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Many Hospices Need to Step Up Disaster Planning

Hospice News

MARCH 27, 2024

Operators need to be prepared to deliver care and support their communities’ responses to catastrophic events. In 2017, the U.S. Overall hospice and end of life care was given too little consideration and disaster management policies and actions have been enacted by the larger response community,” Baker Rogers said.

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Partners in Care Sues HHS Over Claims Denials

Hospice News

APRIL 17, 2024

Since then, the company has grown in terms of census, grown more sophisticated in its approach to end-of-life care and expanded into other business lines. The lawsuit contends that the claims denials denied Partners in Care its right to procedural due process. 1, 2016 and Dec.

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Executive Shifts at Amedisys, AMOREM, VITAS; Compassus, Hospice of the Chesapeake Appoint New Clinical Leaders

Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Ginn served in that same role before being promoted to CFO in 2017 and executive vice president in 2021. AMOREM has locations across 12 counties in northwest North Carolina, which include four inpatient care units. His commitment to patient-centered care aligns perfectly with our organization’s mission. billion. “I

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From Access Barriers to Educational Gaps: The Research Trends Impacting Future Palliative Care Delivery

Hospice News

JANUARY 26, 2024

Case in point, a cross-sectional study in Jordan published in BMC Palliative Care earlier in January found that medical students lack the appropriate knowledge and skills related to palliative and end-of-life care delivery. The research spanned data from Jan.

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Bilingual Patient Navigation Can Improve Palliative Care Outcomes for Hispanic Patients

Hospice News

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Similar to the Apoyo con Cariño patient navigation intervention pilot, researchers in the clinical trial study analyzed patient data around quality of life scores, advance care planning engagement surveys, as well as pain and symptom control assessments.

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Hospices Call on Congress to Support Rural Hospices, Patients

Hospice News

JANUARY 17, 2024

Hospice providers, industry groups and other stakeholders recently penned a letter urging Congress to improve payment infrastructures that would increase access to end-of-life care among rural populations. So, for access to rural care, we’re going to have to depend on smaller rural programs.

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Ep. 27 - Racial and Cultural Competence in Palliative Care

HPNA podcast

JANUARY 15, 2024

In this episode, we welcome Amisha Parekh de Campos, PhD, MPH, RN, CHPN to the show where she speaks on the research that she is conducting surrounding people of color in end-of-life care. She is a Robert Wood Johnson, Future of Nursing Scholar (2017-2020) and Jonas Scholar for Chronic Health (2017-2020).

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Survey: 72% Say U.S. Health System Does Poor Job of Caring for Seniors

Hospice News

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

health care system does a good job of caring for the aging population. The research follows up on a 2017 report by the Kaiser Family Foundation and The Economist to gauge whether perceptions of health care had changed in the intervening years, particularly in light of the pandemic.

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Calls Grow Louder for Greater Federal Support of Rural Hospices

Hospice News

APRIL 4, 2024

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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Places of Farewell – bereaved parents’ decision making about their child’s place of death

Evidence-Based Nursing - BMJ blogs

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

Where the child has an oncology diagnosis, there is an established body of evidence, but for children with a life limiting condition, the evidence is more limited (Duc, Herbert and Heussler 2017; Johnston et al 2020). Her positive experience from then impacted heavily on the very different experience she had with her son.

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New Executives Take the Helm at AccentCare, Blue Ridge, Androscoggin, Good Samaritan

Hospice News

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Androscoggin’s New CHRO Maine-based Androscoggin Home Health Care + Hospice has a new chief human resources officer, Sarah Conroy. Foundation since 2017, serving as its president from 2019 to 2021. Good Samaritan Hospice provides home- and facility-based end-of-life care, respite services and physical and occupational therapies.

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State Palliative Care Laws Impact Where Patients Die

Hospice News

JUNE 14, 2023

Cancer patients in states with laws that require health care providers to provide palliative consultations were more likely to die in the home or in an inpatient hospice setting versus the hospital, a JAMA Network Open study found. The cohort study analyzed site-of-death data from 2005 through 2017, including more than 7.5

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How Hospices Are Diversifying Their Services in 2024

Hospice News

JANUARY 31, 2024

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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Global Partners in Care Program Fosters International Collaboration on Palliative Care

Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Earlier this year, it was awarded the prestigious 2023 Circle of Life Award from the American Hospital Association, which recognizes programs for their efforts in palliative and end-of-life care. Historic run Getting the Global Partners in Care program to this level has been quite the journey for CHC.

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Federal Officials Call for Stronger Medicare Advantage Oversight

Hospice News

JUNE 29, 2022

Congressional legislators are casting doubts on regulatory oversight of Medicare Advantage plans over concerns about spending, claims denials, and end-of-life care. billion in 2017 alone, she indicated. Payments related to those assessments cost Medicare $2.6 Her testimony referenced a recent OIG report on that issue.

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Georgia Hospital Improves Organ Donation Process

Daily Nurse

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

. “The outcome of that investment has been a hospital culture that values and celebrates organ donation as a standard of care for patients and families and an important part of honoring end-of-life wishes.” The number of organ donors in 2021 was 31, with more than 22 donors in 2015, 2016, and 2017.

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Physician, Legislator Morhaim: Hospices Should Be Vocal About Advance Care Plans

Hospice News

MAY 9, 2022

Not only do these factors have the potential to reduce health care costs, but they can help ensure patients receive goal-concordant care in their final days. Nevertheless, only about 38% of the chronically ill have documented their wishes, according to 2017 research in Health Affairs. .

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New CMOs for Hospice of the Chesapeake, Care Synergy; HopeWest Taps New VP

Hospice News

JUNE 28, 2023

She has also presented and published literature on the different types of supportive services, including palliative, hospice, acute and post-acute care. He was previously medical director at Compassus since 2017. Dr. Howe has more than 14 years of experience in hospice.

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

Hospice News

JANUARY 17, 2023

Valley Health System’s services include inpatient and outpatient programs, along with home care services such as hospice, palliative, skilled nursing and rehabilitative therapies, among others. Prior to joining Agrace, he was an internal medicine physician and hospice medical director at the Marshfield Clinic Health System.

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Hospice Quinte Announces Resignation of Executive Director and Appoints Acting Executive Director

Changing Lives Podcast

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Outgoing Hospice Quinte Executive Director Jennifer May-Anderson, left, with Acting Executive Director Petra Lepage outside of Hospice Quinte’s Stan Klemencic Care Centre on Wednesday, September 13, 2023. “While this news is bittersweet for Hospice Quinte, we have accepted Ms. May-Anderson’s resignation.

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Bluegrass Care Names Clinical Services COO, Hospice Maui Appoints New CEO

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. Hospice of the Northwest’s executive director steps down.

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New Hospice Facilities Launch Ahead While Others Halt

Hospice News

JULY 1, 2022

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

Hospice News

APRIL 26, 2022

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. As a nurse practitioner, what led you to begin a hospice program?

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

AJN Off the Charts

APRIL 7, 2023

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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Tackling nurse recruitment in Health and Justice Settings: Creating a Professional Identity

Evidence-Based Nursing - BMJ blogs

JULY 10, 2022

Nurses deliver clinics which mirror community provision; wound care, phlebotomy, managing Long Term Conditions as well as triaging and treating minor illness and injury. Nurses also provide response to medical emergencies and care for people who have self-harmed, those in need of end of life care, support patient safety and risk management.

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Primary Care Clinicians Provide Palliative Care Without Realizing It

1-800-HOSPICE

APRIL 11, 2023

This fact leads many to conflate palliative care, hospice, and end-of-life care. Speak to your provider to learn more about palliative care and what resources may be available. Understanding Palliative Care and Hospice: A Review for Primary Care Providers. 2017 Feb 28; (Vol. Lupu D, Force PM.

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Hospice Action Network Honors Congressional Champions with Angel Award

NHPCO

DECEMBER 7, 2022

“I have the utmost respect for the professionals who perform this work in health care systems across the country, and it is an honor to receive NHPCO’s Hospice Action Network Award for a second time since I came to Congress in 2017.”. I am proud to accept the 2022 Hospice Action Network Angel Award,” said Congressman Horsford. “So

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Undisclosed Conflicts of Interest by Physicians Creating the CDC Opioid Prescribing Guidelines: An Epilogue

Pallimed

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

It contains no hard dosing thresholds for prescribing opioids and instead “aims promote equitable access to effective, informed, individualized, and safe pain management that improves patients’ function and quality of life, while clarifying and reducing the risks associated with opioid use (19).” Competing Interests: Dr.

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Substance Use Disorder in Aging and Serious Illness: A Podcast with Katie Fitzgerald Jones, Jessica Merlin, Devon Check

GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

Summary Transcript Summary The CDC’s Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain excludes those undergoing cancer treatment, palliative care, and end-of-life care. Jessie Merlin is an addiction and palliative care physician, and professor of medicine at the University of Pittsburgh. 2017 podcast.

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Hospices Have High Hopes for PCHETA, But Is It Enough?

Hospice News

MAY 25, 2022

The legislation would establish fellowships through new palliative care and hospice education centers to provide short-term, intensive training, as well as incentivized award programs across all the relevant disciplines. PCHETA was first introduced in 2017 and again in 2019. Third time’s a charm?

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Future Leaders Class of 2022: Four Seasons CEO Millicent Burke-Sinclair

Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Burke-Sinclair recently shared her thoughts with Hospice News about her career in hospice and palliative care, and the biggest forces of change at play in serious illness and end-of-life care. At multiple times in my life when facing loss, hospice was there. What drew you to the hospice industry?

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Roger Chou’s Undisclosed Conflicts of Interest: How the CDC’s 2016 Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain Lost Its Clinical and Professional Integrity

Pallimed

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Kaiser Permanente acquired Group Health Cooperative in 2017 and formed a new 501(c)(4) foundation from the proceeds from the acquisition, which “was previously part of Group Health Cooperative [but would then] operate collectively as ‘Group Health Foundation’ (37, 38).” August 9, 2017. See [link] Last accessed 8/5/2021.

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Aging and the ICU: Podcast with Lauren Ferrante and Julien Cobert

GeriPal

MARCH 3, 2022

I want to say like 2017, 2018, something like that. Julien: He basically had an end of life care discussion with this patient. And we did one with Tom Gill about the precipitating events project back in 2017, early days for us when he talked about restricting symptoms and hospice. It was amazing. Alex: Yeah.

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Flying High

The Bucket-List Blog

AUGUST 23, 2017

On Tuesday, August 8, 2017, Mr. Murray’s dream came true. Next, Sally contacted the Central Kentucky Regional Airport in Richmond, where Corey’s flight would originate. They, too, were on board with the idea, and donated the airport’s fees. Corey helped him into the small craft, and they took off into a beautiful blue sky.

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Dementia and high risk surgery: Joel Weissman and Samir Shah

GeriPal

JUNE 30, 2022

You might be able to extend your life a little bit, but at what cost? So, that was maybe 20 years ago at this point and it really got me down the road thinking about advance care planning, end-of-life care, and similar consequences. Eric: Yeah. And that really created an opportunity to study this.

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Hospices Call on Congress to Support Rural Hospices, Patients

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Survey: 72% Say U.S. Health System Does Poor Job of Caring for Seniors

Calls Grow Louder for Greater Federal Support of Rural Hospices

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New Executives Take the Helm at AccentCare, Blue Ridge, Androscoggin, Good Samaritan

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Global Partners in Care Program Fosters International Collaboration on Palliative Care

Federal Officials Call for Stronger Medicare Advantage Oversight

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

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

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