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Helios Care Partners with Bassett Healthcare to Expand Hospice, Palliative Services

Hospice News

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. Formerly known as Catskills Area Hospice and Palliative Care, the organization rebranded as Helios in 2019.

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Homeland at Home Launches Community-Based Palliative Care Program

Hospice News

In addition to palliative, Homeland at Home provides facility- and home-based hospice, home health, personal and skilled nursing care, along with bereavement support. At least 49 programs statewide provided community-based palliative care during 2019, reported the Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC).

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Places of Farewell – bereaved parents’ decision making about their child’s place of death

Evidence-Based Nursing - BMJ blogs

This blog provides a summary of preliminary findings regarding bereaved parents’ decision making about their child’s place of death. Reflexive Thematic Analysis highlighted themes (Braun and Clarke 2022), which were then considered within the context of liminality using Van Gennep’s Rites of Passage model (Van Gennep 2019).

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World Hospice and Palliative Care Day Raises Global Awareness

Hospice News

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. Globally, the need for hospice and palliative care has been growing faster than people can access them.

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New Executives Take the Helm at AccentCare, Blue Ridge, Androscoggin, Good Samaritan

Hospice News

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. Prior to joining AccentCare, Natarajan founded Chicago Primary Care Sports Medicine.

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Vermont, Utah Ranked ‘Best Places to Die’ by PolicyGenius

Hospice News

In 2019, the state enacted a palliative care law, aimed at identifying patients who could benefit from these services and making information more readily available to them.”. Nationwide, the burden on bereaved families is severe, other research has found. The average cost to the bereaved exceeds $12,000, according to that report.

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Hospices Stepping Up Performance on Visits-in-Last-Days-of-Life Measure

Hospice News

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).