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Blue Ridge Hospice Brings Services Under New Unified Brand

Hospice News

This change reflects our growth into a comprehensive, person-centered health care system designed to support individuals and families through every stage of aging, serious illness and grief. Last November Blue Ridge Care unveiled its new Center for Hope & Healing, a facility dedicated to offering comprehensive grief care.

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7 ‘Hidden Gem’ Hospice News Stories in 2024

Hospice News

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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When Nurses Are Caught Between Hospital Policy and Frustrated Family Members

AJN Off the Charts

We understood the need to give space for the messy, complicated ways grief can manifest, but we also deserve to work in a safe environment. Were we to simply yield to the family’s demands to ignore the policy and remain nonconfrontational about their aggressive behavior, out of a desire to be sympathetic to their grief?

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Heart to Heart Hospice Expands Footprint in Oklahoma

Hospice News

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. The hospice also provides disease-focused programs dubbed as Care Bridge Cancer Care and Care Bridge Cardiac Care.

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Hospice, Home-Based Care Employees Report Feeling Unsafe at Work

Hospice News

They are entering a space that is very personal to provide very personalized care. Family caregivers are going to receive them with open arms and be grateful for the care that they are there to provide,” Nicole McCann-Davis, senior client advisor and research director for Transcend, told Hospice News.

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New Executives Take the Helm at AccentCare, Blue Ridge, Androscoggin, Good Samaritan

Hospice News

The company merged with Illinois-based Seasons Hospice & Palliative Care in 2020. AccentCare provides hospice, palliative and personal care, along with home health, non-medical services, care management and high-acuity home care. We’re very much looking ahead to this year,” Parsons told local news.

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Hospice Executives Retire as New Leaders Rise

Hospice News

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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