Hospice News

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Initially established in 2008 as a rehabilitation service provider, Choice expanded into home health during 2012 and later into hospice in 2018. In 2020 the company partnered with the investment firms Trive Capital and Coltala Holdings to widen its reach as a post-acute care company. The state’s 1.3 million seniors represent 18.3%

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 1, 2022

We identified numerous indicators of such fraud and abuse by hospice agencies, which typically offer palliative end-of-life care to individuals with medical diagnoses of fewer than six months to live.”. “The state’s weak controls have created the opportunity for large-scale fraud and abuse,” CDOJ indicated in its report. “We

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Hospice News

JULY 25, 2022

The state sharpened its gaze on the hospice space in the wake of two 2019 OIG reports showing that about 20% of hospices surveyed by regulators or accreditors between 2012 and 2016 had a condition-level deficiency that posed a serious patient safety risk.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Established in 2012, Canyon’s service region stretches across locations in Utah, Arizona, Colorado, Idaho and Nevada. “We Similar to national trends, demand for serious illness and end-of-life care is expected to swell due to favorable demographics in the Grand Canyon State. Dallman, M.D., LLC for an undisclosed sum.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Since joining the company in 2012, Templeton has served as senior vice president and chief of clinical operations. The Tennessee-based company offers community-based hospice, infusion therapy, home health, and palliative care across 200 locations in 30 states. Carolina Caring appoints new chief medical officer.

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Hospice News

MAY 30, 2023

“We envision a large network of not-for-profit, community-based hospice providers working collaboratively to create standards for what a community should expect from an end-of-life care provider.” Branded at Ohio’s Hospice at United Church Homes, it provides care in more than three communities across the UCH footprint.

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Evidence-Based Nursing - BMJ blogs

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

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). 2012) Dignity Therapy: Final words for final days.

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AJN Off the Charts

APRIL 7, 2023

There have been a couple of recent studies that confirm what I have observed as a palliative care nurse practitioner (NP) in an academic medical center: that there’s still a tendency to pursue very aggressive care with older people with cancer. Palliative care could prevent many ED visits. Nearly 10% of the 1.5

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Hospice News

MAY 13, 2022

In this COO role, Greene will be charged with overseeing operations of all of the organization’s clinical service lines, which include hospice, palliative and home-based primary care in addition to adult day health care, behavioral medicine and clinical pharmacy. Sangre de Cristo lands new palliative care director.

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1-800-HOSPICE

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Hospice is tailored to symptom control, emotional support, and care coordination during end-of-life care. When patients receive too little time in hospice, families are more likely to be dissatisfied with the end-of-life care. 2012; 43 (4): 732- 738. Palliat Med. Patient Preferences.

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1-800-HOSPICE

MARCH 21, 2023

Hospice Improves Quality of Life Hospice has been associated with improved quality of life at the end of life and reductions in the risk of psychiatric illness among bereaved caregivers. Patients in hospice have fewer rehospitalizations, fewer intensive care unit admissions, and lower costs. J Palliat MEd.

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GeriPal

MARCH 7, 2024

Check out the Pub Crawl GeriPal post for more info, and follow #HPMParty on Twitter to keep us as we crawl! ** In the last several years, I’ve seen more and more articles about end-of-life doulas ( like this NY Times article from 2021 ). So, on today’s podcast, we try to get to the bottom of what exactly is an end-of-life doula.

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High Peaks Hospice

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

The Start of End Of Life Care in the Tri-Lakes Area and Expanding Throughout the Adirondacks. David Merkel served as Medical Director of Hospice until his death in 2012. We invite you to watch the video below and leave your comments.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 12, 2023

The state sharpened its gaze on the hospice space in the wake of two 2019 OIG reports showing that about 20% of hospices surveyed by regulators or accreditors between 2012 and 2016 had a condition-level deficiency that posed a serious patient safety risk. In November, industry organizations called on CMS to examine the issue nationally.

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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.) Terri A.

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