Hospice News

APRIL 26, 2022

Nurse practitioner Raphael and registered nurse Britt Akobundu, a married couple, launched San Diego-based Blue Monarch Hospice this past March, with the intent of improving the quality of life for not only patients and families, but also health care workers. . The health care system is strained.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 26, 2022

The clearest example of how this works was the 2020 rebasing of payments for the four levels of hospice care. CMS that year reduced routine home care (RHC) rates by 2.7% and increased amounts for continuous home care, general inpatient care, and inpatient respite care by the same percentage.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Despite obstacles to expanding pediatric hospice care, Community Hospice & Palliative Care, has seen its program’s census and workforce grow. The Florida-based provider is an affiliate of Alivia Care Inc. Its pediatric program, dubbed Community PedsCare, has been more than 20 years in the making.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 17, 2024

Among the signatories were 63 hospice and palliative care providers across the country, 14 state hospice and palliative associations, the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) and the health care technology company Axxess. These individuals are not always in the rural communities.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 17, 2023

Howe to the care team at The Denver Hospice,” Interim President Tricia Ford said in an announcement. “Dr. Established in 1978, The Denver Hospice provides care to more than 4,000 hospice and around 1,200 palliative care patients annually in nine counties in Colorado. . ALC Hospice Care Names COO.

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Hospice News

APRIL 3, 2024

Weber will now oversee New Day’s hospice operations across its four-state service region, including working closely with leadership on future acquisitions and partnerships. She is a registered nurse who has also served as a hospice case manager, nursing aide, director of nursing and regional director.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

“I am very excited to join Community Hospice and its excellent team,” said Bettis in the announcement. For more than 40 years, Community Hospice has grown from an inspired idea by two registered nurses to a respected and leading provider of vital service for those with serious and life-limiting illness in the Central Valley area.

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Hospice News

APRIL 8, 2024

HopeHealth is also a hospice and palliative medicine teaching affiliate for The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University. The health system in 2021 began providing inpatient and community-based pediatric palliative and hospice care to infants, children and young adults. The numbers were pretty striking.

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Hospice News

MAY 2, 2022

Though professionally she has cared for terminally ill patients for more than 30 years, her personal experience after her mother’s diagnosis with Stage 4 pancreatic cancer underscored the critical importance of her work. This drives her commitment to expand access to hospice care, particularly among underserved populations.

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Hospice News

JULY 28, 2022

Caitlin Berry, Registered Nurse, Hospice for Advocate Aurora Health, has been named a 2022 Frontline Honors honoree by Hospice News. Hospice News caught up with Berry to discuss their time in the hospice care industry. HSPN: What drew you to the Hospice Care industry?

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Hospice of the North Coast

AUGUST 25, 2023

Hospice services, a specialized form of care tailored to individuals with terminal illnesses and their families, go beyond mere symptom management – they prioritize comfort and solace. What exactly does hospice care entail? Their aim is to elevate the quality of life.

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Shining Light Hospice

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Knowing how to properly care for a patient at each stage of the dying process can bring peace and dignity to a difficult journey. Let’s explore how hospice services can help your loved one. What Is Hospice? The physician will oversee all care while on hospice. Chaplains are also available for spiritual care.

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AT Home Care & Hospice

MAY 23, 2023

Our care providers focus on the following: Hospital-to-home transition following an illness or injury Patient and caregiver education Managing chronic health conditions, such as heart disease, pulmonary disease, or kidney disease What Is Hospice Care?

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AT Home Care & Hospice

APRIL 28, 2023

May Is Nurse Appreciation Month This May, join us in celebration of America’s 4.4 million registered nurses who make a touching difference in the lives of patients and their families. Exceptional nurses often have a true passion for helping others, backed by compassion and empathy.

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Home Care Pulse

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

For many of us, the opportunity to journey with others as they face serious illness and the end of life in their own unique way is what drew us to hospice in the first place. I have been privileged to provide hospice care to the very young and to those who enjoyed a very long life.

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Home Care Pulse

MAY 16, 2023

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Home Care Pulse

JULY 25, 2023

But Barbara is an award-winning, end of life educator and registered nurse. She has won the N H P C O Hospice Innovator Award in 2018, and she was the 2015 International Humanitarian Woman of the Year. While at the bedside of hundreds of people during the dying process, a hospice pioneer. Speaker 2 ( 00:40 ): Mm-hmm. ,

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