Hospice News

JANUARY 31, 2025

With nominations in the categories of Behavioral Health, Home Health & Home Care, Hospice & Palliative Care, Senior Housing & Senior Living, and Skilled Nursing (SNF), the program showcases exemplary character and performance of frontline workers across the care continuum.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 17, 2024

This could be interpreted as a signal of interest in retaining some of these flexibilities into the future, according to Katy Barnett, director of home care and hospice operations and policy at LeadingAge.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 16, 2025

The plaintiffs include: Texas Association for Home Care & Hospice, Indiana Association for Home & Hospice Care, Association for Home & Hospice Care of North Carolina, South Carolina Home Care & Hospice Association and Houston Hospice.

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AlayaCare

MARCH 2, 2023

Keeping clients safe while providing care services is critical for home care organizations. Client care can present a variety of risks that can impact the quality of care provided. According to the Patient Safety Network , errors are reported to occur at rates between 2-33%.

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AT Home Care & Hospice

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Health Literacy Month: Partnering for Patient Care Excellence Understanding Home Health Care: A Vital Resource for Patient Well-being In the landscape of patient care, home health is an essential service that offers a seamless continuum of care, particularly for patients transitioning from acute care settings to their homes.

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AlayaCare

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Home care agencies are rapidly understanding the importance of digital transformation to stay competitive and provide better care for their patients. Digital transformation can help home care businesses simplify operations, improve patient outcomes, and increase efficiency. Download Checklist 1.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 26, 2024

The Alliance hinted that it was inching closer to a leadership decision earlier this month after completing an affiliation in June between the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC) and the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO). Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), the U.S. “The

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AlayaCare

JULY 4, 2022

It’s hard to imagine a market more invested in this population than home care, where demand is surging, and agencies strategize on staying competitive and capitalizing on this moment in time. The facts: baby boomers need care and residence.

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AlayaCare

JULY 5, 2022

It’s hard to imagine a market more invested in this population than home care, where demand is surging, and agencies strategize on staying competitive and capitalizing on this moment in time. The facts: baby boomers need care and residence.

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AlayaCare

MARCH 24, 2023

As Adrian Shauer, CEO of AlayaCare, expressed in episode 35 of the HomeHealth360 podcast “Home care agencies now have the tools to finally win the war on repetitive tasks.” Home care software can automate these clinical processes to increase accuracy while reducing human error that leads to medical mistakes.

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AlayaCare

JUNE 28, 2022

The caregiver employment crisis has the home care industry on its toes looking for solutions to employee churn. In 2021, poorly managed care plans were in the top 10 complaints from care providers and nurses in home care organizations, according to Home Care Pulse.

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AlayaCare

JUNE 29, 2022

The caregiver employment crisis has the home care industry on its toes looking for solutions to employee churn. In 2021, poorly managed care plans were in the top 10 complaints from care providers and nurses in home care organizations, according to Home Care Pulse.

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AlayaCare

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Demand for home infusion pharmacy services is booming, with several more years of sustained growth forecasted. This is a landmark opportunity for the industry to continue its transformation to incorporate more Hospital-at-Home care. We spoke to our leading enterprise-level customers to get their insights.

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AlayaCare

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Demand for home infusion pharmacy services is booming, with several more years of sustained growth forecasted. This is a landmark opportunity for the industry to continue its transformation to incorporate more Hospital-at-Home care. Improving efficiency with real-time field visibility.

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Hospice News

JUNE 20, 2023

“Good hospices know their own systems’ capabilities and requirements, and seek partners who understand and can comply with those requirements while enhancing the delivery of patient care,” Natarajan told Hospice News in an email. The routine home care telehealth waiver ended with the PHE.

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Comfort Home Care

MAY 15, 2022

Geraldine (Gerri) Flowers assumes the role as Chief Executive Officer of Comfort Home Care, effective May 9, 2022. She has played a significant role, spanning patient care, regulatory compliance, management, and most notably COVID prevention and treatment implementation and coordination strategies. ROCKVILLE, Md.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Issues of fraud in the hospice industry echo events that previously affected the home health space, and providers can learn from that prior experience. This is according to Bill Dombi, president of the National Association for Home Care and Hospice (NAHC), who spoke Thursday in a Relias webinar.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

At such a vulnerable time, it is important for families to have a resource like a patient care unit right in their backyard. AMOREM provides comfort and understanding in ensuring that their compassionate and incredibly skilled nurses are there to support patients and families.

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Hospice News

JULY 23, 2024

This is according to Bill Dombi, president of the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC). A large contingent of these companies were established with the purpose of selling the license at a profit, with little concern for patient care. “I

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Hospice News

JULY 26, 2024

This includes developing an infrastructure to weed out bad actors, but this can come with challenges for quality hospice providers, Yntema said at the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC) Financial Management Conference in Las Vegas. How are you going to operationalize it?

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Daily Nurse

AUGUST 10, 2023

Improving Outcomes in Home Care Research shows that home care patients who speak a language other than English are at a higher risk for readmission to the hospital. The patients spoke Spanish, Korean, Chinese, or Russian as their primary language.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 19, 2023

The organizations penned a joint letter to CMS in November urging for increased oversight to help curb hospice frauds, including the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC), National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO), National Partnership for Healthcare and Hospice Innovation (NPHI) and LeadingAge.

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AlayaCare

APRIL 11, 2019

In the ever-changing home care industry, there are innumerable variables that agencies must strategically consider – as well as those that are hard to predict but still need to be managed carefully. The implications on the demand for home care services are clear. As we’ve explored in previous articles , 15 percent of U.S.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 3, 2024

31, these flexibilities allowed hospices to perform routine home care visits virtually and conduct face-to-face recertification visits. The National Alliance for Care at Home spearheaded the effort. Telehealth flexibilities have yielded benefits for patients and providers, the coalition indicated.

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Hospice News

MARCH 21, 2024

A large contingent of these companies were established with the purpose of selling the license at a profit, with little concern for patient care. In some instances, multiple hospices have been operating out of the same address without a corresponding increase in the population of eligible patients.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 9, 2024

Building a sustainable financial structure for end-of-life care delivery can be a challenging feat when navigating the impacts of patient care and staffing needs, referral streams, operational expenses, billing claim cycles and compliance factors, Chadwick said.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 8, 2024

Compassion provides us with a high-quality hospice operation in East Texas, where New Day currently has significant market share in both personal care and skilled care services,” New Day Chief Development Officer Matthew Griffith said in a statement. The following year, the company secured $55.5 The company’s CEO G.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

As those problems proliferate, the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO), the National Association for Home Care and Hospice (NAHC), LeadingAge and the National Partnership for Hospice and Healthcare Innovation (NPHI) have been speaking out not only individually, but collectively.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 7, 2024

New approaches to palliative care reimbursement are necessary and should focus on improving quality and inspiring clinical innovation, Susan Ponder-Stansel, president and CEO of Florida-based Alivia Care Inc., said at the National Association for Home Care & Hospice’s (NAHC) Financial Management Conference in Las Vegas.

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Hospice News

APRIL 12, 2023

These factors mean that hospice leaders will need a strong grasp on data collection and analysis, according to Bill Dombi, president of the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC). “As The nitty gritty details of data management matter when it comes to ensuring both a healthy bottom line and quality patient care.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 25, 2022

With financial considerations, extrapolation is not just a possibility, it’s going to be a probability,” said Uebel at the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC) Financial Management Conference in Las Vegas. The question might be where are the referrals and revenue coming from?”

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Hospice News

MAY 7, 2024

What concerns me more is not the competition, it’s about poor patient care.” These included the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC), the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO), LeadingAge, and the National Partnership for Healthcare and Hospice Innovation (NPHI).

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Hospice News

AUGUST 4, 2023

The intensity of GIP care often includes higher-cost services such as increased medication management, 24/7 clinical staffing assistance and other operational expenses. It’s almost as if two pieces aren’t talking to each other on inpatient care,” Gurian said. Because the difference there is really having a chilling effect.”

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Hospice News

APRIL 28, 2023

As they move into this new sphere, hospices may be able to glean some important lessons from home health agencies. For one, they should start preparing now, according to National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC) President Bill Dombi. Don’t wait for the day before it starts to get yourself ready for it.

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Home Care Pulse

JUNE 27, 2023

17: How Home Care Agencies Can Reduce Hospital Readmissions Michelle Cone and Laura Coyle of HomeWell Care Services address why home care plays a crucial role in reducing hospital readmissions, how they're prioritizing this at HomeWell, and what they would suggest as the first step to improving outcomes.

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Hospice News

MAY 3, 2024

A 2015 study analysis published in the journal BMC Public Health found that nearly two-thirds of the female home care workforce experiences some type of workplace violence annually. More than half (51.5%) of home care workers overall have experienced verbal aggression, while 24.7%

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Hospice News

AUGUST 7, 2023

The increased focus on hospice billing and claims has added to the mix of financial pressures that impact providers, according to Zaundra Ellis, vice president of hospice professional services at the health care software provider Axxess. Ensuring that clinical documentation is complete and accurate is also essential.

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