Hospice News

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Hospice operators in 2024 are navigating a rapidly transforming environment. The prior three years have laid the groundwork for change, particularly in the regulatory space as well as gradual migration towards value-based reimbursement and in tandem, the proliferation of business lines beyond hospice.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 4, 2023

VITAS is the nation’s largest provider of hospice care by market share, according to 2020 data from LexisNexis. The program included a one-time retention payment that ranged from $2,000 to $15,000 per employee for nurses, nurse managers, home health aides and social workers who completed at least 12 months of employment.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Hospice providers will be looking to Congress in 2024 to address issues related to program integrity, quality improvement and industry-wide workforce pressures. As legislative efforts develop, hospices may want to focus their attention on a few key legislators. We don’t have confidence in the algorithm that they proposed.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 24, 2022

Careful management of hospice care manager workloads correlates with longer lengths of stay. For many patients length of stay is a week or less, which is too short for them to receive the full benefit of hospice care. Among the hospices that BerryDunn surveyed, 88% of the best performers kept case managers’ workloads between 13 to 18.

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Hospice News

APRIL 22, 2022

Francis Reflections Lifestage Care recently opened a new inpatient hospice care center inside the Melbourne Regional Medical Center. A swelling demand for hospice in the community spurred the unit’s development. We are thankful the community will now have access to hospice care close to home to service the growing need.”.

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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

JANUARY 19, 2023

Hospice and behavioral health care could increasingly intersect in coming years as demand for specialized care grows. In some respects, the two sectors are already inextricably linked, given the holistic nature of hospice care, including attention to patients’ psychosocial and spiritual needs as well as bereavement support for families.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 16, 2022

A fourth year into the pandemic, its effects have hospices continuing to combat against financial and operational headwinds. One of the largest blows hospices could face may be tied to the return of some tighter telehealth regulations that strain the ability to provide care during tight staffing times. Telehealth impacts for hospice.

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Hospice News

MARCH 11, 2024

Spiritual hospice care providers are an important link to building bridges of access and trust among underserved African American populations. Faith is very important to African Americans,” Ebema told Hospice News. What I’ve noticed is that the strong faith in this community can almost view hospice as a conflict.

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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. The post Caring for the Caregivers: Keys for Helping Family Members in Palliative Care Roles appeared first on Hospice News.

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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

JANUARY 3, 2024

“There’s no preparation time for patients or families, there’s no arc of an illness or narrative for that societally,” Dr. Jeff Nelson, a board-certified palliative, hospice and family medicine physician and assistant professor at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, told Palliative Care News.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Though hospice deal volume dipped in 2022 compared to previous years, five particular transactions could paint a larger picture of where investors see value in the space. These interesting, unusual or groundbreaking deals could signal what’s to come in 2023 and help shape the hospice market’s long-term future. This was Humana Inc.’s

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 1, 2022

If enacted the bill would allocate dollars for hospice and palliative care providers, other health care organizations, grief counselors, youth-focused nonprofits, and schools to foster greater support for the bereaved. This would include social workers, grief counselors, and chaplains, among others.

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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 need to address social determinants has been cited as an impetus for the push toward value-based reimbursement.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Hospice leaders have kept their eyes on four key numbers as 2022 progressed: clinical capacity, length of stay, labor costs and utilization. A fifth, the rising number of new hospices in certain states, has emerged as a priority in recent weeks. These metrics are key to understanding what hospices experienced this year.

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Hospice News

MAY 31, 2023

Additional palliative team members included Kim Danforth, a licensed social worker, and Brooke Simmons as its new medical assistant. It also offers home care and hospice through MaineHealthCare at Home, as well as inpatient hospice care at the Sussman House. Census Bureau. and 20.6%, respectively, the agency reported.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 6, 2023

Hospice leaders can benefit and improve by staying engaged with bedside care. Fleece is the former CEO of Stratum Health, which merged with Empath in 2020. . Fleece is the former CEO of Stratum Health, which merged with Empath in 2020. . Sciullo joined Suncoast Hospice in 2013, which is now an affiliate of Empath Health.

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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. Nursing is not the same kind of work it used to be.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

The last few years in particular carried exacerbated pressures on palliative care workers, according to Beth Lown, chief medical officer at the Schwartz Center for Compassionate Healthcare based in Boston. During that time frame, workers reported low levels of well-being that indicated a higher potential risk of burnout.

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Hospice News

MAY 2, 2022

Katrina Agnew joined UnityPoint Health in December of 2021 as vice president of hospice. This drives her commitment to expand access to hospice care, particularly among underserved populations. People are often fearful of hospice, because of myths and misconceptions that surround it. They were able to get her pain under control.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Since 2020, the company has been beleaguered by the staffing shortage, reduced lengths of stay, and disruption in skilled nursing, senior housing, and to some extent acute-care referrals. The recent increase reflects investments the hospice provider has made in recruitment and retention during the past two years. from the prior year.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 19, 2024

According to a 2020 study by the Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, alarmingly high rates of stress and an extraordinarily high symptom burden among patients with cancer were identified, exceeding those previously benchmarked and on par with noncancer patients with post-traumatic stress disorder.

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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

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Also in 2020 came the launch of partnership between Livio Health and cancer care provider Minnesota Oncology. The post Palliative Care an ‘Important Piece’ of Quality in Oncology Programs appeared first on Hospice News. Minneapolis-based Livio Health was later acquired in 2022 by Lifespark, a senior health care company in the state.

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Hospice News

MAY 23, 2023

The growing range of indications that are currently being explored will hopefully benefit millions of people suffering from treatable conditions,” Filament CEO Ben Lightburn, told Hospice News. “I 2020 and is now worth an estimated $375 million. Oregon in 2020 decriminalized a number of drugs that remain illegal federally.

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Hospice News

APRIL 27, 2023

Like many providers, VITAS has traversed some rough terrain since the COVID-19 pandemic struck in 2020. The company expected the program to bring in roughly 25 new health care workers each month during 2023 at an estimated cost of $40 million, which VITAS hopes to offset with increased volume as staffing gains drive up capacity.

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NHPCO

DECEMBER 13, 2023

NHPCO Facts and Figures is the leading resource for hospice providers and others interested in understanding the work of the community. The 2023 Facts and Figures report continues to see the impact of COVID-19 on patient care and the effect of the COVID-19 waivers to the traditional delivery of hospice care. of White, 36.3%

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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, 2022

The interventions that VITAS Healthcare has implemented in response to the industry-wide labor shortage have generated some positive momentum that extends beyond the number of workers on the payroll. The post Staffing Gains Propelling VITAS Toward Pandemic Recovery appeared first on Hospice News. VITAS is a subsidiary of Chemed Corp.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

It was a grand slam if we just learn how to care differently, whether it’s supportive questions, your own vernacular …,” Ihrig told Hospice News at the ELEVATE conference in Chicago. “We million people worldwide who need palliative care actually receive these services, according to a separate 2020 WHO report. Hospice News photo.)

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Hospice News

AUGUST 22, 2023

In addition to adult and pediatric palliative care, the health system also offers hospice, among other services. We train social workers, child life and recreation therapists, chaplains, nurse practitioners and physicians. How has your program taken shape since that first discussion?

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The needs of today’s seriously ill patients necessitates the development of new, longitudinal care models that integrate the patient-centered principles of hospice and palliative care, Dr. Darren Schulte, CEO of VyncaCare, told Hospice News. My last company, Apixio, we sold in 2020.

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Freedom Home Care and Medical Staffing

DECEMBER 5, 2023

November is National Home Care and Hospice Month, a time to honor the millions of home care professionals who provide essential health care services to patients and families in their homes. Home care and hospice care are vital for many people who face chronic illnesses, disabilities, or terminal conditions. According to the U.S.

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Pallimed

MARCH 22, 2021

by Vickie Leff ( @VickieLeff ) Another year, another study proving the value of the palliative care social worker. It surprises me that despite much research and team role development, palliative care team members may not be aware of the importance of the palliative care social worker. I was not the only one. Rosa et.al.,

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Freedom Home Care and Medical Staffing

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

November is National Home Care and Hospice Month, a time to honor the millions of home care professionals who provide essential health care services to patients and families in their homes. Home care and hospice care are vital for many people who face chronic illnesses, disabilities, or terminal conditions. According to the U.S.

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Freedom Home Care and Medical Staffing

NOVEMBER 25, 2023

November is National Home Care and Hospice Month, a time to honor the millions of home care professionals who provide essential health care services to patients and families in their homes. Home care and hospice care are vital for many people who face chronic illnesses, disabilities, or terminal conditions. According to the U.S.

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