Hospice News

OCTOBER 1, 2024

In this Voices interview, Hospice News sits down with Jeri Vaughan, Director of Product Management at KanTime, to explore the diversification of hospice and palliative care services. What are the benefits of expanding hospice services to include palliative care and other specialized programs? This article is sponsored by KanTime.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 2, 2023

Roughly 78% of hospice and palliative care providers around the globe indicated “less or much less” use of volunteers since the pandemic’s onset, according to a 2022 study in the International Journal of Health Policy and Management. Historically, about 10% of the hospice’s volunteers who visit patients are pre-med students.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Franklin, Tennessee-headquartered Traditions provides hospice, home health and palliative care as well as consulting services across 18 states. Bond is board-certified in family medicine, emergency medicine and hospice and palliative care medicine. He has worked in the end-of-life care space for close to two decades.

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Hospice News

JULY 23, 2024

More than half (52.9%) of hospice providers reported undergoing more than one audit simultaneously within a six month period in a survey from LeadingAge, the National Partnership for Healthcare and Hospice Innovation (NPHI), NAHC and the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO).

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GeriPal

JUNE 9, 2022

Palliative care, in contrast, saw explosive growth in US hospitals. In contrast to geriatrics, the evidence base for palliative care lagged clinical growth, in part because palliative care has no centralized “home” at the National Institutes of Health. When should people get palliative care? By diagnosis?

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Hospice News

JULY 15, 2022

The return of sequestration is adding to the financial storms brewing in hospice, as providers contend with rising costs of delivering patient care, inflation and lackluster reimbursement. If CMS and Congress do not take urgent action, some providers will be forced to close, and patient access to hospice care nationwide will decrease.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

She replaces Cathy Swanson, who has led the nonprofit hospice and palliative care provider since 2021 when it rebranded as AMOREM following the merger of Burke Hospice & Palliative Care and Caldwell Hospice and Palliative Care. McLeod was most recently a health care consultant at CD&M Consulting.

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Hospice News

JUNE 25, 2024

It is extremely difficult to enter the Florida hospice market, and with this recent expansion of services, we can now provide high-quality care to more patients and their families during the most difficult time in their lives.” Community and Haven both launched in 1979 and have overlapping footprints in some counties.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Temporary telehealth flexibilities granted during the pandemic have opened up discussions around the future of technology in health care delivery, said Dr. Michael Fratkin, board president at the Institute for Rural Psychedelic Care. Fratkin is also a palliative care specialist at Humboldt Center for New Growth.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 13, 2024

Many medical and nonmedical issues can be exacerbated at the end of life among unhoused and homeless seniors compared to others, according to James Patrick Hall, executive director of Rocky Mountain Refuge. The Denver-based nonprofit organization offers shelter for people with end-of-life care needs.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 9, 2024

Hospice budgeting practices hinge on several factors, according to Matt Chadwick, CFO of Well Care Health. He shared his thoughts at the National Association of Home Care & Hospice’s (NAHC) Financial Management Conference in Las Vegas.

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Hospice News

MAY 3, 2024

Traumatized and abused hospice patients and providers often experience an array of lingering physical, emotional and psychological effects that can fall into a silent abyss of unmet needs. These [experiences] really put a barrier up to that wonderful therapeutic relationship between the hospice staff and the caregiver group with the patient.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 3, 2024

A group of hospice providers and data scientists at the New Jersey-based health system have developed artificial intelligence (AI) technology aimed at helping its clinical teams to better identify when a patient is nearing the end of life or could benefit from serious illness care.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 13, 2023

“Promoting Cheryl into this position will be a smooth transition for our staff and patients,” Courtney Owens, TCMH chief nursing officer, said in a statement. Maley is a ‘homegrown’ director, working throughout her career at TCMH and up through the various patient care areas to the director position.”

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Hospice News

AUGUST 27, 2024

The nonprofit health system provides home care, hospice, palliative and dementia care across Rhode Island and southeastern Massachusetts. 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

MARCH 1, 2024

In case you missed it, Hospice News has launched a new specialty publication for palliative care professionals. You can subscribe to Palliative Care News here: Subscribe today! Frontpoint Health has completed its acquisition of the Texas-based home health and hospice company High Plains Senior Care Group (HPSC).

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Hospice News

JULY 20, 2022

These operators get into hospice for the “wrong reasons” that focus solely on profit and not on patient care, the CEO said. In states where CONs have been eliminated or don’t exist, “chaos and inconsistency in care prevails,” according to Dresang. While some highlight the benefits of CONs, others find fault in these laws.

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Hospice News

JULY 14, 2022

The health system cited declining patient admissions as the main reason for ending services. This was largely driven by trends of more serious illness and end-of-life care moving into the home, according UPMC officials. “In during 2018, according to the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Concern is mounting around whether current health equity initiatives will be a flash in the pan or yield long term improvement on reducing disparities in hospice care among communities of color. Many people who could benefit from hospice are not getting the care they deserve,” Deese told Hospice News in an email. “We

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Hospice News

JANUARY 19, 2023

The organizations penned a joint letter to CMS in November urging for increased oversight to help curb hospice frauds, including the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC), National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO), National Partnership for Healthcare and Hospice Innovation (NPHI) and LeadingAge.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Hayden Jordan, director of palliative care for senior care provider PruittHealth Home, has been named a 2022 Future Leader by Hospice News. . The program is designed to recognize up-and-coming industry members who are shaping the next decade of senior housing, skilled nursing, home health, and hospice care.

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Hospice News

JULY 19, 2022

Despite the differences in their organizations’ size and business models, each of these CEOs raised concerns about the ways these transactions and their aftermath could change the way hospice care is delivered. We are here for patient care. End-of-life care grew out of a great American crusade for social change.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 14, 2023

More recently Sharon Kaufman ‘s book And a Time to Die described the ways in which physicians, nurses, hospital systems, and payment mechanisms influenced the hour and manner of patient’s deaths. At the end we also pay tribute to Randy Curtis, senior author on this paper and mentor to Liz. I guess the VA is federal though.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 8, 2022

For most, this extends to end-of-life care. These shifting demographics suggest that home-based care won’t be relegated to the post-acute end of the health care spectrum, according to Vargas. Census Bureau. As early as 2011, more than 90% of U.S. billion.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 18, 2024

Without family caregivers, most hospice and palliative care patients would be unable to receive care in the home. In 2021, these conditions tied with cancer as the most frequently occurring principal diagnoses for Medicare decedents who elected the benefit, according to the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Chapters Health provides hospice, home health, palliative care and other services in its home state, as well as in Georgia, Maryland, New York, New Jersey, Virginia and the District of Columbia. We see growth of palliative care as one competitive arena, growth of special needs programs, PACE and dementia programs.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

The proposed legislation in California ibrings attention to the value of health care workers and the need to attract more professionals to the field amid rising demand – especially nurses in senior services, according to Craig Dresang, CEO of California-based YoloCares.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Agape Care Group Appoints M&A VP. Alex Ferguson has stepped into the role of senior vice president of mergers and acquisitions at Agape Care Group. The South Carolina-based hospice and palliative care provider is a portfolio company of the private equity firm Ridgemont Equity Partners. Trustbridge Names New Hospice CMO.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

The nonprofit organization is ramping up efforts to innovate toward more person-centered care models. Ultimately, the decision to disaffiliate from CHN was made with the prioritization of patient care,” YoloCares indicated in a statement. “We The nonprofit provides hospice, supportive and palliative care and adult day services.

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Hospice News

MARCH 22, 2024

Hospice providers need to evolve with their changing patient populations and the larger health care system, according to Greg Hagfors, CEO of Partners In Care. 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.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

“Growing and developing our own EMTs provides staff a chance to expand their skills and grow within the organization while meeting a huge patient care need,” Holmes said in a company statement. Most medical, nursing and social work students receive little training in hospice and palliative care during the course of their education.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 21, 2022

The program is designed to recognize up-and-coming industry members who are shaping the next decade of senior housing, skilled nursing, home health, and hospice care. My role was more than just teaching clinicians how to document patient visits. Those feelings can easily bleed into patient care.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 4, 2023

General inpatient care is the second-highest level of care in terms of daily reimbursement rates, according to the U.S. It’s almost as if two pieces aren’t talking to each other on inpatient care,” Gurian said. “We appreciate the comments and suggestions received regarding hospice utilization,” CMS indicated in the final rule.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 25, 2022

The Tennessee-based company offers community-based hospice, infusion therapy, home health, and palliative care across 200 locations in 30 states. Dallas-headquartered AccentCare’s services span the home-based continuum and include hospice, home health and palliative care, as well as personal and non-medical care, among others.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

Summary Transcript Summary The CDC’s Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain excludes those undergoing cancer treatment, palliative care, and end-of-life care. Jessie Merlin is an addiction and palliative care physician, and professor of medicine at the University of Pittsburgh. Bragging rights.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

The second quarter of this year brought the company’s purchase of California-based Ardent Hospice and Palliative Care in the San Diego area for an undisclosed amount. “As Fieldhouse will oversee the nonprofit hospice and palliative care provider’s legal activities including corporate transactions, governance and litigation.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Illinois-based Great Lakes Health Partners, an Interim Healthcare franchise, is launching a grief support group for employees aimed at helping hospice workers deal with the stress of providing bedside end-of-life care. We figured that it needs to be flexible, on different days of the week depending on patient care needs.

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