Hospice News

MARCH 15, 2024

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. decline from 2018. More than 49% of Medicare decedents enrolled in hospice care during 2022, up from 47.3% Of those, 1,169 were nonprofits, a 1.4%

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Hospice News

MARCH 1, 2024

The online clinical training platform CareAcademy has developed a hospice care curriculum. The new curriculum is designed to offer “foundational orientation training” for hospice aides, nurses, volunteers, social workers, chaplains and other spiritual care providers, as well as physicians.

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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. Formerly Hospice of St. Florida-based St. A team of St. Only Utah and Arizona saw higher rates at 59.4%

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

The inpatient center will allow for smoother transitions to hospice care among eligible hospitalized and emergency patients, as well as home- and community-based referrals, according to Gayle Mattson, president and CEO of Hospice of Cincinnati/HOC Navigators.

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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

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. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to address this issue, providing 34 recommendations.

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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

AUGUST 18, 2022

Maryland-based hospice and palliative care provider Gilchrist recently formed a joint venture with the hospital system Luminis Health to expand the full scope of senior and geriatric care in the state’s southern region. You can’t do that if you don’t contract and work with someone to provide hospice care.

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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Startups such as Empathy, Betterleave Bereavement Care, Grief Refuge and Help Texts (formerly Grief Coach) have launched platforms designed to help families cope and assist with tasks such as funeral planning, account cancellations, legalities and financial arrangements. Palliative Care Providers Hitting Walls in Value-Based Reimbursement.

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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

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

JANUARY 16, 2024

-based Niagara Hospice will soon have a new president and CEO with the upcoming retirement of John Lomeo, who has led the organization since 2000. Niagara Hospice is part of The Hospice and Palliative Care Group (HPCG), an organization that provides administrative services. Gordon Hospice and Palliative Care of Tidewater.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

If enacted, the legislation would remove co-pays and patient fees for advance care planning (ACP) services, allow social workers to conduct these conversations, expand provider education about associated billing codes, and improve reporting on barriers to ACP utilization.

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Hospice News

JUNE 22, 2023

This has prompted payers, providers and policymakers to take a closer look at lower-cost care settings, including the home. “I I don’t know that there’s enough access to hospice and palliative care services,” Rep. told Hospice News. Joe Morelle (D-N.Y.) In a statement , NHPCO pointed to three aspects of the report.

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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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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

AUGUST 9, 2022

You hear cultural competency as a sort of ‘buzz word,’ but it’s really about being able to develop a safe space for LGBTQ+ patients to be taken care of and share their wishes.”. The hospice, home health and palliative care provider serves close to 40,000 patients.

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Hospice News

JULY 1, 2022

The nonprofit provider in 2017 originally set a $24 million goal to expand its hospice and palliative care services across 41 counties in Kentucky and Southern Indiana, reporting last year that it surpassed this with a $28 million fundraising campaign. It currently operates an inpatient hospice facility in Centreville, Maryland.

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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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