Hope Hospice

JUNE 7, 2019

The post 2019 Hike for Hope Raises $90K appeared first on Hope Hospice and Health Services. Third Place: Linda Simpson, $1,370. Fourth Place: Angie Birdwell-Royers, $1,210. The 2020 event—our Tenth Anniversary—is scheduled for May 2. Watch for updates at TheHikeForHope.com.

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Hospice News

MARCH 3, 2023

RAND researchers analyzed Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS) Survey data from 653,208 caregivers whose family members received care from 3,107 hospices between April 2017 and March 2019. hospices between 2019 and 2020. Of those, about 73% were for-profit companies, and 24% were nonprofits.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2024

AccentCare is a portfolio company of the private equity firm Advent International, which purchased the provider from Oak Hill Capital Partners in 2019 for an undisclosed sum. Foundation since 2017, serving as its president from 2019 to 2021. Tortorella joined AccentCare as CEO last September.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2024

million Medicare decedents who died in 2019. million Medicare decedents who utilized hospice in 2019, about 591,272 had dementia, the research found. The study , published in the Journal of Palliative Medicine, examined home health and hospice care outcomes during the last three years of life among more than 2.1 Of the nearly 1.2

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million nursing home residents aged 65 and older, between January 2012 and December 2019. This allows for better communication between the residents, their families and other staff members, the study found. The study examined medical records of nearly 2.1 Among those, SNFists managed the care of nearly 46%.

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Hospice News

APRIL 13, 2023

Lopez is charged with agreeing to “suppress and eliminate competition” for nursing services between March 2016 and May 2019, the U.S. He was vice president at Sierra Hospice & Home Health from 2018 to 2019, while holding the same position at Community Home Health Care Las Vegas from 2017 to 2021. Justice Department has indicated.

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Hospice News

APRIL 25, 2023

The hospital is located in Robeson County, North Carolina, which as of 2019 had a total population of roughly 116,000 people. In 2019, the most recent year for which county-specific data are available, 823 Robeson residents were admitted to a hospice. Census Bureau.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

In 2019 the Minnesota-headquartered hospice provider began utilizing a predictive analytics tool from Medalogix. Back in 2019 we were really looking at how we could enhance our presences, and how using end-of-life technology could help guide us to being at the right spot at the right moment for our patients,” Arnold told Hospice News.

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Hospice News

JUNE 21, 2022

While the availability of palliative care is improving, fewer than 5% of patients with serious illnesses who stand to benefit from palliative care actually receive it, according to a May 2019 report by the National Academy of State Health Policy.

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Hospice News

JULY 21, 2023

Even prior to the pandemic, fewer than 50% of hospices indicated that they were ready for a federal audit or additional document request, according to a 2019 survey of 170 organizations by Optima Health. In 2019, RAC audits led to total corrected underpayments in excess of $18.3 million.

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Hospice News

MAY 22, 2023

Researchers have identified a number of potential clinical benefits, including reduction of anxiety, depression and improved acceptance of mortality, according to a 2019 literature review in the journal Current Oncology. Momentum has been building towards the decriminalization of psychedelics, often for medical use.

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Hospice News

MARCH 31, 2023

Researchers have identified a number of potential clinical benefits, including reduction of anxiety, depression and improved acceptance of mortality, according to a 2019 literature review in the journal Current Oncology. Psychedelics have become a hot topic in health care, particularly as it pertains to mental health care and palliative care.

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Hospice News

MAY 27, 2022

Researchers from George Washington University and the University of Chicago examined data from more than 11 million unique hospice care episodes that occurred between 2008 and 2019. The 2019 average for dementia patients was 126 days, compared to 92.6 But the longest lengths of stay tend to be associated with particular diagnoses.

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JUNE 7, 2022

Pennant spun off in 2019 from The Ensign Group (NASDAQ: ENSG). Walker became CEO of Pennant when the company spun off from The Ensign Group in 2019. The Pennant Group is the parent company of operating subsidiaries that provide home health, hospice and senior living services.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

of hospice enrollees in 2019, up from 9% in 2002, according to the National Hospice & Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO). The average length of stay for those patients reached 126 days in 2019, compared to 92.6 Dementia patients represented 20.9% days for the overall hospice population.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 12, 2023

From 2016 through 2019, the average share was 17.5%. The proportion of health care spending relative to the overall economy was 17.3%, also down from 2020’s rate of 19.5%. Again, the data indicates movement towards normalization. billion in 2022. Growth in Medicare spending also dropped to 5.9% in 2022, down from 7.2% the prior year.

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Hospice News

JUNE 8, 2023

The four legislators in 2019 co-founded the Senate’s bipartisan Comprehensive Care Caucus to focus on legislation and policy to raise awareness of and improve access to palliative care. The bill’s sponsors include Sens. Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.), John Barrasso (R-Wy.), Tammy Baldwin (D-Wisc.), and Deb Fischer (R-Neb.).

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Formerly known as Catskills Area Hospice and Palliative Care, the organization rebranded as Helios in 2019. Last year, Helios Care served more than 580 hospice patients across four New York counties in addition to 90 palliative care patients and more than 550 bereavement care clients.

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APRIL 21, 2023

In 2019, people 65 or older represented 17.5% of Wisconsin’s overall population during 2019, the U.S. “With fewer facilities and agencies to care for our aging population at the end of life, it is critical that agencies like ours step up to fill those gaps when we can.” of the state’s population. Census Bureau reported.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 20, 2023

In 2019 the company began collaborating with AT&T and health care technology company WellSky to develop a 5G virtual relative system aimed at addressing chronic pain and anxiety in patients at or nearing the end of life. VITAS is among the hospice and palliative providers that have integrated VR into care delivery. Florida-based St.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 10, 2023

In 2019, leaders set up a collaborative with researchers from the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing and the Bloomberg School of Public Health to diversify patient-care perspectives. To help combat the issue of burnout, Wu and his team met with a facilitator in 2019 and co-designed a wellness program called Thrive by Design.

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MARCH 5, 2024

Legislators added the hospice language in response to July 2019 reports on hospice quality from the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Piloted in 2018 – 2019, the DOVS process includes CMS contractor oversight and observation of an AO surveyor as they conduct hospice surveys.

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million beneficiaries with continuous enrollment in traditional Medicare who received care across 576 health systems between 2019 and 2021–2022. A recent Health Affairs study has dug into the quality and cost impacts of telehealth utilization during the pandemic. Researchers examined more than 5.5

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

The Texas Medical Board suspended his medical license in 2019, when he pleaded guilty to the fraud charges. A federal judge has sentenced Jesus Virlar-Cadena, formerly a medical director for the Texas-based hospice company Merida Group, to 50 months in prison for his role in a $152 million scheme.

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APRIL 20, 2023

Prior to then, no quarter had seen fewer than 24 transactions since the beginning of 2019. That has happened in only two other years in the last two decades, with those years being 2019 and 2020. In total, there were at least 14 home health, hospice and home care deals reported in the first quarter of 2023, according to Mertz Taggart.

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DECEMBER 1, 2023

For the first time since 2019, year-over-year turnover rates for RNs, LPNs, HCAs and Administrative Support Staff in hospices declined, after steadily increasing and peaking in 2022,” HCS indicated in a statement. Meanwhile, turnover rates declined in 2023, representing the first drop in several years, the report indicated.

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MARCH 4, 2024

The Medicare Advantage hospice carve-in has been a source of controversy since CMS announced its plans for the program in 2019. “CMS has also gained valuable insights into creating a seamless care continuum in the MA program for Part A and Part B services, inclusive of the Medicare hospice benefit.”

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

population has little to no understanding of what palliative care is, including many clinicians in a position to refer patients and their families, according to a 2019 study in the Journal of Palliative Medicine. Prior research has shown that as many as 71% of the U.S. study indicated.

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JANUARY 8, 2024

While the slowdown applies to all buyers, the decline in private equity transactions is particularly noteworthy because they were among the most aggressive acquirers in the space between 2019 and 2022.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Patients in nursing homes on average were in hospice for 109 days of care in 2019, compared to 95 days among those receiving services in a private residence and 161 days in assisted living. Rosen in 2019 co-founded the bipartisan Comprehensive Care Caucus with Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.).

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Life & Death Matters

AUGUST 28, 2023

In October 2019 Ted and I flew to join Siobhan. We desired to support her in her grief. We walked the beaches together. Four months earlier, her eldest son, Saren, who was 22 years old died in a freak accident in the mountains, doing what he loved. Little did we know.

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DECEMBER 14, 2022

share in 2019. For context: In 2019, hospice utilization among Medicare decedents reached 51.7%, according to industry statistics. The health care sector accounted for 18.3% of the U.S. economy in 2021, down from 19.7% in 2020, according to the analysis, published online by Health Affairs. Utilization fell to 47.8%

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MARCH 14, 2024

In 2019, for example, the percentage was 66%. In Calendar Year 2021, the share of hospice care days with nurse visits in the last seven days of life rose to 63%, up from 62% year over year, according to the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO). One major factor is the gradual subsiding of the COVID-19 outbreak.

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DECEMBER 8, 2023

The legislation was developed in response to July 2019 reports on hospice quality from the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) in the U.S. In 2019, she spearheaded the establishment of the Senate’s Comprehensive Care Caucus in 2019 to focus on legislation and policy to raise awareness of and improve access to palliative care.

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APRIL 7, 2023

bump from FY 2019. Between 2010 and 2019 Medicare paid a total of $6.6 CMS called specific attention to non-hospice-related Part D spending, which rose to $623 million in 2022, up from $493 million in FY 2019. This includes items and services covered under Medicare Parts A, B, and D.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Researchers recently examined Medicare beneficiary survey data from 2002 through 2019 to determine the health care costs associated withindividuals with dementia nearing the end of life. “Yet, this perspective fails to incorporate potential cost savings associated with hospice.”

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Daily Nurse

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Physicians still rate high at 59% despite a 9-point drop from 65% in 2019. Pharmacists are consistently good performers in the Gallup poll, although they, too, have seen a drop from 64 to 55% between 2019 and 2023. Dentists, currently the fourth most ethically viewed profession at 59%, also took a dive from a 2019 result of 61%.

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