Hospice News

JUNE 26, 2023

Palliative care patients who receive psychological, emotional and spiritual support are more likely to elect hospice when they become eligible. Researchers in Israel studied 180 hospitalized cancer patients between November 2018 and March 2020. These outcomes directly bear on improved quality of life and reduced costs.”

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MARCH 25, 2024

Arizona-based Stoneridge Hospice launched services in 2020 with an aim to address a swelling aging population’s growing need for end-of-life care. Stoneridge Hospice provides home-based hospice and also contracts with other providers to offer facility-based services. Stoneridge Hospice launched in 2020.

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Hospice News

MARCH 29, 2024

They’re vulnerable patients that might not have a lot of social support for a home hospice situation. They’re vulnerable patients that might not have a lot of social support for a home hospice situation. New York City-based NYC Health + Hospitals/Bellevue recently launched a new palliative care unit. million patients.

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Hospice News

MAY 28, 2024

Honing clinical scheduling and onboarding models is key to sustaining the hospice nurse workforce as demand for these clinicians rises and wages lag compared to those in other settings. Building sustainable models Effective and empathetic communication is among the key skills for hospice nurses to possess, White indicated.

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APRIL 10, 2024

A 2020 meta-analysis of 15 studies on burnout among palliative care nurses found a 24% prevalence for emotional exhaustion, 30% for depersonalization and 28% for feelings of low personal accomplishment. The post The Emergence of Contemplative Medicine in Palliative Care appeared first on Hospice News.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 25, 2024

National hospice utilization rates have fallen since 2020, though the total number of patients served remains consistent. This utilization rate is similar to what was seen in calendar year 2020. million Medicare beneficiaries were enrolled in hospice care for one day or more, compared to 1.72 About 47.3% About 47.3%

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

A systematic overhaul of the nation’s health care education programs is needed to ensure that future clinicians are prepared to provide palliative and hospice care amid rising demand, according to Dr. Leah McDonald of HopeHealth. McDonald is a hospice and palliative care physician at HopeHealth. Photo courtesy of HopeHealth.

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Hospice News

JULY 14, 2022

Margin pressures from the proposed cuts to Medicare home health rates could impact palliative care and hospice. The agency cited budget neutrality requirements to explain the cuts, as well as adjustments related to the Patient-Driven Groupings Model (PDGM), a new payment system introduced in 2020. pay hike for hospice care in 2023.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 1, 2023

A main barrier to palliative care growth in the Medicare Advantage hospice carve-in is a lack of understanding of these services among beneficiaries, as well as inconsistent service delivery. can define it, according to a 2020 study from the Journal of General Internal Medicine.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 30, 2023

A rising number of hospices have undergone name changes in recent years, prompting many to consider the elements of an effective rebranding strategy. Hospices should avoid brand names that are too generic or that focus on one particular service line or portion of their geographic footprint.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 20, 2023

VITAS is among the hospice and palliative providers that have integrated VR into care delivery. VR and AR has the potential to be a new alternative therapy that will hopefully benefit patients by decreasing symptom burden while increasing quality of life,” Shega previously told Hospice News. Around 17.5% About 82.5%

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Hospice News

JULY 26, 2022

Kathy Hochul has signed a bill designed to expand awareness of advance care planning, hospice, and palliative care. The campaign must include education about hospice and palliative care, according to the newly approved legislation. Historically, hospice utilization has been low in New York relative to other states. About 17.4%

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Hospice News

JUNE 27, 2022

The interdisciplinary nature of palliative care, especially the inclusion of social workers, positions palliative care nicely to help to address the myriad needs that people have,” Maxwell told Hospice News. “The Programs to address social determinants have likewise been found to reduce health care expenditures. Case in point, the U.S.

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Hospice News

MAY 8, 2024

This lack of recognition has led to a lack of support,” Steven Lee, co-founder and CEO of ianacare, told Hospice News. Often people hear ‘palliative care’ and assume it is the same thing as hospice, and therefore are reluctant to engage with [it] because they feel ‘my loved one is not dying,’” Schaefer told Palliative Care News.

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Hospice News

MAY 16, 2022

To successfully negotiate value-based contracts, hospices will need to educate payers about the value of palliative care, according to J. chief innovation officer of the National Partnership for Healthcare and Hospice Innovation (NPHI). Palliative care made its first strides into the value-based care arena in 2020 when the U.S.

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Hospice News

MARCH 8, 2024

Variations in hospice certificate of need (CON) state laws are raising program integrity concerns. What ends up happening in states without CON is actually lower hospice utilization with way too many hospices in one service area, and often fragmented care without all four levels of hospice offered,” Ponder-Stansel told Hospice News.

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Hospice News

JUNE 28, 2023

This could include demos that fuse palliative care into Accountable Care Organization (ACO) or primary care programs, among others, Ellen Lukens, deputy director of CMMI said at the Hospice News Palliative Care Conference in Washington D.C. “In Initially slated to complete in 2020, CMS later extended the program until December 2021.

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Hospice News

MAY 9, 2024

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) on continuing evidence of hospice fraud and quality issues. We must urgently address the bad actors who are abusing the hospice benefit and harming patients and families,” the legislators wrote in the letter. “We Beth Van Duyne (R-Texas) and Earl Blumenaur (D-Ore.) Yesterday, the U.S.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Clinicians face relatively high rates of burnout “due to the secondary trauma and emotional exhaustion that develops from working with death and dying daily,” Aprille Waldrop, social services manager for Florida-based Hospice of Health First told Palliative Care News. Burnout is a state of complete mental, physical and emotional exhaustion.

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Hospice News

JUNE 7, 2023

of roughly 100 heart failure patients admitted to the West Haven, Connecticut-based VA hospital between October 2019 and September 2020, according to the study’s findings , recently published in the BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care journal. Palliative care was utilized by 6.5% Palliative care was utilized by 6.5%

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

The clinical trial studied the impacts of a program developed by a team of researchers in 2020 dubbed the Flourishing-Life-of-Wish Virtual Reality Relaxation Therapy (FLOW-VRT-Relaxation). The VR study’s results were recently unveiled in the Frontiers Medical Technology journal. Woo was among the researchers who developed the VR therapy. “We

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Hospice News

JUNE 23, 2023

The creation and subsequent partnership with Radiant Alliance will bring a hospice and palliative care company and senior living operator under the auspices of a payer. Metta Healthcare is the parent company of Ohio’s Hospice and the palliative care provider Pure Healthcare. We are the first to actually do it.”

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 24, 2023

For a 12-month period starting August 2020, researchers set up an embedded palliative care consultation service in a 350-bed urban community hospital that saw around 45,000 ED visits annually. In addition, 17% received hospice referrals, and 21% were referred to a palliative care outpatient clinic. ROI,” the authors found.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Non-Hispanic Black, Latino, American Indian and Asian or Pacific Islander patients with metastatic breast cancer were less likely to receive this care than white patients from 2004 to 2020, the study found. The Scientific Reports study examined patient data in the U.S. the researchers indicated.

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Hospice News

MAY 6, 2024

Hospices may be under-prepared to navigate the complexities in end-of-life decisions among terminally ill children, as the ethical and moral considerations related to patient autonomy are vastly different for pediatric populations compared to adults.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 15, 2022

The unique needs of families and children facing life-limiting can wear pediatric palliative and hospice care clinicians especially thin, and the potential for burnout can leave providers even more short-staffed than many already are. Even outside of hospice, caring for seriously ill children can take a mental and emotional toll.

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Hospice News

APRIL 29, 2022

The Medicare Advantage hospice carve-in has been the focus of much attention among providers, and many are watching closely for the demonstration’s outcomes. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) launched the MCCM in 2016 to explore the idea of allowing hospice patients to receive concurrent curative care.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 2, 2023

California-based Kaiser Permanente, one of the nation’s largest integrated health systems, has opened a hospice de novo on the island of Oahu in Hawaii. The new location is the most recent of a series of investments that Kaiser has made in the home setting, including hospice and palliative care. Based on 2020 U.S.

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Hospice News

MARCH 8, 2024

Arizona-based Phoenix Children’s Hospital has developed a pediatric hospice and palliative care fellowship program that is positively impacting access to these services. Phoenix Children’s offers primary, palliative and hospice pediatric care. it’s not always something taught in medical school.”

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 13, 2023

There are so many things that need to be addressed to improve quality and access to pediatric palliative and hospice care,” Leonard told Palliative Care News in an email. There are so many things that need to be addressed to improve quality and access to pediatric palliative and hospice care. Each year an estimated 2.5

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Texas-based Choice Health at Home LLC has inked a deal to acquire Lumicare Hospice, growing its presence in two current markets while establishing services in a new state. Lumicare Hospice has locations in Texas and Arizona, two states in Choice’s existing service region. Hospice utilization in the state reached 50.4%

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Calls have grown louder for an overhauled design of the Medicare Hospice Benefit, but the path towards change is riddled with contrasting views over regulation, policy and payment structures. One part of the issue is that hospice reimbursement has not kept pace with evolving patient needs, Grant said.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 26, 2024

The study points to the ongoing challenge of limited access to palliative and hospice care as demand rises among swelling aging populations. Hospice significantly reduced end-of-life HU. The median time from a palliative consultation to hospice initiation was 12.5 were referred afterward, the study found.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Hospice News spoke with Dr. Benjamin Kornitzer, agilon’s chief medical officer and a co-author of the study about the workings of their palliative care model, the results it achieved and the company’s plans to grow the program in 2024. agilon health CMO Dr. We can bring powerful data and care pathways. We do it through our partners.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 4, 2022

MCCM was designed to test the impact of concurrent hospice and curative care. They also had lower average Medicare expenditures and acute care service use than beneficiaries in the comparison group, due in large part to increases in hospice use among model enrollees. 31, 2021, according to a new CMMI white paper. To date, the U.S.

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Hospice News

MAY 15, 2024

Hospices need a greater understanding of both the depth of these patients’ suffering and the scope of their unique needs to improve trauma-informed care delivery, Kotwal said at the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (AAHPM) and the Hospice & Palliative Nurses Association (HPNA) Annual Assembly.

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MARCH 14, 2024

Hospices, in aggregate, are showing improvement on the quality measure for visits in the last days of life. In Calendar Year 2021, the share of hospice care days with nurse visits in the last seven days of life rose to 63%, up from 62% year over year, according to the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO).

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