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

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More than $200 million SIA payments were distributed in 2021, compared to less than $100 million in 2017, according to the Abt research. In terms of patients, that’s more than a million beneficiaries receiving SIA services in 2021, versus under 850,000 beneficiaries in 2017, the data found.

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The Barriers Creating Pediatric Palliative Care Inequities

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Children in racial and ethnic minority groups often receive poorer quality compared to white pediatric patients, according to the analysis , published in The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health journal. 1, 2017, to July 31, 2022, and examined inequities among pediatric palliative populations. The research data spanned from Jan.

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

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Ginn served in that same role before being promoted to CFO in 2017 and executive vice president in 2021. Prior to Hospice of the Chesapeake, Sherman in 2018 launched Maryland Concierge Primary Care LLC, an adult primary care and medical weight management company.

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Forks Community Hospital Launches Palliative Care Program Amid Financial Struggles

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Atlantic General Hospital in Maryland saw costs fall by almost a third after implementing a similar program, according to a 2017 report in Mathematica Policy Research. Currently, people in Forks who need in-home care for their chronic conditions rely on a home health company based in the town of Port Angeles, more than 50 miles away.

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Hospices Leverage Partnerships to Scale Palliative Care Programs

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This year the two partners strengthened their JV by forming Mount Sinai at Home, a new entity that provides hospital-at-home, palliative care, and other services. Tennessee-based Contessa and Mount Sinai first partnered in 2017 to provide these services, adding Mount Sinai’s home health agency into the fold with the expansion.

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The Rise of Malpractice Claims Against NPs

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percent of the total distribution in the 2017 dataset to 20.3 percent compared to the 2017 dataset ($300,506). NSO and CNA’s Nurse Practitioner Claim Report revealed that in the 2022 dataset, 66 percent of all claims involved NPs specializing in family and adult-gerontology primary care.

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Georgia Hospital Improves Organ Donation Process

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. “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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