Hospice News

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

He oversaw its daily operations as Calvary integrated services with parent organization ArchCare, the health care ministry of the Archdiocese of New York. Calvary is the only hospital in the United States thats specifically dedicated to providing hospice and palliative care.

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Hospice News

JUNE 4, 2024

“The resurgence of hospice program integrity scrutiny after recent media reports highlighted fraud, specifically in four states, sparked in-person visits by CMS to every Medicare-enrolled hospice, and found about 400 being considered for administrative action,” says Courtney True, BSN, RN, and Strategic Account Executive of Homecare Homebase.

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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. and MedStar Health.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 16, 2024

-based Niagara Hospice will soon have a new president and CEO with the upcoming retirement of John Lomeo, who has led the organization since 2000. Niagara Hospice is part of The Hospice and Palliative Care Group (HPCG), an organization that provides administrative services. Gordon Hospice and Palliative Care of Tidewater.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Franklin, Tennessee-headquartered Traditions provides hospice, home health and palliative care as well as consulting services across 18 states. Moreland joining the company is the next step in a decades-long career in hospice. He has worked in the end-of-life care space for close to two decades.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Its technology platform connects patients and family members to palliative and hospice nurses, social workers, spiritual coordinators and other interdisciplinary staff. Established in 1980, Hospice of the Piedmont provides community-based hospice and palliative care in Charlottesville, Virginia, and across 12 surrounding counties.

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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

JANUARY 19, 2024

Last year, Gentiva was among the comparatively few companies that actively pursued large hospice deals. Not long ago, the company purchased the hospice, home health and palliative assets of the nonprofit health system ProMedica, including its Heartland Hospice brand. NYSE: HUM) for $2.8 NASDAQ: ADUS) are well-positioned to buy.

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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. Palliative care and hospice share some common goals with hospice.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 26, 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. He had a very personal connection to hospice.

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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

AUGUST 1, 2022

Michigan had the 10th highest rate of hospice utilization among Medicare decedents during 2018 at 53.8%, according to the National Hospice & Palliative Care Organization. based Lexington Hospice Care for a confidential sum. The national average that year was 50.3%. Utah led the nation with 60.5%. In June, St.

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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

DECEMBER 19, 2022

The move included six subsidiaries as well as Seasons Hospice & Palliative Care, which AccentCare merged with in Dec. Addus HomeCare Corporation’s (NASDAQ: ADUS) in January announced its $85 million acquisition of Illinois-based nonprofit hospice provider JourneyCare Inc. million hospice fraud scheme.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 28, 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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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. What drew you to the palliative care industry?

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Hospice News

MARCH 29, 2023

In 2020, the average length of stay for Medicare patients enrolled in hospice was 97.0 days, according to a report from the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO). 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

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. Hospice utilization in Missouri reached 50.2% . “St.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 14, 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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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 7, 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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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 11, 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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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

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Hospice News

MAY 17, 2022

I anticipate HR taking a front row seat in health care as our nation faces clinical staffing shortages over the next two decades.”. Widespread workforce shortages of hospice and palliative care providers are expected to worsen during the next 25 years. And in many cases, the people just aren’t there to hire.

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Hospice News

JULY 5, 2022

Strong hospice and home health consolidation continued during the first quarter of 2022, according to a recent report from Provident Healthcare Partners. Both private equity firms and strategic investors remained “bullish” on home-based and hospice care. Valued at roughly $6.4

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Hospice News

APRIL 4, 2025

Hospice providers have unveiled two key themes that are impacting the ability to sustain and grow their workforce. Staffing shortages have long topped the concerns of hospice executives nationwide. Rising demand for hospice care has been outpacing the supply of clinical resources for several years running.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Hospice leaders have lost sleep over workforce pressures plaguing the industry for several years running, a trend that is not anticipated to abate anytime soon. Staffing challenges were cited as the leading concern among 35% of 112 hospice professionals who participated in this years Outlook Survey by Hospice News and Homecare Homebase.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

The ability to increase public awareness and community education efforts was cited as the third top concern by 16% of 112 hospice professionals who participated in this years Outlook Survey by Hospice News and Homecare Homebase. This challenge superseded consolidation trends in the hospice market and changing payment dynamics.

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Hospice News

MAY 23, 2024

It may seem like a small item for a patient near the end of life, but for that patient, getting it right is essential to their peace of mind in hospice care. Carroll breaks down the execution of age-friendly care into four areas: Understand each patient’s goals. I think there are two ways to measure ROI with PCCP.”

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Hospice News

APRIL 17, 2023

As the demand for palliative care continues to grow, so too has the way businesses have bolstered their programs to better serve patients. Hospice News spoke with three palliative care providers that have risen to these challenges. Hospice News spoke with three palliative care providers that have risen to these challenges.

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Hospice News

MAY 28, 2024

A main issue is that many students do not receive adequate exposure to hospice and palliative care during their medical education, including training in the full scope of these interdisciplinary services. Registered hospice and palliative care nurses reported an average of $42.48

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Hospice News

AUGUST 15, 2024

Texas-headquartered Traditions provides hospice, home health and palliative care as well as consulting services across 18 states. Moreland joined the company last month, the next step in a decades-long career in hospice. I do believe palliative care is the future. And so I never looked back.

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Hospice News

APRIL 12, 2023

Data is more crucial to hospice businesses than ever before when it comes to payer and referral partner contracting, compliance and building their census. But even outside of new payment models, upstream providers are looking more closely at the numbers when selecting hospice partners.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 29, 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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Hospice News

AUGUST 25, 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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Hospice News

JANUARY 22, 2024

Addressing hospice misconceptions among underserved groups Hospice providers have faced an ongoing struggle to communicate and define the scope of their interdisciplinary services not only to terminally ill patients, but also referring clinicians across the continuum. There were 143 respondents in total.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 10, 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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