Hospice News

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Fosinas 30-year career included health care leadership roles, including serving as president of NewYork-Presbyterian Lawrence Hospital and its home health and hospice services, Lawrence Homecare and Jansen Hospice. He also served as the hospitals COO, executive director and director of integration and accreditation.

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Hospice News

APRIL 11, 2025

A few hospice executives have recently announced their retirement as new leaders step forward at a number of organizations. Addus president, COO retires Addus HomeCare Corporation (Nasdaq: ADUS) President and COO Brad Bickham recently announced his retirement, effective March 2026.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

The affiliation includes Trustbridge’s hospice brands, Hospice of Palm Beach County and Hospice by the Sea. Empath offers hospice care through several brands, including Tidewell Hospice, Suncoast Hospice, Empath Hospice, Hospice of Marion County and Suncoast Hospice of Hillsborough.

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Hospice News

JUNE 29, 2023

Addus HomeCare Corp. NASDAQ: ADUS) has reached an agreement to purchase the home health, hospice and private duty operator Tennessee Quality Care for $106 million. Tennessee Quality Care operates 17 locations serving an average of 1,800 patients daily throughout 50 of the 95 counties in its home state.

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Hospice News

MAY 10, 2023

Hospices are increasingly eying palliative care as a promising growth opportunity, prioritizing expansion in that field over other health care service lines. This is a rise from last year’s results in which 52% of respondents reported the same.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Moreland joining the company is the next step in a decades-long career in hospice. His previous employers include Aveanna Healthcare (NASDAQ: AVAH), Nextaff, Saint Jude Hospice & Spirit Homecare, Iowa Hospice and Bon Secours Health System, among others.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 19, 2024

Through the Assured Hospice deal —coupled with a recent de novo in the Gainesville community — Agape covers all 159 counties in the state. The company’s Georgia locations will rebrand as Georgia Hospice Care. In October of 2022, the company expanded into Alabama and Louisiana with the acquisition of Journey Hospice.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 7, 2024

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. The North Carolina-based hospice, home health and palliative care provider is part of the Liberty Health system.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

.” The new institution carries on the work of the Illinois-based JourneyCare Foundation, an affiliate of the former JourneyCare Hospice that supported community-based palliative and hospice care for patients without insurance or who lacked sufficient resources to pay for services.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

The year ahead is likely to bring significantly more technology investment as well, the 2023 Hospice News Outlook Survey and Report suggests. The report – produced in collaboration with Homecare Homebase and released earlier this month – is based on an online survey of nearly 330 hospice professionals.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 19, 2022

The merger with Seasons made AccentCare the fourth largest hospice provider nationwide and further solidified the company’s growth plans towards building a seamless continuum of home-based serious illness care that could support diagnosis through the end of life, according to AccentCare executives. million hospice fraud scheme.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

“She has extensive hospice experience, at both the clinical and management levels, which will ensure that our programs will be able to serve an increasing number of patients who deserve the benefits of our hospice care services.” Carl Derrick as medical director.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 10, 2024

Moving into 2024, more hospices see joint ventures or similar partnerships to be a major growth engine. Nearly half of 143 respondents to Hospice News’ 2024 Outlook Survey , conducted with Homecare Homebase, said that joint ventures and partnerships were the growth tactics they planned to pursue the most this year.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Addus HomeCare Corporation’s (NASDAQ: ADUS) is shifting its M&A strategy away from hospice deals to focus on its home health and personal care businesses. Texas-based Addus provides personal, home health and hospice care across 207 locations in 22 states, reaching roughly 46,500 patients annually.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 1, 2022

based Lexington Hospice Care for a confidential sum. The company purchased three Missouri companies from LifeCare Collective last October — HomeCare of Mid Missouri, Nurses & Company, and Transitions Hospice. The company is also no stranger to acquisitions. . In June, St. Croix acquired Lombard, Ill.-based

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Hospice News

AUGUST 30, 2024

The Future Leaders Awards program is brought to you in partnership with Homecare Homebase. The program is designed to recognize up-and-coming industry members who are shaping the next decade of home health, hospice care, senior housing, skilled nursing, and behavioral health. To see this year’s Future Leaders, visit [link].

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Generally, fewer clinicians has meant fewer patients have been receiving hospice care, according to industry observers and companies’ own reports. Executives attributed much of this growth to a community outreach program launched earlier this year, designed to educate clinician in other settings about the value of hospice care.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Person-centered care is becoming increasingly important in all care settings, as the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services continues to prioritize value-based care and individual care outcomes. What is person-centered care? The approach also means that the patient is empowered based on his or her needs. “It’s

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

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Hospice News

MAY 18, 2022

pay increase for hospice care for Fiscal Year 2023. I think the rate increase that they’ve looked at on the hospice side is a little lighter than people anticipated,” Addus HomeCare (NASDAQ: ADUS) CEO Dirk Allison said on a first quarter 2022 earnings call. “We’re

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

A large challenge in the palliative space is that reimbursement models are not keeping pace with rising demand, according to Stephanie Adair, vice president of hospice services at Liberty HomeCare & Hospice Services. Medical students often don’t receive exposure to palliative or hospice care throughout their education.

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Hospice News

JULY 13, 2023

This is the first of a two-part service that will detail key findings from recent research on hospice care, featuring numbers that could influence they ways hospices communicate and operate. Hospices’ cost-savings potential A study published in March revealed that hospice saved Medicare roughly $3.5

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Hospice care and palliative care services have similar, but diverging, threads across the care continuum. An area of increasing overlap centers around patient consultations discussing symptom management and goals of care. This is up from last year’s results in which 52% of respondents reported the same.

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Hospice News

JULY 7, 2022

Croix Hospice is answering the growing hospice care needs of central Missouri by locating additional staff to serve communities from our new Jefferson City location,” said CEO Heath Bartness in a press release. based Lexington Hospice Care. . “St. Last month, St. Croix acquired Lombard, Ill.-based

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Hospice News

MARCH 29, 2023

But perhaps ironically, patients with longer hospice stays may ultimately save payers more money due to reductions in high acuity and other aggressive forms of care in a patients’ final year of life. Recent data show that hospice stays of six months or longer can reduce health care costs in a patient’s last 12 months by as much as 11%.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 2, 2024

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

The Future Leaders Awards program is brought to you in partnership with Homecare Homebase. The program is designed to recognize up-and-coming industry members who are shaping the next decade of home health, hospice care, senior housing, skilled nursing, and behavioral health. To see this year’s Future Leaders, visit [link].

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 4, 2024

The Future Leaders Awards program is brought to you in partnership with Homecare Homebase. The program is designed to recognize up-and-coming industry members who are shaping the next decade of home health, hospice care, senior housing, skilled nursing, and behavioral health. We know people who have gone through hospice care.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 9, 2024

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

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Hospice News

AUGUST 2, 2022

The rise in census and length of stay suggests some degree of normalization for the Addus after years of COVID-related disruption that adversely affected those metrics for many hospice providers nationwide. These wins are helping the company mitigate the impacty of skyrocketing inflation.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 22, 2023

The Future Leaders Awards program is brought to you in partnership with Homecare Homebase. The program is designed to recognize up-and-coming industry members who are shaping the next decade of home health, hospice care, senior housing, skilled nursing, and behavioral health. To see this year’s Future Leaders, visit [link].

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