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Hospices Call on Congress to Support Rural Hospices, Patients

Hospice News

Hospice providers, industry groups and other stakeholders recently penned a letter urging Congress to improve payment infrastructures that would increase access to end-of-life care among rural populations.

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CommCare Expands with Notre Dame Hospice, Home Health Acquisitions

Hospice News

The home health and hospice acquisition extends CommCare’s reach across Louisiana and in parts of Mississippi where Notre Dame provides services. The Notre Dame Health System launched services in 1977, and in the past two years provided roughly 131,000 days of hospice care to more than 1,800 patients. Census Bureau.

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Why Choose Traditions Health?

Traditions Health

When the time comes to make profound decisions about end-of-life care for a loved one, every question becomes a quest for the exceptional. Navigating injury or illness can be frightening, but our team meets you where you are with the specialized care you need in the place where you’re most comfortable—at home.

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Global Partners in Care Program Fosters International Collaboration on Palliative Care

Hospice News

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. Historic run Getting the Global Partners in Care program to this level has been quite the journey for CHC.

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Enhabit Appoints General Counsel; The Denver Hospice Gets New Medical Director

Hospice News

Wisconsin-based Agrace Hospice & Supportive Care has hired a new hospice and palliative care physician, Dr. Raj Hiranandani, expanding its medical services team amid growth. Prior to joining Agrace, he was an internal medicine physician and hospice medical director at the Marshfield Clinic Health System. “We

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10 Hospice News ‘Hidden Gem’ Stories from 2022

Hospice News

Different health systems often fail to serve these families because they don’t have the right resources or because it’s very difficult to manage care.”. To Accelerate Hospice Growth, It’s Time to Embrace ‘The Social Determinants of Death’. How the United States Will Revamp Family Caregiver Support.

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Agape Care’s New M&A VP, New CEO Takes Helm at Community Hospice

Hospice News

Katherine Brazzale as its new chief medical officer of hospice services. Brazzale was the first physician to be selected for Trustbridge’s fellowship program when it launched in 2008 and has stuck with the nonprofit hospice provider ever since.

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