Hospice News

JUNE 13, 2023

Department of Justice (DOJ) is prioritizing hospice as the agency cracks down on health care fraud. DOJ counts hospice claims among the root causes of rising Medicare costs in recent years, according to Lisa Miller, deputy assistant attorney general overseeing the department’s Crime Fraud Section.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 27, 2023

Egging will oversee operations of the hospice, home health and palliative care organization. She served as director of compliance for Sangre de Cristo Hospice & Palliative Care from 2001 to 2009. YoloCares is among the nonprofit hospices that make up the California Hospice Network, joining the coalition last year.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

A recent court decision in a False Claims Act (FCA) case involving hospice provider Care Alternatives may set a precedent that could influence similar cases. Additional allegations of hospice fraud came the following year in November 2009, when the U.S.

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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

JULY 22, 2022

They facilitate conversations regarding the dying process, discuss advance care planning, hospice election and advocate the patient’s wishes around ceremony, memorialization and disposition. What areas can death doulas offer hospices the most support? Merelli: I got into doulaship as a birth doula in 2009.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 6, 2022

The hospice, palliative care, and home health network Care Synergy has become the national center for the Community Aging in Place, Advancing Better Living for Elders (CAPABLE) program, developed by Johns Hopkins University. The Johns Hopkins School of Nursing launched CAPABLE in 2009 and since then has overseen the program nationally.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Four former employees of Care Alternatives have alleged that the New Jersey-based company billed Medicare for hospice services when patients were not eligible to receive them. Additional allegations of hospice fraud came the following year in November 2009, when the U.S. The lawsuit was filed in the third circuit U.S.

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Hospice News

JULY 6, 2022

Ohio-headquartered CommuniCare Health Services recently acquired hospice and home health provider Stonerise, expanding the company’s reach in its home state as well as West Virginia. The company was established in 2009. Hospice utilization among Medicare decedents in West Virginia reached 43.6%

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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. There is tremendous opportunity in the hospice and palliative care landscape to add great organizations to the Agape Care portfolio, merging resources to enhance providers and reach more patients.”.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Home Health of the Ozarks and Hospice of Care Names New Director Missouri-based Texas County Memorial Hospital (TCMH) has appointed Cheryl Maley, registered nurse, as new director of Home Health of the Ozarks and Hospice of Care. The nonprofit hospice is supported by TCMH Healthcare Foundation’s Hospice Memorial Fund.

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Hospice News

MAY 4, 2022

The Southern District Court of Mississippi granted hospice provider SouthernCare Inc.’s Former SouthernCare nurse Rhonda McClinton filed a qui tam complaint against the organization in 2016, alleging that the hospice provider submitted hospice claims to Medicare for patients who were not eligible and billed for services it did not provide.

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HPNA podcast

JANUARY 15, 2024

About Amisha: Amisha Parekh de Campos, PhD, MPH, RN, CHPN has a joint appointment as an Assistant Clinical Professor, University of Connecticut School of Nursing, and Quality and Education Coordinator of the Middlesex Health Hospice Program, Middletown, CT. Joseph in 2009; additional certifications include hospice and palliative care (CHPN).

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Together for Short Lives

JULY 3, 2023

On Tuesday 20 June we published a ground-breaking report entitled “The Children in Wales Requiring Palliative Care: Trends in Prevalence and Complexity 2009 – 2019”.

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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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GeriPal

MARCH 7, 2024

We also invited Beth Klint to speak about the doula’s role within a traditional hospice organization. Alex: We’re delighted to welcome Beth Klint who is executive director of Goodwin Hospice and is joining us from the DC, Northern Virginia area along with Jane. Hospice volunteers do lots of things. Why Beth?

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1-800-HOSPICE

MARCH 28, 2023

The Optimism of Hospice Care Hospice care can give patients hope. 2009; 3 (6): 597-605. The post The Ask-Tell-Ask Approach in Four Steps appeared first on 1-800-HOSPICE™. Conservations can help patients and families to hope for the best but be prepared for the worst. References: Isaac M, Curtis J. Soc Sci Med.

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Home Care Pulse

APRIL 19, 2023

The fungus was fully identified and described in detail in a report by scientists in Japan in 2009, with U.S. Candida auris is a fungus, a type of yeast that causes severe illness in most patients diagnosed with the infection. cases first surfacing in 2016 in the United States in Illinois and New York.

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Pallimed

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Competing Interests : Dr. Kollas recently served as Secretary on the Board of Directors of the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (AAHPM). Dr. Kollas has served as a medical expert witness in cases involving opinions regarding the standard of care in internal medicine and hospice and palliative medicine. Twillman B.

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Hospice News

MAY 12, 2023

The hospice space — and the health care system at large — is in a state of flux, driven by value-based reimbursement models, an expanding home-based care continuum and industry-changing transactions. All of these factors herald big changes for Amedisys and the hospice community at large.

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Hospice News

APRIL 19, 2023

De novos have propelled recent growth among some hospice providers. Hospice of the Midwest expands with de novo Hospice of the Midwest recently opened a de novo in Marshalltown, Iowa, adding a fifth location to its footprint in the state. The hospice provider also has two locations in Minnesota and one in Nebraska.

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary In November of 2022, Ava Kofman published a piece in the New Yorker titled “How Hospice Became a For-Profit Hustle.” Some viewed this piece as an affront to the amazing work hospice does for those approaching the end of their lives by cherry picking stories of a few bad actors to paint hospice is a bad light.

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GeriPal

MARCH 10, 2022

Many years ago for the first study; I believe it was in 2009, 2010; I met with Susan Mitchell at the Institute for Aging Research, and told her that I wanted to study the use of feeding tubes for people with advanced dementia. And this person did die; he declined and was transferred to an inpatient hospice unit, and died the same day.

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Nurse.com

MAY 23, 2022

Created in 2009, the IHCNO aims to support the nurses who provide care to patients who remain in their homes. Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association (HPNA). NNU was founded in 2009 unifying three of the most active, progressive organizations in the U.S.—and International Home Care Nurses Organization (IHCNO). Palliative Care.

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Pallimed

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Harms from the Workmen’s Compensation Program and AMDG Pain Guidelines The harms from the AMDG Pain Guidelines as applied to Washington’s Workers’ Compensation and Medicaid programs had become evident by 2009. 2009 Mar;10(2):285-6. Epub 2009 Jan 16. 2009 Sep-Oct;12(5):819-50. 2009 Jul-Aug;12(4):E1-33.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 17, 2022

Stretching back more than a decade, a rising number of states have passed laws designed to raise awareness of hospice and palliative care, but to date, few if any have achieved measurable results. Some states offer hospice- and palliative care-themed license plates or designate an official Hospice and Palliative Care Awareness Month.

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Hope Hospice

JANUARY 30, 2020

At Hope Hospice, spiritual care is among the services we provide to patients, upon request. We asked one of our Spiritual Care Counselors, Reverend Melissa Tumaneng, to discuss some differences between the terms religion and spirituality, and to explain the role of spiritual care in hospice. WHAT IS HOSPICE. About the Author.

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Home Care Pulse

AUGUST 31, 2022

Business owners in home health, hospice, home care, and primary at-home care could all be under threat. . Let’s go back to 2009 and look at Quidsi, an online diaper company, and Amazon. In 2009, Quidsi was disrupting the baby supplies market by selling diapers online with overnight delivery.

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