Hospice News

AUGUST 25, 2022

For instance, if a hospice with a $15 million annual revenue has nine medical directors on staff, this should “jump off the page” for a buyer, he said. This can call into question whether these medical directors were on staff because they were giving the hospice direct lines of patient referrals. said Kulik. “Is

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Hospice News

MARCH 18, 2024

The model uses information gathered from a patient’s genome to plan for care, treatment and services, and to some extent, predict a likely health trajectory, according to the National Human Genome Research Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health. However, more stakeholders are applying the term to palliative care.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Contessa is currently in talks with a number of other Medicare Advantage organizations to pursue similar, but not identical, contracts, Dr. Gavin Baumgardner, vice president and national medical director of Palliative Care at Home at Contessa, said at the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) Annual Leadership Conference. “We’re

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Hospice News

JULY 11, 2024

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) 2025 proposed hospice payment rule contained a request for information (RFI) on the potential implementation of reimbursement pathways for “high intensity palliative care services,” such as chemotherapy, blood transfusion and dialysis.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 27, 2024

Having an engaged team in the c-suite that is capable of having open and honest discussions about these challenges is key to making informed business decisions, according to Franchitto. Historically in hospice at times the medical director and physician role has been [less] active and involved.

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Hospice News

MARCH 29, 2024

It also featured a series of requests for information (RFI) on issues like health equity, social determinants of health and future quality measures. “The hospice community should pay attention to the information request on high cost services as it may signal an emerging interest in payment model reform.”

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GeriPal

JANUARY 16, 2025

So it defines unrepresented as someone who lacks decisional capacity to provide informed consent to a particular medical treatment. And that can really inform what your own institutional policy is. This is Eric Widera. Alex 01:24 This is Alex Smith. But we always talk about capacity being decision specific. Eric 20:31 Yeah.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 21, 2024

We’re really focused on making sure that we’re using a strong, scientific evidence base to inform everything we do in our care model,” Dr. Julia Frydman, palliative care medical director at Thyme Care, told Palliative Care News. “So

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 4, 2023

He went on to become the organization’s medical director. “ In addition to his role at Faith Hospice, Mulder is executive director of the Trillium Institute, medical director for Holland Home and the director of the Division of Palliative Medicine at Michigan State University’s College of Human Medicine.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Dr. Leena Dutta, medical director of hospice and in-home palliative care for the center, joined the program in May, 2022 and oversaw the initiative. Rather, they wanted to provide clear, understandable information that enabled the patient to make reasonable, informed choices about their care.

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Hospice News

JUNE 28, 2023

Hospice of the Chesapeake Appoints New CMO Maryland-based Hospice of the Chesapeake recently named Dr. Marny Fetzer as its new chief medical officer. Fetzer is currently system medical director for palliative care and hospice services at Illinois-based Ascension Health. He was previously medical director at Compassus since 2017.

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Hospice News

MAY 8, 2023

I’m curious as to how that learning experience may have informed your approach to educating others about hospice. I was the palliative care medical director and associate hospice medical director for their four or five hospice teams. You came to it with some of those same misconceptions that others have.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Their recommendation is that it would include the administrator and medical director of hospice agencies.” So it’s building transparency and access to information that promotes accurate and effective billing practices and quality care.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Our program is staffed by nurse practitioners and social workers, under the oversight of our medical director. Whether operating under an FFS or a per-member-per-month model, the sustainability and scalability of these programs hinge on prudent financial management and well-informed business decisions.

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Hospice News

MAY 22, 2023

Understanding these perspectives can drive conversations about management of these symptoms, according to VITAS Medical Director Robert Nguyen, who worked on the study. Views on pain and discomfort at the end of life can differ among various demographics.

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Hospice News

APRIL 10, 2023

Among those partners are referring providers and board-and-care facilities, according to Dr. Martina Meier, executive medical director of hospice and palliative care at Providence. To address these biases, Providence has integrated trauma-informed care methodologies into both their staff training and community education programs. “In

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Having interactions with patients during the onboarding process is another consideration in the hospice clinical retention puzzle, according to William Logan, staff vice president and national medical director at Carelon Health’s Palliative Care.

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GeriPal

MARCH 20, 2025

Should these patients qualify for medical aid in dying medications? Hope is a palliative care doc and hospice medical director at Evergreen Health up near Seattle, Washington. Who do you give informed consent to? And is there a middle path to provide some degree of comfort while also hastening the end of life?

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Vincent’s Hospital and Medical Center and later joined NYC Health + Hospitals Corp. Prior to Calvary Hospital, he was COO at the Jacobi Medical Center. He joined the health system as medical director 24 years ago. Comfort has been Calvary Hospital’s COO since 2019.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 25, 2023

In the process of our work, we realized that with our marketing, we could only reach a certain population,” Dr. Grant Smith, medical director of the Stanford Palliative Care Center of Excellence (PCCOE) Community Partnerships Team, said.

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Hospice News

MAY 18, 2023

In Accord’s production of “Lily,” a member of the local Rotary Club portrayed the title character with a hospice medical director in the role of Joe. -Susan Turner, VP, community programs and services, Accord Hospice The actors in these performances include the hospice’s staff themselves and members of community organizations.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Hospice would likely change from the Medical Director-led IDT team with standard COPS, to a landscape of payer-source-driven rules for each patient. For more information on Voices, please contact sales@agingmedia.com.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Effective processes to measure and track quality are crucial for hospices when it comes to proving their value proposition to payers, according to Dr. Alena Baquet-Simpson, chief executive medical director of insurance giant Aetna, a CVS Health company (NYSE: CVS). “It

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Daily Nurse

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

NEST is led by a medical director and a team of highly specialized nurses who bring over 200 years of combined experience safely delivering thousands of babies. This groundbreaking remote fetal monitoring center offers continuous, real-time monitoring of critical elements of labor and delivery across System hospitals.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

We have a social worker, medical director, chaplain services, nursing care and nursing assistants, and bereavement and volunteer coordinators. People are very vulnerable at this time of life and looking for information as to how to form a decision. I was employee number five when I started at Emmaus Catholic Hospice.

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Hospice News

MAY 17, 2022

The widespread need for nurses is much discussed among professionals in the field, but hospices are also in serious need of personnel who can work in information technology (IT), human resources (HR), administrative support, billing, sales, marketing and accounting. “We Providers have seen no lights at the end of the staffing shortage tunnel.

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Hospice News

MAY 1, 2023

ACO partnerships can boost value-based care rewards for providers and payers, Dr. Tom Cornwell, national medical director of Village Medical at Home in Chicago, indicated. ACO partnerships can also promote more effective communication with patients’ primary care providers.

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Hospice News

MARCH 25, 2024

What led you to hospice, and how has your law enforcement background informed your leadership approach? I was in charge of the jail system, which had about 10,000 inmates at that time, and we contracted out for medical care across five clinics and had a small inpatient unit. It’s how we strive to provide five-star service.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 19, 2023

Another recent example came in December when Arizona-based Hospice of the Valley launched a community education program to help inform health care providers about dementia care support and patients’ changing needs as they age. Awareness of even the basic tools to address some of this will greatly empower our medical community.”

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Hospice News

APRIL 17, 2023

Lightways plans to continue developing its services by hiring a full-time pediatric medical director to foster a culture that truly understands palliative care for children. “We’re “We don’t want them to think they have to stop everything in their lives and die. Palliative care doesn’t mean death; it means comfort.”

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GeriPal

JANUARY 20, 2023

It’s also what are the pieces of information we’re bringing to the table when we start providing care for residents? Those are evidence-based or evidence-informed tools that have been in practice. Eric: So Jasmine, we hit on care delivery, we also hit apparently on health information technology. Jasmine: Technology.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 21, 2022

“Now, I think it’s going to be a few years of real scarcity in our bedside people, and interestingly enough a lot of us are also experiencing really severe shortages in our information technology, or business office people.” . Length of stay. Hospices reported drops in their average length of stay during 2022.

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Hospice News

MARCH 22, 2024

McMahon ascended to the role in 2021, serving in various other positions at UnitedHealth Group since 2003, including executive vice president of enterprise operations and CEO of Optum Rx, among other management positions in finance, information technology and operations. Lucie, as well as at Parkway Health and Rehabilitation Center. “I

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Hospice News

MAY 23, 2024

Rai will also oversee medical operations at Care Synergy’s new Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) program, anticipated to launch in the fourth quarter of this year. Additionally, he will serve as medical director of The Denver Hospice. He was also the owner of both ProHealth One and Forte Health & Wellness.

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Pallimed

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

We submitted a request to CDC under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) to provide materials that included their disclosures or a waiver from CDC from making the disclosure (7). The Freedom of Information Act, 5 U.S.C. § He can be reached by e-mail at chad.kollas@orlandohealth.com or via Twitter at @ChadKollasMD.

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2023

Reading Ira’s article, it essentially was the VITAS Medical Director job description. This is not even best practices, this is min specs drawn from the hospice medical director manual and our conditions of participation, Medicare conditions of participation, that’s all. And this is on average.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

This article is based on a Hospice News discussion with Daniel Schwartz, Chief Strategy Officer at Elara Caring, Devin Woodley, VP of Managed Care Contracting and B2B Sales at VNS Health, Gavin Baumgardner, VP and National Medical Director for Complex and Palliative care at Amedisys, and Anthony Spano, Director of Client Development at Netsmart.

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