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Research Finds Home-Based Care Among Top End-of-Life Trajectories for Americans

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These include the home, skilled home care and institutional care. The study spanned data among 199,828 Medicare decedents 50 and older who died in 2018. More than half (59%) spent the last three years of life in the home.

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Canyon Home Care & Hospice Acquires Arizona Physician Practice

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Utah-headquartered Canyon Home Care & Hospice has acquired Arizona-based internal medicine practice Thomas G. Internists specialize in caring for patients with cancer and infections or diseases affecting the heart, blood, lungs, kidneys, joints, or digestive tracts. “We Dallman, M.D., LLC for an undisclosed sum.

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Lawmakers, Providers Seek Collaboration to Strengthen Hospice Program Integrity

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” Arizona had 239 new Medicare-certified hospices appear between 2018 and 2022, representing 52% of all providers in the state. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to address this issue, providing 34 recommendations. “There are people who are running hospitals programs that are only theoretical.

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Hospice Organizations Call for Change as Lawmakers Eye Program Integrity

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Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), asking for the agency to brief them on fraud and abuse within the hospice benefit. Hospice can be an important part of a patient’s care, but only if it is operating as intended,” the legislators wrote in the letter. “We Beth Van Duyne (R-Texas) and Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.)

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Industry Groups Call for Federal Oversight of Hospice Licensing as Concerns Emerge in Several States

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Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Chiquita Brooks-LaSure. Signatories on the joint letter included Leading Age, the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC), the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) and the National Partnership for Healthcare and Hospice Innovation (NPHI). “We

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Two Hospices Halt Services Amid Staffing Shortages

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Hospice and Home Care of Juneau shutters. Alaska-based Hospice and Home Care of Juneau (HHCJ) recently announced its closure, citing high staffing costs and lack of clinicians. HHCJ had two hospice and 17 home health patients on its services when the closure took effect on October 19. Census Bureau. Census Bureau.

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Choice Health Acquires Private Duty Company Instant Care, Enters Arizona Market

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Initially established in 2008 as a rehabilitation service provider, Choice expanded into home health during 2012 and later into hospice in 2018. In 2020 the company partnered with the investment firms Trive Capital and Coltala Holdings to widen its reach as a post-acute care company. The state’s 1.3 Census Bureau.

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