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Federal Funds Reignite Hospice Nurse Recruitment Initiative

Hospice News

A new hospice nursing recruitment effort has launched in the New England region after being stalled by the pandemic. The recruitment initiative is the fruit of a collaboration between Visiting Nurse and Hospice for Vermont and New Hampshire (VNH) and the Home Care, Hospice & Palliative Care Alliance of New Hampshire (the Alliance).

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Hospice M&A Going Strong, But Non-Medical Home Care a Rising Star

Hospice News

While hospice and home health M&A continue to burgeon, non-medical home care is starting to slip out from under their shadows. Deal volume for non-medical home care companies outstripped that for hospice or home health during the first half of the year.

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4 Strategies to differentiate yourself from competitors in home health  

AlayaCare

The home health industry in the USA is growing rapidly due to an aging population and an increased demand for healthcare services provided in the home. Scott Herman, CEO of Elara Caring , oversees a home care business spanning 17 states with over 25,000 caregivers and 60,000 patients.

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Columbia Nursing Study Demonstrates the Need for Verbal Communication Data in Home Health Care

Daily Nurse

A new study reveals the importance of integrating patient-nurse verbal communication data into patient risk identification models for home health care. Existing patient risk identification models, which primarily rely on electronic health record data, have only modest success detecting these high-risk patients.

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Hospice, Home Health Providers ‘Squeezing Turnips’ Competing for Clinical Staff

Hospice News

Amid workforce shortages, hospice and home health providers are often at a disadvantage when it comes to competing with other health care organizations that can have greater financial resources, according to Bill English, president and CEO of Accurate Home Care.

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Three Key Gauges of Hospice Business Performance

Hospice News

Just think about it all the pharmacy needs, the nursing needs, the clergy needs, the supply needs, the equipment needs. Debbie Johnston, founder, Ask Nurse Debbie and Serenity First Hospice, author of The Hospice Handbook. Kenneth Albert, president and CEO, Androscoggin Home Care + Hospice. “We We look at the payer mix.

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AGG, New Day’s Bill Dombi: Hospices’ ‘Vibrant Evolutionary Path’ Spurs Legal Growing Pains 

Hospice News

He previously served as president of the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC) for 38 years prior to its affiliation with the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) in 2023 and was heavily involved in the establishment of the Medicare Hospice Benefit. This was not thrust upon the community.

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