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. This includes the revamping of the hospice survey process and the establishment of a Special Focus Program slated to begin in 2024, to name a few.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Gentiva Health Services has committed to expanding its recently established Advanced Illness Management (AIM) palliative care model in 2024, including its unique approach to reimbursement. Patients enrolled in the program also receive services from nurses, case managers and social workers. NYSE:) acquired the company in 2021.

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Hospice News

APRIL 23, 2024

Thus far in 2024, 625 patients have been active in the program; 1,000 were enrolled in 2023. For individuals who take part in the program, they are required to be visited by a nurse and a social worker once per month. He returned to hospice care part time from 2010 to 2014 from his home base in Napa County.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 31, 2024

Palliative care, pediatric end-of-life care and end-of-life doula (EOLD) services are top of mind for hospices that are diversifying their services in 2024. About 3% of respondents indicated plans to start offering PACE programs, while 1% are stepping into home-based pediatric hospice services in 2024.

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AAHPM (American Academy of Hospice and Palliative)

MAY 6, 2024

Rabia Atayee, PharmD BCPS FAAHPM University of California San Diego AAHPM reached out to the 2024 Visionaries to gain insight into what motivated them to pursue leadership positions and what they find more fulfilling in their experiences. Who has most influenced your work and how have they shaped your contributions?

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Hospice News

APRIL 25, 2024

The company is gearing up for increased acquisition activity as the year unfolds, Westfall indicated in today’s Q1 2024 earnings call. “We We] feel very encouraged about the outlook for those markets and the acquisition of being immediately accretive, and what it will mean for the remainder of 2024 and into 2025 and beyond. “I

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Hospice News

MAY 14, 2024

Roughly 6% of hospice providers cited plans to diversify their services to include end-of-life doulas this year, according to the Hospice News 2024 Outlook Survey. Curd is also a licensed clinical social worker, and serves as a therapist at Red Wheelbarrow Counseling LLC and BetterHelp.

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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. We can co-invest in resources, whether they’re nurses, care managers, social workers.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

David Bekelman conducted a RCT of a nurse and social worker telephone intervention (ADAPT intervention) for people with heart failure and lung disease (COPD or ILD). ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. The article we discuss today, also published in JAMA , addresses these two gaps.

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AAHPM (American Academy of Hospice and Palliative)

MAY 13, 2024

Kara Bischoff, MD Dana-Farber Cancer Institute AAHPM reached out to the 2024 Emerging Leaders to gain insight into what motivated them to pursue leadership positions and what they find more fulfilling in their experiences. Who has most influenced your work and how have they shaped your contributions?

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Hospice News

MARCH 14, 2024

The number of registered nurse and social worker visits during a patient’s final week is one of the seven quality measures that CMS uses to evaluate providers. Social worker visits in the last days of life also rose to 9% in 2021, up from 7% in 2020. In 2019, for example, the percentage was 66%.

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Hospice News

MARCH 18, 2024

The discussion took place on February 29, 2024 during PCN Conference in Tampa. It doesn’t just focus on the physical, it also focuses on the emotional and the spiritual with the use of social workers and spiritual counselors. This article is sponsored by KanTime. The article below has been edited for length and clarity.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. Summary Transcript Summary In our podcast with palliative care pioneer Susan Block , she identified the psychological/psychiatric aspects of palliative care as the biggest are of need for improvement. All hands go up. All hands go down.

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Hospice News

JUNE 26, 2023

What’s happening in these states has caused mounting concern around access to quality hospice care for LGBTQ+ individuals, according to Kimberly Acquaviva, social worker and professor at the University of Virginia’s School of Nursing. Out of these states, 10 have already enacted such laws.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

A bonus program implemented last year has accelerated hiring, which in turn has relieved some of the capacity constraints that have been a stumbling block for several quarters running.The initiative included a one-time retention payment that ranges from $2,000 to $15,000 per employee for nurses, nurse managers, home health aides and social workers.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 17, 2024

Things that are unique for rural and frontier providers are trying to find qualified staff, registered nurses, physicians, social workers or spiritual care providers,” Wood said. Some telehealth flexibilities that were temporarily implemented during the PHE) are scheduled to sunset at the end of 2024.

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Hospice News

APRIL 4, 2024

The letter included a push to pass the Palliative Care and Hospice Education and Training Act (PCHETA), which if passed would provide incentives to expand training programs for physicians, nurses, pharmacists, social workers and chaplains.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

To break down those walls, social workers at Pallitus have focused on assisting patients and their families before they even make it into the building. Pallitus Health Partners is forging its own identity apart from its parent organization, Hosparus Health. “We do that through expert symptom management,” Dillon said.We

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Hospice News

APRIL 3, 2024

I look forward to working with Jeff and the entire leadership team at Aveanna in executing our 2024 strategic plans and positioning Aveanna as a leader in value-based care in the home.” VNAHSR employs more than 250 certified home health aides, rehabilitation therapists, social workers and visiting nurses.

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AAHPM (American Academy of Hospice and Palliative)

APRIL 29, 2024

On April 17, 2024, AAHPM, in partnership with Patient Quality of Life Coalition (PQLC) participated in a Lobby Day in support of the Palliative Care and Hospice and Training Act (PCHETA).

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 12, 2023

We can make money with palliative care, and so we hope to achieve that by the beginning of the first half of 2024. What would you say are the biggest opportunities that you see for 2024? In 2022, the company rebranded as VyncaCare to reflect its broadened scope of clinical services. The company has raised at least $40.3

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

The proposed legislation in California ibrings attention to the value of health care workers and the need to attract more professionals to the field amid rising demand – especially nurses in senior services, according to Craig Dresang, CEO of California-based YoloCares. After that, the minimum wage would be indexed around inflation or 3.5%.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Chippewa County Health Department to Shutter Hospice Services Michigan-based Chippewa County Health Department recently announced that it will be sunsetting its home health and hospice services at the end of 2024. The health system operates two hospitals, five ambulatory outpatient centers and dozens of medical offices.

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Hospice News

JULY 27, 2023

In addition to nurses, the retention program also aimed to recruit admission nurses, nurse managers, home health aides and social workers. rate increase for 2024 “significantly lags [the] reality” of rising care delivery costs, according to Westfall. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) proposed 2.8%

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Hospice News

AUGUST 5, 2022

The company expects to begin operating in Las Vegas, Nevada and Arizona next year and in Wisconsin in 2024. The company also employs social workers to assist patients with psychosocial needs and offers services to address social determinants of health.

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NHPCO

JUNE 16, 2023

These congressional advocacy actions came a week after NHPCO filed detailed comments on the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ (CMS) Fiscal Year (FY) 2024 Hospice Wage Index and Quality Reporting Proposed Rule, demonstrating the importance of both legislative and regulatory advocacy for protecting and improving hospice and palliative care.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 24, 2023

The new inpatient facility is set to open in spring 2024, and will feature 18 private patient rooms and a family gathering area. Patients at the center receive 24/7 hospice care from an interdisciplinary team of skilled nurses, social workers and spiritual counselors, and families are offered bereavement support services.

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GeriPal

MAY 9, 2024

Summary Transcript Summary On today’s podcast, we’ve invited four hospice and palliative care social media influencers (yes, that’s a thing!), ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. And his major social media endeavor is titled How to Train Your Doctor. Hsien, welcome to the GeriPal podcast.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Summary Transcript Summary Last week we talked about a trial of a nurse and social worker outpatient palliative care intervention published in JAMA. ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. Three things I love about this podcast, and why you should listen. Alex, who are our guests today?

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

And these care navigator, they can be community health worker with just 12 years of education. They can be a- Diane: Social worker. Malaz: Social worker, anybody. So if you can share this early, January 30th, 2024, you can apply as two things, as an established program like us, UCLA, UCSF, or a new program.

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GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

To provide context, we are joined by Karen Steinhauser, a social scientist at Duke who has been studying spirituality for years (and published one of the most cited papers in palliative care on factors considered important at the end of life , as well as one of my favorite qualitative papers to give to research trainees ).

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GeriPal

APRIL 4, 2024

Bernie Lo discloses being an Honorarium Recipient and consultant for Takeda starting on 01/23/2024. ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guest Laurie Dornbrand has no relationships to disclose. For any MOC questions, please email moc@ucsf.edu.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Walk us through why the Renewed Focus of Quality in 2024 is a focus and maybe how that ties into what you were saying, the clinical documentation, what does that mean as far as that goes? We’re getting comments from nurses, some social workers, from chaplains saying, “I get comments back from the family saying, thank you.

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