Remove 11
article thumbnail

Automated Orders Improve Palliative Care Access

Hospice News

The study included more than 34,000 patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), dementia or kidney failure at 11 hospitals in eight states. The study took place between March 2018 and November 2018. The study took place between March 2018 and November 2018.

article thumbnail

MedPAC to Congress: Freeze Hospice Rates in 2025

Hospice News

decline from 2018. Hospice stays that extended beyond six months generated the highest percentage of savings at 11%. Hospital-based and home health-based hospices have access to capital through their parent providers.” Close to 5,900 hospices operated in the United States during 2002. Of those, 1,169 were nonprofits, a 1.4%

2025 251
professionals

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Lack of Staff, Guidelines Build Hurdles for Hospice Bereavement Care Programs

Hospice News

With the end of the public health emergency on May 11, hospices nationwide have expanded their grief programs, including summer camps as the weather heats up — though a number are staying virtual. The Maryland-based hospice suspended the program in 2018. according to Chesapeake Life Center Director Brian Berger.

article thumbnail

St. David’s HealthCare Expands Into Hospice, Home Health with HCA-Brookdale JV Assets

Hospice News

The JV went on to sell operations in 22 states , including 11 hospice locations to LHC Group Inc. in 2018, tipping above the national average of 50.3% NASDAQ: LHCG) toward the end of 2021, retaining those that fell within HCA’s hospital footprint. Hospice utilization among Medicare decedents in Texas runs high, reaching 52.1%

article thumbnail

Inside Kansas’ 5-Year Plan to Expand Palliative Care

Hospice News

The seeds of the plan were planted in 2018 when the legislature established the state’s Palliative Care and Quality of Life Interdisciplinary Advisory Council. Kansas is a big place – about twice the size of Ohio, for example, but home to about 3 million people compared to Ohio’s roughly 11 million residents. Access was a high hurdle.

article thumbnail

Undisclosed Conflicts of Interest by Physicians Creating the CDC Opioid Prescribing Guidelines: Bad Faith or Incompetence?

Pallimed

A moral panic can effectively sway public opinion to force a shift in public policy (9-11). By November 2018, misapplication of the 2016 Guideline had begun to cause serious patient harms, including diminished access to medically appropriate opioid analgesia (41). Available at: [link] (Last accessed on August 11, 2022).

2016 145
article thumbnail

Addus Acquires Apple Home Healthcare

Hospice News

Apple offers home health, skilled nursing and rehabilitative therapy services to 450 patients daily across 11 counties in and around the Chicago area. among Medicare descendants during 2018, which is in line with the national average, the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization reported.