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Hospices Stepping Up Performance on Visits-in-Last-Days-of-Life Measure

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Hospices, in aggregate, are showing improvement on the quality measure for visits in the last days of life. The number of registered nurse and social worker visits during a patient’s final week is one of the seven quality measures that CMS uses to evaluate providers. Through the predictive analytics data, hospice patients at St.

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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. For some rural areas, they’re not seen as financially feasible or sustainable to larger programs,” Kuhlman told Hospice News. “So,

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New CEOs Tapped at Adory, Montgomery, Prince George Hospices

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Adoray Home Health & Hospice Announces Interim CEO Wisconsin-based Adoray Home Health & Hospice has named Mary Aaby as its new interim CEO. Aaby previously served as CFO from 1998 to 2017 at the hospice, home health and palliative care organization. She will step into the role this June. Croix Health.

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Calls Grow Louder for Greater Federal Support of Rural Hospices

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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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Global Partners in Care Program Fosters International Collaboration on Palliative Care

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The Indiana-based palliative care provider Center for Hospice Care (CHC) is looking beyond its immediate community and has developed networks that impact palliative care on a global scale. Global Partners in Care became an affiliate of CHC in 2017, but the program’s roots were planted in 1999. So, these U.S.

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Top Lawmakers for Hospices to Watch in 2024

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Hospice providers will be looking to Congress in 2024 to address issues related to program integrity, quality improvement and industry-wide workforce pressures. As legislative efforts develop, hospices may want to focus their attention on a few key legislators. We don’t have confidence in the algorithm that they proposed.

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

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Home health and hospice provider Enhabit, Inc. He most recently served as a partner at Bradley, Arant, Boult, Cummings LLP, where he provided legal advice to health care, banking and environmental companies, among others. The company’s more than 10,000 employees provide care from 105 hospice and 252 home health locations in 34 states.