Hospice News
AUGUST 26, 2022
The home health and hospice provider employs roughly 9,509 staff nationwide and reached an average daily census of 17,360 patients in the second quarter of this year. Kauai Hospice Recruits Retired Emergency Doc as Medical Director. Hospice utilization in Hawaii reached 45.4%
Hospice News
SEPTEMBER 5, 2023
Ginn began leading financial teams at Amedisys in 2007, while Guidroz previously served as senior vice president of accounting at Amedisys since June 2018. Brickner takes the helm of VITAS’ hospice locations in Kansas City, Kansas, as well as across Dallas, Fort Worth, Houston and San Antonio, Texas.
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Hospice News
JUNE 29, 2023
As with nursing, the industry-wide labor shortage has impacted bereavement care, which is an underfunded service, according to Dr. Dawn Gross, palliative care physician at University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) Health. Gross is also a medical director at ANX Hospice Care.
Hospice News
JUNE 21, 2022
Li provides direction, guidance and oversight to clinical staff, including those at Suncoast Hospice and Tidewell Hospice. She previously served as medical director at Suncoast Hospice. In the new position, Li will be charged with ensuring high-quality care, service and experiences for patients and their families.
Hospice News
JULY 1, 2022
Kaweah Health Hospice staff will oversee the hospice facility’s day-to-day operations and medical care, which will be provided by a team of nurses, home health aides, social workers and chaplains. It currently operates an inpatient hospice facility in Centreville, Maryland.
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. We have a really significant workforce shortfall right now.
GeriPal
JUNE 29, 2023
On last week’s podcast we interviewed the medical director and the chaplain of the prison’s hospice unit (Hospice in Prison Part 1 ). But the other was she read an article about our hospice in the May of 2018 New York Times magazine. Gerald: As soon as they opened this garden up in 2018.
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