Hospice News

JANUARY 3, 2025

Palliative care may be gaining momentum across the health continuum in recent years, but several barriers exist preventing greater access and awareness, according to Dr. Kimberly Johnson, professor of medicine in the division of geriatrics at Duke Palliative Care and director of the Duke Center for Research to Advance Health Care Equity.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Pennant is the holding company for a group of independent hospice, home health and senior living providers located across 13 states. The company currently holds 115 hospice and home health agencies and 54 senior living providers as independent subsidiaries. This approach helps reduce fragmented care for seniors, Walker indicated.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 13, 2025

New executives have stepped into c-suite and other roles at some of the nations largest hospice organizations as 2025 kicks off. Johnson will oversee the work of Empaths several foundations Suncoast Hospice Foundation, Tidewell Foundation, Hospice of Marion County Foundation and Trustbridge Hospice Foundation.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 3, 2024

It reduces a lot of the wasteful spending inside of the health care system, and it sets us up for that kind of better interdisciplinary approach towards the end of life, where we can bring in hospice. They’re signing me now to hospice, and I’m going there to die.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Sachs is also chief of the Division of General Internal Medicine and Geriatrics at the Indiana University School of Medicine. The post IN-PEACE Palliative Care-Dementia Program Reduced Hospital Care by 50% appeared first on Hospice News. And so the CMS GUIDE model is actually providing a funding source.

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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. How to screen for hearing loss.

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Hospice News

JULY 25, 2023

Physicians in training need greater exposure to geriatric training in order to better grasp the needs of older patients, including during transitions to hospice, according to Dr. Julia Lowenthal, a geriatrician from Brigham and Women’s Hospital. What are some of the factors that make a residency program age-friendly?

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Hospice News

APRIL 30, 2024

Given the significance of family caregivers in hospice care, providers can benefit from having tools to assess whether or not they are experiencing burnout. We implemented the caregiver self assessment questionnaire, which is a validated brief metric developed by the American Geriatric Society. There’s a very high number of U.S.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Two Maryland-based hospices, Hospice of Washington County and Gilchrist, have agreed to affiliate. We are excited about the synergy between our organizations,” Sara McKay, CEO of Hospice of Washington County and Franklin Hospice, said in a statement. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Traditions Health Names SVP of Hospice Operations Traditions Health has appointed Tom Moreland as its new senior vice president of hospice operations. Franklin, Tennessee-headquartered Traditions provides hospice, home health and palliative care as well as consulting services across 18 states.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Building partnerships with other providers can help mitigate these barriers, according to Dr. Nathan Goldstein, professor of geriatrics and palliative medicine for the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. However, about 50% of community-based palliative care providers are hospices, according to the Center to Advance Palliative Care.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Aging, incarcerated populations often have poor end-of-life care experiences, with a lack of trained hospice workers at the crux of the issue. It’s terrible how many men and women are experiencing their last days or hours of life in prison,” Garlock told Hospice News. He currently speaks on health equity among prison populations.

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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

MAY 1, 2024

The impending demise of the hospice component of U.S. This included the addition of the hospice component in 2021, which was designed to test coverage of those services through Medicare Advantage. CMMI extended the program through 2030, but recently announced that the hospice portion will end on December 31, 2024.

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Hospice News

JULY 25, 2023

Data are reshaping the health care space, and hospice is no exception. Hospice providers have needed a window into access and utilization, as well as how lawmakers are shaping policies around health care. Data on CON laws has taken on new significance as regulators zero in on the hospice space.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

NACH is the newly combined organization formed by the June merger of National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC) and the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO). Prior to that he was CEO of the home health and hospice provider Visiting Nurse Association (VNA) Health Group Inc.

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Hospice News

JULY 10, 2023

As health care stakeholders work to improve care coordination, more hospices are exploring home-based primary care. Organizations that are delivering hospice and palliative care now are looking to the future and wanting to provide more of a full-service solution for seriously ill patients,” Singleton told Hospice News.

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Hospice News

MAY 20, 2024

A group of former hospice and home health leaders have gone all-in on Programs for All-Inclusive Care of the Elderly (PACE) with the launch of an emerging company. Why is PACE an attractive model for home health and hospice companies? Now I would say that PACE is more where hospice was in the 90s. Can you elaborate on that?

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Hospice News

JULY 11, 2022

A group of 17 Illinois health care organizations is collaborating to expand access to home-based primary care, including a number of hospice and palliative care providers. Among the participants is Lightways Hospice and Serious Illness Care. To maximize their opportunity, hospices have to adapt to taking on that role.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 10, 2022

South Dakota-based health system Sandford Health is collaborating with the Good Samaritan Society to serve patients in their homes through a mobile clinic, which among other services offers additional support to patients in hospice. So a lot of our providers are really encouraged to follow the residents throughout their lifespan.”.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 26, 2024

The Alliance hinted that it was inching closer to a leadership decision earlier this month after completing an affiliation in June between the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC) and the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO). He also holds a masters degree in public health policy and management.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 24, 2024

Though the needle is moving, it lags behind the pace needed to keep up with demand, according to Dr. Monisha Pujari, hospice and palliative care physician and medical director at Georgia-based Longleaf Hospice. Luke’s Hospice & Palliative Medicine’s program. In 2022 Nashville-based HCA Healthcare Inc.

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Hospice News

MAY 15, 2024

Ashwin Kotwal, assistant professor of medicine at the University of California San Francisco’s (UCSF) Division of Geriatrics. Data on the pain and symptom impacts are a “useful starting point” for hospice and palliative care providers to shape their trauma-informed care approaches, Kotwal.

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GeriPal

JUNE 22, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary In the early 1990’s, California Medical Facility (CMF) created one of the nation’s first licensed hospice units inside a prison. Keith per many reports, is the heart and sole of the hospice unit and oversees the Pastoral Care Workers. Eric: Wait, so Bonnie Raitt sang a song about hospice in prison?

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Though hospice deal volume dipped in 2022 compared to previous years, five particular transactions could paint a larger picture of where investors see value in the space. These interesting, unusual or groundbreaking deals could signal what’s to come in 2023 and help shape the hospice market’s long-term future. This was Humana Inc.’s

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GeriPal

AUGUST 25, 2022

Two major shifts are transforming the landscape of hospice. First, private equity firms are gobbling up hospices. Thus, they have little in the way of long term vision for hospices, instead focused on cutting costs and maximizing profits. . People with dementia make up about half of hospice admissions. AlexSmithMD.

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Daily Nurse

JUNE 5, 2023

While some nurses feel pulled into treating children, others love to care for those in their later years by working in the geriatric field. She has more than 37 years of experience in geriatric nursing care, both as a senior care nurse and director of nursing care, and she took the time to answer our questions. What drew you to it?

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Bradford is an advanced certified hospice and palliative care nurse practitioner and an active member of both the Hospice and Palliative Nurse Association and the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine. The foundation is the philanthropic arm of Tidewell Hospice, an affiliate of Empath Health.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 26, 2024

Many elderly Americans follow one of three place of care trajectories during the last three years of life, researchers from Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, found in a study recently published in BMC Geriatrics. About 27% were in skilled nursing home care with “heavy use” of home health and hospice.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Investment trends in the hospice industry have meandered in recent years, impacting providers’ approaches to growth in 2024. The mix of hospice buyers has become more diverse during the past five years to include more private equity investors, large health and hospital systems and home health companies, along with payers. NYSE: CHE).

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Hospice News

JUNE 9, 2023

Increasingly, both policymakers and providers are seeing potential opportunities to reform the Medicare Hospice Benefit, including the prospect of concurrent care. The rising prevalence of diagnoses like dementia is leading some to posit that the hospice benefit — initially designed for cancer patients — could use an update.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Though social determinants can take time and resources to build into palliative care programs, they come with a strong return on investment, according to Dr. Yaquta Patni, wound care and geriatric care physician at Innovative Geriatrics.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 6, 2024

“Empath is really putting a full-life care continuum of services and programs together that is very focused on the frail, elderly population,” Empath Health CEO Jonathan Fleece told Hospice News. “As The post Empath Health, American Health Plans Launch ISNP Joint Venture appeared first on Hospice News.

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Hospice News

MAY 20, 2024

“We expect that this support will, in many cases, stimulate new areas of science related to palliative care, including training and career development, pilot and exploratory studies, implementation and dissemination research and provision of research resources,” the agency told Hospice News in an email. The post Congress Earmarks $12.5

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Hospice News

APRIL 17, 2024

The impact of limited access to palliative psychiatry can include poor quality outcomes for those with mental health conditions, according to Dr. Priya Krishnasamy, associate professor in the departments of geriatrics, palliative medicine and psychiatry at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Health System.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 18, 2022

Maryland-based hospice and palliative care provider Gilchrist recently formed a joint venture with the hospital system Luminis Health to expand the full scope of senior and geriatric care in the state’s southern region. You can’t do that if you don’t contract and work with someone to provide hospice care. independent of the JV.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Roughly 5 to 8 million older adults nationwide have one or more mental health conditions, according to research from the supplement Journal of the American Geriatrics Society (JAGS). The post Palliative-Behavioral Health Collaborations Benefit Patients with Serious Mental Illnesses appeared first on Hospice News.

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