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has acquired Noble Hospice and Palliative Care for an undisclosed amount. Northrim is in the process of building out its home-based care platform, with Phoenix-headquartered Noble becoming its first hospice acquisition. We are big believers that the best long-term care meets patients where they are.” Census Bureau.
The Indiana Association for Home & HospiceCare (IAHHC) has unveiled a new employee support program designed to help with retention of much needed workforce resources in end-of-life care. Connect program was in part driven by increasing recognition of the perils of staff burnout and turnover in home health and hospice.
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The nation’s publicly traded hospice companies are primed for more acquisitions after a 2023 slump, fueled by census and growth. Transaction volume declined in the hospice and home-based care space in 2023, following the two record-breaking prior years. Case in point, VITAS Healthcare, a subsidiary of Chemed Corp.
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When it comes to hospice acquisitions, buyers and sellers expectations on price tags are becoming more aligned. However, this doesn’t mean that buying a hospice is a bargain-basement transaction. But for the right assets, they’re still getting pretty aggressive,” Vesely told Hospice News.
Joe Rotella, chief medical officer of the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (AAHPM), calls on hospices to maintain their core principles amid a churning sea of regulatory and economic changes. He saw health care practitioners “running away” from patients like these and began to wonder who was running toward them.
These efforts come at a time when telehealth utilization is making waves in hospice staff and patient engagement, as well as operational efficiency and care coordination. Hospices will need to be nimble as the future of telehealth unfolds in health care, he said. Currently set to expire Dec.
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