Hospice News
MARCH 12, 2024
“To ensure hospice beneficiaries are served by high quality hospice providers, the current oversight system must be reformed and enforcement focused to uncover genuine instances of fraud, waste, and abuse,” said Katie Smith Sloan, president and CEO, LeadingAge, in a statement. “We
Hospice News
APRIL 3, 2024
She will oversee a hospice average daily census in the high hundreds, across four states and that size organization falls into the upper tier of mid-size providers and has us positioned for expansion.” The company’s roughly 7,000 employees provide care to an average daily census of more than 11,000 patients.
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Hospice News
JUNE 28, 2023
Hospice of the Chesapeake Appoints New CMO Maryland-based Hospice of the Chesapeake recently named Dr. Marny Fetzer as its new chief medical officer. Fetzer is currently system medical director for palliative care and hospice services at Illinois-based Ascension Health.
Hospice News
MARCH 25, 2024
Arizona-based Stoneridge Hospice launched services in 2020 with an aim to address a swelling aging population’s growing need for end-of-life care. My wife was a nurse in emergency medicine for several years, and my niece was a long-time hospice nurse. I worked in Phoenix at the sheriff’s office from 1976 to 2012.
Hospice News
APRIL 26, 2022
As a nurse practitioner, what led you to begin a hospice program? I became a registered nurse in 2012 and received my nurse practitioner degree in 2017. I practiced in men’s and women’s health before deciding to start Blue Monarch Hospice. It’s just a matter of time before the need for hospice rises.
High Peaks Hospice
NOVEMBER 4, 2022
The Merkels keenly felt the lack of compassionate care options for the dying. So Ann and David decided to do what they could to start hospice services locally. In 1982 Medicare authorized reimbursement for hospice care. Dr. Merkel engaged with his partner Dr. Robert Kasulke to spear head the medical care.
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