Hospice News

AUGUST 8, 2024

This article is sponsored by OnePoint Patient Care. In this Voices interview, Hospice News sits down with Kenny Judd, Vice President – Client Services, OnePoint Patient Care, to talk about the key pharmacy challenges in today’s hospice environment, and how providers can overcome them. I can pick it up later.

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Hospice News

APRIL 4, 2025

As more technology seeps into the health care world, some hospices are leveraging these systems to improve compliance, standardize processes and anticipate patients needs. In addition, they are using these technologies to assess risks to patients, such as the likelihood of wounds or falls.

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Hospice News

JULY 23, 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. “I I think hospices are going to find value in the oversight, but it’s going to be a bumpy ride for them,” Dombi told Hospice News at the conference.

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Hospice News

MARCH 17, 2025

I am committed to applying my prior set of diverse experiences to continue to ensure an extremely strong and leading financial and operational foundation is in place to support the Companys mission to deliver high-quality patient care to all those who can benefit from our services.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

The Impact of AI on Hospice Operations AI’s impact on hospice care is accelerating, primarily due to its capacity to streamline processes and reduce the administrative workload for staff. By managing these time-consuming processes, AI allows caregivers to focus more on direct patient care — the cornerstone of hospice services.

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Hospice News

MAY 22, 2025

The Tennessee-based companys 7,500 employees provide home health, home infusion, palliative and hospice care across more than 270 locations in 32 states, among other home-based services. Keeping it personable reinforces our intentional culture, which also has that compassionate approach, Ward told Hospice News at ELEVATE.

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Hospice News

MARCH 14, 2025

The biggest opportunities for growth [are] talking about vertical integration and how we reach up into the health care system. Its] talking about the value that we bring from the perspective of patient care, and then talk about the plans, the payers, the opportunity to enhance their financial outcomes.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

You’re not able to directly engage with the patient as much. If we can use technology and tools to drive greater efficiency and to allow the clinician to focus more directly on patient care and the things that they do well, they’ll have better job satisfaction at the end of the day.”

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Hospice News

JUNE 25, 2024

The nonprofit holds hospice certificates of need (CON) for hospice care in 18 Florida counties. “We The delivery of compassionate hospice care is critical for patients and their families, and we’re committed to delivering that to high-need Floridians.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Headquartered in Missouri, the system also services patients in Illinois, Wisconsin and Oklahoma. The collaborative includes members Agrace, Rainbow Hospice Care, Unity Hospice, Adoray Home Health & Hospice, Hospice Alliance and Sharon S. Richardson Community Hospice.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

“We have been serving the state of Wisconsin for many years, continuing our long tradition of exceptional patient care,” St. Croix Hospice CEO Heath Bartness said in a press release. “That reputation of excellence leads more patients, families and facilities to seek our services.”

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

” Cornerstone Visiting Nurse Association Appoints New Hospice Care Director Lisa Nichols, a registered nurse, will serve as the new hospice care director for Cornerstone VNA in New Hampshire. Lisa’s leadership and dedication to improving patient outcomes align perfectly with our organization’s values.

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Hospice News

APRIL 19, 2023

Staff at the new office provide 24/7 services to help facilitate hospice admissions for hospital and physician referrals and facility-based patients. The hospice provider also offers pet and music therapy, as well as bereavement support services. Unfortunately, this requires difficult decisions for our organization.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 8, 2023

In this Voices Interview, Hospice News sits down with Rebecca Christensen, Director of Clinical Services at BetterRX, to talk about the keys to achieving the most efficient patient care. Hospice News: What career experiences do you most draw from in your role today? Why are you passionate about hospice?

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Haven holds hospice certificates of need (CON) for hospice care in 18 Florida counties. “We We are excited to welcome Haven Hospice into BrightSpring, expanding our existing hospice services into the CON state of Florida,” said Rousseau in a statement. BrightSpring remains on the hunt for strategic acquisitions.

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Hospice News

JUNE 13, 2024

Ongoing staff education and communication skill building are two significant pieces of bridging gaps of hospice care among LGBTQ+ seniors, according to Jerry Farmer, vice president of diversity, equity and inclusion at AccentCare. “As Creating comfortable spaces for employees to be themselves can trickle down into patient care.”

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Hospice News

JUNE 4, 2024

Therefore, hospice providers must better prepare for audits and oversight. This article will outline the top three strategies to drive compliance and audit preparedness in hospice care. That, at the end of the day, is really the goal of anyone working in patient care.” To learn more, visit hchb.com.

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Hospice News

JUNE 21, 2024

Bristol Hospice has acquired Mississippi-based Mid-Delta Hospice, a move that marked its entry into the state. The decision to launch services in a new state came with growing recognition around rising demand for home health and hospice care, according to Bristol Hospice CEO and President Alex Mauricio.

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Hospice News

APRIL 26, 2022

Right now, we’re a community-based provider, and we also work with a hospital system to provide general inpatient hospice care. . It’s just a matter of time before the need for hospice rises. The health care system is strained. We’re starting small to be able to manage patients coming to us. We can close that gap.

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Hospice News

APRIL 26, 2023

“Our new Manhattan branch will headquarter more local staff within the communities they are already serving, allowing us to increase access and convenience to hospice care where there is great need.” Between October 2021 and September 2022 nearly 50% of eligible patients who reside in the service area for St.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

She came to the space with the goal of returning hospice care back to its roots, while integrating a more modern approach to meet the changing needs and expectations of patients and families, she told Hospice News. Entrepreneur Jessica McGlory founded Guaranteed two years after her own father passed away.

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Hospice News

MAY 16, 2023

. “The simulation lab allows the new caregivers to practice the specialty care of hospice and really learn what hospice care is in a realistic environment prior to going into the patient’s homes,” Smith told Hospice News. “It’s

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Croix Hospice’s growth is showing no signs of slowing down. Last month the company acquired Michigan-based Corpore Sano Hospice, after purchasing Illinois-based Lexington Hospice Care earlier this summer. We found a culture in the team at Adaptive that was aligned with ours,” Phenneger told Hospice News.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 28, 2025

She oversees initiatives designed to improve clinical outcomes and enhance patient care at Traditions Health. Urology Partners and has more than 30 years of clinical leadership and health care innovation experience. Radabaugh has more than 25 years of health care operations experience in health care operations.

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Hospice News

MARCH 21, 2024

But what I will tell you is that there are programs in place where if the applicants go through the process and certify to CMS that they have a program that will service the needs of a community when it comes to hospice care — and they are able to meet the standards — that we will certify them to be able to provide hospice care,” Becerra said.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 27, 2024

The role of clinical executives has morphed to include more business-related decisions alongside those regarding patient care delivery, Martin said. Historically in hospice at times the medical director and physician role has been [less] active and involved. Things have certainly changed,” Martin said.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

During the past two years, CMS has introduced a host of other new regulations, as well as updated survey processes, increased auditing activities and enhanced reviews of providers’ claims, patient eligibility and quality measures. Additional documentation processes can be a stressor on clinical staff retention in particular, she stated.

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Hospice News

APRIL 18, 2023

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is insufficient to support hospice patients’ care needs, a major industry group said. CMS earlier this month released its 2024 hospice proposed rule , which included the 2.8% base payment rate increase recently proposed by the U.S.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 27, 2023

YoloCares is among the nonprofit hospices that make up the California Hospice Network, joining the coalition last year. The network is designed to support providers’ ability to grow and sustain community-based hospice care and leverage their collective scale and resources in value-based payment programs.

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Hospice News

APRIL 23, 2024

Medicare covers most expenses related to palliative care, but as with other health care services, reimbursement remains low. Additionally, more specialists are getting involved in hospice care, Daly added, but there’s a need for that in palliative care, too.

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Hospice News

MARCH 1, 2024

The transaction will further support Frontpoint’s larger effort to reach patients in rural Texas markets, aided by its newly acquired resources. “We We see a huge opportunity for hospice care, in particular in the more rural sections of Texas where we think there’s quite a bit of opportunity for best-in-class care,” Korte said.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Middlemen in any industry should be adding value, and that value should be measured in health care through the lens of whether it actually improves patient care, full stop.” Jain recently wrote about the influence of health care middleware companies in a column in Forbes. Look at this hospice palliative continuum.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

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

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Other hospices have leveraged remote patient monitoring systems, integrated electronic health records (EHR), and predictive analytics. In essence, we work in a more proactive way that speeds everything up and removes the distractions of the day-to-day minutia so our agency staff can focus on direct patient care.”.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 20, 2023

In 2021 the company added hospice and palliative care services in its eastern Idaho market when it gained Medicare certification and accreditation from the Accreditation Commission for Health Care (ACHC). Established in 1977, CHHH has an average daily census of 600 patients.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 7, 2024

Among the significant changes coming this year is the end of the hospice component of the value-based insurance design (VBID) model, as of Dec. 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.

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Hospice News

MARCH 14, 2024

The number of registered nurse and social worker visits during a patient’s final week is one of the seven quality measures that CMS uses to evaluate providers. The greatest barrier to further improvement is the ever-present workforce shortage affecting the health care industry at large and hospices in particular.

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