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7 ‘Hidden Gem’ Hospice News Stories in 2024

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Addus earlier this month closed a $350 million acquisition of Gentivas personal care business. Though Addus has focused on growing its personal care and home health services, hospice remains a pillar of its strategy. Hospices have taken varied approaches to shaping their youth grief programs, but common threads exist.

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Heart to Heart Hospice Expands Footprint in Oklahoma

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Hospice utilization rates in Oklahoma reached 47.77% among Medicare decedents in 2022, reported the National Alliance for Care at Home. Heart to Heart provides hospice, palliative care and grief support. Seniors 65 and older represent 17.7% of the state’s overall population, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

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Hospice Executives Retire as New Leaders Rise

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Texas-headquartered Addus provides personal care, home health and hospice services in 22 states. Addus acquisition strategy focuses on pairing its clinical services with its personal care business across its existing markets. Established in 1981, the nonprofit offers home-based and general inpatient hospice care.

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Angela Hospice’s New Inpatient Facility; Hosparus Opens PACE Center

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Angela Hospice provides adult and pediatric hospice, palliative care and grief support across Oakland County in southern Michigan. PACE Center, we embark on a new chapter to revolutionize health care accessibility and enhance the quality of life in the communities we serve,” Cook said in an announcement.

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Adult, PACE, Palliative Centers Unveiled Amid Hospice Closures

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. “WelbeHealth is delivering critical services to vulnerable seniors and their family members like memory care rooms and transportation,” Meg Barron, executive director at WellbeHealth, said in a statement. Hospice of the EUP became Medicare certified in 1990 and offers facility-based hospice and grief support services.

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Former VITAS Manager Becomes VP of Operations; Hawaii E.D. Doc Turns Hospice Medical Director

Hospice News

In addition to hospice, the nonprofit provider also offers palliative care and grief support. in 2018, according to the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization. The nonprofit provider offers a range of other senior care services that includes hospice, home health, palliative, PACE, and personal care.

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Empath Health Expands With De Novo, Veterans’ Adult Day Center

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The organization also plans to add home health, medical services, grief care, personal care, and its Empath Partners in Care (EPIC) services, designed to care for HIV/AIDS patients. Bringing our full life care to the residents of Hillsborough County is an honor and a privilege,” Rafael J.

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