Hospice News

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Founded in 2013, the hospice and palliative care provider also offers bereavement services and veteran programs. (NASDAQ: PNTG) has inked a deal to acquire Arizona-based Southwestern Palliative Care & Hospice for an undisclosed amount, adding to its existing presence in the state.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Researchers analyzed data on hospice acquisitions between 2013 and 2020 to compare changes in sites of care or patient population compared to other for-profits that did not undergo a transaction. Patients with lower HCC scores often need hospice care for longer periods of time, though their care needs may be less intensive or complex.

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Hospice News

MARCH 30, 2023

Ohio’s Hospice is a statewide alliance of nonprofit providers established in 2013. “We expect this strategic alliance’s impact will transform health care and provide value and improve the quality of many lives in which we are privileged to serve.”

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

million patients who elected hospice in the last 90 days of life during the years 2011, 2013, 2016 and 2018. .” For this study, researchers examined medical records for a cohort of nearly 3.2 Years prior to 2018 showed similar patterns.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 11, 2023

He joined the company in 2011 and became CEO in 2013. More than 30 million seniors are now enrolled in Medicare Advantage, nearly half of the total Medicare population, Kaiser reported. Broussard’s departure was “long planned,” according to a Humana press release.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 4, 2022

million by 2040, up from 721,166 in 2013, according to data from the University of Alabama. Currently, seniors represent 17.3% of Alabama’s overall population, the U.S. Census Bureau reported. Statewide, this age group is expected to reach 1.2 Hospice utilization among Medicare decedents in Alabama reached 47.4%

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

According to statistics cited in the study, 23% of hospitalized Medicare beneficiaries were discharged to a post-acute care facility in 2013. Additionally, among beneficiaries who died between 2006 and 2011, one in eight toggled between a hospital and an SNF during their final year of life, the study found.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

times higher among 1,822 patients without cancer who received palliative care services at an academic tertiary hospital in Toronto, Canada, from 2013 to 2019, according to a study published in Palliative Medicine. The odds of dying in a hospital were 1.24

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Hospice News

AUGUST 16, 2022

The company received its Medicare certification in 2013. “We Ardent, which also offers home health care, serves between 20 and 50 hospice patients per day, according to National Hospice Locator. We are very excited to expand the reach of our hospice operations in California,” said Pennant CEO Brent Guerisoli in a statement.

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Hospice News

JULY 5, 2022

For the Health Affairs study, researchers examined 30-day readmission rates for Medicare patients who had been hospitalized between 2013 and 2019 for acute myocardial infarction, heart failure, or pneumonia.

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Daily Nurse

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

After issuing the first authoritative document to define practice guidelines specifically for the emerging telenursing practice in critical care in 2013, AACN’s update, “AACN Tele-critical Care Nursing Practice: An Expert Consensus […].

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Hospice News

MAY 16, 2022

Ohio’s Hospice is a statewide alliance of nonprofit providers established in 2013 to leverage member organization’s collective size in negotiations with vendors, payers and referral sources. They also collaborate on back-office functions and share some expenses and lT infrastructure.

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Before that, Conroy was the director of human resources at Unity College in Maine since 2013. She was also a human resources business consultant at consulting firm CLA (CliftonLarsonAllen) from 2016 to 2023.

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JUNE 30, 2023

Ohio’s Hospice is a statewide alliance of nonprofit providers established in 2013. Metta Healthcare is the parent company of Ohio’s Hospice and the palliative care provider Pure Healthcare.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

The statewide alliance formed in 2013 with three hospice members. Established in 1982, Ohio’s Hospice LifeCare is an affiliate of nonprofit providers in the Ohio’s Hospice collaborative serving 58 counties in the northeast region of the state.

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Daily Nurse

JANUARY 17, 2024

Their family’s ordeal began eleven years ago, in 2013 when their parents lost their Rosedale, New York home. All six Lawrence siblings, Alecsandria, Danielle, Dominique, Gabriella, Lauren, and Nathalia, believe that what they experienced inspired their passion for helping others.

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Hospice News

JUNE 23, 2023

Ohio’s Hospice is a statewide alliance of nonprofit providers established in 2013. Metta Healthcare is the parent company of Ohio’s Hospice and the palliative care provider Pure Healthcare.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

The bill was spurred by a 2013 recommendation from a previous government body — the Commission on Long Term Care — for Congress to convene another group to carry on its work after its term expired.

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Hospice News

JULY 6, 2022

Established in 2013, the collaborative began with three hospices and now includes 10 providers (including Ohio’s Hospice of Central Ohio) as well as joint venture partners and community organizations. Ohio’s Hospice is a statewide alliance of nonprofit providers that share best practices in operations and clinical care.

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Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

In 2013, the Center for Medicare Advocacy and Vermont Legal Aid, along with additional counsel provided by Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, settled a lawsuit with the Medicare program (the named defendant, Katherine Sebelius, was the Secretary of Health and Human Services at the time) challenging the so-called “improvement standard.”

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Evidence-Based Nursing - BMJ blogs

JULY 2, 2023

Patient reported outcome measures (PROMS), such as the EQ-5D (Janssen et al, 2013) , are one way to collect information from people themselves. The other part is about how we can capture people’s experiences in a way that we know we are ‘doing’ good person-centred care.

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Hospice News

JULY 20, 2022

Ohio’s Hospice is a statewide alliance of nonprofit providers established in 2013 that collaborate on back office functions and expenses and leverage their collective size in negotiations with vendors, payers and referral sources. The collaborative began with three hospice members and now includes 11 organizations.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Previously, he was head of growth at Mavencare, and served in sales manager and director roles at Hometeam from 2013 to 2016. Before joining Guaranteed, Malone served as vice president of sales and partnerships at mental health provider Thriveworks since 2021.

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Evidence-Based Nursing - BMJ blogs

MARCH 5, 2023

2013 ; Street et al. 2013 Dec 3;20(2):166–75. Handovers are delivered in many places such as: behind closed office doors; standing outside patient bay areas; at the patient’s bedside, and in corridors. There is tremendous amount of literature detailing the need for a universal nursing handover tool ( Bruton et al. 2016 ; Cornell et al.

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Evidence-Based Nursing - BMJ blogs

JANUARY 8, 2023

2013) Potential for using social media to communicate family health information to South Asian immigrants. 2013) A survey of South Asian attitudes to organ donation in the United Kingdom. 2018) A grassroots approach to health promotion. Nursing Standard. 33 (7), 22–25. doi:10.7748/ns.33.7.22.s12. Hussain, S. Jandu, S. &

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MARCH 12, 2023

R., & Dystonia Coalition Investigators (2013). The treatment Botulinum toxin plays a major role in addressing quality of life (Hellman and Torres-Russotto 2015). However, it only offers temporary relief and the reason for effectiveness and duration which varies is unknown (Jinnah et al., Berardelli, A., Comella, C., Defazio, G.,

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References Royal College of Nursing (2013) [link] NHSE (2023) Long Term Work Force Plan [link] Skills for Care (2013) Support for leaders and managers/ Managing people/Code of conduct [link] G. and Crawford.P 2015) A case study exploring the experience of graduate nursing students when learning in practice.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

She also served as COO of Camellia Healthcare’s hospice division before leaving the organization in 2013. Prior to that, she held president and CEO roles at California-based Community Hospice and at Hospice Austin and Central Texas Palliative Care Associates. VITAS Names New VP of Hospice Chemed Corp.

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Hospice News

JUNE 28, 2023

The Indiana-based hospice and palliative care provider has named Andrew Worswick as its new president and CEO upon the retirement of Jeff Jarecki, who founded the company and led the company since 2013. Jarecki announced his retirement last year.

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NHPCO

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in 2020) dropped to the lowest number since 2013 (47.3%). . The number of deaths grew significantly faster than hospice enrollment, in large part because of COVID-19. After several years of growth, the percentage of Medicare decedents enrolled in hospice at the time of death (47.8%

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 12, 2023

million since its formation in 2013, according to the online startup database Crunchbase. Its business model uses a mix of virtual palliative care, advance care planning, care coordination and symptom management services, among others. The company has raised at least $40.3 Most recently, it secured $30 million in growth capital in a Jan.

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Daily Nurse

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

As AACN president from 2013-2014, a one-year term, Good advocated for nurses to lead the redefinition of safe patient care and optimal outcomes. During the COVID-19 pandemic, she took on an additional role in emergency care for the health system.

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Hospice News

APRIL 7, 2023

Scrutiny of GIP utilization has been ongoing for a number of years, dating back to 2013 reports from the U.S. If you’re a hospice not providing a lot of GIP or not a lot of continuous home care, and then you start providing a lot more — you’re probably putting yourself at much higher risk for being selected for an audit.”

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Hospice News

AUGUST 31, 2022

Samaritan in 2013 launched its first hospice and palliative care fellowship program in concert with the Rowan University’s School of Osteopathic Medicine. The program was put on hold in the past few years as the organization fine-tuned its scope.

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AAHPM (American Academy of Hospice and Palliative)

JULY 18, 2023

Drugs Used for Euthanasia: A Repeated Population-Based Mortality Follow-Back Study in Flanders, Belgium, 1998-2013 Sigrid Dierickx, PhD | Joachim Cohem, PhD | Robert Vander Stichele, PhD | Luc Deliens, PhD | Kenneth Chambaere, PhD Hydromorphone Allison Murray, MD, CCFP, MPH | Neil A. Hagen, MD, FRCPC (Neurology) 6.)

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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.

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Elaine Mansfield

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

I was fit and strong until 2013 when Meniere’s knocked me to the ground. “I don’t want to face how confused and unbalanced I am by sound filtered through a hearing aid and cochlear implant in a place with awful acoustics. I don’t want to be this fragile.” Pride is silly considering I won’t see anyone I know and no one cares. Except me.

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