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Addus Bolstering Workforce, Building Density for Hospice, Home Health, Personal Care

Hospice News

Providers have also had to compete for new hires with travel nurse companies. Generally speaking, these have been able to offer nurses higher wages and more flexible scheduling as demand for their services increased during COVID. Competition with travel nursing firms has been among the drivers of wage increases for hospice companies.

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Addus Sees Hospice Improvements, Plans to Rebalance Home Health-Personal Care M&A Activity

Hospice News

Meanwhile, the company’s near-term acquisition sights are set more on home health than in personal care amid potential payment shifts. Pandemic forces winding down in hospice Addus provides home health, personal care and hospice to about 47,500 patients across roughly 203 locations in 22 states. of the company’s $251.6

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Blue Ridge Hospice Brings Services Under New Unified Brand

Hospice News

Participants in the program receive preventative, primary, acute and long-term health and personal care services, including social activities. They have access to an interdisciplinary team including physicians, nurse practitioners, social workers, therapists, dieticians, transportation drivers and personal care aides.

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Early Telepalliative Care Can Reduce Caregiver Burden, Improve Quality

Hospice News

Researchers have increasingly dug into the quality impacts of virtual palliative care delivery and how telehealth outcomes compare to in-person care. Rinaldi is also co-director of Mass Generals palliative care clinic.

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7 ‘Hidden Gem’ Hospice News Stories in 2024

Hospice News

Addus earlier this month closed a $350 million acquisition of Gentivas personal care business. Though Addus has focused on growing its personal care and home health services, hospice remains a pillar of its strategy. The company seeks to co-locate its three services in the markets it serves.

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The Senior Living Opportunity for Hospices

Hospice News

Many seniors are looking to assisted or senior living facilities as they age, Susan Ponder Stansel, CEO of Florida-based Alivia Care, said at the Hospice News ELEVATE conference in Orlando, Florida. My generation, baby boomers, were not going to a nursing home.

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When Nurses Are Caught Between Hospital Policy and Frustrated Family Members

AJN Off the Charts

I was a little anxious because I had already heard that this had been an issue overnight and that the parents had pushed back on efforts by another nurse to hold them to the policy. The leash for stressed and grieving family members is inevitably longer than the leash for stressed nurses, a reality that is both understandable and complicated.