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Calls Grow Louder for Greater Federal Support of Rural Hospices

Hospice News

Calls are growing louder for Congress to build stronger reimbursement and workforce incentives aimed at improving the availability and sustainability of rural-based end-of-life care. The legislation has taken a circuitous route through Congress in recent years, repeatedly reintroduced without passing since 2017.

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How Hospices Are Diversifying Their Services in 2024

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Palliative care, pediatric end-of-life care and end-of-life doula (EOLD) services are top of mind for hospices that are diversifying their services in 2024. The Colorado-based hospice provider began offering PACE programming in 2017. But it goes both ways.

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Enhabit Appoints General Counsel; The Denver Hospice Gets New Medical Director

Hospice News

Howe to the care team at The Denver Hospice,” Interim President Tricia Ford said in an announcement. “Dr. Established in 1978, The Denver Hospice provides care to more than 4,000 hospice and around 1,200 palliative care patients annually in nine counties in Colorado. .

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Blue Monarch CEO: Hospice Startup Seeks to Raise Bar on Quality

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I became a registered nurse in 2012 and received my nurse practitioner degree in 2017. My parents are both nurses and my wife is a nurse as well, so I’ve been around clinical care my entire life before we decided to branch out into hospice. I get into the field right alongside our staff to provide hospice care.

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Preventable and Aggressive Care for Cancer Patients: To the Bitter End

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Aggressive care common in nursing homes at end of life. The other recent JAMA study ran in February: Incidence of Aggressive End-of-Life Care Among Older Adults With Metastatic Cancer Living in Nursing Homes and Community Settings. Nearly 10% of the 1.5

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New Hospice Facilities Launch Ahead While Others Halt

Hospice News

The nonprofit provider in 2017 originally set a $24 million goal to expand its hospice and palliative care services across 41 counties in Kentucky and Southern Indiana, reporting last year that it surpassed this with a $28 million fundraising campaign. Census Bureau.

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Primary Care Clinicians Provide Palliative Care Without Realizing It

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This fact leads many to conflate palliative care, hospice, and end-of-life care. Add this to the regular visits of home aides, volunteers, social workers, the chaplain, and more, and it’s easy to see how hospice can fill needs that have become more intensive. 2017 Feb 28; (Vol. Mayo Clinic Proceedings.