Hospice News

JULY 21, 2023

1, 2014, according to American Cancer Society research recently published in Health Affairs. As of 2014, the ACA expanded Medicaid coverage to all adults whose annual income reaches 138% of the federal poverty level, which in 2023 is $20,120 per individual, according to Kaiser. About 18.9%

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

These annual adjustments have their roots in the Improving Medicare Post-Acute Care Transformation Act of 2014 (IMPACT Act), which changed the way the hospice aggregate payment cap is calculated. For Fiscal Year 2024, the cap is set at $33,494.01 for next year.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Between 2014 and 2017, these patients accounted for more than 20% of all emergency department (ED) visits in the United States, according to the U.S. Patients and clinicians can benefit from having palliative care consults available in hospital emergency departments, though currently few providers have done so.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Graham went on to acquire Residential Hospice in 2014. A year later, the Washington Post Company sold its news assets to Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) CEO Jeffrey Bezos and reorganized under the Graham Holdings name. Celtic and Residental merged in 2016 to form Graham Healthcare Group.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Wynsong joined the company in 2014 as an internal management consultant, going on to several other leadership positions. He is a board member for the South Florida Hospital and Healthcare Association. RoboToaster, SmugMug RoboToaster, SmugMug VITAS President and COO Joel Wherley at the 2022 Hospice News ELEVATE Conference.

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Hospice News

MAY 27, 2022

These include the audit system created by Improving Medicare Post-Acute Care Transformation (IMPACT) Act of 2014, and the two-tiered reimbursement for routine home care that reduced payment amounts after 60 days. Designed to prevent misuse of the Medicare Hospice Benefit, these efforts may have had unintended consequences.

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Happy Healthy Caregiver

JULY 20, 2023

When my Dad died in the summer of 2014, I wished the world would stop spinning so I could catch my breath. While my Dad’s final hospitalization and decline, followed by hospice, was sudden in our eyes, the emotional rollercoaster of caregiving started months prior.

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Hospice News

MARCH 13, 2023

Kusserow led Amedisys between 2014 and the first quarter of 2022, when he retired as CEO but stayed on as chairman. He returned to the helm late last year after the company dismissed his immediate successor Chris Gerard following a series of inconsistent quarters on earnings, recruitment and retention.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 18, 2023

In 2014, I made the jump fully to hospice. In 2014, I made the jump fully to hospice. I applied for that position and ended up doing the training and getting into palliative care. So I was doing hospitalist medicine and hospice and palliative medicine in the hospital side by side. That’s the bare bones of it.

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Daily Nurse

JANUARY 25, 2023

NJ nurse Claire Donaghy found a second home in Rwanda, a nation she first visited as a surgical team member with Operation Smile in 2014. Donaghy is a nursing professor at William Paterson University and is eager to return to lend her expertise to this important mission. Daily Nurse is proud to name Claire Donaghy […]

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Hospice News

APRIL 5, 2023

A 2014 study found patients and families view pain and symptom management as their top priority related to the quality of hospice care. Barnett, in her public comments on the proposal, contends that hospice patients are often too sick to travel for an in-person examination and that they need to receive pain management quickly upon admission.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

” Kusserow retired as CEO effective April 15 but remained chairman of the board of directors.Kusserow’s first tenure as CEO began in 2014. His experience, along with his passion, makes us confident that this will serve Amedisys well during this time.” billion from $900 million.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

To determine effectiveness of lay patient navigators, researchers utilized a palliative care intervention method piloted in 2014. “​​A culturally tailored patient navigator intervention can help improve some palliative care–related outcomes for Hispanic patients with serious medical illness,” researchers wrote.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 13, 2023

The company’s affiliate Suncoast acquired its PACE program in 2012, prior to the formation of Empath in 2014. It opened a new adult day center, including a suite of veterans-specific services, in November of last year. Under Empath’s wings, the program has continued to expand. It increases costs. It reduces outcomes.

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Daily Nurse

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

” Nationally known for her patient safety expertise, Good succeeds Connie Barden, MSN, RN, CCRN-E, CCNS, who retires after serving as AACN’s inaugural CCO since 2014. As AACN president from 2013-2014, a one-year term, Good advocated for nurses to lead the redefinition of safe patient care and optimal outcomes.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

We started to develop that process in 2014 through 2016 with pilot programs. I started out with one of the first agencies at Pennant, the one in Boise, Idaho, where we’re based, just right at the beginning. Then I kind of wandered. We started doing the house calls, mobile palliative care, geriatric primary care work.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Whitaker has been at the helm of the nonprofit since 2014, serving as COO prior to that. McClasky joins Elara after serving as vice president of sales at Signify Health since 2014. He also held business development leadership positions at CenseoHealth, Quest Diagnostics and Persuadable Research Corporation.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Researchers compared health outcomes among 183 patients with incurable, advanced types of cancers from 2014 to 2018 to determine an association between palliative care and health utilization metrics. Additionally, the palliative care patients spent 71% fewer total days in the hospital prior to death.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 31, 2023

A recent study of nearly 30,000 hospitalized metastatic breast cancer patients found that only 19% received palliative care from 2010 to 2014. Breast cancer patients often lack access to palliative care services, but the needle may be moving as researchers dig into common barriers and clinical and financial outcomes.

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Hospice News

MAY 4, 2022

Curo had purchased Southerncare in 2014 for an undisclosed amount. Humana Inc. NYSE: HUM) and private equity firms TPG Capital and Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe acquired Curo in July 2018 for $1.4 Most of the alleged fraudulent activity in the 2018 and 2009 cases occurred prior to Curo’s ownership.

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Hospice News

JULY 12, 2024

He joined the faith-based nonprofit health system in 2014, bringing roughly 25 years of experience in long-term and community-based services. “We Effective August 1, Drake will take the reigns of Trinity Health Senior Communities, Trinity Health At Home and Trinity Health Programs of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE).

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Journey With Deanna

DECEMBER 29, 2014

I was sick this week so I had to cancel my interviews. We will be back on it for the January 6, 2015 show with Lauren Tarrant, CEO of Well Beyond Care. peace, Deanna End of Life Care Certificate Program Learn.Create.Serve. Training and mentoring doulas, companions, guides and midwives since 2005

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Journey With Deanna

DECEMBER 29, 2014

I was sick this week so I had to cancel my interviews. We will be back on it for the January 6, 2015 show with Lauren Tarrant, CEO of Well Beyond Care. peace, Deanna End of Life Care Certificate Program Learn.Create.Serve. Training and mentoring doulas, companions, guides and midwives since 2005

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Hospice News

JUNE 16, 2022

A total of 109 transactions in the hospice and home health space involved a hospital and health system from 2014 to 2021, according to market analysis data that The Braff Group shared with Hospice News. There were 12 total divestitures where hospitals and health care systems sold hospice and home health assets between 2014 and 2022.”.

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Hospice News

MARCH 8, 2023

He started at the Florida-based health system in 2014 as CFO of the Broward Health Medical Center and Salah Foundation Children’s Hospital. A licensed CPA in Georgia and Florida, Fernandez has more than two decades of experience in financial, administrative and leadership roles across the health care industry.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 30, 2022

Graham went on to acquire Residential Hospice in 2014. A year later, the Washington Post Company sold its news assets to Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) CEO Jeffrey Bezos and reorganized under the Graham Holdings name. Celtic and Residental merged in 2016 to form Graham Healthcare Group.

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Daily Nurse

APRIL 10, 2024

As the Director of Nursing Education, Mahler played a pivotal role in the hospital’s journey to earning the prestigious American Nurses Credentialing Center Nurse Magnet designation and re-designation for three consecutive four-year terms, starting in 2014.

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Hospice News

JUNE 14, 2023

Medicare sequestration was established in 2014 by the Budget Control Act. “Also contributing to the slowdown was a phased-in reinstatement of sequestration-based payment rate cuts after a full-year suspension.” The practice reduced payments to hospice and other health care providers by 2% across the board.

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Hospice News

JUNE 27, 2023

The two organizations joined forces in 2014 when Partners In Care began offering palliative care services to patients at Summit Health’s oncology department.

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Hospice News

MAY 30, 2023

Established in 2014, the organization is now a parent company to 17 affiliates and two philanthropic foundations, with more than 23,000 people enrolled in its programs. The company’s affiliate Suncoast acquired its PACE program in 2012, prior to the formation of Empath in 2014. Under Empath’s wings, the program has continued to expand.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Kusserow – who holds a reputation as a successful turnaround executive – held the Amedisys CEO role from 2014 until early 2022. During that time, he helped spearhead the company’s aggressive hospice expansion, epitomized by the industry-shaping acquisitions of Compassionate Care Hospice, AseraCare and other businesses.

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Hospice News

JUNE 14, 2023

About 18 states have passed some type of palliative care legislation since 2014, according to Yale University’s Palliative Care Law and Policy GPS data tracker. These laws have focused on categories such as payment, workforce and clinical skill-building, public awareness, quality standards and specialized pediatric palliative care.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

The three HCPCS codes were initially rolled out for the VA in 2019 after previous spiritual care billing codes were discontinued in 2014. “This validation will also assist in bringing top talent into these roles.” Without those codes, it had become difficult for VA facilities to hire chaplains.

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AlayaCare

JULY 28, 2019

AlayaCare now has over 200 employees and has earned $50+ million in growth capital since its launch in 2014. AlayaCare was founded in 2014. The changes to the senior team will help AlayaCare execute its long-term strategic plan and continue its recent expansion efforts.

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Daily Nurse

MAY 9, 2024

The Nurse Professional (Published: October 2014) Description: Helps novices prepare for their transition into a “real world” role from being a student through graduation, NCLEX success, job search, first job, and beyond.

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AlayaCare

OCTOBER 6, 2021

AlayaCare was founded in 2014 and is the parent company of Procura, Arrow, CIMS, and AcuteNet. Combining traditional in-home and virtual care solutions, AlayaCare enables care providers across the world to propel towards innovation and healthcare of the future. www.alayacare.com.

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