Hospice News

MARCH 12, 2024

Program integrity and an onslaught of audits are top of mind for many hospice providers in 2024. The organizations earlier this year presented their findings , published today, to members of Congress and the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). The impetus for the audit was primarily related to billing errors.

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Hospice News

MARCH 25, 2024

Arizona-based Stoneridge Hospice launched services in 2020 with an aim to address a swelling aging population’s growing need for end-of-life care. Stoneridge Hospice provides home-based hospice and also contracts with other providers to offer facility-based services. Stoneridge Hospice launched in 2020.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 15, 2022

In this Voices interview, Hospice News sits down with Deanna Heath, VP of Hospice, KanTime, to talk about the potential impact of the Value-based Insurance Design (VBID) model on today’s hospice landscape. Hospice News: What career experiences do you most draw from, in your role today?

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Hospice News

MARCH 29, 2024

The 2025 proposed hospice rule is raising some questions along with payment rates. increase in hospice per diems for 2025. The agency also proposed two new quality measures and 2025 implementation of the Hospice Outcome and Patient Evaluation (HOPE) assessment tool to replace the Hospice Item Set.

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Home Care Pulse

APRIL 26, 2022

– A Hospice CEO’s First Reactions. A Hospice CEO’s First Reactions. The audit focuses on beneficiary eligibility for hospice services in the absence of a recent hospital encounter. Hospice industry leaders routinely find themselves responding to new or changing regulatory oversight. – Michah’s Story Begins.

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Hospice Nurse Hero

AUGUST 21, 2022

Sometimes hospice patients live longer than six months. When this happens, you’ll want to use these tips to document the hospice recertification with ease. If you’ve worked long enough as a hospice nurse, then there’s a good chance you’ve had to chart a patient’s hospice recertification. How Hospice Benefit Periods Work.

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AAHPM (American Academy of Hospice and Palliative)

JUNE 27, 2023

Thomson, DO MBA HMDC FACOI FAAHPM As one of AAHPM’s delegates, I had the privilege of representing the field of Hospice and Palliative Medicine at the American Medical Association (AMA) House of Delegates (HOD) 2023 Annual Meeting held in Chicago in mid-June. A few of the arguments presented against the resolution were that: 1.)

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The Bucket-List Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Therefore, most stories are in the present tense. Robert and his family began hospice care three months ago after his stage four cancer diagnosis. That’s what hospice care is about,” she says. Courtney Saylor, Robert’s hospice nurse, attended with her two daughters, EmmieLou and Sophie.

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Hospice of the North Coast

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

He has worked in the medical field for many years, including as a primary care physician, urgent care doctor, hospital doctor, and as a hospice and palliative care doc. I’m Dr. Daniel Miller and one of the medical directors of Hospice of the North Coast. Daniel Miller, M.D., That could be your close friends.

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Hospice of the North Coast

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

He has worked in the medical field for many years, including as a primary care physician, urgent care doctor, hospital doctor, and as a hospice and palliative care doc. I’m Dr. Daniel Miller and one of the medical directors of Hospice of the North Coast. Daniel Miller, M.D., That could be your close friends.

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Hospice News

MAY 31, 2024

Hospice and behavioral health providers can better collaborate to improve outcomes among patients with severe enduring anorexia nervosa. Jonathan Treem, regional medical director of palliative care and hospice at Mid-Atlantic Permanente Medical Group | Kaiser Permanente.

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Hospice News

JUNE 1, 2022

In enacted, the recently reintroduced Palliative Care and Hospice Education Training Act (PCHETA) could make a dent in the recruitment barriers that hospices keep hitting. Hospice] has to become a part of the education of medical students, nursing and social workers at large,” Lee told Hospice News.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Hospice leaders have kept their eyes on four key numbers as 2022 progressed: clinical capacity, length of stay, labor costs and utilization. A fifth, the rising number of new hospices in certain states, has emerged as a priority in recent weeks. These metrics are key to understanding what hospices experienced this year.

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GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

link] Kensington Hospice & ‘Radical Love’ Equity-Oriented Hospice Palliative Care Naheed Dosani also serves as the Medical Director of Kensington Hospice, Torontos largest hospice. To medical directors, chiefs, and some were really cool to talk to me. Who, his name was Terry.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 19, 2023

Hospice and behavioral health care could increasingly intersect in coming years as demand for specialized care grows. In some respects, the two sectors are already inextricably linked, given the holistic nature of hospice care, including attention to patients’ psychosocial and spiritual needs as well as bereavement support for families.

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Hospice News

MAY 8, 2023

Kaishauna Guidry, a former teacher turned hospice physician, continues to leverage her background in education to help terminally ill patients find the care they need. Few businesses have to work as hard as hospices to dispel myths and misconceptions about their practices. G’s H.O.S.P.I.C.E G at the Heart of Healthcare.”

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Hospice News

MAY 18, 2023

These words were spoken by a fictional, terminally ill patient portrayed in the stage play “Lily,” written by Bryan Harnetiaux on commission from the Hospice Foundation of America (HFA). Hospices get in on the act Accord Hospice is among the providers that are staging Harnetiaux’s plays.

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Hospice News

APRIL 12, 2024

Hospice providers navigate various challenges when addressing unmet needs and goals of care among patients with severe enduring anorexia nervosa. Additionally, patients with severe enduring anorexia nervosa often have longer inpatient admissions and a history of various medical treatments, the research found.

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Hospice News

APRIL 8, 2024

HopeHealth has been growing its pediatric hospice and supportive care service lines in recent years to address a range of unmet needs among seriously ill children and their families. HopeHealth provides home care, hospice, palliative and dementia care, as well as caregiver and grief support services.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 20, 2023

” How hard would it be for every medical director, every director of nurses, every administrator to know the first and last name of every CNA who works in that building? From a medical director standpoint, how do you think about that? It needs to be presented in a way that they can understand.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 17, 2024

He’s a medical director of H ebrew S enior L ife outpatient clinic at Newbridge. I think at the age of 91, a patient should have a say, really, in terms of, hey, I can present you with some of the reasons I think we should make a switch, but what do you think? Because I think we have someone special, a guest host.

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Hospice Nurse Hero

JANUARY 30, 2024

Finding the balance between compassion and the clock is critical for hospice nurses. Hospice is often portrayed as serene and peaceful. For hospice nurses, mastering time management is an essential skill for long-term success. Second, time management also has to do with workflow, and in hospice, you never know what might happen.

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The Bucket-List Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2022

The Hospice Care Plus staff, both for the home hospice program in Berea and those at the Compassionate Care Center in Richmond, immediately began reaching out to friends and supporters to help pull the wedding together. Our chief medical director, Dr. Hanan Budeiri (known to all of us as Dr. B) donated refreshments for a reception.

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AAHPM (American Academy of Hospice and Palliative)

JUNE 6, 2024

Elizabeth Hart, MD Androscoggin Home Healthcare + Hospice AAHPM reached out to the 2024 Visionaries to gain insight into what motivated them to pursue leadership positions and what they find more fulfilling in their experiences. What is the significance to you of being recognized as a “Visionary” in Hospice and Palliative Medicine?

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Pallimed

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Lewis PhD, Beverly Schechtman and Carrie Judy “I'm present. Franklin also served on the Washington State Agency Medical Directors Group (AMDG) via the Washington State Department of Labor and Industries (9). Kollas MD, Terri A. Uh … I do have a conflict.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 31, 2023

He spent a long time as hospice medical director and he founded a national model of care that many of our listeners will be familiar with, AIM, which stands for the Advanced Illness Management program, which has influenced CMS policy. Today we talk with deep thinkers about this issue. Alex: Thank you, Bill.

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Pallimed

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

By 2007, the Washington State Agency Medical Directors Group (AMDG), which included several eventual PROP members (23), published an “Interagency Guideline on Opioid Dosing for Chronic Non-Cancer Pain (26) that introduced the concept of hard dosing thresholds for opioid analgesics, which was later incorporated into the 2016 Guideline (2, 3).

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The Bucket-List Blog

JULY 13, 2023

Therefore, most stories are in the present tense. When Randy was diagnosed with a serious illness over a year ago, he and Sophie called Hospice Care Plus right away. “I I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend hospice. Randy’s hospice chaplain, Sally Iseral, officiated the ceremony. A staff member volunteered to take pictures.

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GeriPal

MAY 1, 2025

It certainly hospice was something that was known about, but in terms of training or preparation, that really didn’t exist. But, but there is not one guideline within the ID or HIV world about when to stop antiretroviral therapy, even, even in the hospice literature. Peter 14:48 So it’s completely shifted.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

But also there’s also, because many more people… Oftentimes, when I’ll be at a meeting, if I’m presenting, I’ll ask for show of hands how many people have had experience with dementia. You cannot be in hospice. We present it to CMMI, to CMS, whoever will listen to us, people on The Hill.

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GeriPal

JULY 14, 2022

Imagine that you are the medical director of a large (>150 bed) nursing home. This was the opening paragraph that I wrote in March of 2020 when introducing a podcast we did with Dr. Jim Wright , the medical director at Canterbury Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center in suburban Richmond. Summary Transcript Summary.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Is hospice appropriate for people with serious mental illness (and does hospice have the skills to meet their needs?) They are recruiting for a Medical Director of Palliative Care Services to lead and grow innovative outpatient and inpatient palliative care programs. I think it’s very present in maid.

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