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Citing Rising Staffing Costs, Stillwater Hospice and Kosciusko Home Care & Hospice Merge

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Kosciusko Home Care & Hospice (KHCH) has merged with Stillwater Hospice amid mounting financial pressures. The two Indiana-based nonprofit hospices joined forces to ensure continued access to end-of-life care in the Kosciusko County area. That has been slow taking off for us.

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The Hospice CARE Act‘s Potential Unintended Consequences

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The most recent iteration of Hospice Care Accountability, Reform and Enforcement (Hospice CARE) Act, currently in a discussion draft phase, could have some unintended consequences in the future of end-of-life care delivery. Developed by U.S.

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As Inpatient Hospice Doors Swing Open, Others Slam Shut Nationwide

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MercyOne will continue to provide in-home hospice care through its Des Moines, Iowa location. The health system will also continue inpatient services at other centers, as well as routine home care and respite care. The hospice provides home- and facility-based end-of-life care.

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By the Bay Health, Mission Hospice & Home Care, Hope Hospice to Complete Triple Merger

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Three independent providers — By the Bay Health, Mission Hospice & Home Care and Hope Hospice — will merge, becoming the largest nonprofit hospice network in northern California. To be able to combine our organizations, hospice and home care, it really does expand that mission even further.

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Guaranteed Taps SVP of Strategic Growth; Nurses Step Into C-Suite at Hospice of the Piedmont, Hudson Valley Hospice

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Guaranteed Health is redefining the end-of-life-care experience by building a-first-of-its-kind technology and AI-enabled platform that supports patients, caregivers, providers and payers. The hospice and palliative care provider has an inpatient facility and also offers community-based end-of-life care.

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Compliance Landmines in the Hospice Regulatory Landscape

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But the majority of hospices are striving to provide quality end-of-life experiences to terminally ill patients and their families, Harrison said at the Hospice News Elevate conference in Washington D.C. Program integrity continues to be tragically a problem with hospice,” Harrison told Hospice News. “It’s Additionally, the U.S.

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Key Research Trends: Long Hospice Stays, Palliative Care Save Medicare Dollars

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“We can provide better care to patients with advanced and serious illness, and it’s encouraging to see research show what changes could come in hospice.” Hospice is associated with lower Medicare end-of-life expenditures when hospice lengths of stay are longer than 10 days,” an NHPCO representative told Hospice News in an email. “In

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