Hospice News

JULY 26, 2022

The new law requires the New York State Department of Health to develop a public awareness campaign to promote advance care planning. The campaign must include education about hospice and palliative care, according to the newly approved legislation. About 17.4% About 17.4%

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Hospice News

APRIL 22, 2022

Francis Reflections Lifestage Care recently opened a new inpatient hospice care center inside the Melbourne Regional Medical Center. A swelling demand for hospice in the community spurred the unit’s development. Francis Reflections Melbourne Care Center includes a private bathroom and overnight space for loved ones.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 12, 2022

Capital, delivers hospice care in Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, South Dakota, Wisconsin and in its home state of Minnesota. Last month it acquired Michigan-based Corpore Sano Hospice, after purchasing Illinois-based Lexington Hospice Care earlier this summer. currently, according to the U.S.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 17, 2022

As with other demographic groups, hospice utilization among Hispanic, Latino and Latinx populations is low in comparison to Caucasians. Latino patients are more likely to die without receiving hospice care or even information about these services, the report indicated. “We Hispanics made up 6.7%

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Palliative care is among the next market areas to hit substantial growth, according to BofA research. palliative care market will reach $78.50 billion during 2018, according to a recent Market.us New payment models are also providing an impetus to embrace hospice care, according to BofA researchers.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 2, 2022

of all Medicare hospice patients in 2018, according to the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO). Similar to other underserved populations, fear of discrimination and mistrust are the biggest walls between Native Americans and hospice care, according to Craig Dresang, CEO of California-based YoloCares.

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Hospice News

JUNE 7, 2023

” Arizona had 239 new Medicare-certified hospices appear between 2018 and 2022, representing 52% of all providers in the state. In that time frame, Nevada saw 56 newly certified hospices, and 369 emerged in Texas.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Organizations called comfort care homes have been working to fill this gap. These are generally nonprofit residential facilities that will give patients a place to stay while they receive hospice care. Cassidy is a nurse practitioner, board-certified in palliative care, who also worked for 30 years as a professor of nursing.

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Hospice News

JUNE 6, 2022

Hospice of the Red River Valley recently began construction on a new inpatient facility in North Dakota. Set to open by 2024, Heather’s House will expand hospice care options for both adult and pediatric patients. . Development of the hospice house has been a long journey. COVID absolutely pushed it.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 10, 2022

This could include improving patient awareness and access about the end-of-life care options in and around their regions. Roughly half (50.7%) of Medicare decedents elected hospice in 2018, reported the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO).

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Hospice News

JULY 14, 2023

Paul Mastrapa becomes CEO of Interim HealthCare Jennifer Sheets is out as CEO of Interim HealthCare and Caring Brands International. The Florida-based company is a home-based care franchise that provides home health care, hospice care, palliative care, pediatric care and personal care to about 200,000 patients annually from more than 330 U.S.

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Hospice News

JULY 14, 2022

Closure of the In Touch Hospice center has inflamed the community, with cries growing louder to urge UPMC to reconsider the move. The health system cited declining patient admissions as the main reason for ending services. Hospice utilization among Medicare decedents in Pennsylvania reached 48.4%

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Concern is mounting around whether current health equity initiatives will be a flash in the pan or yield long term improvement on reducing disparities in hospice care among communities of color. Many people who could benefit from hospice are not getting the care they deserve,” Deese told Hospice News in an email. “We

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Hospice News

AUGUST 18, 2022

Through the JV, the two organizations formed the Luminis Health Gilchrist Lifecare Institute as a way to provide an “integrative continuum of care for the elderly across multiple settings,” in communities statewide, according to a recent announcement. You can’t do that if you don’t contract and work with someone to provide hospice care.

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Hospice News

MAY 26, 2022

Above & Beyond has provided home health and hospice care across eastern Iowa since 2004. Its home care services include nursing, and physical occupational and speech therapies, among others. Hospice utilization runs high in Iowa compared to other states. Utah held the highest rate that year at 60.5%. Census Bureau.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 11, 2023

Increasingly, Medicare Advantage (MA) plans have found real value in offering community-based palliative care as a supplemental benefit. Since 2018, the U.S. Hospice care focuses on quality of life when a cure may no longer be possible. “I So, there is still education to be done about what palliative care is.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

A hope for the bill’s supporters is that it will remove some of the barriers that prevent providers from broaching goals of care conversations with patients, according to Mollie Guran, vice president of home-based and HCBS policy at LeadingAge, which has endorsed the legislation.

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Hospice News

MARCH 10, 2023

Croix Hospice since 2018, previously serving as director of marketing and communications. She has helped grow the hospice’s digital presence across a variety of media channels. Most recently the hospice opened a de novo in Wisconsin, its 14th location in that state. “We Pope has been at St.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 9, 2022

Hospices have worked to improve engagement with underserved LGBTQ+ communities, but have a ways to go in understanding the unique challenges and experiences. This reflects issues that exist throughout the larger health care system, including among providers upstream of hospice that assist patients with advance care planning.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Vast disparities in hospice utilization exist among some groups and demographics. Combined, Asians, African Americans and Hispanics in 2018 represented only 20% of Medicare hospice patients, while the remaining 80% were Caucasian, according NHPCO. How the United States Will Revamp Family Caregiver Support.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 14, 2022

New quality measurement methodologies are in the works and in the early days of implementation, including the Hospice Care Index and the Hospice Outcomes & Patient Evaluation (HOPE) tool. It will measure aspects of hospice care at different points in the patient’s experience.

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Hospice News

JUNE 22, 2023

Moreover, families frequently give feedback that they wished their loved ones had entered hospice earlier in order to reap the full benefits, often via Consumer Assessment of Health Care Provider and Systems (CAHPS) surveys, according to the National Hospice & Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO).

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Hospice News

JANUARY 16, 2024

“A director of faith outreach is not a common position in the hospice industry,” McFalls said. But AMOREM wants to ensure its faith communities that they are a priority for the organization and that they feel supported when any of their congregants need end-of-life care.”

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Hospice News

JULY 1, 2022

“In my opinion, it is definitely not the time to consider constructing a hospice building in Denton at this point in time when we are facing the highest inflation rate in 40 years, the highest gas prices in history, supply chain issues, continued staffing shortages,” Terry Mead, Compass board treasurer told a local newspaper. Census Bureau.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 26, 2022

In addition to hospice, the nonprofit provider also offers palliative care and grief support. Hospice utilization in Hawaii reached 45.4% in 2018, according to the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization. A swelling aging population is rising demand for serious and terminal illness care statewide.

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1-800-HOSPICE

DECEMBER 21, 2021

While most patients in hospice make an advance directive stating a preference to not be resuscitated or intubated, this is not a requirement. Here we explore this choice and how it affects hospice care. This document is usually for people in their last months of life. 2018 Mar 1;21(3):297-301. What is a DNR?

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GeriPal

JUNE 29, 2023

But the other was she read an article about our hospice in the May of 2018 New York Times magazine. And I’ve always looked to try to help people spiritually to better themselves through spirituality, and who more needs help than in the end of life care. Gerald: As soon as they opened this garden up in 2018.

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Home Care Pulse

JULY 25, 2023

I’m the senior nurse educator at H C P, Speaker 1 ( 00:25 ): And you’re listening to Vision, the podcast for leaders and forward thinkers in the care industry. Today we’ll be discussing the importance of unifying the care continuum for end of life care. Speaker 3 ( 00:38 ): Hi, glad to be here.

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