Hospice News

JANUARY 9, 2025

Hospice providers across the country have recently launched new inpatient facilities as 2025 unfolds. The new year may also bring closures of certain hospice programs. VITAS Opens 2 New Locations VITAS Healthcare on Wednesday announced the opening of its new inpatient hospice unit in Fort Worth, Texas. NYSE: CHE) subsidiary.

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Hospice News

JULY 26, 2024

Hospices combat both operational and financial challenges as they seek to grow and evolve their veteran programs around the diverse and complex needs of patients and their families. I think that’s a challenge that a lot of hospices run into.” Graveran is also a veteran.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 1, 2024

Hospice of the Western Reserve has completed its affiliation with Hospice of North Central Ohio (HNCO), expanding its geographic presence in the Buckeye state. The two hospice providers in February announced the affiliation after signing a letter of intent to enter a Management Services Agreement. Photo by Pixelate Photography.

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Hospice News

MAY 20, 2022

Hospices are finding opportunities to bolster their philanthropic fundraising, which took a dip for many organizations due to the pandemic. As some events and other fundraisers start to rebound, providers are carrying with them lessons learned during leaner years. We do events, but it’s not our primary source of fundraising.

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Hospice News

JULY 23, 2024

The Medicare Hospice Benefit is ripe for change nearly four decades after its establishment, but moving the needle will include a heavy lift around evolving regulations. This is according to Bill Dombi, president of the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC). But hospice has moved into a new era.

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Hospice News

MARCH 12, 2025

The post Transitioning Pediatric Patients Into Adult Palliative Care Programs appeared first on Hospice News. Access to palliative care can help support a patient and their family through several iterations of physical, emotional and financial changes as they enter the adult health care space, he stated. They need to have a voice.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Hospice providers have made recent moves to boost family caregiver support as access to respite care and other resources lags. Massachusetts-based NVNA and Hospice is among these providers. This is a main reason that NVNA and Hospice began offering the caregiver group, he stated. “The

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Hospice News

JUNE 21, 2023

Years after it was first introduced, hospice leaders are calling on Congress to move forward legislation that would bolster their dwindling workforce. The most significant bill in recent years is the Palliative Care and Hospice Education Training Act (PCHETA), which has come before Congress time and again but has not yet been passed.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Hospices need to understand the range of risks involved in qui tam cases and how best to navigate whistleblower concerns amid an evolving regulatory landscape. Whistleblowers play a huge role in False Claims Act cases,” Porter told Hospice News. “If Health care-related cases made up $1.8 billion of the $2.68

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

NYSE: EHAB) expects consistent hospice growth even as it contends with payer and reimbursement headwinds for its home health business. Meanwhile, Enhabit’s hospice segment continues to grow sequentially. “We’re We’re not under the same reimbursement uncertainty for hospice. Enhabit’s hospice segment revenue saw a 3.9%

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Hospice News

AUGUST 24, 2022

Effective governance can be critical to a hospice’s performance and growth, and a number of providers have been working to optimize the engagement of their boards of directors or trustees. . It’s more forward facing than looking backwards,” Bill Musik, CEO of Integri3D, told Hospice News. “A Among these were North Hawaii Hospice.

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Hospice News

MARCH 27, 2024

Many hospices may be unprepared to cope with a large-scale disaster or a future pandemic. Operators need to be prepared to deliver care and support their communities’ responses to catastrophic events. Last year, The Joint Commission implemented similar requirements for hospices. Increasingly, this factors into compliance.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 29, 2024

“We have tremendous respect for BrightSpring and are thrilled to support the Company and share in this momentous event,” said Max Lin, Partner at KKR. “We The post Hospice Provider BrightSpring Begins Trading on NASDAQ appeared first on Hospice News.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 25, 2024

VITAS Launches New Florida Location VITAS Healthcare has opened a new location in Florida, expanding the hospice provider’s footprint in its home state. The location will serve as a hub for staff providing hospice services across Pasco County, where seniors 65 and older represent 21.8% Dozier Hospice House.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 17, 2023

As Jimmy Carter marks his sixth month in hospice care, the provider community is raising awareness by saluting the former president. The National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) convened a group of hospice leaders at Times Square in New York City to commemorate Carter’s hospice experience.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Improved patient and staff satisfaction are among the most significant returns on investment for hospices that are pouring greater resources into trauma-informed training. This is according to Amber Ash, pediatric hospice and palliative care social worker at Ohio-based Hospice of the Western Reserve.

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Hospice News

JUNE 24, 2024

Federal legislators plan to continue to work on passing a bill designed to bolster the hospice and palliative care workforce. The Palliative Care and Hospice Education Training Act (PCHETA) has come before Congress several times but has not yet been passed. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wisc.) and Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.).

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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. Merz Photography / Hospice News Merz Photography / Hospice News Melissa Reilly, chief growth officer, Evernorth Behavioral Health, at the CONTINUUM Conference.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 4, 2023

Hospice of the Chesapeake has exceeded its growth expectations since its 2020 acquisition of Hospice of Charles County. At the transaction’s closing, the acquisition boosted Hospice of the Chesapeake’s average daily census to more than 620, up from 580. The financial terms of the transactions were undisclosed.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 4, 2023

Alaska-based Bartlett Regional Hospital recently received approval from legislators to relaunch hospice and home health services nearly a year after a local provider shut down. Bartlett Regional Hospital in January began the process of taking over HHCJ’s hospice and home health patients to fill care delivery gaps in southeast Alaska.

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Hospice News

MAY 5, 2022

Home health and hospice provider Amedisys Inc. New CFO Takes the Reins at Bristol Hospice. Utah-based Bristol Hospice has named Jerry Copeland as its new CFO. Copeland was most recently CFO of Reliant at Home in Texas and served in the same role for Dallas-based Sage Hospice before that.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Caregivers can be a key to reducing hospice revocations and the associated emergency department costs, according to Benjamin Swig, director of Acadian Health. The end result is a wider window of understanding on the hospice provider side as to the medical and social determinant factors that can create barriers to their services, he stated.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 29, 2022

Disruption in home health reimbursement has an influence on the hospice mergers and acquisitions market, particularly among the rising number of companies offering both services. So many industry consolidators paused all but the most strategic deals and pivoted to hospice. “. A few factors come into play here.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Building in redundancies around patient admission processes may help hospices withstand regulatory scrutiny, according to legal experts in the space. Patient eligibility is a frequent focus of hospice audits as regulators sharpen oversight in the industry. In recent years, the U.S.

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Hospice News

MAY 16, 2023

Nashville-based Alive Hospice recently responded to speculation that the nonprofit will sell its operations to a for-profit company, a move that has sparked cries of opposition within the local community. A spate of news reports have indicated that Alive Hospice may be up for sale to a publicly traded for-profit entity.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 13, 2024

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) ramped up auditing activity in the space while also sunsetting the hospice component of its value-based insurance design (VBID) model demonstration ahead of its initial expiration. There were just some of the themes percolating among the most-read Hospice News coverage of 2024.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Hospices seeking to build stronger relationships with other community-based organizations may be able to adapt some of the strategies that health systems and Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) have implemented. Knowing where and how to start has been a hurdle for some hospices as they develop and deploy targeted initiatives.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Research has shown that advance care planning can boost hospice and palliative care utilization, reduce high-acuity care and associated costs, and increase the likelihood that patients will receive goal-concordant care. The post Congress Takes Up Bill to Expand Advance Care Planning appeared first on Hospice News.

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Hospice News

APRIL 9, 2025

The Caregiving film highlights the various historic events that have impacted the current state of caregiving in the United States. The post Film Caregiving Aims to Amplify Awareness, Ignite Systemic Change appeared first on Hospice News. Theres just this simmering crisis [of] everyone burning out everyone is under extreme duress.

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Hospice News

APRIL 12, 2023

These data follow a recent study by NORC at the University of Chicago showing that hospice generally improves clinical outcomes and pain management, as well as physical and emotional distress compared to those who decline palliative care. The post Only 22% of Americans Have Documented End-of-Life Wishes appeared first on Hospice News.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 23, 2024

While some palliative care programs mirror the hospice model, more operators are working to tailor their services to patients’ specific needs, with varying intensity. Palliative care is also part of the hospice component of CMMI’s value-based insurance design (VBID) demonstration, which is set to end on Dec.

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Changing Lives Podcast

JANUARY 13, 2025

This Valentines Day, Hospice Quinte invites you to celebrate love and support our community in a meaningful way with our Loved One’s Box. 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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Hospice News

JUNE 8, 2022

Hospices are leveraging expanded telehealth options to maximize access for hard-to-reach rural patients despite lingering regulatory uncertainties. ” Washington-based Providence Health System provides a range of facility- and home-based care, including senior services and hospice. We have to blast through these biases.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

While the waiver specifically is going away, hospices can continue this practice through at least 2024 through provisions in the 2023 omnibus spending bill. This flexibility will go away when the PHE ends, and hospices must complete all postponed assessments within 60 days of May 11. When the PHE ends, the hotlines will be shut down.”

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Hospice News

JUNE 17, 2022

One of the defining principles of hospice care is honoring the wishes of terminally ill patients. This can prevent or delay hospice care for individuals who chose to receive it. . But now we recognize that people can make a choice,” Thaddeus Pope, professor at the Mitchell Hamline School of Law, told Hospice News. “It’s

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 20, 2023

According to the study, approximately 1 in 5 patients experience adverse events during this kind of transition. According to Benson, palliative care providers can also improve transitions by reducing anxiety, bolstering coping mechanisms amongst patients and collaborating with community resources, such as home health services or hospices.

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Hospice News

APRIL 24, 2024

Health systems are increasingly growing their hospice and palliative care service lines, with philanthropy among the key ways to fuel these programs’ sustainability. Some hospices have temporarily halted or shuttered their programs due to a lack of funding or staff.

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