Hospice News

MARCH 12, 2024

Program integrity and an onslaught of audits are top of mind for many hospice providers in 2024. The organizations earlier this year presented their findings , published today, to members of Congress and the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). The impetus for the audit was primarily related to billing errors.

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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. Stoneridge Hospice provides home-based hospice and also contracts with other providers to offer facility-based services. Stoneridge Hospice launched in 2020.

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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.

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Minority Nurse

JULY 12, 2023

Flores, RN, CHPN, BS, a hospice nurse in Colorado since 2012. In 2020 Flores was a featured guest on the TV Show, The Doctors , sharing his expertise on end-of-life hospice care. He’s also written two books to increase knowledge of end-of-life care. Meet Derek Flores, RN, CHPN, BS, and hospice nurse in Colorado.

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Nurse Keith's Digital Doorway

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

When I was first in nursing school, I was certain that I'd graduate and serve the dying with dignity and compassion by opening an inpatient hospice. Creating your future comes with being able to assess the present and see what is and isn't working. Sometimes the thing that drove us to nursing isn't what continues to light our fire.

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Hospice of the North Coast

JULY 14, 2023

Some common examples observed among the bereaved include retaining the deceased’s possessions in an obsessive way, immediately removing all reminders of the deceased, selectively forgetting the deceased, or discussing the deceased in present tenses, and describing stigmatized death (e.g., suicide, overdose) as accidents, etc. Worden, J.

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