Hospice News

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

The first piece of this three-part Hospice News series will explore one the top issues facing hospices in 2025 starting with the struggle for clinical capacity amid rising demand. The California-based hospice provider received its fourth consecutive great place to work certification in 2024.

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Hospice News

MARCH 4, 2025

His insights will be invaluable as we continue to innovate home care and Burn the Ships to rethink and redesign care delivery models. The leadership team is solid, the team is experienced and has a culture of compassion, caring and innovation. He succeeds Judith Wooten, who retired in 2024.

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GeriPal

MARCH 13, 2025

Summary Transcript CME Summary As far as weve come in the 50 years since Balfour Mount and Sue Britton opened the first palliative care at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Quebec, have we lost something along the way? In todays podcast we welcome some of the early pioneers in palliative care to talk about the roots of palliative care.

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Hospice News

MAY 31, 2023

The biggest challenge is understanding how cannabis laws in particular apply to pain and symptom management in end-of-life care, according to Jennifer Moore Ballentine, CEO of the Coalition for Compassionate Care of California. Fratkin, California-based palliative care specialist, stated.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

National hospice utilization rates have hovered around this vicinity for the past decade, with 44% of decedents receiving these services in 2010, the Alliance report found. We must be better at positioning hospice care as a part of improving their lives, rather than simply being present at death.”

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Hospice News

JUNE 6, 2023

Compassus and VNS Health have formed a value-based collaboration aimed at improving access, awareness and quality of hospice and palliative care services. The two home-based care organizations are joining forces in a Medicare Advantage (MA) Value-Based Insurance Design (VBID) model partnership.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 3, 2024

NuHealth is partnering with Hospice of New York to offer inpatient end-of-life care to its patients. Holly Patterson Extended Care Facility. NuHealth was formally known as Nassau Health Care Corp. “By The company operates Nassau University Medical Center (NUMC), and the A.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Some federal legislators are working to address workforce issues in the hospice space, as well as bolstering support for family caregivers. In a fractious political environment, hospice and palliative care policy is one area in which members of both parties find common ground.

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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. Access to hospice and palliative care is perceived as lacking.

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Hospice News

JUNE 24, 2024

Collaborating with ACO Flex Model participants could enable palliative care operators to utilize their unique skill sets to reach more patients. The role of a palliative care provider is crucial in this model. This fits nicely into palliative care.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

NDCS collaborated with several organizations including the Nebraska Health Care Association, which helped foster connections to local skilled nursing facilities. A primary consideration was ensuring a robust training model that would equip the volunteers with the interdisciplinary skills needed to provide quality hospice care, Palik stated.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Rising demand and demographic tailwinds are propelling rapid growth in both the hospice and palliative care markets. The state of hospice and palliative care markets. In 2021, hospice was a $23 billion industry that made up roughly 20% of the overall U.S. The hospice industry is expected to reach $64.7

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Hospice News

MARCH 15, 2024

McPherson also serves on the board of the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (AAHPM). Adverse drug reactions (ADRs) can have an impact on mortality and morbidity among seriously ill patients, according to researchers of a 2019 study published in the Journal of Pain & Palliative Care Pharmacotherapy.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Hospices flagged by the SFP also will be surveyed every six months rather than the current three-year cycle and could face monetary penalties or expulsion from the Medicare program. The newly introduced House bill is designed to improve data transparency when it comes to the hospice SFP and quality measures.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Globally, the need for hospice and palliative care has been growing faster than people can access them. This was the impetus behind the World Hospice Palliative Care Alliance (WHPCA), which emerged from an Oct. 8, 2005 meeting of health care leaders in South Korea.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Technology and service diversification are two levers driving innovation in an evolving hospice landscape. Virtual care delivery processes are playing a key role in hospices’ ability to support both patients and staff as end-of-life care expands further upstream. The solution is to redefine it.

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Hospice News

MARCH 7, 2025

So our scope of care includes home health, both skilled and non-skilled, and it includes hospice. Eventually, we hope to do palliative care. Our model of care across all of those service lines is built around an offering acronym, CARE. How do you anticipate this scope of services to take shape?

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Hospice News

JANUARY 26, 2024

Already, 2024 has brought a growing body of research in palliative care covering more ground on challenges linked to utilization and access, health disparities, lagging clinical awareness, and other aspects impacting quality and care delivery. Hospice significantly reduced end-of-life HU.

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Hospice News

APRIL 19, 2024

Sierra Community Palliative Care is partnering with Mettle Health to help patients and families navigate potentially life-changing health care decisions. Sierra is the palliative care arm of California-based Hospice of the Foothills, designed to care for nonterminal patients who have serious or chronic conditions.

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Hospice News

JULY 12, 2023

The Kidney Care Choices (KCC) model is among the reimbursement streams that is widening payment for palliative care services. It could also help improve utilization of serious illness and end-of-life care. Patients with chronic kidney disease can often receive fragmented care and expensive treatments.

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Hospice News

JUNE 4, 2024

Data trends have found that suicide rates among cancer patients have decreased during the last three decades, with improved psychosocial end-of-life care a potential factor. More focused care and detailed patient screenings could less risk factors associated with suicide, they added.

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Hospice News

JUNE 23, 2023

The Illinois Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (IL-HPCO) has penned a three-year association management contract with The HAP Foundation to provide counsel and operational support. The foundation also offers consulting in end-of-life care and expanding the community health worker profession.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

The Indiana-based palliative care provider Center for Hospice Care (CHC) is looking beyond its immediate community and has developed networks that impact palliative care on a global scale. 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

JANUARY 3, 2024

Lawmakers recently introduced the Value in Health Care Act, which, if enacted, could create inroads toward improved palliative care reimbursement. These changes are designed to increase participation in value-based payment programs designed to improve quality outcomes and lower costs of care.

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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

JULY 26, 2022

Kathy Hochul has signed a bill designed to expand awareness of advance care planning, hospice, and palliative care. The new law requires the New York State Department of Health to develop a public awareness campaign to promote advance care planning. That must change.”. About 17.4%

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Hospice News

JUNE 10, 2022

A contingent of health care providers across the country are making new investments in pediatric palliative care, but building these programs is no easy feat. The staffing issues occurring throughout health care represent a critical barrier. Hospices are also stepping up. The labor concerns go beyond mere numbers.

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Hospice News

JUNE 14, 2023

Recent research has found that varying state laws around palliative care can impact cancer patients’ place of death. Researchers compared trends among states that had palliative care lows on their books against those that did not. State laws to promote palliative care have proliferated during the last decade.

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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

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Photo by Hospice News Photo by Hospice News 2025 Outlook Survey Results by Hospice News and Homecare Homebase. News ways of breaking down old barriers The difficulty of spreading accurate information about hospice care delivery has long plagued providers. NYSE: EHAB).

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Aging Life Care Association

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Johnson, RN, BSN, MHA, CHPN, CCM – Aging Life Care Association® Member Palliative care and hospice care are both specialized healthcare models that focus on palliation, or relief of symptoms, associated with serious, debilitating illnesses.

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Hospice News

MARCH 19, 2024

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 pediatric provider launched its palliative care services roughly a decade ago, Moss said. So expanding the bill to include palliative care will be important.”

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Evidence-Based Nursing - BMJ blogs

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

This blog does not intend to revisit this pathway, but to raise awareness that as healthcare professionals, we have and always will have only one chance to get it right in palliative and end of life care. What is Palliative and End of Life Care? The Cornerstone of Humanity.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 5, 2024

The comfort care home that were going to bring to Oswego County is critically important because we dont have a facility where people nearing the end of life can stay and have 24-hour care provided for them, Spinella told local news. The program is designed to improve access and quality to end-of-life care.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 7, 2023

To meet growing demand, more outpatient palliative care clinics and programs are cropping up. All palliative care, no matter the setting, seeks to alleviate symptoms and pain for people living with chronic illnesses. The patient will then be referred to an outpatient clinic or home-based provider for further care.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 11, 2023

Increasingly, Medicare Advantage (MA) plans have found real value in offering community-based palliative care as a supplemental benefit. This flexibility has allowed insurance companies to offer assistance beyond what is available within traditional Medicare, including palliative care for members, delivered right to the home.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Because of hospice’s requirement for a prognosis of less than six months, people’s focus on their symptom relief and their access to hospice care is tied to their understanding of their remaining survival time,” the authors indicated in the study. Accurate prognosis at [end of life] is challenging regardless of illness.

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