Diversity Nursing

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Additionally, hospice Nurses coordinate care and collaborate with other healthcare professionals to ensure that patients receive comprehensive, holistic care. They act as advocates for patients and their families, helping them navigate the healthcare system and make informed decisions about their care.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2024

There is a dearth of evidence and/or guidance in how to support researchers to involve people with lived experience of homelessness in palliative care research. The TIFFIN recommendations provide guidance for how to achieve co-production within this field in a trauma informed way. What this paper adds?

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

A mounting concern is that fraudsters stepping into the hospice industry have been implementing marketing and outreach practices that at times mirror strategies utilized by quality providers, according to Jeanne Chirico, president and CEO of the Hospice & Palliative Care Association of New York State (HPCANYS).

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MAY 14, 2024

She serves as vice-chair of the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization’s (NHPCO) End-of-Life Doula Advisory Council. Doulas play an “enormous role” in creating spaces for veterans to share their wishes at the end of their lives, she said.

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OCTOBER 12, 2023

What types of health care services are you rolling out across with your recent expansion across seven markets in Texas? Acadian Health focuses on trauma-informed, patient-centered care through the lens of quality. There was a heavy need for additional support around end-of-life care in the home.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Recent research has found that receiving high-acuity services alongside supportive care can help ease pain. The findings come as regulators navigate the future outlook of these services in end-of-life care delivery.

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Hospice News

APRIL 23, 2024

Farrah Daly, owner and founder of Evenbeam Neuropalliative Care LLC, told Palliative Care News that the current demand for neuropalliative care is “just the tip of the iceberg.” “So So many people with neurologic illness become distanced from the health care system,” Daly said.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Through a recent request for information (RFI), the agency is seeking insight on how a CMS-led directory could reduce the burden on providers and payers by creating a single, centralized system that would promote real-time accuracy for patients. The agency’ RFI is open to public comment for a 60-day period that expires on Dec.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 18, 2024

The Indiana Association for Home & Hospice Care (IAHHC) has unveiled a new employee support program designed to help with retention of much needed workforce resources in end-of-life care. So this program with consultants living in their regions offers more tailored, direct content and information.”

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Hospice News

JUNE 13, 2024

“Congressman Blumenauer continues to be a valued thought leader in evolving the Medicare Hospice Benefit on behalf of hospice and palliative care providers, patients, and their families,” Ben Marcantonio, COO and interim CEO for the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO), told Hospice News in an email. “We

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Hospice News

JULY 25, 2023

Data are reshaping the health care space, and hospice is no exception. Data has played a large role in the ability to gauge the impact of end-of life care. Hospice providers have needed a window into access and utilization, as well as how lawmakers are shaping policies around health care.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 20, 2024

The new center provides a location for the development and implementation of a “robust work plan” focused on increasing hospice and palliative care access across New York, according to the state’s health department. Kathy Hochul approved a bill designed to expand awareness of advance care planning, hospice and palliative care.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Onboarding processes have an important role in preparing hospice clinicians for the nuances of providing end-of-life care. Developing a peer-support structure is a key part of clinical workforce retention when it comes to clearly defining the expectations of end-of-life care delivery and nuances involved, Guernier said.

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JUNE 7, 2023

Most stakeholders said they agree that regulatory action is likely needed to address program integrity, but policymakers must take care to ensure they are taking an effective approach that does not reduce access to care, according to Rep. We have to be vigilant at getting our information, getting our data and following up.

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Hospice News

MAY 9, 2024

led a coalition of 38 congressional lawmakers who in a letter asked CMS for further information on how the agency intends to address these problems. “We Preserving the integrity of the Medicare Hospice Benefit is paramount to ensure high-quality care for Americans with serious illness and end-of-life care needs.”

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Hospice News

JULY 26, 2024

It takes ample financial resources to fuel a trauma-informed care delivery approach and ensure that staff are trained in the unique challenges that veteran populations face at the end of life, Graveran said. It’s making sure you have that receptivity and information, it’s something that makes a big difference.”

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Hospice News

MARCH 29, 2024

We know that hospice care has demonstrated $3.5 billion in annual savings for Medicare, which underscores the critical importance of investing in hospice to ensure continued beneficiary access to quality end-of-life care.” Hospice care saves Medicare roughly $3.5 But the proposal contained more than a pay increase.

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Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

JANUARY 16, 2025

Rehab professionals can use this information to determine the most appropriate AAC interventions to enhance expressive communication. These MDS areas provide a holistic view of a residents communication abilities and guide the care team in selecting and implementing appropriate AAC solutions.

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JULY 17, 2024

These services will provide greater opportunities for education around disease progression and discussions around goals of care to help patients and families make informed choices around their end-of-life care options, she explained.

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Hospice News

MAY 31, 2024

Hospices have leveraged telehealth to a greater extent in recent years, with some seeing a range of benefits for employees, patients and their families, according to Patrick Hale, executive vice president and chief information officer at VITAS Healthcare, a subsidiary of Chemed Corp. NYSE: CHEM).

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AUGUST 27, 2024

Hospices have come under increasing regulatory oversight during a time of prolific workforce shortages , rising demand and technology innovations that are reshaping end-of-life care delivery.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 2, 2023

The focus on gathering data to both measure and understand gaps in access and quality signal an increased drive toward reducing disparities in end-of-life care — a goal regulators and hospice providers can agree upon, according to Ben Marcantonio, COO and interim CEO of the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO).

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Formerly Hospice & Palliative Care Charlotte Region, VIA Health Partners currently serves 32 counties in North and South Carolina. VIA offers community-based serious illness and end-of-life care, and also operates five inpatient hospice facilities in North Carolina and one in South Carolina.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Though new to the hospice arena, Callaway has previously served in both the home health and acute care spaces and has seen how care collaborations across the continuum can improve the quality of end-of-life care among aging populations. “I VIA Health Partners was established in 1978 as Hospice at Charlotte.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

“This bipartisan legislation will create a commission to further examine challenges and needs in long-term care services, as well as provide specific recommendations so that Congress can make informed decisions on behalf of our seniors and others in need of quality, affordable long-term support and care.”. The post U.S.

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Hospice News

JUNE 16, 2023

CMS included a series of requests for information (RFIs) in its proposed 2024 hospice payment rule. Among them were questions about patients’ utilization of complex care services including blood transfusions, chemotherapy, radiation or dialysis. CMS published the proposal in March with a proposed 2.8%

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Hospice News

JULY 13, 2023

But providers can also benefit from considering data that comes from outside their organizations to identify prevailing trends, inform their marketing efforts and guide their decision making. The data will inform continuing discussions of the disconnect between the ways providers perceive hospice lengths of stay and the views of regulators.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

These patients can often receive fragmented care and expensive treatments. They also tend to receive little to no education about their health trajectories, or serious illness and end-of-life care options. Findings were compiled in collaboration with the Virginia-based analytics and consulting firm The Lewin Group Inc.,

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Hospice News

APRIL 19, 2024

A bill introduced in February proposes to expand limitations within the Freedom of Information Act that prohibit the disclosure of certain personal and background information of state and public agency employees, including health workers.

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Seasons Hospice

JUNE 27, 2023

Dignity Is Everything In end-of-life care, maintaining dignity is of utmost importance. It involves honoring individuals’ inherent worth and value, even during their final stages of life. In end-of-life care, preserving dignity is incredibly important.

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Hospice News

APRIL 17, 2024

Since then, the company has grown in terms of census, grown more sophisticated in its approach to end-of-life care and expanded into other business lines. The lawsuit contends that the claims denials denied Partners in Care its right to procedural due process. 1, 2016 and Dec. 31, 2017.

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Hospice News

JULY 28, 2023

The final rule includes considerations around health equity measures, hospice ownership and spending patterns around unrelated end-of-life care services, CMS stated.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

“Frank and Chris have done everything to ensure that the Calvary family is at the side of anyone who needs end-of-life care,” Decina said in a statement. ” Calvary Hospital’s scope of acute-care services focuses almost exclusively on hospice and palliative care.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 1, 2023

State medical facilities plans (SMFPs) are programs built into CON processes that focus on expanding health care services among populations with specific unmet needs. The advisory firm represents clients across the United States, including the Association for Home Care & Hospice of North Carolina (AHHC-NC).

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Advance directives (AD) and other goals-of-care documentation often lack information related to cultural, religious and spiritual affiliations, as well as personal health values, the 2016 research indicated. Fewer than 24% of Black participants had completed an advance directive, compared to 44% of caucasians who had.

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Hospice News

JUNE 14, 2024

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. The Maryland-based nonprofit provides hospice and supportive care services across four counties in the state.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

A hope for the bill’s supporters is that it will remove some of the barriers that prevent providers from broaching goals of care conversations with patients, according to Mollie Guran, vice president of home-based and HCBS policy at LeadingAge, which has endorsed the legislation.

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