HopeHealth

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

A Brown University medical student is working with HopeHealth to research how music can help us cope with grief. The post Can music help you cope with grief? The response has been powerful. This researcher aims to find out appeared first on HopeHealth.

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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.

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MARCH 7, 2025

We’re using that acronym to guide how we approach the scope of care that we’ll be providing. Our services will include the standard hospice functions such as individual bereavement care and volunteer-based therapy, but we also have grief support groups. Having community-based staff is important.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Francis Reflections operates two general inpatient hospice care units in Melbourne and Titusville, Florida. The nonprofit provides hospice, palliative care and bereavement services. Francis’ NorthStar Child Grief Support is designed to specifically address the needs of bereaved children and their families.

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Hospice News

APRIL 24, 2025

Outreach to family caregivers is hugely effective and very under-utilized, Kudner told Hospice News in an email. Outreach, marketing and education about the benefits of hospice care to the family of the hospice-eligible patient pays huge dividends to these exhausted individuals.

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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. “We

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Hospice News

JUNE 29, 2023

As with nursing, the industry-wide labor shortage has impacted bereavement care, which is an underfunded service, according to Dr. Dawn Gross, palliative care physician at University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) Health. Gross is also a medical director at ANX Hospice Care. But Congress did not pass the legislation.

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Hospice News

JUNE 1, 2023

Patient preferences are trending towards home-based hospice care, leaving some inpatient facilities between a rock and a hard place. Meanwhile, other hospices diversify and expand their inpatient service capabilities. Shifting care preferences are another driving force behind the closure, according to MercyOne.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

.” The new institution carries on the work of the Illinois-based JourneyCare Foundation, an affiliate of the former JourneyCare Hospice that supported community-based palliative and hospice care for patients without insurance or who lacked sufficient resources to pay for services.

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Hospice News

APRIL 29, 2025

Service diversification can bring three-pronged benefits to hospices including more timely access, improved referral relationships and geographic expansion, said Crossroads Hospice & Palliative Care CEO Perry Farmer. The organization provides hospice and palliative care in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Texas.

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HopeHealth

AUGUST 22, 2023

A young woman shares her experience with sudden loss, grief, and healing. “It It is almost impossible to understand what grief is like until it happens to you,” she says. The post Talking about my dad: A daughter’s tribute appeared first on HopeHealth.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

clinical power means mastering timely initiation of care. 30% of home health patients dont get initiated into care for seven days as an industry, we have to look at those numbers and decide, as leaders, its unacceptable, Compassus CEO Mike Asselta said last month during a panel discussion at the Home Care 100 conference.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

As Calvarys new president, Fosina will oversee the organizations growth across its service lines, which include acute hospital care, palliative care, hospice and community-based care. The Connecticut Hospice Announces New CEO The Connecticut Hospice has named Sylvia Allais as its new president and CEO.

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Hospice News

APRIL 11, 2024

Set to open this summer, the hospice facility will feature 15 patient beds at Lourdes Senior Community in Waterford, Michigan. Expanding hospice care in the senior community will allow for improved support and care collaboration, according to Angela Hospice President and CEO Marti Coplai.

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Hospice News

MAY 31, 2023

Research is growing around how certain substances such as psychedelics and cannabis can aid in treating pain, anxiety, depression, trauma, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), grief, migraines and other medical conditions. Fratkin, California-based palliative care specialist, stated.

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Hospice News

APRIL 13, 2023

Despite the demand for palliative and hospice care among aging Latinos, these individuals make up only 5% – 6% of the organization’s patients, Wild stated. The disparity could be a result of poor communication and understanding around the nature of hospice and palliative care services, she added. Census Bureau.

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Hospice News

APRIL 10, 2024

“These restrictions are closely tied to the two most common reasons for a live discharge from hospice: decertification — when a patient is removed from hospice care due to a stabilized condition; or revocation — when a patient chooses to leave hospice care to seek curative care,” the authors wrote.

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Hospice News

JUNE 2, 2023

Hosparus Health Hosparus Health Hosparus CEO David Cook Baptist Health Deaconess Hospice launched in 1993, initially branded as Green River Hospice. In 2021, more than 22,000 Medicare decedents elected hospice care in Kentucky. million community center, as well as a new grief center in July 2022.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 25, 2024

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. Dozier Hospice House. We are committed to providing compassionate end-of-life care for those facing a life-limiting illness.”

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Hospice News

APRIL 22, 2022

Francis Reflections Lifestage Care recently opened a new inpatient hospice care center inside the Melbourne Regional Medical Center. A swelling demand for hospice in the community spurred the unit’s development. Francis Reflections Melbourne Care Center includes a private bathroom and overnight space for loved ones.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Empath Health CEO Jonathan Fleece Trustbridge provides comprehensive care that addresses the needs of patients at any stage of their illness with services including palliative care, hospice care, grief support services, pharmacy and durable medical equipment.

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Hospice News

APRIL 11, 2025

For over a decade, he has partnered with leaders across health care, faith communities, education, government and local businesses united by a shared commitment to improving access to quality end-of-life care. Established in 1981, the nonprofit offers home-based and general inpatient hospice care.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

The inpatient center will allow for smoother transitions to hospice care among eligible hospitalized and emergency patients, as well as home- and community-based referrals, according to Gayle Mattson, president and CEO of Hospice of Cincinnati/HOC Navigators. These include Residential Healthcare Group, among others.

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Hospice News

MARCH 27, 2024

“Overall hospice and end of life care was given too little consideration and disaster management policies and actions have been enacted by the larger response community,” Baker Rogers said. They were at best insufficiently supportive and at worst partially obstructive to provision of hospice care in disasters.”

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

“She has extensive hospice experience, at both the clinical and management levels, which will ensure that our programs will be able to serve an increasing number of patients who deserve the benefits of our hospice care services.” Carl Derrick as medical director.

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Hospice News

JUNE 14, 2024

In some cases, multiple hospices are operating out of the same address. The quality of care provided (or complete lack thereof) has been so egregiously poor that patients have suffered at the end of their lives, leaving a wake of complicated grief experiences among their families.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 30, 2023

California-based Hospice by the Bay has rebranded as By the Bay Health to recognize that it now offers more services than end-of-life care, including palliative care, comfort care, grief counseling, pediatric care, and skilled home health care as well as hospice services.

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Hospice News

MARCH 31, 2023

“There has been some confusion and an assumption by some that hospice services were no longer available in our county,“ FOCH Executive Director Elena Twiss told local news. “At At present, Hospice of Central New York & the Finger Lakes is providing hospice care to patients in Oswego County.

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Hospice News

MARCH 1, 2023

KHCH began providing home care services in Warsaw, Indiana, in 1976 before adding hospice care to the mix in 1982. The nonprofit also offers palliative care and has a service region that spans six counties in the area.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 25, 2023

Before coming to Hosparus in 2021, Cook led an organization in North Carolina that offered both hospice and PACE. I was interested in PACE services just because of the similarity that it has to hospice care and the need that it fills, often for some of the poor folks in a community.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 21, 2024

Among the most common misconceptions about palliative care is that these services are often conflated with hospice as support received at the end of a person’s life. North Carolina-based AMOREM provides hospice, palliative, grief support and advance care planning services across 12 counties in its home state.

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Hospice News

JUNE 11, 2024

Established in 1981, the nonprofit offers hospice care and grief support services to more than 27,000 patients and their families across a 55,000 square-mile geographic region in North Dakota and in western Minnesota. It’s sometimes [causes] needless suffering that we are trying to eradicate.

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Hospice News

JULY 13, 2023

This is the first of a two-part service that will detail key findings from recent research on hospice care, featuring numbers that could influence they ways hospices communicate and operate. Hospices’ cost-savings potential A study published in March revealed that hospice saved Medicare roughly $3.5

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

The increase in ACOs and other integrated care models can provide opportunities for organizations to reduce cost while providing high quality care.” Medical students often don’t receive exposure to palliative or hospice care throughout their education.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Avow Hospice provides pediatric and adult palliative and hospice care across Southwest Florida. Established in 1983, The nonprofit hospice is part of a multi-facility health care system and a member of the Mayo Clinic Care Network.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Caregivers need practical support and guidance for their experience of taking care of this person, and for their emotional, anticipatory grief they’re feeling. Potential impact on hospice utilization The strain on caregivers could mean that ultimately fewer patients will be able to receive hospice care in their homes.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Hospices are reaching an inflection point when it comes to breaking down communication barriers around spiritual care among underserved communities, according to William Williamson, who recently became the new director of faith outreach at AMOREM.

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