Hospice News

OCTOBER 23, 2024

The Wisconsin-based hospice and palliative care provider Unity has designed its program with the intent of seeking value-based contracts in the long term, Alisa Gerke, the agency’s executive director, said at the NHPCO event. A key aspect of this is expanding geographic scale.

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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. These types of collaborations help to maintain patient safety, quality and continuity of care, and helps ensure that patients are receiving appropriate and timely interventions. Krmpotic said.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Rooted in the power of storytelling and fueled by a desire to improve health equity and foster meaningful connections, Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center’s innovative palliative care approach has earned industry-wide acclaim. “We

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Hospice News

MARCH 7, 2025

Its also for us to really learn how we can best support them in the event that they eventually need our services. How do you anticipate this scope of services to take shape? So our scope of care includes home health, both skilled and non-skilled, and it includes hospice. Eventually, we hope to do palliative care.

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Hospice News

JULY 26, 2024

We’ve gotten creative in doing events that benefit veteran causes and raised money through all these different things that are put into the pool of helping us with the costs of running our veteran programs — which is primarily the staffing cost,” Graveran told Hospice News. Empath offers hospice, home health, primary and palliative care.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Anyone who experiences a life-altering event should receive palliative care,” Cruetzfeldt said. Anyone who experiences a life-altering event should receive palliative care,” Cruetzfeldt said. “I In recent years, more neurologists are realizing the need for specialized palliative care for this population.

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Hospice News

MAY 20, 2022

As some events and other fundraisers start to rebound, providers are carrying with them lessons learned during leaner years. When we realized we weren’t going to be able to have the event, we asked our donors to support us through the pandemic. We do events, but it’s not our primary source of fundraising.

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Hospice News

JUNE 21, 2023

The staffing shortage was a topic of conversation during Hospice Action Week, a lobbying event held by the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) and the Hospice Action Network. The bill’s most recent go around was last May, reintroduced by Sens. The bill’s most recent go around was last May, reintroduced by Sens.

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GeriPal

MAY 5, 2022

Screening for addressing hearing loss should be an integral part of what we do in geriatrics and palliative care, but it often is either a passing thought or completely ignored. On today’s podcast, we talk to Nick Reed and Meg Wallhagen about hearing loss in geriatrics and palliative care. Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal Podcast. Alex: Oh, okay.

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Hospice News

JULY 23, 2024

Issues of fraud in the hospice industry echo events that previously affected the home health space , and providers can learn from that prior experience, he said. NAHC and NHPCO have since recently affiliated , with a new organization name yet to be announced.

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Hospice News

MARCH 27, 2024

Operators need to be prepared to deliver care and support their communities’ responses to catastrophic events. Many hospices may be unprepared to cope with a large-scale disaster or a future pandemic. Increasingly, this factors into compliance. In 2017, the U.S.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Unfortunately, most patients do not routinely make advance plans for their care in the event that they are diagnosed with a serious or life-threatening illness,” Collins said in a press release. However, societal factors and poor coordination among health care providers can limit its effectiveness.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 1, 2024

The councils will ensure improved health care access and utilization and help with event and volunteer engagement, among other responsibilities. “We are excited to welcome Hospice of North Central Ohio to the Hospice of the Western Reserve family,” Finn said in a statement shared with Hospice News. Photo by Pixelate Photography.

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Hospice News

JUNE 8, 2022

The events of the past two years have opened the eyes of many patients to telehealth’s potential , according to Fratkin. Case in point, the Providence Institute for Human Caring last year launched a tele-palliative care program aimed at addressing rural patients’ unmet needs. palliative?care care services for?patients patients who?need

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Hospice News

JUNE 24, 2024

The staffing shortage was a topic of conversation during Hospice Action Week, a lobbying event held last week by the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) and the Hospice Action Network. Federal legislators plan to continue to work on passing a bill designed to bolster the hospice and palliative care workforce.

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Hospice News

APRIL 12, 2023

A significant contingent of Black, Asian and Hispanic respondents also indicated that current events have influenced whether or not they would document their end-of-life care decisions. VITAS Healthcare, a subsidiary of Chemed Corp. NYSE: CHE), commissioned the national survey.

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Hospice News

APRIL 24, 2024

The staffing and operational costs involved include grief support staff for group and individual therapies, memorial and community event activities, along with outreach efforts. Health systems are increasingly growing their hospice and palliative care service lines, with philanthropy among the key ways to fuel these programs’ sustainability.

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Hospice News

JUNE 17, 2022

For example, if a patient who decided to forgo life-extending treatment or resuscitation due to terminal cancer is brought to the emergency department for a different reason, like a cardiac event, staff may assume that their documented wishes do not apply in this other circumstance, Pope told Hospice News.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 4, 2023

The hospice recently updated local communities on its progress at a local event hosted by Mac Middleton, a former state senator from Charles County. These benefits include community-based palliative care, community education and awareness, increased options for grief support, and more help in navigating the journey of advanced illness.”

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EAPC (European Association of Palliative Care)

APRIL 23, 2025

Date: May 7, 2025 Time: 16:00 17:30 CET Online Event This webinar, presented by the EAPC Task Force on Social Work, is an opportunity to explore the challenges and impact of social inequalities in palliative care. Register now: [link] The post Webinar: inequality, poverty, and palliative and end-of-life care. appeared first on EAPC.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 24, 2022

To develop an engaged board that adds value to an organization, hospices are taking governance activity beyond the standard, periodic meetings and fundraising events. This included social events to build camaraderie and solidify the board as a team, though for a time most of those went virtual due to the pandemic. . “I

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GeriPal

JANUARY 23, 2025

In our early studies in the same nursing home population, we found about 70% of residents had a deprescribing event of antihypertensives during their stay. And unfortunately, that trial was stopped early because of some current concerns about increased adverse events in the deprescribing group.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 17, 2023

Once again leading by example, [the Carter family] is showing us how to embrace a stage of life that people don’t want to think about — that people don’t want to talk about,” NHPCO COO and interim CEO Ben Marcantonio said at the Times Square event.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Home is an exciting area for us to continue to grow,” Dr. Sashi Moodley, chief clinical officer for Walgreens Health, said at Home Health Care News’ Capital+Strategy event in March. “We CareCentrix delivered pro forma sales of $1.5 billion during fiscal year 2021, WBA reported.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 5, 2023

Home is an exciting area for us to continue to grow,” Dr. Sashi Moodley, chief clinical officer for Walgreens Health, said at Home Health Care News’ Capital+Strategy event in March. “We Last year, WBA poured money into health care provider investments and acquisitions, including the home-based care platform CareCentrix, Inc. and VillageMD.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Unfortunately, most patients do not routinely make advance plans for their care in the event that they are diagnosed with a serious or life-threatening illness,” Collins said in a statement. The legislation would also “expand eligible providers that can bill for such services,” according to the bill’s language.

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AAHPM (American Academy of Hospice and Palliative)

APRIL 23, 2024

AAHPM Annual Assembly: AAPHM will sponsor the scholar’s participation in this premier event, where they have the chance to network with experts, participate in cutting-edge educational sessions, and immerse themselves in the latest advancements in the field. Who Should Apply? It welcomes applicants from diverse backgrounds and disciplines.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 4, 2023

Reports of] the events together is a mischaracterization, leading the community to believe the events are related.” “The concerns raised by a board member in last week’s board meeting are unrelated to the departure of two senior leaders. The hospital in July completed its acquisition of a local nursing home, Wildflower Court.

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Hospice News

MAY 5, 2022

The hospice hired Neil Cormier as an IT support specialist, Kimberley Dallaire as its billing supervisor and new events coordinator Kimberly Curless. Contessa in January expanded services with the launch of a home-based palliative care program in concert with Mount Sinai Health System in New York City.

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EAPC (European Association of Palliative Care)

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Venue: Páirc Uí Chaoimh, Cork, Ireland More information on this link The post Member event: Reflections & Projections…on Palliative Care and Care of the Older Person appeared first on EAPC.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 23, 2024

More than half of women and roughly 60% of men reported experiencing at least one traumatic event in their lifetime in a National Comorbidity Study (NCS). 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

OCTOBER 12, 2023

We’ve had a high success rate of preventable emergency events happen in the home just by creating sustainable behavior changes with patients. He is also director of health care innovation and strategy at Acadian Companies, parent organization of Acadian Health. Engaging with providers gives them more resources with less cost.

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SAGE Palliative Medicine & Chronic Care podcast

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

The third World Health Organization Global Patient Safety Challenge Medication without harm, emphasises the need for improved infrastructure through better reporting practices and cross-organisational learning from adverse events and near misses.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Its most recent de novo features a wraparound porch and meeting spaces for community events and bereaved families. The company provides continuing education credits to health care providers in other settings, such as assisted living facilities, to help spread awareness about the benefits of hospice care.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Sinai Health System, said at the event. 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. Sinai’s community organization network. New York-based Mt.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 28, 2022

A different way of proactively trying to address compliance issues is to create redundancies outside of the election form as you put things in place around the admission process, so that in the event there is something wrong with how the election statement is spelled out you might have some arguments to rely on.”.

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Hospice News

MAY 16, 2023

This puts us at a distinct disadvantage in the current environment where some members of our community, who are well aware of the restrictions on our ability to speak, use the absence of information to fashion their own version of events.” Founded in 1975, Alive Hospice’s annual census hovers close to 5,000 patients.

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