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Many Hospices Need to Step Up Disaster Planning

Hospice News

Many hospices may be unprepared to cope with a large-scale disaster or a future pandemic. Operators need to be prepared to deliver care and support their communities’ responses to catastrophic events. In 2017, the U.S. Last year, The Joint Commission implemented similar requirements for hospices.

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Hospices Call on Congress to Support Rural Hospices, Patients

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

Hospice News

The home health and hospice provider recently announced the leadership changes in a filing with the U.S. Ginn served in that same role before being promoted to CFO in 2017 and executive vice president in 2021. The company in June announced plans to acquire the massive home health and hospice provider Amedisys for $3.3

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Partners in Care Sues HHS Over Claims Denials

Hospice News

The case has significance for hospice providers nationwide as CMS and its contractors continue to ramp up audits. We were given a mostly favorable decision by the administrative law judge, and CMS appealed that decision to the CMS panel,” Hagfors told Hospice News. “We’ve 1, 2016 and Dec. 1, 2016 and Dec.

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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. Rural-based hospice providers face a range of challenges to improve access among their underserved patient populations.

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How Hospices Are Diversifying Their Services in 2024

Hospice News

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. There’s going to be so much change around value-based care coming in some way, shape or form for hospices,” Kudner told Hospice News.

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

Hospice News

The study points to the ongoing challenge of limited access to palliative and hospice care as demand rises among swelling aging populations. Time spent on nonhospice [palliative care (PC)] was brief and did not alter end-of-life health care utilization(HU)],” researchers wrote in the study.