Hospice News

MARCH 15, 2024

You’re going little by little to communities where the community partners are, and giving education to hospitals, nursing homes, physician offices and practices. The number of states introducing palliative care Medicaid reimbursement channels has been climbing in recent years. Utilization is a totally different ball of wax.

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Hospice News

MAY 4, 2022

The company directly employs nurse practitioners and licensed clinical social workers who provide direct care, most often in nursing homes. In addition, PalliCare also serves as an incubator that supports nurse practitioners in setting up their own practices. Historically, the U.S.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Oftentimes it’s either combination of home visits and telephonic services. Sometimes they might be doing consultations either inpatient or in the nursing home or in assisted living. It leverages those resources to offer a wraparound suite of services for seniors and seriously ill patients. There’s a variety.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 16, 2023

They included VA hospice encounters in the outcome but not enrollment in a home hospice program, nursing home hospice center or Medicare-paid hospice. Patients are more likely to receive palliative care if they can access social workers through their primary care providers, Veterans Health Administration (VA) research has found.

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Hospice News

MAY 8, 2023

Two years ago, CEO Jonathan Fluhart and COO Tiffany Hughes launched PalliCare to fill a need in the home-based care space. The company employs nurse practitioners and other clinicians to provide palliative care in the home. It’s really been our hottest areas to be in,” Fluhart told Palliative Care News.

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Hospice News

APRIL 28, 2022

Amedisys (NASDAQ: AMED) subsidiary Contessa Health is seeing strong patient engagement for its expanded home-based palliative care program, which the company launched in January in partnership with Mt. With this in place, the company now offers a full continuum of home-based care. Sinai Health System in New York.

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Hospice News

MAY 30, 2023

CAPC CAPC Center to Advance Palliative Care CEO Brynn Bowman Where is palliative care currently being delivered (hospitals, the home setting, clinics?) As a CAPC strategist and recognized leader in palliative care education, Bowman’s work has been instrumental in fostering clinician engagement strategies to equip the U.S.

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Hospice News

JUNE 12, 2023

In New Jersey, a partnership between a health services company and a nursing home is offering a new approach to long-term illness, tailoring palliative care treatment plans to individual patients. Otherwise, nurses at Laurel Brook do an initial assessment to determine who is appropriate for the program.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 9, 2023

Many incarcerated seniors who could benefit from palliative care do not receive adequate access or referrals to these services, according to Katherine Supiano, associate professor in the College of Nursing at the University of Utah. The prison system was never designed to become a nursing home or hospice, but it has become one.

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GeriPal

APRIL 27, 2023

Furthermore, direction to external websites is not an endorsement from AAHPM or HPNA, or the Annual Assembly. Palliative Care the Next Generation: How the Service May Grow and Evolve AccentCare , a portfolio company of private equity firm Advent International, is another example. We’ve got a very large palliative care practice,” Rodgers told PCN.

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Hospice News

APRIL 11, 2025

My generation, baby boomers, were not going to a nursing home. The nonprofit provides home care, hospice, advance care and supportive and palliative care across northern Florida and southern Georgia. Were looking at assisted living, senior living, that sort of thing, Ponder Stansel told Hospice News.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 23, 2025

Finally, we discuss Michelle Oddens study, which used a target trial emulation approach to investigate the effects of deprescribing antihypertensive medications on cognitive function in nursing home residents. Michelle, you looked at this for nursing home patients deprescribing antihypertensives, is that right?

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

30% of home health patients dont get initiated into care for seven days as an industry, we have to look at those numbers and decide, as leaders, its unacceptable, Compassus CEO Mike Asselta said last month during a panel discussion at the Home Care 100 conference. clinical power means mastering timely initiation of care.

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Hospice News

MARCH 27, 2024

For hospice and palliative care providers, many were unable to reach patients in facilities and at times could not provide care in some homes, Baker Rogers indicated. Referrals to hospice were frequently delayed, and respite care was also impossible in some instances due to nursing home restrictions.

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Hospice News

JUNE 13, 2024

When people are coming on the benefit in that moment of crisis, they don’t necessarily have a plan,” Mollie Gurian, vice president of home-based and HCBS policy at LeadingAge, told Hospice News. In the current draft of the legislation, this would include dialysis, chemotherapy, radiation and blood transfusions.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

A state of stress Palliative professionals of all walks are navigating symptoms of burnout, including social workers, grief counselors, chaplains, physicians and nurses. Researchers pooled a group of nurses, home health aides, social workers and chaplains during a three-month period to examine ties between employee well-being and turnover.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Patients in nursing homes on average were in hospice for 109 days of care in 2019, compared to 95 days among those receiving services in a private residence and 161 days in assisted living. Friedman, president of the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine. “A John Barrasso (R-Wyo.).

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Hospice News

MARCH 26, 2025

He previously served as president of the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC) for 38 years prior to its affiliation with the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) in 2023 and was heavily involved in the establishment of the Medicare Hospice Benefit. This was not thrust upon the community.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

To get by, he took a job in the IT department of a nursing home, where he quickly realized that health care technology could use an upgrade. He turned his attention to health care after immigrating to the United States, where in time he matriculated at the University of Texas in Dallas. These are real issues.

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Hospice News

MARCH 29, 2024

It would also remove three nursing home items from the survey, revise the existing Hospice Team Communication and Getting Hospice Care Training measures and add a new Care Preferences measure. The RFIs contain further questions about the utilization of higher-cost palliative treatments under the Medicare Hospice Benefit.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

increase in home-based care delivery. Critics argue that PE and PTCs could prioritize short-term, above-market returns, which may lead to agencies selectively enrolling and targeting patients who require less complex care and longer hospice stays, such as those with dementia and nursing home residents.”

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Hospice News

APRIL 11, 2024

To qualify for PACE, residents must be 55 and older, in need of nursing home-level care and able to safely receive community-based services in a home-based setting. To be able to support even more people going through one of life’s most difficult times will be so meaningful for our team, and we hope, the community too.”

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Hospice News

JUNE 3, 2024

Behind the changes is a desire to increase response rates, which have been declining. Between the 2021 and 2023 reporting period, those rates reached only 29%, according to data cited in comments on the rule by the National Hospice and Palliative Care Association (NHPCO).

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Hayden Jordan, director of palliative care for senior care provider PruittHealth Home, has been named a 2022 Future Leader by Hospice News. . The program is designed to recognize up-and-coming industry members who are shaping the next decade of senior housing, skilled nursing, home health, and hospice care.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 17, 2023

Board-certified in hospice and palliative medicine, Howe has more than 20 years of experience as a physician and medical director for various health care organizations in the Denver area, including a number of rehabilitation, assisted living and skilled nursing home facilities. Shirlee Turner after 11 years of service at the company.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 6, 2024

The Florida-based organization’s business lines include hospice, home health care, primary care, palliative care, PACE, AIDS and sexual wellness care, veterans’ services and adult day programs, serving more than 23,000 individuals. The organization is the parent company of 20 affiliates and four philanthropic foundations.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 11, 2023

There’s a lot less demand for facility-based general inpatient care and more demand for continuous home hospice care. Nursing home populations are down, we’re seeing shorter lengths of stay and more acutely ill patients getting referred much later. We don’t know if that’s going to even out in this first year post-pandemic.”

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Hospice News

JANUARY 25, 2023

A lot of times you find that they don’t have an option to stay at home, because they can’t afford to bring in support systems or pay for private sitters, and they end up going to a nursing home. The nonprofit hospice provider’s subsidiary — Care Guide Partners — has applied to the U.S.

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Hospice News

JUNE 2, 2023

A lot of times you find that they don’t have an option to stay at home, because they can’t afford to bring in support systems or pay for private sitters, and they end up going to a nursing home.” The organization is a service of Baptist Health Deaconess health system. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Some hospice patients rely on these plans for other health needs, such as nursing home costs. If somebody was institutionalized in a skilled nursing facility or a nursing home for custodial, non-medical care, Medicaid will continue to pay for that particular coverage that is not covered by Medicare.”.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 5, 2022

CommCare’s purchase of Notre Dame’s home health and hospice operations marks the transaction of this divestiture Its nursing home services are next in line as part of a separate deal set to close in 2023. For us, home health is a new business that we believe has great future potential.”. currently, according to the U.S.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 11, 2024

The program will serve chronically ill seniors aged 55 and older who are certified by the state of Florida to need a nursing home level of care and are able to live safely in the home and community. “Me Empath Health Empath Health Empath LIFE cuts the ribbon on its new Tampa PACE center.

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Hospice News

MARCH 29, 2023

Researchers from the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in Ohio analyzed data for cancer patients between 2013 to 2017, finding that aggressive care in the last 30 days of life was more common among nursing home residents than community-dwelling older adults, at 64% versus 58%, respectively. That number reached 92.5

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Hospice News

APRIL 4, 2023

In addition to skilled home health, Enclara’s services include hospice, palliative and personal care, and behavioral health. Established in 1986, Assisted Daily Living provides skilled home care, personal care and private duty services in hospitals, nursing homes and assisted living facilities throughout Rhode Island.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 22, 2024

The average length of stay for a patient with a neurological condition in 2022 was 159 days, compared to 106 days for those with cardiac conditions and 52 days for those with cancer, according to the National Alliance for Care at Home.

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Hospice News

APRIL 4, 2024

Medicare has acknowledged the struggles of rural providers through the Home Health Rural Add-On, and this should be extended to hospice providers,” Hoover stated in the NHPCO letter. There is a strong financial incentive and the benefits of allowing beneficiaries to access care in their community to invest in and support rural providers.”

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 2, 2022

The example I give is, if you’ve ever walked into a nursing home, or where there’s an activity happening for a group of people with dementia, that is a little depressing to me. A lot of times family members or staff in nursing homes say that, “I’m burnt out, so I don’t have the energy.”

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