HopeHealth

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

An inpatient hospice nurse opens up about his experiences at Hulitar Hospice Center, and what it means for patients and their families spending their final moments together. The post In the halls of Hulitar: An inpatient hospice nurse opens up appeared first on HopeHealth.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Let Patients Lead the Way: Hospice Veterans Advice for New Nurses Hospice nurses share the benefits of their experience with new recruits to the space as providers nationwide work to improve recruitment and retention.

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Hospice Nurse Hero

JANUARY 9, 2025

I can’t tell you how many times hospice nurses reached out to me requesting help to get organized and manage their schedules. In this article, I’ll share 7 tips to help you set up hospice scheduling and visits that work for you and your patients. Hospice Scheduling Tips 1. Why is that?

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Hospice News

MAY 14, 2024

After more than a year of negotiations, the Oregon Nurses Association (ONA) labor union has reached an agreement with PeaceHealth. In February, about 90 PeaceHealth home health and hospice participated in a strike between Feb. The nurses involved in the strike care for more than 500 patients.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 9, 2024

Nurses at PeaceHealth’s Sacred Heart Home Care Services have voted to authorize a strike, citing low wages and staffing strains. PeaceHealth operates two hospice locations in Oregon, along with six others in Alaska and Washington state. In August, PeaceHealth reached an agreement with hospital nurses that raised wages 8%.

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HPNA podcast

MAY 1, 2025

In this deeply personal and resonant episode, longtime hospice nurse and podcast host of The Heart of Hospice , Helen Bauer, BSN RN CHPN, shares an intimate look at the soul of hospice nursing the part thats rarely documented but always deeply felt.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 24, 2024

Hospice and home health nurses at PeaceHealth’s Sacred Heart Home Care Services have announced an impending strike following failed attempts to reach wage agreements in negotiations with the organization. Home care and hospice nurses at PeaceHealth have given notice that the strike will launch on Feb. 1 and end on Feb.

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Hospice News

JUNE 28, 2022

As hospice providers contend with industry-wide nursing shortages, some are taking matters into their own hands with in-house residency programs. A lack of hospice-specific clinical training is a significant recruitment barrier. It’s six nurses at a time, and it’s really open to any nurse.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Nurses at St. Charles Home Health and Hospice in Bend, Oregon, have unionized with the Oregon Nurses Association (ONA) to negotiate for improved working conditions, compensation and other issues. The home health and hospice provider is part of the St. Charles Health System and a number of other hospice providers.

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Diversity Nursing

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

The primary goal of hospice care is to manage the physical, emotional, and spiritual needs of patients, as well as provide support to their families. It is provided by a team of healthcare professionals, including hospice Nurses, who play a crucial role in ensuring that patients receive the best possible care.

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Daily Nurse

JANUARY 31, 2024

Communities across the midwest feel the impact of recent snowfall and below-zero temperatures, but that weather didn’t stop Iowa hospice nurse Tiffany McArdle. McArdle, a hospice nurse for St. Daily Nurse proudly names hospice nurse Tiffany McArdle as the Nurse of the Week.

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Hospice of the North Coast

MAY 4, 2023

Hospice nurses help bring dignity and compassion to those who are suffering from a terminal illness. It’s a unique type of nursing that requires special skills and an understanding of the emotional challenges that come with end-of-life care. Choosing a career as a hospice nurse is a meaningful and rewarding experience.

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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. Littlefield was previously Riverside Health System’s executive vice president and chief nursing officer. The funding follows a $6.5

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Hospice nurses pointed to this issue as their number-one concern about their jobs in a recent survey by The Amity Group. Nurses are saying, ‘I love being a hospice nurse. ’ I think we’re losing a lot of nurses because of this because their family is so unhappy.”

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Traditions Health

MAY 11, 2025

Skilled nurses are vital to health care: They provide specialized care in a wide range of settings, including patients homes, care that requires advanced skills beyond basic nursing training. For these reasons and many more, National Skilled Nursing Care Week has been a national observance since 1967.

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Nurse.com

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

This can only be achieved if care teams, including hospice nurses, know the latest evidence-based strategies for dementia care. But hospice nurses also recognize the challenges these patients and their families face every day and are ready to help ease their distress and fear. Recognizing challenges and risks.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 8, 2023

Several years ago, my grandfather was in hospice, and throughout his experience, he was extremely agitated and anxious. However, everything changed when a compassionate hospice nurse approached my grandmother and asked her a simple question: “Have you told him you’re going to be okay?”

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Hospice News

MAY 16, 2025

You might have a patient in assisted living or a nursing home, and the family member isnt there during your visit. Our nurses do a great job, but maybe they missed something. My grandfather went through hospice in Miami, and we had huge language barriers with the nurses. I wish I had known. They often feel undereducated.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

Hospices that are affiliated with larger health systems, like Providence, may be more likely to see staff participate in labor unions. The Providence hospice workers include 130 registered nurses, social workers, and other staff who joined the National Union of Healthcare Workers (NUHW) in January 2023.

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Minority Nurse

JANUARY 27, 2025

Your nursing career is yours to create, and with proper care, your path can be unique, innovative, and idiosyncratic. Did you avoid returning to school because you heard colleagues complaining that some nurse who pursued her MSN thought she was better than everyone else? Make a Plan Few careers advance without effort.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 18, 2022

“Face-to-face encounters for purposes of patient recertification for the Medicare hospice benefit can now be conducted via telehealth (i.e., two-way audio-video telecommunications technology that allows for real-time interaction between the hospice physician/hospice nurse practitioner and the patient),” CMS said in a fact sheet.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 30, 2024

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. Lindsay Nixon, administrator at Arbor Hospice, has been named a 2024 Future Leader by Hospice News.

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Hospice News

JULY 15, 2022

In addition to this growth, the hospice provider now provides the full range of interdisciplinary care. AHHMC offers services exclusively in the home setting, but plans to provide care in local nursing facilities and among inpatients at Adventist Health Mendocino Coast Hospital, according to Miller. Hospice utilization reached 46.1%

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

“About a year ago, we did a kind of a deep dive into some of our challenges, and we realized that we needed to do a new staffing model, one that would attract dedicated, experienced hospice nurses,” Kalvaitis said at the Hospice News ELEVATE conference in Chicago. “So We were able to hire nurses.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

New Jersey-based BAYADA provides home-based hospice, nursing, rehabilitative, therapeutic and assistive care services to adult and pediatric patients. Established in 1975, the nonprofit operates 347 locations in 22 states and in eight countries, employing 26,000 health care professionals.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Enhabit saw its pool of full-time nursing candidates rise 19% during the fourth quarter of 2022 as well as hiring 101 new nurses, 41 of whom work in the company’s hospice segment. Nevertheless, Enhabit remains aggressive on recruitment, particularly for full-time nurses. This factored into a 12.1%

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Hospice News

AUGUST 31, 2022

We were seeing retention as being harder and harder, competing with other organizations for doctors, nurses, CNAs and other clinicians,” Rubel told Hospice News. There’s a shortage of hospice and palliative care trained physicians across the country. This program certainly helps our physician groups to grow.

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Hospice News

MARCH 31, 2023

The newly proposed rule also included updates around quality and compliance.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 14, 2022

The Care Team offers home-based care that includes hospice, nursing and occupational, physical and speech therapy services, as well as medical social workers. Established in 2016, 1st Care provides home health and hospice in the Indianapolis area and surrounding counties across Central Indiana.

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Hospice News

JUNE 7, 2022

We’ve increased the number of licensed practical nurses. That helps relieve some of the work that we put on our nurses and social workers. The residency actually came out of a grant that was funding nursing education. It’s six nurses at a time, and it’s really open to any nurse.

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Hospice News

JULY 28, 2023

“While we appreciate the payment increase to 3.1%, a more generous market basket update was badly needed for nonprofit, mission-driven hospice providers committed to continuing to provide quality care in their communities,” Katie Smith Sloan, LeadingAge president and CEO, said in a statement shared with Hospice News.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 1, 2022

The legislation passed this week requires the forthcoming emergency regulations to do the following: Establish standards that put a cap on staff travel time and distance to patients in rural and urban settings Set standards for hospice nursing staff patient caseloads Limit the number of hospice agencies that management personnel can be involved with (..)

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Hospice News

MAY 16, 2023

In addition to Tidewell, Empath also operates Suncoast Hospice. The organization is the parent company of 17 affiliates and two philanthropic foundations.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

The hospice provider has plans on the horizon to extend its geographic reach in the state as well as in Pennsylvania. Guaranteed’s technology platform connects patients and family members to palliative and hospice nurses, social workers, spiritual coordinators and other interdisciplinary staff.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Enhabit hired 166 new home health nurses in Q3 in addition to 200 more the previous quarter – with additional growth on the horizon, Jacobsmeyer said. The company has eliminated contracted workers in its hospice segment, seeking to do the same on its home health side, she indicated. We continue to hire for additional growth.

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Minority Nurse

JUNE 12, 2024

Blake Lynch, aka Nurse Blake , loves caring for and helping patients and caring for and helping fellow nurses. As a popular nursing influencer, internationally touring comedian, healthcare advocate, and keynote speaker, Nurse Blake uses humor to bring nurses together. But Nurse Blake is about more than comedy.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 24, 2022

Historically, caseloads for hospice nurse case managers have hovered around 10 to 12 patients, but these numbers have been trending upwards. Among the hospices that BerryDunn surveyed, 88% of the best performers kept case managers’ workloads between 13 to 18. Whereas once that increases, you can no longer maintain that.

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