Hospice News

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Most transplant centers require that a caregiver be present and available to patients in order for them to be considered for a transplant, Montoya told Palliative Care News. Family caregiver support is lacking across organ transplant centers nationwide. These are just some of the areas that palliative care teams could help to improve.

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MAY 14, 2025

Sustaining pediatric hospice and palliative care programs involves employing dynamic referral and financial strategies in todays health care landscape. A strong sticking point is that pediatric hospice and palliative care services can reduce high-cost and burdensome care when offered concurrently with curative treatments, she stated.

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APRIL 30, 2024

Given the significance of family caregivers in hospice care, providers can benefit from having tools to assess whether or not they are experiencing burnout. Without assistance or relief, these difficulties can impede access to hospice and other types of home-based care. There’s a very high number of U.S.

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Hospice News

MAY 10, 2023

Hospices are increasingly eying palliative care as a promising growth opportunity, prioritizing expansion in that field over other health care service lines. Survey respondents included nearly 330 hospice and palliative care industry professionals, including owners, executive leaders and managers, among others. It’s evolving.”

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Hospice News

APRIL 24, 2023

As the hospice landscape shifts and hospice care is delivered more widely, another care type has made entry into the conversation: palliative care. The shift does present challenges, however. Based upon the request of a hospice customer, Axxess began to develop a palliative care-specific technology platform in 2021.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

While they offer an alternative to home-based services, they present their own unique benefits and challenges. One of the agencies that uses the clinic model is Hospice of Northwest Ohio, which serves both Ohio and Michigan. First, the clinic-based model presents challenges in its need for physical space and the associated costs.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Based on that analysis, the general perception that palliative care costs more money than it saves doesn’t hold water, Dr. Vipul Bhatia, associate chief medical officer for WellSpan said at the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization Annual Leadership Conference. There was a 20% lower cost in one of the hospitals.

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Hospice News

MAY 7, 2024

Greater training and awareness around gender inclusivity is needed among palliative care providers to improve their understanding how to care for underserved transgender populations, Fried said during the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization’s (NHPCO) Virtual Interdisciplinary Conference. Furthermore, 85.3% Furthermore, 85.3%

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Hospice News

AUGUST 5, 2024

VNS Health staff, with lead researcher Rutgers University Assistant Professor Elizabeth Luth, presented their findings at the recent International Nurse Informatics Conference. ”We The New York-based operator provides home health, hospice and palliative care, as well as behavioral health and personal care/private duty services.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Illinois-headquartered Unity Hospice & Palliative Care has expanded to Houston, Texas, following its acquisition of an existing license in that market. This expansion coincides with Unity’s 30 th anniversary as a premier hospice and palliative care organization,” Unity owner Michael Klein told Hospice News in an email. “As

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Education in palliative care principles for emergency department clinicians could likely improve care for seriously ill patients who present in the ED. Patients with serious illness, even hospice patients, present to the ED in increasing numbers for symptom management.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 23, 2024

While some palliative care programs mirror the hospice model, more operators are working to tailor their services to patients’ specific needs, with varying intensity. Palliative care is also part of the hospice component of CMMI’s value-based insurance design (VBID) demonstration, which is set to end on Dec.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

The foundation is an independent, nonprofit hospice and palliative care research and advocacy organization. It will serve as a hospice and palliative care “education and training hub” for patients, families, providers, and other stakeholders, according to the HAP Foundation. The HAP Foundation has officially begun operations.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Expanding palliative care relationships and joint venture partnerships is a priority for 2024, the Louisiana-based home health and hospice provider indicated in a filing with the U.S. (NASDAQ: AMED) has made large investments in expanding access to palliative care, particularly through joint ventures with health systems.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Parents and guardians frequently experience feelings of stress, anxiety and becoming overwhelmed, issues that pediatric palliative care providers can do better in alleviating, according to Eddie Belluomini, COO of 1Care Hospice & 1Care Kids based in Nevada. Expanding that education and awareness is a pivotal starting point, he added.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 8, 2023

The legislation authorizes licensed, Medicaid-approved home health and hospice agencies to provide palliative care in patients’ homes. Too often when an older person is facing an illness, they get swept up in the health care system without being presented the option of noninvasive care.

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Hospice News

MAY 26, 2023

Three important considerations can help hospices recruit and retain social workers — a respectful workplace culture, reasonable workloads and continuing education opportunities. The respect that they get from their colleagues on a team helps them tremendously to feel valued in their work and heard,” Leff told Hospice News.

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Hospice News

MAY 24, 2023

Five states — Minnesota, North Carolina, North Dakota, Washington and Virginia — define palliative care eligibility within their Medicaid hospice programs. The channels for palliative care payment may be widening as more state legislators recognize growing demand for these services and start to weave them into Medicaid reimbursement.

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Hospice News

MAY 12, 2023

Patients with ovarian cancer who have received palliative care had fewer hospital readmissions compared to others, according to a recent study presented at the 2023 Annual Meeting on Women’s Cancer from the Society of Gynecologic Oncology (SGO) in Tampa, Florida. The results help to demonstrate palliative care’s value proposition.

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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

JUNE 7, 2024

Researchers found that early palliative care via telehealth often improves quality of life for patients with advanced non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) at a level equivalent to in-person care, according to a study presented at the 2024 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) annual meeting.

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Hospice News

MAY 2, 2022

Without assistance or relief, these difficulties can impede access to hospice. Research has shown that patients who are faced with end-of-life decisions may be less likely to choose hospice unless they have a network of friends or family who can serve as home caregivers. founders of Mettle Health. This only worsened during COVID-19.

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MARCH 15, 2024

Documentation errors and a fragmented health system pose the greatest risks for adverse drug events among hospices. McPherson also serves on the board of the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (AAHPM). They also need to know which side effects are more concerning and should prompt a call to the hospice.”

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OCTOBER 24, 2023

ED-palliative partnerships present a quadruple aim opportunity to improve care for seriously ill patients.” In addition, 17% received hospice referrals, and 21% were referred to a palliative care outpatient clinic. The post The Value of Palliative Care Consults in the Hospital Emergency Department appeared first on Hospice News.

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Hospice News

JULY 30, 2024

In a recent Medscape podcast , Iyer presented a case study involving a 78-year-old male patient with end-stage COPD. The post Benefits of Early Palliative Care Referrals for COPD Patients appeared first on Hospice News. The post Benefits of Early Palliative Care Referrals for COPD Patients appeared first on Hospice News.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 13, 2024

A new hospice nursing recruitment effort has launched in the New England region after being stalled by the pandemic. The recruitment initiative is the fruit of a collaboration between Visiting Nurse and Hospice for Vermont and New Hampshire (VNH) and the Home Care, Hospice & Palliative Care Alliance of New Hampshire (the Alliance).

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OCTOBER 11, 2024

Patients who lack an understanding of health care information or terminology, do not understand their own illnesses or who misconstrue the nature of hospice or palliative care may lack the necessary tools to make informed decisions. In order to even access palliative care, people have to understand what it is. There are a lot of barriers.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Traditions Health Names SVP of Hospice Operations Traditions Health has appointed Tom Moreland as its new senior vice president of hospice operations. Franklin, Tennessee-headquartered Traditions provides hospice, home health and palliative care as well as consulting services across 18 states.

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JANUARY 16, 2023

They found a 95% increase in hospice or palliative utilization among veterans served by VA providers participating in the agency’s Social Work Patient Aligned Care Team (PACT). They included VA hospice encounters in the outcome but not enrollment in a home hospice program, nursing home hospice center or Medicare-paid hospice.

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Hospice News

JULY 29, 2024

Hospice care does not occur in a vacuum, and many operators find themselves building partnerships with other community organizations to better serve patients and support their staff. Some also partner with medical and nursing schools to ensure students in health care fields gain exposure to hospice and palliative care principles. “It

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

The Indiana-based palliative care provider Center for Hospice Care (CHC) is looking beyond its immediate community and has developed networks that impact palliative care on a global scale. hospice leaders. hospice leaders. hospice leaders went on this trip, saw the need and felt like more could be done to help the situation.”

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Hospice News

AUGUST 4, 2023

North Carolina-based hospice provider Four Seasons has launched a new mobile palliative care unit to reach patients in remote and rural areas. The hospice and palliative care provider financed the mobile clinic through charitable donations from the F the James H. The mobile clinic will deliver care through six North Carolina counties.

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Hospice News

APRIL 10, 2024

The Medicare Hospice Benefit could use an “upgrade” to ensure greater flexibility that may be necessary to fully support patients’ needs. million hospice recipients were diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease, 6.8% This is according to a recent editorial in Health Affairs by Cara L. Wallace, the Dorothy A. In Fiscal Year 2022, 7.5%

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JULY 9, 2024

Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston applied an AI algorithm to facilitate timely transitions to hospice for patients presenting in the emergency department. For most of these patients, hospice care began within one to two days of prognosis. These patients were placed on observation status rather than being admitted.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Declines in digital health investment have implications for hospice and palliative care providers. Hospices may be somewhat insulated from the digital health downturn due to the ever-present need for in-person services, Booker said.

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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% proposed rate increase for hospices is not enough to support the care hospices provide.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Hospice provider Agape Care Group has acquired GHC Hospice for an undisclosed sum, furthering the company’s goal of multistate expansion through the Southeast. We’ve been laser focused in the Southeast over the last few years and do feel like it gives us the most near-term upside,” Agape CEO TroyYarborough previously told Hospice News.

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