Hospice News

JANUARY 31, 2025

3 emerging technologies Predictive analytics, remote patient monitoring and virtual reality therapies are three emerging technologies that are becoming increasingly prevalent among hospices, according to an Axxess report shared with Hospice News.

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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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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

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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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

MARCH 9, 2020

Home care is about to change for the better in Ontario and its 14 million residents – at least 2.5 The provincial government recently announced new legislation that would modernize the delivery of home and community care in Ontario – a move we wholeheartedly endorse and look forward to serving as a partner to the Ministry of Health.

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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

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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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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AlayaCare

JUNE 17, 2018

Acquisition improves AlayaCare’s ability to help Ontario home and community care agencies focus on delivering quality patient care TORONTO, June 18, 2018: AlayaCare, an award-winning, end-to-end software platform for home and community care, today announced the acquisition of Canesto Systems Inc.,

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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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Traditions Health

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Traditions Health of Waxahachie awarded Home Care Accreditation from The Joint Commission Traditions Health Hospice of Waxahachie has earned The Joint Commission’s Gold Seal of Approval® for Home Care Accreditation by demonstrating continuous compliance with its performance standards.

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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

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 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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AlayaCare

APRIL 18, 2023

In developing Visit Optimizer, the team was tasked to create an application that automates placing care givers with vacant client visits, remove manual guesswork in scheduling, and reduce mileage, travel time and wait times to improve patient experience, fostering employee satisfaction.

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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

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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Hospice News

JANUARY 28, 2025

His track record of success, combined with his dedication to improving care at home, makes him an invaluable addition to our team. Under his leadership, the Alliance aims to strengthen its ability to represent and empower providers while ensuring greater access to home-based care for patients and their loved ones.

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Hospice News

JULY 20, 2023

Hospices that can demonstrate the ability to financially and operationally weather changes in an evolving reimbursement climate have a leg up on competitors in the value-based landscape, Calcutt said at the National Association of Home Care & Hospice’s (NAHC) Financial Management Conference in New Orleans.

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AlayaCare

JUNE 21, 2022

This can lead to a decrease in the quality of patient care. One of the major scheduling problems for infusion nurses is managing the difference between care time , when infusion nurses are actively treating patients, and on-going time, when they simply monitor patient care.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 27, 2024

The nonprofit health system provides home care, hospice, palliative and dementia care across Rhode Island and southeastern Massachusetts. The role of clinical executives has morphed to include more business-related decisions alongside those regarding patient care delivery, Martin said.

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