Hospice News

AUGUST 10, 2022

These clinicians partner closely with the nurses in the long term care and assisted living facilities. The mobile clinic does not offer hospice care, but its clinical staff does continue to collaborate with those providers after a patient elects the benefit.

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Hospice News

JUNE 29, 2023

Tennessee Quality Care operates 17 locations serving an average of 1,800 patients daily throughout 50 of the 95 counties in its home state. About 70% of its business is home health, including private duty, with hospice care comprising 30%. The deal is set to close in the third quarter of the year.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

In that role, she oversaw financial and clinical operations and service outcomes across the health system’s network of five hospitals, nine long-term care facilities and its hospice and palliative care services. Littlefield was previously Riverside Health System’s executive vice president and chief nursing officer.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

A systematic overhaul of the nation’s health care education programs is needed to ensure that future clinicians are prepared to provide palliative and hospice care amid rising demand, according to Dr. Leah McDonald of HopeHealth. McDonald is a hospice and palliative care physician at HopeHealth.

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HopeHealth

MARCH 25, 2025

Meet Olivia Gould, a hospice social worker focused on dementia in long-term care settings. "We The post How do hospice social workers help people with dementia? We can give patients that one-on-one attention they might not get otherwise, she explains. appeared first on HopeHealth.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 11, 2023

This would bring the hospice rules in line with those used in long term care. If the agency follows the GAO’s recommendation, they would also have to notify survey agencies when others, like family members or caregivers, become abusive or neglectful.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 8, 2023

She explains the importance of being able to provide immediate solutions with organized processes in the rapidly transforming hospice landscape, and she breaks down how BetterRX is helping providers navigate the most pressing challenges in today’s health care environment. Why are you passionate about hospice?

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Caregiver Support Services

JANUARY 31, 2025

Palliative care plays a significant role in improving the quality of life for individuals managing serious illnesses. It can be easy to confuse palliative and hospice care, but one difference between them is that your loved one can receive palliative care at any stage of an illness.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Avow Hospice provides pediatric and adult palliative and hospice care across Southwest Florida. Established in 1983, The nonprofit hospice is part of a multi-facility health care system and a member of the Mayo Clinic Care Network.

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Hospice News

APRIL 19, 2023

Baptist Senior Family launches inpatient hospice Pennsylvania-based Baptist Senior Family has opened a new hospice facility at Providence Point, a large continuing care retirement community that initially opened in 2009. Unfortunately, this requires difficult decisions for our organization.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 6, 2022

“We really do see the opportunity to make a difference in people’s lives — especially as people are aging — and you think of the costs associated with leaving their homes and going into assisted living or a long-term care environment,” Tricia Ford, vice president of operations for Care Synergy, told Hospice News. “In

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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? These span culture, training and communication, to name a few.

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Traditions Health

DECEMBER 19, 2023

But as their care provider, you have the opportunity to guide patients and their families to resources like hospice care that can make their remaining time more comfortable and fulfilling. As you begin the delicate conversation about choosing hospice care, make sure you cover the following talking points.

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Hospice News

JUNE 21, 2023

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) set the hospice payment capitation rate at $32,486.92 This included a hospice wage index update of 63.5% for general inpatient care labor share. in its FY 2023 rule , which represented a 3.8% increase from the prior year.

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Traditions Health

MARCH 13, 2023

Securing Long-Term Care for AKI vs CKD While both conditions can be managed if detected early, many patients with AKI or CKD may find it necessary to plan for hospice care. Care is provided within the comfort of your loved one’s own home, allowing them to retain a high quality of life.

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Hospice News

MARCH 20, 2024

In this Voices interview, Hospice News sits down with Patrick Leary, VP, Client Services, Enclara Pharmacia, to learn about the top factors that impact the nurse experience in hospice care. Given the inflation we’ve experienced in recent years, hospice leaders are obviously concerned about costs.

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Shining Light Hospice

MAY 14, 2023

Caregiver burnout is a state of physical, emotional, and mental exhaustion that results from long-term care of a loved one. How Hospice Can Help With Caregiver Burnout Hospice care can also be an essential resource for caregivers of loved ones with a terminal illness.

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Hospice News

APRIL 10, 2023

How have the M&A strategies of larger hospice players evolved as of late? For the most part, larger hospices have done many smaller deals. Our best information indicates that Agape Hospice Care did four, and St. Then after that, there were activities spread across a dozen or so of the major hospice providers.

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Home With Help

APRIL 1, 2025

Are they open to hospice care? Understanding these wishes now prevents confusion later and allows you to advocate for their care with confidence. Do they have long-term care insurance? Health is often the biggest concern as parents age. Would they want to be resuscitated?

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Traditions Health

APRIL 14, 2024

When the time comes to make profound decisions about end-of-life care for a loved one, every question becomes a quest for the exceptional. A personalized approach, an unwavering commitment to comfort and dignity, and a deep understanding of each patient’s unique needs are at the heart of the hospice services we provide.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Bruera defines palliative care as person centered care to patients with chronic progressive diseases and their loved ones that is delivered by an interdisciplinary team in settings that include the home, outpatient facilities, and inpatient acute and long-term care facilities.

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Hospice News

APRIL 25, 2023

The move will increase outpatient and inpatient pediatric palliative care services at the hospital, as well as across the health system’s footprint. Meanwhile, the CSH Long Term Care Center is renovating its inpatient facility to include 14 patient beds, including an additional hospice bed supported by a local nonprofit, Liam’s Room.

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Hospice News

APRIL 5, 2023

“In researching this issue for members of LeadingAge, we were not able to identify any published studies that prescribing controlled medications for hospice or residents in long-term care patients is a major source of the overprescribing in our country.”

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Hospice News

AUGUST 18, 2022

You can’t do that if you don’t contract and work with someone to provide hospice care. It extends the organizations’ existing partnership for hospital-based palliative care services, bringing this care into more settings such as hospitals, physician offices, long-term care facilities and in the home.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Individuals with opioid disorders were 16% less likely to receive end-of-life care during the last 90 days of life compared to others, the study found. Settings examined included acute care hospitals, health care clinics, long-term care facilities and the home.

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Traditions Health

JANUARY 23, 2023

Common Questions About Hospice Care Coming to terms that a loved one may require hospice care to manage symptoms and provide social and psychological support at the end of their life can be difficult. What Is Hospice? What Is Included in Hospice Care? How Does Hospice Care Work?

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Traditions Health

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

If you are caring for a veteran who is terminally ill or nearing the end of life, hospice care can be a smart choice. Corresponding with remedial care, hospice care focuses on facilitating a patient’s quality of life rather than extending its length. rather than merely managing their physical symptoms.

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Daily Nurse

APRIL 8, 2024

Specific Hospice Local Coverage Determination (LCD) guidelines consider different disease processes, functional limits, and co-morbidities when referring someone to hospice care. Did you need to get additional education to become a hospice nurse? No, I’ve done long-term care for most of my nursing career.

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Seasons Hospice

JANUARY 16, 2023

Hospice May Seem Hopeless. Hospice care can be a difficult subject to think about. This can make the thought of hospice care depressing for those facing the prospect of utilizing this type of healthcare service. At its core, hospice care is about living the best life possible until death.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Why not make it an all-inclusive benefit where we are reimbursed for not just the primary hospice diagnosis care, but exacerbating diagnoses as well? Things like complex wound care. How does this relate to a hospice bottom line at a hospice organization? By the way, we were eating it anyway.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

The first one is with caregivers of Alzheimer’s patients that are in hospice care. If you can’t do that, the only alternative that we have in our system is to pick up the phone and call somebody, to go to the emergency room or go to long-term care. They would be so afraid.

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Daily Nurse

APRIL 25, 2024

Palliative care can be provided along with curative treatment and may begin at the time of diagnosis. Over time, if the doctor or the palliative care team believes ongoing treatment is no longer helping, there are two possibilities. 99% of all hospice deaths occur outside of an inpatient unit,” Dibben states.

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Hospice of the North Coast

MARCH 9, 2021

As they navigate their healthcare benefits, long-term care plans, and end-of-life issues, those men and women who served our country may find themselves needing services themselves. Hospice Care Benefits. Contact us for more information on Hospice of the North Coast’s Veterans Program.

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Elizz

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Is there a difference between palliative care, hospice care and hospice palliative care? The language used by health care professionals changes and can lead to some confusion. There really is no difference between these three terms. 3. Where do people receive ‘hospice palliative care’?

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Elizz

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Is there a difference between palliative care, hospice care and hospice palliative care? The language used by health care professionals changes and can lead to some confusion. There really is no difference between these three terms. 3. Where do people receive ‘hospice palliative care’?

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Elizz

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Is there a difference between palliative care, hospice care and hospice palliative care? The language used by health care professionals changes and can lead to some confusion. There really is no difference between these three terms. 3. Where do people receive ‘hospice palliative care’?

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Eric: COPD was two hospitalizations last 12 months or oxygen, dialysis for kidney failure and coming in from a long-term care facility, or it has a PEG tube or two hospitalizations the past 12 months for dementia. They have to… It’s not all-comers with those diseases, it’s people who are particularly sick.

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