Hospice News

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Anthony House Announces New Hospice Facility New York-based Anthony House is winding down fundraising efforts to support the opening of a new inpatient hospice facility. The hospice provider aims to improve access for patients and their families by launching the new center, which will be located in Oswego County, New York.

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Life & Death Matters

JUNE 20, 2024

When I was asked to write this blog post, I didn’t know much about the term ‘grief literacy’! Once I did a bunch of reading, I feel I have a much better grasp on the subject. […] The post Grief Literacy – What is it? I was given a few research article, but other than that, I hadn’t really come across it that often.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 1, 2022

introduced legislation this morning to create a National Strategy on Grief and establish grants to fund trauma-informed care for the bereaved. Establishing a National Grief Strategy will help people move forward with the help of skilled professionals creating a culture of awareness and support. Joe Morelle (D-N.Y.)

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Hospice News

JULY 24, 2024

The grief care startup Betterleave has established partnerships with two Texas Hospices, Sonder Hospice in Austin and LoveWell Hospice in the Dallas-Fort Worth region. Though the company still pursues those employer relationships, in late 2022 it began to seek partnerships with hospices.

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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’ve put it out there to the entire hospice team, picking times and days that work best for them.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Hospices’ public outreach efforts have evolved in recent years, with providers finding new strategies to dispel myths that have long impeded access to care. Nearly half, or 49.1%, of all Medicare decedents utilized hospice services in 2022, reported the National Alliance for Care at Home.

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HopeHealth

JULY 26, 2024

We had been married 55 Read More The post “She healed my heart”: In grief support group, a friendship blossoms appeared first on HopeHealth. At age 33, her world felt like it was crumbling beneath her. That same year, Pat, age 79, lost her husband. “We

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Some hospices have increasingly recognized the value of collaborating with local educators when it comes to improving community grief support for bereaved children and their families. The nonprofit provides hospice services across 10 counties in its service area and also offers bereavement and veteran programs.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Hospice News explores the issues garnering growing attention in end-of-life care delivery in seven of this years hidden gem stories. Topics span trends related to program integrity, workforce development, health equity, service diversification and the keys to hospices growth strategies. Optum completed its $5.4

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Hospice News

JANUARY 9, 2023

The bereavement care tech platform Grief Coach has rebranded as Help Texts and is expanding its services to include support for health care workers who are contending with stress or burnout. The company convened a group of professionals with experience in grief care to develop the content, from a variety of disciplines.

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Hospice News

JULY 3, 2024

Maryland-based Hospice of the Chesapeake has been pursuing innovation in its bereavement and caregiver support programs. The nonprofit hospice and palliative care provider offers grief care to its entire community regardless of whether a family member was one of their patients.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Research has uncovered common threads of quality impacts among the largest hospices nationwide as providers employ a range of initiatives to uproot the underlying causes of staff and family caregiver dissatisfaction. If your staffing is insufficient, people are not going to get timely help,” Hotchkiss told Hospice News.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Hospices competing for sparse staffing resources are increasingly recognizing the retention value of including grief care support in their benefits packages. When employees feel cared for, they’re 60% more likely to remain at a company for three or more years,” McCarty Abbott told Hospice News in an email.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 4, 2024

The temporary telemedicine rules allowed hospices and other health care providers to prescribe controlled substances via telemedicine such as ketamine, cannabis, MDMA and psychedelics such as LSD and psilocybin, among other drugs. But it’s more likely at this point that this will continue to get kicked down the road again at the end of 2025.

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Hospice News

JULY 16, 2024

Fraudulent activity in the hospice space may be leaving some families without sufficient bereavement support. Victimized families are at greater risk of having complicated grief experiences, Kraus stated. The impacts of fraudulent activity in hospice on patients and their families can be devastating,” Kraus told Hospice News.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Combined, the two organizations provide hospice and palliative care to more than 7,000 patients annually across Brevard, Martin, St. The deal includes Treasure Coast Hospice, which the health system established in 1982. Francis Reflections operates two general inpatient hospice care units in Melbourne and Titusville, Florida.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 6, 2024

The Harley School is seeking to inspire a new generation of hospice professionals to enter the field with educational programs that highlight the meaningful work involved in end-of-life care delivery. What I hear from students after they graduate is that they often feel like were planting seeds, Prince told Hospice News.

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Hospice News

APRIL 7, 2023

Some hospices have found peer support to be a crucial component of their pediatric bereavement programs amid rising demand for these services. Judi’s House/JAG Institute is a Colorado-based nonprofit organization that provides bereavement services to adults and youths and also offers grief support training to mental health professionals.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Globally, the need for hospice and palliative care has been growing faster than people can access them. This was the impetus behind the World Hospice Palliative Care Alliance (WHPCA), which emerged from an Oct. The theme speaks directly to the hospice’s efforts around health equity, according to Cabot.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The film is based on director Laura Chinn’s personal experience as her brother Max received inpatient care at the Suncoast Hospice Care Center, an actual facility operated by the Florida-based nonprofit Empath Health. Their conversations delve into the experience of losing a loved one and the different ways survivors can process their grief.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Cameron Muir has been named as the new CMO of the National Partnership for Healthcare and Hospice Innovation (NPHI). His new title signals the organization’s strategic plans to reshape hospice care delivery through patient-centered, innovative approaches, according to NPHI CEO Tom Koutsoumpas.

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Hospice News

APRIL 10, 2024

The Medicare Hospice Benefit could use an “upgrade” to ensure greater flexibility that may be necessary to fully support patients’ needs. million hospice recipients were diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease, 6.8% This is according to a recent editorial in Health Affairs by Cara L. Wallace, the Dorothy A. In Fiscal Year 2022, 7.5%

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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

JULY 2, 2024

Stakeholders and advocacy organizations recently collaborated to develop stronger trauma-informed care delivery guidelines that help hospices better address violence, abuse and neglect among serious and terminally ill populations. These victims often suffer in silence, and we need to pay better attention to their issues.”

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 30, 2023

A rising number of hospices have undergone name changes in recent years, prompting many to consider the elements of an effective rebranding strategy. Hospices should avoid brand names that are too generic or that focus on one particular service line or portion of their geographic footprint.

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Hospice News

MAY 14, 2024

Hospices and other health care providers are increasingly recognizing the value proposition of end-of-life doulas. Collins is also a certified hospice and palliative care nurse and end-of-life doula. She serves as vice-chair of the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization’s (NHPCO) End-of-Life Doula Advisory Council.

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Hospice News

JUNE 17, 2024

Blue Ridge Hospice Welcomes New VP of IT Virginia-based Blue Ridge Hospice has named Mohamad Hamad as its new vice president of information technology. Technology will play a key role in Blue Ridge Hospice’s ability to grow and sustain its services in the face of rising demand, according to President and CEO Jason Parsons.

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Hospice News

JUNE 29, 2023

Hospices often lack the financial and staffing resources needed to fully support bereaved families. Gross is also a medical director at ANX Hospice Care. Gross is also a medical director at ANX Hospice Care. Hospices are not reimbursed enough to support grief care teams,” Gross told Hospice News.

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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

MARCH 27, 2024

Many hospices may be unprepared to cope with a large-scale disaster or a future pandemic. Last year, The Joint Commission implemented similar requirements for hospices. However, the COVID-19 pandemic exposed gaps in preparedness when it comes to hospice and palliative care. Increasingly, this factors into compliance.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Blue Ridge Care has unveiled its new Center for Hope & Healing, a facility dedicated to offering comprehensive grief care. The Virginia-based nonprofit hospice, palliative care and PACE provider financed the center through philanthropic donations. In one display, a collection of rocks symbolizes the weight of grief.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Connecticut-based Regional Hospice recently opened a new grief support center to extend its bereavement services further across the state’s northwestern region. The opening expands upon the nonprofit hospice’s existing bereavement services, according to Regional Hospice President and CEO Cynthia Emiry Roy. “We

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Hospice News

JULY 1, 2022

New hospice facilities and grief centers are cropping up across the country, while a California inpatient facility is reopening following a temporary closure due to the pandemic. . Meanwhile, construction of a hospice house in Maryland has ground to a halt. Hosparus Health opens new grief support facility.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

California-based Hospice of the Foothills unveiled a rebranding strategy aimed at better communicating its expanded suite of services. Rebranded as Foothills Compassionate Care, the hospice provider also offers palliative care, caregiver and grief support services as well as community education and resources.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Plano, Texas-based Heart to Heart Hospice will soon add a third location to its geographic footprint in Oklahoma. The de novo will open this fall, located in Durant, Oklahoma, and serve hospice patients and their families across 11 surrounding counties. Demographics are driving demand for hospice in Oklahoma. Census Bureau.

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Hospice News

JUNE 14, 2024

Hospice providers are navigating a minefield in today’s regulatory environment to avoid getting caught up in the mix of fraudulent activity in the space. Program integrity continues to be tragically a problem with hospice,” Harrison told Hospice News. “It’s It’s a concern that continues to tarnish hospice.

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Hospice News

MARCH 21, 2023

Maryland-based Hospice of the Chesapeake and its affiliates are unifying under the organization’s main brand. Effective April 1, affiliates Calvert Hospice and Hospice of Charles County will be known as Hospice of the Chesapeake. Both facilities will retain their individual names following the brand unification.

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