Hospice News

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

As of 2020, Miami-based VITAS is the nation’s largest hospice provider by market share, operating 50 locations in 14 states. Patty’s passion and commitment to our patients, their families, our employees, hospice care and VITAS are exceptional.” Chemed’s board named Williams the parent company’s vice president and CFO in March 2004.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 17, 2023

Companion Care has roughly 100 employees that provide nonmedical personal care and caregiving services to seniors and disabled individuals in their home or in facility-based settings such as assisted and retirement living communities, hospitals or rehabilitation centers, incuding hospice patients. Seniors 65 and older represent 16.8%

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

The South Carolina-based hospice and palliative care provider is a portfolio company of the private equity firm Ridgemont Equity Partners. It most recently acquired GHC Hospice in a move that expanded its reach in Georgia and South Carolina markets. New CEO Takes Helm at Community Hospice. Agape Care Group Appoints M&A VP.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Established in 2004, the nonprofit provider has since cared for more than 1,000 patients and families coping with complex and chronic medical conditions. GMCH offers hospice, palliative, perinatal, respite and bereavement care, along with art, music and various other therapies.

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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 post Breast Cancer Patients Often Lack Access to Palliative Care appeared first on Hospice News.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

The Indiana-based palliative care provider Center for Hospice Care (CHC) is looking beyond its immediate community and has developed networks that impact palliative care on a global scale. hospice leaders. hospice leaders went on this trip, saw the need and felt like more could be done to help the situation.” So, these U.S.

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NHPCO

JULY 11, 2024

Dr. Harper’s lifelong leadership had profound and lasting positives impact across social work; hospice care; and diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEIB). Her career trajectory encompassed pivotal roles at institutions like the City of Hope National Medical Center, where she honed her expertise in hospice care and social work.

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1-800-HOSPICE

JANUARY 18, 2022

Hospice Supports Families as Well as Patients. Fortunately, as America has begun going home to die with higher quality of life at ever increasing rates, the hospice industry has also grown to support that. In 1984, there were only 31 Medicare-certified home hospice agencies. Caregiver Education in Hospice.

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1-800-HOSPICE

MARCH 21, 2023

The American Society of Clinical Oncology describes hospice as an essential component of end-of-life (EOL) care. 1 As such, hospice utilization among patients with hematologic malignancies merits scrutiny as an area where hospice utilization is traditionally lower than with solid malignancies. Overall, only 41.6%

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NHPCO

MARCH 8, 2022

(Alexandria, Va) – In recognition of a lasting legacy of leadership and innovation in the field of hospice and palliative care, the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) today honors Rafael J. Sciullo is a longstanding leader in the hospice community. Sciullo with the Galen Miller Leadership Award.

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Seasons Hospice

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

In March of 2004, my wife of 27 years and 18-year-old daughter were killed in a car wreck on the Indian Nations Turnpike in Oklahoma. Facebook: Seasons Hospice Tulsa. The post What Pastors Need to Know About Grief appeared first on Seasons Hospice OK | End of Life Care | Tulsa, OK. Further resources: www.silverlining.ws.

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Pallimed

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Kollas recently served as Secretary on the Board of Directors of the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (AAHPM). Dr. Kollas provided testimony at a 2004 Congressional Hearing on OxyContin. Kollas provided testimony at a 2004 Congressional Hearing on OxyContin. February 9, 2004, Winter Park, FL.

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SAGE Palliative Medicine & Chronic Care podcast

DECEMBER 15, 2017

All deaths (2004–2014) from death registration data and predicted deaths (2015–2040) from official population forecasts in England and Wales. Age- and gender-specific proportions of deaths in hospital, care home, home, hospice and ‘other’ were applied to numbers of expected future deaths.

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Pallimed

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Kollas as the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (AAHPM) Delegate to the American Medical Association (AMA) House of Delegates, where he is the Chair of the AMA Pain and Palliative Medicine Specialty Section Council and a member of the AMA Substance Use and Pain Care Task Force. Anderson Cancer Center Orlando.

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Pallimed

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Kollas currently serves as the Secretary of the Board of Directors of the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (AAHPM). Dr. Kollas has provided testimony at a 2004 Congressional Hearing on OxyContin. Kollas has provided testimony at a 2004 Congressional Hearing on OxyContin. Anderson Cancer Center Orlando.

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