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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Hospice News

JUNE 3, 2024

Florida-based Community Hospice & Palliative Care recently opened a new location in its home state that will serve as an office for interdisciplinary staff and a community center. Community Hospice & Palliative Care Community Hospice & Palliative Care Community Hospice & Palliative Care: COO Kenny Stevenson; Board Member Sen.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

The foundation is an independent, nonprofit hospice and palliative care research and advocacy organization. It will serve as a hospice and palliative care “education and training hub” for patients, families, providers, and other stakeholders, according to the HAP Foundation. The HAP Foundation has officially begun operations.

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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

AUGUST 23, 2024

Providence Hospice-Community Healthcare of Texas has established a new palliative care clinic at Limestone Medical Center in its home state. Joshua Wesley, medical director for Providence Hospice-Community Healthcare of Texas, in a statement. The clinic officially opened on Aug.

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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

APRIL 13, 2023

Idaho-based Hospice & Palliative Care of the Wood River Valley has initiated Spanish-speaking services in an effort to reach underserved Latino patients and families. However, language barriers can make those patients difficult to reach, according to Lisa Wild, executive director at Hospice & Palliative Care of the Wood River Valley.

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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. Fratkin is also a palliative care specialist at Humboldt Center for New Growth.

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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

AUGUST 13, 2024

Operated in partnership with the Hospice of the Valley, the inpatient facility offers pediatric palliative care, hospice, grief support and respite services. Operated in partnership with the Hospice of the Valley, the inpatient facility offers pediatric palliative care, hospice, grief support and respite services.

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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

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

“The LIFE program is a great example of Empath Health Full Life Care,” President and CEO Jonathan Fleece said in an announcement shared with Hospice News. “We Empath offers hospice care through several brands, including Tidewell Hospice, Suncoast Hospice, Empath Hospice, Hospice of Marion County and Suncoast Hospice of Hillsborough.

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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

AUGUST 15, 2022

The unique needs of families and children facing life-limiting can wear pediatric palliative and hospice care clinicians especially thin, and the potential for burnout can leave providers even more short-staffed than many already are. Even outside of hospice, caring for seriously ill children can take a mental and emotional toll.

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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

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

JUNE 29, 2024

Seriously ill patients often cope with an array of emotional and spiritual complexities as their health worsens, including processing complicated anticipatory grief, severe agitation, distress and depression, Caldwell said. A growing body of research is uncovering the potential benefits of ketamine therapies to help with symptom management.

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Hospice News

JULY 5, 2022

Iowa-based Hospice of Washington County is rebuilding and relocating its administrative offices, which also houses the provider’s palliative care clinic. The hospice received a $60,464 grant from the Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship to fund the rebuild, part of a statewide water quality improvement project.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Hospices have historically represented the biggest cohort of the palliative care provider mix since the field emerged in the United States during the 1980s. Hospices have historically represented the biggest cohort of the palliative care provider mix since the field emerged in the United States during the 1980s.

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Hospice News

MARCH 19, 2024

Connecticut legislators recently introduced a bill that aims to create a statewide pediatric hospice and palliative program. Connecticut Children’s provides a range of 30 pediatric services, including hospice, and has more than 40 locations in its home state, New York and Massachusetts. The plan would have to be completed by Jan.

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Hospice News

APRIL 29, 2024

With naturopathic care in palliative patients, they can have less fear about their conditions as they progress and receive more support with their experiences in ripples or tsunamis of pain, emotional waves of grief, anxiety or social isolation.” The post Naturopath’s Potential in Palliative Care appeared first on Hospice News.

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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

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Clinicians face relatively high rates of burnout “due to the secondary trauma and emotional exhaustion that develops from working with death and dying daily,” Aprille Waldrop, social services manager for Florida-based Hospice of Health First told Palliative Care News. Burnout is a state of complete mental, physical and emotional exhaustion.

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Hospice News

JULY 13, 2023

The health care space — including hospice — is increasingly shaped by numbers. During the past several years hospice providers have had to become experts in data management in order to remain competitive. Hospices’ cost-savings potential A study published in March revealed that hospice saved Medicare roughly $3.5

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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

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

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. Palliative isn’t hospice, you want them to be different programs,” Dedes told Palliative Care News during the Hospice News Sales & Marketing webinar series.

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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

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

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Hospice and palliative care will be a “strong focus” of services provided at the new senior living facility, Heartlinks Adult Family Home, said Shelby Moore, the organization’s executive director. Both hospice and palliative care services will be central to what we offer at Heartlinks Adult Family Home,” Moore told Hospice News in an email.

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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

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

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

MARCH 6, 2024

Coastal Hospice & Palliative Care recently began exploring ways to improve clinical outcomes during the last days of life, an important quality measure in end-of-life care. Established in 1980, Maryland-based Coastal Hospice serves four counties in its home state.

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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

JUNE 16, 2023

The health system is rolling out the new program in partnership with hospice and palliative care provider Lower Cape Fear LifeCare. Novant Health provides facility- and community-based services including hospice, home health and palliative care. The organization operates three hospice inpatient centers in North Carolina.

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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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