Hospice News

APRIL 21, 2022

Partners In Care and Summit Health were longtime partners in end-of-life care in the region so the formation of a formal agreement was a natural evolution in this relationship,” Hagfors told Hospice News in an email. ” Partners In Care offers palliative, home health and community- and facility-based hospice care, among other services.

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JANUARY 13, 2023

Empath provides hospice, home health care, primary care, palliative care, PACE, AIDS and sexual wellness care, and adult day services to a combined total of more than 23,000 individuals. We were a service family, and it was just a wonderful sector to be in,” Fleece told Hospice News. I wasn’t seeking hospice.”

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

hospice providers have the same problem — a workforce shortage — many seek to address it using unique solutions. Worsening workforce shortages have been keeping hospice leaders awake at night for several years running. Hospices, in turn, have taken new steps to gain or keep their staff, particularly clinicians. Though most U.S.

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Hospice News

MARCH 23, 2023

Across 150 different studies, white adults represented nearly two-thirds (65.1%) of roughly 800,000 individuals who had completed advance directives between 2011 and 2016. The post Advance Care Planning Billing Rules Impede Equitable Access appeared first on Hospice News. The expense can range from $10 to $50 per patient, she added.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 30, 2023

Many hospice providers rely on Medicare Advantage (MA) reimbursement to support palliative care, PACE and social determinants programs, among others. The agency will continue to collect only non-extrapolated overpayments for 2011 through 2017. CMS is currently testing coverage of hospice through Medicare Advantage.

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Hospice News

MAY 13, 2022

based hospice provider Bluegrass Care Navigators has named Stephanie Greene as its new chief operating officer of clinical services. She succeeds Cassie Mitchell, who left the organization to become CEO of Colorado-based HopeWest Hospice. Hospice Maui appoints new CEO . She was previously the clinical director at Hospice Maui.

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Hospice News

APRIL 25, 2022

And with the advent of new payment models, hospices are no longer on the outside of those programs looking in. In 2010 and 2011, he was a special advisor to then U.S. Jain initially voiced these concerns in an April 12 article in Forbes , but elaborated in a subsequent interview with Hospice News.

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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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GeriPal

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Journal of Hospice and Palliative Nursing, 22 (5):392-400 / PMID: 32740304. Eric’s blog post on Dignity Therapy from 2011. Summary Transcript Summary. Eric and I weren’t sure what to call this podcast – storytelling and medicine? Narrative medicine? It wasn’t until the end that the best term emerged – storycatching.

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Hearts for Hospice & Home Health

JULY 1, 2021

For the third year in a row, Valeo is recognized as the top home health and hospice company in the greater Salt Lake area. Valeo Home Health and Hospice, LLC, was named Best of SLC Home Health and Hospice companies in the third annual Best of SLC awards.

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GeriPal

APRIL 14, 2022

On today’s podcast we talk with three experts on buprenorphine on why, when, and how to use it in serious illness. And if you want to learn more about buprenorphine from these amazing palliative care clinicians and others, check out of some of these articles: Learn more about caring for those with substance use disorder: . Transcript.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Alex: Today we are delighted to welcome Heather Coats, who’s a palliative care nurse practitioner and scientist and Director of Research at the Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association, or HPNA, an Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado and Schutz College of Nursing. Alex: This is Alex Smith. How did you get into this?

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Pallimed

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Although this reduced Washington state’s Medicaid costs, it contributed “to the deaths of at least 2,173 people between 2003 and late 2011 (23, 25).” Kollas recently served as Secretary on the Board of Directors of the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (AAHPM). Seattle Times, December 21, 2011.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 2, 2022

The recent article by the New Yorker and ProPublica that branded “hospice” as a profiteering “hustle” was an outrageous misrepresentation of the provider community. The National Hospice & Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO), for instance, filed an amicus brief with the court. Even when a hospice plays by the rules, death does not.

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Hospice News

MAY 19, 2023

Coupled with the entry of more payers into the space, the influx of health systems into home health, hospice and community-based palliative care stands to change the competitive dynamics in markets nationwide. This is the last of three articles that explore some of health care macro-trends that could impact hospices.

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Pallimed

MAY 3, 2021

PROP Appears on the Opioid Policy Scene In 2011, a group of internists, including Michael Van Korff, Andrew Kolodny and Roger Chou, co-authored an article that modern palliative care physicians would recognize as a “warning shot (6)” in the world of opioid policy (7).

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Five hospice providers made Inc. They include Texas-headquartered Traditions Health, Bridge Home Health & Hospice and Healthflex Home Health & Hospice, both in California. Bridge Home Health & Hospice crossing state lines. magazine’s annual list of the 5,000 fastest-growing companies in the United States. .

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Home-based care, including hospice, is an increasingly attractive space for health systems and hospitals — a trend that accelerated during the pandemic. As early as 2011, more than 90% of U.S. The division offers home health care, palliative care and hospice in addition to high-acuity services like hospital-at-home. “We

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Though operators often feel siloed within the Medicare Hospice Benefit, they are not shielded from the shifting currents in the health care system at large. Their growing prominence is leading more hospices to see innovative partnerships with upstream providers as well as building out their own programs. “I

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Pallimed

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Chou had originally announced his intention to help influence opioid policy in a 2011 article that he co-authored with PROP’s founders (5), and he was a bold signatory to PROP’s 2012 Petition to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to change opioid labeling (6; See Figures 1a and 1b: First page and signatory page.)

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GeriPal

APRIL 13, 2023

” Dr. Kotwal’s work showing how social isolation impacts end-of-life health care use , including hospice and acute care. ” I actually just had a woman that I care for on hospice who I asked, “Do you feel lonely?” Welcome back to the GeriPal podcast. Carla: Thanks so much. Nice to see you all.

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GeriPal

MARCH 16, 2023

I love his just because this is a palliative care audience in the article that then turned into being mortal, New Yorker, I don’t know, circa 2011 or something. Eric: Yeah, Jimmy Carter goes into hospice. It’s a timely time right now to write a op-ed about hospice care. Louise: I think that’s his MO.

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GeriPal

JULY 7, 2022

And then once I came to the United States, I saw this whole different dimension of pain, because I started residency in 2011, this was really at the peak of the opioid prescription epidemic, if you may. On today’s podcast we welcome back Haider Warraich to talk about pain. And I was an internal medicine resident. He was an a **e. He was mean.

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