provided in the home, but using those roots to now expand home-based services beyond hospice.

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Hospice News

JULY 1, 2022

Kaweah Health Hospice staff will oversee the hospice facility’s day-to-day operations and medical care, which will be provided by a team of nurses, home health aides, social workers and chaplains. It currently operates an inpatient hospice facility in Centreville, Maryland.

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Hospice News

APRIL 4, 2024

“We hear from countless community providers and state association leaders that rural hospices are in financial trouble,” Hoover wrote in a recent letter to the U.S. With Medicare accounting for the overwhelming majority of hospice payments, hospice care is at the mercy of the federal government to continue providing high quality care.

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Hospice News

MAY 2, 2022

Though professionally she has cared for terminally ill patients for more than 30 years, her personal experience after her mother’s diagnosis with Stage 4 pancreatic cancer underscored the critical importance of her work. This drives her commitment to expand access to hospice care, particularly among underserved populations.

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APRIL 11, 2020

Facilities are limiting the amount of visitors, including hospice team members. Hospice Social Workers, Hospice Chaplains and even Hospice Aides are now being asked to work from home, calling in and checking on patients via phone, while many hospices are even laying off team members.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 1, 2024

Leveraging technology will be a key to quality outcomes as hospices and home health providers combat workforce shortages amid soaring demand, Templeton said at the Aging Media Network CONTINUUM Conference in Washington, D.C. There’s a human element to it and a patient-centered care element to it that helps advance health care overall.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 8, 2023

For nearly a decade, stakeholders have sought passage of the Palliative Care and Hospice Education Training Act (PCHETA). 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

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

In her new role, she’ll oversee Trustbridge’s medical staff providing home- and facility-based hospice care. Trustbridge was born in 2014 through the merger of Hospice of Palm Beach County, Hospice of Broward County and Hospice by the Sea. Leigh Anderson will be its new medical director.

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Hospice News

MARCH 1, 2024

The online clinical training platform CareAcademy has developed a hospice care curriculum. The new curriculum is designed to offer “foundational orientation training” for hospice aides, nurses, volunteers, social workers, chaplains and other spiritual care providers, as well as physicians.

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Shining Light Hospice

APRIL 8, 2022

In the next section, we will discuss the differences between Hospice and Home Health care. What Is Hospice Care? Hospice is the care provided for a terminally ill patient who has a life expectancy of six months or less. This ensures proper access to medical, emotional, and spiritual care.

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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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GeriPal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

We additionally discussed hospice care as an option for care that might follow the trial of rehabilitation. We’re both in my mind, and I’m biased, great team players, the palliative care team, the chaplain is a great, everybody’s super. I mean, our chaplain is fantastic, man.

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