Hospice News

MARCH 7, 2025

Its also for us to really learn how we can best support them in the event that they eventually need our services. What do you see as the largest opportunities in hospice care delivery today? How do you foresee these opportunities shaping the outlook of end-of-life care?

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Hospice News

APRIL 12, 2023

A majority of people in the United States know the types of end-of-life care they wish to receive, but only 22% have documented their wishes. Significant variations in advance care planning utilization also exist among racial and ethnic groups. About 25% of those who have documented their wishes are white.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 5, 2024

Our measure will empower Americans who are without plans for end-of-life care to be prepared in the event they experience severe illness,” said Blumenthal in a statement. “By If enacted the bill would significantly expand federal resources to support advance care planning and end-of-life care decision making.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

The SAMHSA defines trauma as an event, series events or set of circumstances experienced by an individual as physically or emotionally harmful or life threatening, with lasting adverse effects on the individual’s functioning and mental, physical, social, emotional or spiritual. I guess that’s an event.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Local Asian American organizations, faith groups and other health care providers have partnered with VNS Health on these events. The aim was to break down the most common barriers of access among Asian American communities – misconceptions and fear around end-of-life care, Lin explained.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 23, 2024

“For people who don’t have a caregiver in their home, we can put them in our facility and they can live there until their natural death, and they’ll have access to specially trained caregivers in end-of-life care,” Strzalka told local news. The organization planned to begin construction in 2022 and open by the end of 2023.

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Hospice News

APRIL 11, 2024

Black Americans are frequently denied access to hospice and palliative care due to structural racism, and many of those communities lack sufficient information to make end-of-life care decisions, new research has found. Some participants said they couldn’t receive hospice or palliative care when they needed it.

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Hospice News

MARCH 27, 2024

Operators need to be prepared to deliver care and support their communities’ responses to catastrophic events. Overall hospice and end of life care was given too little consideration and disaster management policies and actions have been enacted by the larger response community,” Baker Rogers said.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Soon after its inception, the alliance established World Hospice and Palliative Care (WHPC) Day to spread the word about serious illness and end-of-life care. The observance is now recognized on the second Saturday of every October and features educational and fundraising events in nearly 70 countries.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 5, 2024

Forging stronger interdisciplinary relationships with behavioral health experts could help hospice providers ease caregiver burdens that can impact quality of end-of-life care. Without greater mental health support for caregivers, access, utilization and quality of end-of-life care can be impacted, she said.

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Hospice News

JULY 23, 2024

Hospices will need a sharp compliance focus with ongoing internal assessments around their admission processes and care delivery approaches to navigate forthcoming changes, according to Dombi. The drafted Hospice Care Accountability, Reform and Enforcement (Hospice CARE) Act from U.S.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Patients and physicians should always work together to update their plans at the varying stages of life and health. At VITAS Healthcare, we recently conducted a survey to understand Americans’ views on advance care planning and end-of-life care. What is the role of hospices in that process?

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Hospice News

JULY 26, 2024

We’ve gotten creative in doing events that benefit veteran causes and raised money through all these different things that are put into the pool of helping us with the costs of running our veteran programs — which is primarily the staffing cost,” Graveran told Hospice News.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The toll that caregiving has taken on both family members, and their relationship, is a major theme of the film, as is Doris’ desire to find ways to live her own life even as her brother’s ends. In the backdrop of these personal events, hangs the Schiavo case. I think that’s part of the beauty of the story.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 1, 2024

A large aim of the transaction is to expand access to quality, comprehensive end-of-life care across a broader region in the state amid challenges such as rising competition and economic pressures. With the finalized agreement, HNCO is now part of Hospice of the Western Reserve.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 25, 2024

The expansion is driven by growing demand for end-of-life care in the northern Tampa Bay area, according to Jalisha Wynn, general manager for VITAS. “At It’s a homegrown effort that not only highlights our commitment to compassionate care but also underscores how much the community values these essential services.”

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Hospice News

JANUARY 2, 2023

Case in point, one volunteer at Hospice Savannah, dubbed “the flower lady,” saw an opportunity to lift patients’ spirits by partnering with local florist, horticultural and funeral businesses willing to donate flowers and vases leftover from farmers’ markets or other events.

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Hospice News

JULY 21, 2022

If enacted, the bill would clarify that patients receiving end-of-life care could access Schedule 1 controlled substances that have undergone a Phase 1 clinical trial, including MDMA and psilocybin. Unfortunately, many eligible patients who urgently need care do not currently have access to these promising therapies.” .

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Hospice News

JULY 6, 2023

This includes one-on-one counseling sessions with staff, interdisciplinary team counseling sessions, group support and monthly family meetings, advance care planning services, end-of-life care assistance and research and resource coordination. “We Hospice News photo.)

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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

OCTOBER 12, 2023

There was a heavy need for additional support around end-of-life care in the home. Reaching those patients and caregivers sooner and developing stronger referrals to end-of-life care involves building a relationship with them that hospices don’t always have the staffing resources to facilitate.

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Hospice News

MAY 9, 2022

If there was a way for hospice and palliative care to connect with people, that would be a big step forward.”. This is by nature an unplanned event. Morhaim pointed to an instance in which an elderly female patient came to the emergency department following a catastrophic neurological event.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Like other chronic illnesses, those diagnosed with neurological illness benefit from palliative care that starts closer to the time of diagnosis. Anyone who experiences a life-altering event should receive palliative care,” Cruetzfeldt said. “I

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Hospice News

AUGUST 17, 2023

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. Even with the growth of hospice care, only half of eligible Medicare beneficiaries are taking advantage of this option.

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Home Care Pulse

JUNE 23, 2023

HCP WEBINAR SERIES Unity Through End-of-Life Care: Why Approaching Hospice Holistically is Necessary to the Success of the Care Continuum Wednesday, July 19th, 2023 Wednesday, July 19th, 2023 Wednesday, July 19th, 2023 2:00pm EST | 60 min 2:00pm EST | 60 min 2:00pm EST | 60 min By uniting the continuum of care, we have a stronger force to improve the (..)

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Changing Lives Podcast

JANUARY 13, 2025

Your donation will help fund the essential programs and services that provide compassionate end-of-life care to individuals and families in our community. This initiative is open to anyone whether youve lost a loved one or simply want to enjoy some sweet treats while supporting Hospice Quintes mission.

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OCTOBER 26, 2022

If you have been diagnosed with a terminal illness and are receiving hospice care, you may want to consider creating a living will. This document can specify your end-of-life wishes in the event that you become unable to make decisions for yourself. Any other wishes you have for end-of-life care.

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Hospice News

MAY 24, 2024

We need to change the ethic in our country where people are making these decisions and making plans ahead of time and communicating who is going to be their medical power of attorney or medical surrogate in the event that they’re incapacitated. How does value-based care fit into the issues we’re discussing?

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 21, 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. I want to help them leverage technology to make patient care better. What drew you to this industry?

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Hospice News

MAY 18, 2023

The sum of his work includes a gamut of plays, including some on end-of-life care, as well as literary adaptations and the life story of the only black man to participate in the 1804 Lewis and Clark Expedition. His plays have been performed nationally, and 13 have been published.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 5, 2023

“Medicare needs to step up advance care planning messaging not only to providers, but also to beneficiaries,” Haselhorst told Hospice News. If Medicare did a better job at communicating and insisted that people have advance directives, then patients can receive the care they want and providers don’t have to play a guessing game.”.

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Hospice News

MAY 16, 2023

The petition cites concerns that a change in ownership could adversely affect quality and access to care among underserved communities. The hospice indicated that any future considerations will not impede the community’s access to end-of-life care, according to Alive Hospice’s executive committee, speaking on behalf of its governing board.

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Hospice News

MARCH 1, 2024

Obstacles facing palliative care in the ICU One challenge to bear in mind is that some of the measures used in the literature are imprecise due to the traumatic, emotional nature of the event. 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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Hospice News

JULY 27, 2022

The project partners with community organizations and leaders to host events that feature these activities. To date, Project Talk has enrolled 30 hosts in 20 states and completed 10 events thus far with a total of 204 individual participants. . The total for all other racial or ethnic demographics totaled 3.1%.

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AT Home Care & Hospice

JUNE 20, 2024

The Intersection of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and End-of-Life Care: How Hospice Can Help PTSD is a mental health condition that can develop after exposure to a traumatic event. While often associated with veterans, PTSD can affect anyone at any age, including the elderly.

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Adobe Hospice & Home Health

JUNE 20, 2024

The Intersection of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and End-of-Life Care: How Hospice Can Help PTSD is a mental health condition that can develop after exposure to a traumatic event. While often associated with veterans, PTSD can affect anyone at any age, including the elderly.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 13, 2024

The case illustrates the scale of activity occurring among fraudulent actors seeking a profit while providing poor or negligent care and exploiting the vulnerability of specific patient populations. #3: The Hospice CARE Act has the potential to dramatically reshape end-of-life care delivery, sources told Hospice News.

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