Hospice News

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Agape Care Names New Palliative Medical Director Agape Care Group, a portfolio company of Ridgemont Equity Partners has appointed Kari Bradford, a doctor of nursing practice, as its new palliative medical director. She will also serve as a mentor to palliative care teams, the company indicated in an announcement.

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Hospice News

MARCH 12, 2025

Karlin is also palliative care medical director at UCLA Healths Palliative Care Program. How do we start at this stage to encourage ownership over medications and in other small ways build some independence by giving control to our young adult patients?

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Hospice News

JANUARY 17, 2023

The Denver Hospice Appoints New Medical Director. The Denver Hospice recently tapped Dr. Robert Howe as its new medical director following the retirement of Dr. Shirlee Turner after 11 years of service at the company. Agrace Expands Medical Team. Hiranandani earned his medical degree from St.

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Hospice News

APRIL 21, 2025

Risk-based contracts may be the future of palliative care reimbursement as Medicare Advantage continues to ascend. The simple term value-based care belies its complexity. The term can refer to any number of payment models that are designed to reduce total cost of care and improve outcomes. There’s a large spectrum of value based care.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 26, 2022

Kauai Hospice Recruits Retired Emergency Doc as Medical Director. Dr. William “Monty” Downs is stepping into a new role as medical director of Hawaii-based Kaua‘i Hospice after retiring from 50 years in the emergency department at Wilcox Health Medical Centert. Wilcox Health is part of Hawaii Pacific Health.

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Hospice News

JUNE 28, 2023

Lauren Templeton began her medical career in a surgical internship before transitioning to internal medicine. Templeton now is a hospice physician consultant at Weatherbee Resources as well as medical director for Texas-based Hendrick Hospice Care. What qualities or characteristics would such a person possess?

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Hospice News

MARCH 4, 2025

He currently serves on the board of directors of the Research Institute for Home Care, formerly the Alliance for Home Health Quality & Innovation, and also on the Hospice & Home Care Foundation of North Carolina. Bell previously served as the nonprofit hospice providers vice president and chief medical officer since 2016.

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Hospice News

JUNE 12, 2024

Candidates for palliative care position need to have a strong understanding of what the job entails, Dr. Jennifer Blechman, palliative care medical director at the Oregon-based nonprofit Partners in Care said at the Hospice News Virtual Staffing Summit. Palliative care is relatively a new field.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 19, 2024

Palliative care is integral to Programs for All-Inclusive Care of the Elderly (PACE) programs, according to Dr. Glenn Meyers, who was recently promoted to chief medical officer of BoldAge PACE. What are some of the key skill sets that an effective medical director should have? What does a really good medical director look like?

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

As these programs grow, I think it will become more apparent just how essential these skills are,” Dr. “As these programs grow, I think it will become more apparent just how essential these skills are,” Dr. Alana Sagin, associate professor of hospice and palliative care at Perelman and CARE-7 curriculum director, told Hospice News in an email.

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Hospice News

JUNE 25, 2024

The company is also removing medical directors from three local post-acute care facilities. “We New York state-based Garnet Health has announced a restructuring plan that spells the demise of its inpatient palliative care services. The plan includes layoffs of about 1% of the health system’s workforce, numbering 26 employees.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

We have both joint venture models as well as direct to payer models, and we’ve been in multiple conversations about growing both of those lines of business,” Dr. Gavin Baumgardner, national medical director for palliative and complex care for Contessa, told Hospice News. “We’re

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Hospice News

MAY 22, 2024

Jennifer Blechman, palliative care medical director at the Oregon-based nonprofit Partners in Care. A transition from fee-for-service to value-based payment models could help palliative care providers boost recruitment and retention. In today’s predominant reimbursement structure, palliative care programs are often loss leaders.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 19, 2022

The provider’s palliative care team includes a physician medical director, social worker and nurse practitioners who now offer in-home palliative care to adult patients 18 and older facing a serious illness. “As Homeland previously provided facility-based palliative services and is now stepping into the home.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 13, 2023

As Contessa Health pioneers a growing value-based palliative care-at-home program, they’ve encountered some learning curves when it comes to operating within a new payment system. Contessa is a subsidiary of Amedisys (NASDAQ: AMED), which the home health and hospice provider acquired in 2021 for $250 million.

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Hospice News

APRIL 24, 2024

That model does not sufficiently cover the full range of interdisciplinary care, Dr. Julia Friedman, palliative care medical director at Thyme Care, said at the Home Health Care News Cap+Strat Conference. There’s tremendous value to patients and also tremendous economic value in palliative care.

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Hospice News

JUNE 4, 2024

Telehealth’s value proposition is building in the palliative care realm as regulators mull policies around future utilization, leaving providers to navigate uncertain and potentially difficult challenges among patients. People would suffer. There are tricky elements related to issues of that intersection of best practices for symptom control.”

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Hospice News

JANUARY 8, 2024

Gavin Baumgardner, vice president and national medical director of primary and palliative care at Contessa, a subsidiary of Amedisys (NASDAQ: AMED). As they build out their palliative care programs, many of these organizations are pursuing partnerships to foster coordination and growth.

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JUNE 17, 2024

Kaleidoscope is a community-based palliative care program where we’re seeing patients in the privacy of their own home,” CHC Medical Director Karissa Misner told local news. “We The Indiana-based Center for Hospice Care (CHC) has unveiled a new palliative care program, branded as Kaleidoscope. This is up from 16.4% Census Bureau.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 23, 2024

Providence Hospice-Community Healthcare of Texas has established a new palliative care clinic at Limestone Medical Center in its home state. The clinic officially opened on Aug. 15 with a ceremony featuring local government officials, health care professionals and other dignitaries.

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Hospice News

MARCH 20, 2024

Palliative care delivery trends are increasingly taking root in inpatient and community-based settings across the continuum, Gina Andres, senior director of hospice and palliative care at Kaiser Permanente, said at the Hospice News Palliative Care Conference in Tampa, Florida. Palliative care is very attractive.

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JULY 20, 2022

Looking ahead to greater reliance on value-based payment models, this approach may become even more critical, according to Igal Ladabaum, co-founder and CEO of Hospi Corp, the medical supply company that developed the Macy Catheter for rapid administration of medication and fluids. “If Historically, the U.S.

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Hospice News

JULY 10, 2024

Brown is also medical director of Kennedy Krieger Institute’s Phelps Center for Cerebral Palsy. For many patients with rare diseases, unmet needs extend far beyond the medical or clinical manifestations of their conditions,” Brown told Palliative Care News in an email. “For As a disease progresses, symptoms inevitably worsen.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Programs that integrate both palliative care and home-based primary care are proving effective at improving patients’ quality of life and reducing health care costs. Bringing together home-based primary care is a win-win for patient and health care providers, Chiang said at the HAP Foundation’s Serious Illness Symposium in Naperville, Illinois.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

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) 2023 Annual Leadership Conference.

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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. Palliative care has been one of the largest growing segments of the health care industry in the last decade despite challenges such as staffing shortages, reimbursement headaches and misconceptions regarding this type of care.

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AUGUST 30, 2024

For many medical providers across the country, palliative care services can be an unknown option for several patients and their families. Cathy Wozniak is the executive director of Hospice & Palliative Care of Martha’s Vineyard in Massachusetts (HPCMV). million people in the United States, including 25.7

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Hospice News

JULY 11, 2024

Efforts to establish potential payment mechanisms for high-acuity palliative services within the Medicare Hospice Benefit will require greater clarity from regulators, according to the Coalition to Transform Advanced Care (C-TAC). This could result in deepening conflation of hospice and palliative care, the organization indicated. “We

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Hospice News

AUGUST 18, 2023

About 18% of study participants had a medical cannabis license, with more than a third (35%) utilizing marijuana during the last year. Patients that utilized cannabis were more likely to be younger, male, African American, disabled, have lower incomes and have Medicaid insurance, researchers indicated.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 25, 2023

They want to see if there’s any excessive use of medical care because of telehealth. Expanding the regulatory parameters of telemedicine could benefit underserved rural communities in particular, according to Dr. Samyukta (Sam) Mullangi, medical director of Thyme Care. During the pandemic, the U.S.

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Hospice News

MAY 5, 2023

The Miriam Hospital is launching a program that combines palliative care and emergency medical services. Offering palliative care in an emergency setting is valuable to both immediate and long-term patient outcomes, according to Dr. David Curley, medical director of The Miriam Hospital’s emergency department. “A

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Patients at the Northeast Georgia Medical Center can now take advantage of a new palliative care program that brings the care from the clinic or hospital into the patient’s home. 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.

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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 The company offers palliative care in addition to other services.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Heart to Heart Hospice Appoints CMO, National Medical Director Texas-based Heart to Heart Hospice has tapped Dr. Michael Bond as its new chief medical officer and national medical director. Moreland joining the company is the next step in a decades-long career in hospice.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 25, 2023

Palliative care providers in several states are finding the best way to connect to the community is through pre-existing, and in some cases, non-medical community groups. In California, a collaboration between Stanford Medical Center and several community organizations has been in development since before the pandemic lockdown.

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APRIL 12, 2024

According to language in the proposal, designated physician members of the hospice interdisciplinary team may certify patients for hospice if the medical director is unavailable. Clarification from CMS in these areas will be helpful to hospices, physicians and those reviewing hospice records for compliance.”

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JUNE 26, 2024

Big Bend has also promoted its medical director, Dr. Deborah Morris, to chief medical officer of Seven Oaks. Before coming to Big Bend Hospice, she served as medical director at multiple hospice and palliative care organizations in Virginia while also teaching at Eastern Virginia Medical School.

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