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

JANUARY 31, 2025

WTWH Healthcare, a WTWH Media company, is proud to announce the Frontline Honors Class of 2024. This years honorees represent a diverse array of frontline workers across a range of sectors and types of organizations, but they are unified by the passion, commitment and skill they bring to the often difficult work that they do each day.

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Hospice News

MARCH 4, 2025

Former NAHC President Joins New Day Healthcare, Law Firm Bill Dombi has recently stepped into two new roles following his retirement as president of the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC). New Day Healthcare LLC announced that Dombi recently joined its board of advisors.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Low palliative care utilization is associated with higher risk of mental health challenges among patients with pancreatic cancer, recent research found. Researchers dug into patients’ data to examine palliative care utilization and delivery of mental health services and pharmacotherapies between January 1, 2010, and December 31, 2018.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

The Maryland-based hospice and palliative care provider has seen a significant increase in demand for dementia care amid a growing population of seniors with Alzheimer’s disease and related conditions across its service region, which spans four counties in the state.

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Hospice News

MARCH 19, 2025

Hughes outlined to Fluhart her industrys need for home-based palliative care, and after a number of communications, the two agreed to join forces to address the gap in services, with Fluharts business background complementing Hughess practical experience. Its all about relationships, Fluhart told Palliative Care News.

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Hospice News

JUNE 27, 2022

Individually, palliative care and social determinants programs both have the potential to improve quality of life and reduce costs — but that potential may be greater when the two are combined. Programs to address social determinants have likewise been found to reduce health care expenditures. Case in point, the U.S.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

In this episode, Hospice News Senior Editor Jim Parker speaks with Marianne Muzic-Lucenti, manager of one of the oldest pediatric palliative care programs in the nation, at St. Mary’s Healthcare System in Queens, New York City. The discussion profiles the program and looks at the outlook for palliative care for 2025.

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Hospice News

APRIL 28, 2023

Ohio-based palliative care provider Pure Healthcare is collaborating with the nonprofit managed care organization CareSource to implement a new care management model designed to support chronically ill patients. We feel the innovation is really the marriage of that enhanced care management model. “We

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Hospice News

JANUARY 20, 2023

More providers are investing in virtual reality (VR) programs as a growing body of research shows that it can ease pain symptoms and improve outcomes for palliative care patients. These findings suggest that there could be therapeutic benefits to expanding virtual reality programming in palliative care delivery, researchers indicated.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 10, 2025

Couzens most recently served as hospice executive director of Hartford Healthcare at Home, part of The Pennant Group (Nasdaq: PNTG). Elizabeth Healthcare and Trustbridge prior to its affiliation with Empath Health. He has also held hospice chaplain roles at St.

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Hospice News

JUNE 25, 2024

New York state-based Garnet Health has announced a restructuring plan that spells the demise of its inpatient palliative care services. In addition to ending palliative care, Garnet is transferring physicians from its outpatient services business to its infectious disease practice. This is estimated to save Garnett $4.6

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Hospice News

JUNE 21, 2022

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Chiquita Brooks-LaSure, calling for a payment model demonstration designed to support greater access to palliative care. Signatories on the letter included the co-founders of the Senate Comprehensive Care Caucus, U.S. Senators Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.),

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Fraud’s future costs Bad operators are reaping the benefits of providing poor and negligent care to patients while creating an unstable payment environment for legitimate providers, according to Sheila Clark, president and CEO of the California Hospice and Palliative Care Association (CHAPCA).

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Hospice News

MAY 29, 2024

As the palliative care field continues to grow and transform, understanding the current trends, outlook, relevant challenges and necessary skills for future leaders is critical. She added that these services are now being offered in diverse settings, including outpatient and home-based care models.

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Hospice News

MARCH 17, 2025

Before joining VNH, Tarsa was the executive director of home health, hospice and palliative care at Jefferson Healthcare in Washington, where she led quality and compliance, organizational culture, clinical operations, program and business development and project management.

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Hospice News

JULY 17, 2024

Palliative care provider Tuesday Health has penned an agreement with the Medicare Advantage organization CareSource to offer services to its beneficiaries. Tuesday Health’s supportive care services operate on hybrid in-person and virtual models, according to Dr. Mihir Kamdar, head of care delivery of Tuesday Health.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 14, 2025

Historically, VITAS Healthcare has relied heavily on organic growth, a strategy the company is not turning away from. However, it may add more acquisitions to the mix. VITAS is a subsidiary of Chemed Corp. NYSE: CHE). The company this year made its return to the M&A market after a hiatus of several years. Admissions also rose 6.3%

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 4, 2022

The Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) is developing new reimbursement pathways for palliative care. As part of that process, CMMI is applying elements of its Medicare Care Choices Model (MCCM) demonstration, which ended Dec. MCCM was designed to test the impact of concurrent hospice and curative care.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 7, 2024

Hospice reimbursement trends influence palliative care payment and delivery. Commonly known as the “carve-in,” the program was designed to test hospice care coverage through Medicare Advantage, as well as some coverage of palliative care and transitional care.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 11, 2024

The Chicago-based Elea Institute is seeking to improve public awareness of hospice and palliative care as well as convene discussions about ways to rethink the Medicare benefit. One is access to hospice and palliative care and serious illness care, then education and awareness.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 7, 2024

Supportive oncology services, a model that includes palliative care, are associated with lower costs and improved clinical outcomes. This can only be accomplished on a large scale if both payers and health care institutions collaborate.”

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Hospice News

MAY 12, 2023

Palliative care utilization in ovarian cancer patients can lower their chances of rehospitalizations, according to recent data. Palliative care patients were less likely to be readmitted within 90 days of a hospital stay, according to Dr. Alex Francoeur, study author. Both of those findings were significant as well.”

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Hospice News

JUNE 30, 2023

Raising philanthropic funding is often vital to nonprofit palliative care providers. But to attract donors, operators must be prepared to communicate their value proposition, according to Steve Cone, chief communications officer at Capital Caring Health. It’s cheaper to provide palliative care than a hospitalization.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

For the time being, Medicare Advantage may be providers’ best bet for palliative care reimbursement. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) also allows Medicare Advantage plans to cover palliative care as a supplemental benefit. based research and consulting firm ATI Advisory.

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Hospice News

MARCH 22, 2024

A group of seven nonprofit hospices has launched a palliative care organization branded as Integrity Care Partners. The founding organizations are each members of the Texas Nonprofit Hospice Alliance, a regional collaborative of which Integrity Care Partners is an extension.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Palliative care has been one of the largest growing segments of the health care industry in the last decade despite challenges such as staffing shortages, reimbursement headaches and misconceptions regarding this type of care. million people need palliative care.

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Hospice News

MAY 14, 2024

A new collaboration for transitional care between Florida-based Big Bend Hospice and the Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare system has more going on behind the scenes. Big Bend, a nonprofit provider, in 2021 formed a new parent company called Seven Oaks Healthcare.

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Hospice News

MARCH 17, 2025

Organizations included the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (AAHPM), the National Coalition for Hospice and Palliative Care (NCHPC), the National Partnership for Healthcare and Hospice Innovation (NPHI) and the National Alliance for Care at Home, among others.

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Hospice News

MAY 16, 2022

CVS Health Corporation (NYSE: CVS) subsidiary Aetna has selected Ohio’s Hospice and Pure Healthcare as part of the insurance company’s hospice and palliative care preferred provider network for Value-Based Insurance Design (VBID) in the Buckeye State.

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Hospice News

MAY 21, 2024

Maine-based Androscoggin Home Healthcare and Hospice has rebranded as Andwell Health Partners to better reflect its growing suite of services. The company launched in 1966 as a home health company, later adding hospice, palliative, behavioral health and community care services. “As

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Hospice News

APRIL 9, 2024

Reimbursement for community-based palliative care is gaining ground in the Medicare Advantage realm. Palliative care is among the wide range of supplemental benefits that exist within the Medicare Advantage payment landscape. This is a rise from 180 MA plans in 2023 offering palliative services and 64 MA plans in 2020.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Breast cancer patients often lack access to palliative care services, but the needle may be moving as researchers dig into common barriers and clinical and financial outcomes. A recent study of nearly 30,000 hospitalized metastatic breast cancer patients found that only 19% received palliative care from 2010 to 2014.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Addus HomeCare Corporation (NASDAQ: ADUS) has acquired Chicago-based Apple Home Healthcare, Ltd., The state is one of three in which Addus offers its trifecta of business lines — personal care, home health and hospice. The post Addus Acquires Apple Home Healthcare appeared first on Hospice News. for an undisclosed sum.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Florida-based Hope Healthcare has affiliated with Chapters Health System, a nonprofit provider of hospice, palliative care and home health, among other services. Its staff of 3,330 and more than 2,430 volunteers care for more than 72,000 patients annually in 35 Florida counties and four in Georgia.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 21, 2023

The hospice and senior care provider Helios Care is partnering with the integrated health system Bassett Healthcare Network to bring more extensive access to hospice and palliative care to patients in central New York. We work closely with Helios Care every day.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 23, 2024

New President, COO at Interim HealthCare The Florida-headquartered home-based care franchise company Interim HealthCare has tapped Rexanne Domico as its new president and chief operating officer. A 14-year veteran of the industry, Hellwege previously served as area vice president for Intrepid Healthcare.

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