Hospice News

JUNE 25, 2024

BrightSpring Health Services (NASDAQ: BTSG) has penned a definitive agreement to acquire the assets of Haven Hospice in a $60 million deal. The nonprofit holds hospice certificates of need (CON) for hospice care in 18 Florida counties. The transaction includes the purchase of two brands, North Central Florida Hospice, Inc.

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Hospice News

JUNE 16, 2023

Issues in complex end-of-life care treatments The limited use of these treatments for end-of-life hospice care is also tied to length of stay issues, the NHPCO indicated in its letter to CMS. We believe that there needs to be a consistent definition of what concurrent care is.

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Hospice News

MARCH 4, 2024

“Palliative care” is becoming a buzz word in health care, even if many people don’t understand the loosely defined term. There’s the issue of the branding and language of palliative care. Forever, there’s the issue of conflation between end-of-life care and hospice and palliative care.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 9, 2024

A large hurdle is ensuring these services are not conflated with hospice care, a common misconception and deterrent of access, Dedes indicated. We were a hospice organization at the beginning, so we do best at end-of-life care services. Primary and palliative care provider collaborations have also begun to take shape.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Some of these barriers include cost, a lack of training for providers on how to conduct these conversations, and poor awareness or understanding of ACP or end-of-life care options such as hospice. The goal of the bill is to think about barriers to advance care planning utilization.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

In the last few years since I’ve graduated we’ve definitely seen more new programs popping up across the Northeast and in Massachusetts. Providers across all specialties are realizing the importance of learning how to appropriately discuss goals of care. Resources are limited among an aging population with high care needs.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 17, 2023

The National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) convened a group of hospice leaders at Times Square in New York City to commemorate Carter’s hospice experience. Some hospice executives have said they believe that his example will prompt more Americans to learn more about this form of end-of-life care.

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Hospice News

APRIL 21, 2022

Witnessing the success of that oncology collaboration led physicians in other Summit departments to recognize the benefits of offering palliative care, according to Partners In Care CEO Greg Hagfors. ” Partners In Care offers palliative, home health and community- and facility-based hospice care, among other services.

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Hospice News

MAY 15, 2023

Generally, these buyers see a promising return on investment and sustainable business growth because of rising demand for end-of-life care in the United States. You’ve got to pay your bills, and we’re definitely getting to a sore spot [there], It doesn’t even matter if it’s home health or hospice.

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Hospice News

MAY 6, 2024

Ethical principles of autonomy vary in pediatric populations due to a number of factors, including a child’s age, developmental stage, cognitive capacity and their spiritual background and beliefs, according to Christy Torkildson, director at the Children’s Hospice and Palliative Care Coalition of California.

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Hospice News

MAY 17, 2022

Widespread workforce shortages of hospice and palliative care providers are expected to worsen during the next 25 years. Recent research has indicated that supply of trained clinicians will be outpaced by demand for serious illness and end-of-life care as the country’s aging population swells.

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Hospice News

JULY 12, 2024

CMF’s palliative and hospice services are designed to provide compassionate, quality care to incarcerated patients with chronic and terminal illnesses. Spiritual care is an important component of both palliative and end-of-life care, he said.

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Hospice News

APRIL 26, 2022

What is the demand for end-of-life care in your service area, and how do you anticipate this evolving in coming years? The biggest thing will be making sure we have enough leverage where we can manage patient care efficiently without having to burn people out. That’s definitely not ideal for anyone.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

We know that local, hospice-dedicated pharmacy is and will always be critical to delivering consistent, quality end-of-life care. Technology definitely plays a crucial role in helping hospice clinicians and their patients, with EMR integrations being a key focus. These are the two main issues that we’re observing.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Earlier this year, it was awarded the prestigious 2023 Circle of Life Award from the American Hospital Association, which recognizes programs for their efforts in palliative and end-of-life care. Historic run Getting the Global Partners in Care program to this level has been quite the journey for CHC.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Burke-Sinclair recently shared her thoughts with Hospice News about her career in hospice and palliative care, and the biggest forces of change at play in serious illness and end-of-life care. What drew you to hospice and palliative care? Palliative care is trending. Or maybe the next couple of years?

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Hospice News

MARCH 5, 2024

Some participating plans had certain levels of success – and we have been proud to partner with a number of organizations that used the VBID demonstration effort to find innovative ways to support end-of-life care.

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Hospice News

MARCH 20, 2024

“In addition, it would help educate Wisconsinites about what palliative care does. Palliative care is often misunderstood and confused with hospice care. Palliative care is not end-of-life care.” Sexten also serves as board chair of the Wisconsin Hospice & Palliative Care Association (WiHPCA).

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Hospice News

APRIL 19, 2023

“We are committed to continuing the highest level of care for seniors by ensuring all unique needs can be met and that every resident receives the best care for themselves and their family,” Myers said in a statement. “We Baptist Senior Family offers hospice, home care, skilled nursing, rehabilitation and personal care services.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Trogdon recently shared her thoughts with Hospice News about her career in hospice and palliative care, and the biggest forces of change at play in serious illness and end-of-life care. Early on I knew I wanted to work in health care and needed a career in which I could find meaning and purpose.

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GeriPal

JUNE 8, 2023

-@AlexSmithMD Additional Links: – Fingerstick monitoring in VA nursing homes (too common!) – Improving diabetes management in hospice – Continuous Glucose Monitoring complicating end of life care Transcript Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal podcast. Tamryn: I definitely agree. This is Eric Widera.

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Hospice News

MARCH 22, 2024

As a result of Mr. McMahon’s successful tenure with the company, he has met the definition of retirement set forth in his previously granted equity awards, which will continue to vest in accordance with their terms, similar to equity awards granted to other employees,” Leong said. “His

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Pallimed

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

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NHPCO

JULY 25, 2023

Together with our advocacy partner, the Hospice Action Network (HAN), we serve as the leading voice advancing public policy to improve serious-illness and end-of-life care, while our CaringInfo program provides free resources to educate and empower patients and caregivers.

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1-800-HOSPICE

APRIL 11, 2023

This fact leads many to conflate palliative care, hospice, and end-of-life care. Palliative medicine grew out of the hospice movement and was recognized as its own medical subspecialty along with hospice in 2006. All hospice is palliative, but not all palliative medicine is hospice.

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Hospice News

JULY 22, 2022

Many come striving for change after witnessing loved ones receive poor end-of-life care or enduring bereavement without support. A death doula is a non-medical provider trained to care for a terminally ill person and their family physically, emotionally and spiritually during the process of death.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

We also briefly mention Susan Wong’s terrific studies that found a disconnect between older adults with renal failure’s expressed values, focused on comfort, and their advance care planning and end-of-life care received, which focused on life extension; and another study that found quality of life was sustained until late in the illness course.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

While many in the hospice space agree that evolution is needed to help ensure quality end-of-life care outcomes, conflicting views swirl around how regulatory requirements and associated processes could get us there. Regulators and hospice providers share a common goal of ensuring quality end-of-life care experiences.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 30, 2025

So a pretty definitive and robust study to answer that question. We just had Jennifer Tamel on a couple months ago and others to talk about stepped palliative care. There was an equivalent effect on quality of life at 24 weeks. And we were able to say, you know, pretty definitively. Yes, we did.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 9, 2022

Cultivating understanding of patients’ life experiences and developing effective communication skills can be a life-long learning process, rather than a status one achieves by taking a class or seminar. It’s definitely not defined as ‘cultural competence,’ because as soon as we think we know everything, then we’re toast.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Eric 03:35 Well, lets get i nto the topic, and I’m hoping that one of you would be willing to take on m y first question, which comes from a very naive place, is even before we talk about what is trauma informed care, how should we define trauma? Well, being a pretty comprehensive definition. Eric 04:19 Yeah.

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Hospice News

JULY 19, 2022

The company has signed a definitive agreement to sell a 60% stake in Kindred at Home’s (KAH) hospice and personal care business to the private equity firm Clayton, Dubilier & Rice (CDR) for $2.8 We are here for patient care. End-of-life care grew out of a great American crusade for social change.

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Home Care Pulse

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Infection control, end of life care. Um, but some of the best practices are, um, definitely the handbook. So this is, you know, they’re, they’re having a say so and some control over their own professional development, and they might pick things like a specific disease that interests them.

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Hospice News

JULY 2, 2024

Trauma-informed care challenges Recognition of the training gaps in trauma-informed end-of-life care delivery drove NPHI to establish a guide for providers, CEO Tom Koutsoumpas stated. The resource is intended to help providers prepare to support a swelling aging population with diverse needs, he said.

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Seasons Hospice

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Five wishes are similar to living wills in that they express an individual’s preferences for end-of-life care. Any other wishes you have for end-of-life care. In addition to the above items, your living will is also a good place to include any other wishes you have for your end-of-life care.

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Hospice News

APRIL 15, 2025

Erin Harris: My journey in this field began with retail pharmacy, but my passion for hospice care led me to Enclara Pharmacia. Witnessing the compassionate, collaborative efforts of hospice teams during my great-grandmothers end-of-life care inspired me to transition into this field. It is definitely a lot.

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Hospice News

MARCH 1, 2024

Kei Ouchi, associate professor of emergency medicine at Harvard Medical School/Brigham and Women’s Hospital, told Palliative Care News. “So, So, I think they have a harder time involving palliative care initially because they equate palliative care to end of life care.

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