Hospice News

JANUARY 26, 2024

Many elderly Americans follow one of three place of care trajectories during the last three years of life, researchers from Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, found in a study recently published in BMC Geriatrics. These include the home, skilled home care and institutional care.

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AlayaCare

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Last week, we welcomed hundreds of home care professionals and agency representatives to our annual user conference in Niagara Falls for a remarkable three days of hands-on software training, client roundtables, product demos and presentations from industry leaders. Highlights from Better Outcomes 2018 appeared first on AlayaCare.

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JULY 3, 2018

It’s a fantastic honour and reflects the fact that AlayaCare is increasingly being recognized as a disruptor and an innovator in the home care software space. The post AlayaCare Recognized Among Top ICT Companies on the 2018 Branham300 List appeared first on AlayaCare. 246 and are proudly ranked in the Top 15 Growth Companies.

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Hospice News

APRIL 8, 2024

of Medicare decedents who received hospice care in 2018 had a kidney condition as their principal diagnosis, according to the National Hospice & Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO). Patients with advanced chronic kidney disease and end-stage renal disease represent an underserved population in hospice.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Additionally, the palliative care patients spent 71% fewer total days in the hospital prior to death. Researchers compared health outcomes among 183 patients with incurable, advanced types of cancers from 2014 to 2018 to determine an association between palliative care and health utilization metrics.

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Hospice News

MARCH 1, 2024

. “We understand that the needs of direct care workers are broadly the same across different care settings, which propelled us to expand our offerings beyond home care to serve the entire post-acute care continuum.”

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AlayaCare

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

As AlayaCare has grown, we’ve had the privilege of observing how health systems around the world are organizing to keep seniors and chronically or acutely ill patients receiving care and convalescing in their preferred setting: at home. Everywhere we look, home care is growing at double-digit percentages. in 2009 to 65.7%

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Freedom Home Care and Medical Staffing

JUNE 28, 2022

Freedom Home Care Hero: Joy Best. She is so grateful to Freedom Home Care for giving her the opportunity to do what she loves! Freedom Home Care Hero: Maria Cortez. Congratulations to Maria Cortez, another of Freedom Home Care’s Heroes of the Month!

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Hospice News

MARCH 22, 2023

Generational gaps among educators represent one of the most pressing obstacles to ensuring a sustainable supply of trained hospice clinicians, according to Terese Acampora, COO of MJHS Hospice and Home Care, part of the New York-based MJHS Health System. “To MJHS Hospice and Home Care is among them.

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AlayaCare

FEBRUARY 18, 2018

With a product spanning clinical documentation, back office functionality, client and family portals, remote patient monitoring, and mobile care worker functionality, AlayaCare offers a platform for agencies to propel towards innovation and home care of the future. For more information, please visit www.walkme.com.

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Hospice News

JULY 14, 2023

Mastrapa since 2021 has been an advisor and consultant to multiple health care companies. Between 2018 and 2021, he was CEO of the personal care company Help at Home. Before Help at Home, Mastrapa led the home infusion provider Option Care Health (NYSE: OPCH). Gerard wrote on LinkedIn Monday.

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AlayaCare

APRIL 11, 2019

In the ever-changing home care industry, there are innumerable variables that agencies must strategically consider – as well as those that are hard to predict but still need to be managed carefully. The implications on the demand for home care services are clear. As we’ve explored in previous articles , 15 percent of U.S.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 4, 2022

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.

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Home Care Pulse

APRIL 28, 2022

Share: We’re Home Care Pulse, a leading provider of experience management & surveys, caregiver/CNA training, and online reputation management. Hundreds of home care agencies across North America have shared their business data with us, and we’re making their industry secrets public. Home care providers experienced 7.3%

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AlayaCare

JUNE 17, 2018

Acquisition improves AlayaCare’s ability to help Ontario home and community care agencies focus on delivering quality patient care TORONTO, June 18, 2018: AlayaCare, an award-winning, end-to-end software platform for home and community care, today announced the acquisition of Canesto Systems Inc.,

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Hospice News

JANUARY 12, 2024

Mecklenburg County has six licensed hospice providers, according to data shared with Hospice News by the Association for Home Care & Hospice of North Carolina (AHHC-NC). We’re very sensitive to the need to improve health equity in North Carolina and in the hospice and home care industry.

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Hospice News

JUNE 15, 2022

Admission liaisons, nurses, aides and IT staff saw the largest increases, according to the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC). The agency’s methodology used 2018 data. Hospice worker wage and salary increases ranged from 3% to 6% during the last two years.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Also today, four national hospice organizations met with LaSure to share their own concerns and recommend potential solutions — LeadingAge, 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).

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Hospice News

AUGUST 26, 2022

The clearest example of how this works was the 2020 rebasing of payments for the four levels of hospice care. CMS that year reduced routine home care (RHC) rates by 2.7% and increased amounts for continuous home care, general inpatient care, and inpatient respite care by the same percentage.

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Freedom Home Care and Medical Staffing

MAY 24, 2023

Please join us in congratulating Anna Rosengarden, Freedom Home Care’s Manager of the Month! At Freedom, Anna started in the Finance Department, eventually transitioning to Office Manager and then to a Care Manager. She loves the variety of opportunities that Freedom Home Care has to offer.

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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. Ultimately, developing solutions will require careful collaboration between the hospice community and lawmakers, according NHPCO COO and interim CEO Ben Marcantonio.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Oregon-based Compassion & Choices is a national end-of-life care advocacy organization focused on building health equity. Researchers at the nonprofit examined 58 studies published between 2018 and 2021 on these disparities. Hispanics made up 6.7% Caucasians represented the remaining 80%, NHPCO reported.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

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). This includes Arizona, Nevada and Texas.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

“By expanding access to care in the home, we empower individuals to make decisions about their care that are in line with their goals and priorities,” Hoing said. The JV is currently honing its focus on expanding access to home care for seniors across South Dakota. Seniors are projected to make up 27.5%

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Similar concerns have emerged in Texas, Nevada, and Arizona, according to a letter to LaSure by hospice industry groups, LeadingAge, 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).

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Hospice News

MAY 20, 2022

These include the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO), Hospice Action Network, Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association, the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC), and the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine, among many others. But the need is great.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

The California-based nonprofit health system temporarily halted these services at a location serving Paradise and Butte counties after the region experienced a destructive wildfire in 2018. Adventist Health Feather River facility began accepting referrals for new home care and hospice patients in January.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

The deal includes MercyOne’s hospice, infusion and home care locations. Established in 1998, MercyOne’s health system consists of 16 medical centers, 27 affiliate organizations and more than 420 care sites, employing 2,000 physicians and care providers who serve upwards of 3.3 million patients annually. Census Bureau.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

The North Carolina-based organization offers home infusion services, along with home care and hospice. Hospices can greatly underestimate the cost of turnover in terms of dollars, quality of care and organizational performance,” Linton said. increase on average between 2018 to 2023, according to a report from IBIS World.

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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. The post Trinity Health at Home Acquires Above & Beyond Home Health Care and Hospice appeared first on Hospice News.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 4, 2022

In-home support services saw the most growth in plan participation for 2023, rising to 1,091 from 729 the prior year. These services include non-medical home care and other assistance with daily activities. . Geographically, the program will be available in 806 counties in 24 states, up from 461 in 2022.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 12, 2022

The commission has yet to vote on the recommendations, but MedPAC has called for similar cuts annually since 2018. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) reduce the aggregate cap for hospice payments by 20% in 2024. To date, Congress has not implemented these reductions.

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Hospice News

MAY 23, 2023

Approximately 14 hospice, home care and home health transactions were reported during the first quarter of 2023, according to recent data from Mertz Taggart. In 2022, roughly 60 home care, home health and hospice private equity deals took place across the United States and Canada.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 9, 2023

Payne founded the company in 2018 after selling her house for startup capital. “So it also became really clear that we could use our existing platform to provide support around burnout and resilience as well. So we decided to do both, and that meant that Grief Coach as a name really no longer applied.” .

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AlayaCare

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

trillion by 2028, according to the guide Value-Based Purchasing and the Role of Home Care Technology. Learn more about value-based payments vs fee-for-service in our blog: More home care funding is coming. In those chosen nine states, the agencies did not see payment adjustments for their 2016 performance until 2018.

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Hospice News

JULY 3, 2023

Arizona had 239 new Medicare-certified hospices appear between 2018 and 2022, representing 52% of all providers in the state. In January, hospice organizations began sounding the alarm on similar activity in other states — Arizona, Texas and Nevada. In that time frame, Nevada saw 56 newly certified hospices, and 369 emerged in Texas.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

The Florida Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA) recently awarded the company a certificate of need (CON) to begin offering hospice services in that region. The company already offers home care services in that county. Hospice utilization runs high in Florida. respectively.

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