Hospice News

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Established nearly 50 years ago, Rhode Island-based HopeHealth provides hospice, palliative care, and dementia and grief support services in Massachusetts and in its home state. The nonprofit has narrowed the focus of its retention initiatives toward reducing staff turnover.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Palliative care providers are taking varied routes to address the most disruptive forces they are encountering this year, rising to challenges that have been persistent across the sector. The nation lacks a sufficient supply of palliative care professionals amid a swelling population of seriously ill patients, driving up demand.

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Hospice News

APRIL 16, 2025

Hospice and senior services provider Empath Health is financially supporting clinical education in hospice and palliative care at the University of Southern Florida (USF). Empath will provide $10,000 annually to USFs Center for Hospice, Palliative Care and End-of-Life Studies.

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Hospice News

APRIL 29, 2024

Naturopathic medicine and palliative care may have more in common than meets the eye. Naturopathic doctors (NDs) are typically trained as primary care providers and address a broad range of acute and chronic conditions. The post Naturopath’s Potential in Palliative Care appeared first on Hospice News.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 21, 2024

Palliative care providers’ largest referral hurdles have been long-rooted in misunderstandings about their services. 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.

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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. 15 with a ceremony featuring local government officials, health care professionals and other dignitaries. The clinic officially opened on Aug.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

The foundation is an independent, nonprofit hospice and palliative care research and advocacy organization. The foundation aims to identify and address gaps in the health care continuum to help improve the quality of life for the seriously and terminally ill.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 19, 2024

National Alliance for Care at Home Announces New COO National Alliance for Care at Home (the Alliance) recently announced Sherl Brand as its new COO, who will ascend into the role in January. She was also on the board of directors at the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC).

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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. Hospice & Palliative Care of the Wood River Valley is part of the Idaho Health Continuum of Care Alliance, a group of post-acute health care providers.

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Hospice News

JUNE 16, 2023

North Carolina-headquartered Novant Health has launched a new palliative care program to help improve quality of life for patients with heart failure. The health system is rolling out the new program in partnership with hospice and palliative care provider Lower Cape Fear LifeCare.

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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. electing the benefit, according to the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization. By 2030, seniors are projected to make up more than a quarter or 26.9%

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Hospice News

JULY 13, 2023

“We can provide better care to patients with advanced and serious illness, and it’s encouraging to see research show what changes could come in hospice.” There is a substantial opportunity to further explore what health care utilization, diagnoses, and changing frailty represent for mortality risk and prediction of hospice use.”

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Hospice News

APRIL 29, 2025

In addition to hospice, Kirva is in the process of stepping into the palliative care space, according to Hamilton Fried. She recently joined the organization with more than 32 years of health care experience. Its additional services include pediatric, dementia and veterans care.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 9, 2024

Palliative care providers need to focus on their specific organization’s specific strengths in order to stand out from a broad range of competitors. Untangling knots in palliative care marketing Michigan-based NorthStar Care Community operates Hospice of Michigan and Arbor Hospice.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Francis Reflections Lifestage Care and Treasure Coast Health on Tuesday completed their affiliation, a move nearly a year in the making after the two Florida-based nonprofits signaled they would join forces. Combined, the two organizations provide hospice and palliative care to more than 7,000 patients annually across Brevard, Martin, St.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 11, 2024

While hospice care remains a cornerstone of our mission, this rebrand enables us to better represent the full spectrum of services we provide, including palliative care and grief support. In addition to hospice, MiraSol offers community-based palliative care and counseling services.

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Hospice News

MARCH 7, 2025

So our scope of care includes home health, both skilled and non-skilled, and it includes hospice. Eventually, we hope to do palliative care. Our model of care across all of those service lines is built around an offering acronym, CARE. How do you anticipate this scope of services to take shape?

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

He oversaw its daily operations as Calvary integrated services with parent organization ArchCare, the health care ministry of the Archdiocese of New York. Calvary is the only hospital in the United States thats specifically dedicated to providing hospice and palliative care. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Interest has mounted in the palliative care arena, but building and sustaining these services requires stronger reimbursement and workforce resources. But insufficient payment pathways represent a large hurdle for palliative care’s growth potential, Kulik said. “If They’re going to try to spur growth.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Palliative care organizations that integrate employee feedback into their staff development policies have a fighting chance in battling ongoing burnout and turnover in the field. The palliative care workforce is facing a wide range of challenges that impact their ability to thrive in the field.

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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. and serves on the national advisory board for the California State University Shiley Institute for Palliative Care.

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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

OCTOBER 30, 2023

A strong brand identity is crucial for hospices seeking to differentiate themselves in the marketplace, Stan Massey, senior partner at Transcend Strategy Group, said at the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization’s (NHPCO) Annual Leadership Conference in Little Rock, Arkansas.

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Hospice News

MARCH 21, 2023

The unification will “allow for greater consistency across the Hospice of the Chesapeake service area,” the hospice and palliative care provider indicated in an announcement. In addition to providing hospice, the organization offers grief support and palliative care services at the Chesapeake Supportive Care and Chesapeake Life Center.

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Caregiver Support Services

JANUARY 31, 2025

Palliative care plays a significant role in improving the quality of life for individuals managing serious illnesses. It can be easy to confuse palliative and hospice care, but one difference between them is that your loved one can receive palliative care at any stage of an illness.

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Hospice News

MAY 14, 2024

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

JANUARY 19, 2024

Unity Hospice and Palliative Care of Greater Houston has unveiled a five-year general inpatient (GIP) service agreement with the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) Health. The hospice will provide GIP care across the health system’s four hospitals. Unity Hospice and Palliative Care serves 13 counties in Texas.

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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

OCTOBER 10, 2024

NPHI is a national advocacy organization with more than 100 nonprofit advanced illness care providers, including those offering hospice and palliative care services. The hospice also offers a summer grief program for bereaved children, Wing Camp, which launched in 2000.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 1, 2024

This partnership marks an important milestone in our mission to deliver exceptional hospice and palliative care. The organization is a subsidiary of Western Reserve Care Solutions and serves 15 counties throughout northern Ohio. Photo by Pixelate Photography.

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Hospice News

JUNE 17, 2024

Its current census hovers around 340 patients, with expectations to swell this volume up to 400 through expanded hospice and palliative care services and its new Program for All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) set to launch this year. In addition to hospice, Empath offers home health, personal and palliative care.

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Hospice News

APRIL 11, 2024

Angela Hospice provides adult and pediatric hospice, palliative care and grief support across Oakland County in southern Michigan. To qualify for PACE, residents must be 55 and older, in need of nursing home-level care and able to safely receive community-based services in a home-based setting.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

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

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Hospice News

MARCH 20, 2024

Wisconsin is among the states that have recently taken steps to improve palliative care access and awareness. Wisconsin legislators recently introduced a bill that would establish a statewide Palliative Care Council. In addition, it would help educate Wisconsinites about what palliative care does.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

In addition to oversee AccentCare’s hospice and palliative care programs, he will also support its clinical care operations and patient experience initiatives. Prior to joining AccentCare, Natarajan founded Chicago Primary Care Sports Medicine. We’re very much looking ahead to this year,” Parsons told local news.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Post-affiliation, the combined hospice will offer hospice, geriatric and palliative care, as well as pediatric services, grief care, dementia support, music therapy, veterans’ program and culturally specific initiatives. About 25,271 Medicare decedents in 2021 elected the hospice benefit, according to the U.S.

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Hospice News

JULY 28, 2023

“We know [Lopez] will make a significant impact in building relationships within the Denver community as well as unlocking the potential for The Denver Hospice in its service to the community,” Tim Bowen, president and CEO of Care Synergy, said in a statement. The Denver Hospice is one of the largest end-of-life care providers in its region.

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