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Hospices Facilities Launch, Renovate With Growth in Mind

Hospice News

Julia Hospice & Palliative Refuels De Novo Plans Pennsylvania-based Julia Hospice & Palliative (JHPC) has reignited plans to launch a de novo after experiencing pandemic-related setbacks. Dubbed Julia House, the facility will provide inpatient hospice and serve as an outpatient palliative care clinic.

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New Executives Tapped At Hospice Organizations Across Country

Hospice News

NPHI is a national advocacy organization with more than 100 nonprofit advanced illness care providers, including those offering hospice and palliative care services. Cameron’s leadership has already left an enormous mark on NPHI and the end-of-life care community,” NPHI President Carole Fisher said in the statement.

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Dementia Patients Less Likely Than Others to Receive Hospice Care

Hospice News

of hospice enrollees in 2019, up from 9% in 2002, according to the National Hospice & Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO). “Our study shows that current health care models for the disease are not always equipped for the sustained burdens of dementia, resulting in inadequate end-of-life care, or even none at all.”

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MedPAC to Congress: Freeze Hospice Rates in 2025

Hospice News

Close to 5,900 hospices operated in the United States during 2002. More than 49% of Medicare decedents enrolled in hospice care during 2022, up from 47.3% In comments on the proposed 2024 hospice payment rule, the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) estimated that operators would need a 6.5%

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Trinity Health at Home Acquires Above & Beyond Home Health Care and Hospice

Hospice News

Iowa in 2018 ranked seventh for hospice utilization among Medicare decedents at 56.2%, according to the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization. Like in much of the country, aging demographics are driving up demand for end-of-life care in the Hawkeye State. Utah held the highest rate that year at 60.5%.

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Developing DIGNISPACE – a dignity therapy-based app protype for young people with life-limiting conditions

Evidence-Based Nursing - BMJ blogs

Dignity Therapy (DT) is a brief psycho-therapeutic intervention that assists individuals with shortened life expectancies to have meaning and purpose (Chochinov, 2012). DT was developed following the construction of the Dignity Conserving Model of Care (Chochinov, 2002). Oxford: Oxford University Press. Chochinov, H. Rodriguez.

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NHPCO Annual Leadership Conference Celebrates Volunteers and Awards Honorees

NHPCO

For Immediate Release October 5, 2023 Photo Link (Alexandria, Va) – This week the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) honored standout members of the hospice and palliative care community during the 2023 NHPCO Annual Leadership Conference in Little Rock, Arkansas.

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