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Canyon Home Care & Hospice Acquires Uintah Basin

Hospice News

Uintah Home Health and Hospice patients began receiving services under the Canyon umbrella earlier this month. The home health and hospice provider is part of the home care service line of Uintah Basin Healthcare. in 2018, according to the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization.

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Why Skilled Nursing, Assisted Living Operators Invest in Home-Based Hospice Programs

Hospice News

“If you think about how they’ve taken on strains in their capacity, these post-acute services – home health and hospice – they can get patients out of very expensive settings,” Klementz told Hospice News at the Home Care 100 Conference. Among the 1.6 They rolled out the program across roughly 75% of its mid-Atlantic facilities.

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10 Hospice News ‘Hidden Gem’ Stories from 2022

Hospice News

In 2019, the organization had just 200 members. Death doulas can help facilitate conversations regarding the dying process, discussing advance care planning, hospice election and advocate for the patient’s wishes in their final days. Palliative Care Providers Hitting Walls in Value-Based Reimbursement.

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Hospice the Next Generation: How the Benefit Could Change

Hospice News

Now, catalysts are at work that could spur gradual movement towards system integration and care coordination. Recognition is growing among health care providers, payers and policymakers that the silos around individual care settings can drive up costs and adversely affect patient outcomes. This is down from 51.6%

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Population Health, Quality, and Palliative Care: The Role of Public and Private Payors

AAHPM (American Academy of Hospice and Palliative)

In our discipline of palliative care, understanding the unique needs and characteristics of the population is essential for providing effective and high-quality care. In our discipline of palliative care, understanding the unique needs and characteristics of the population is essential for providing effective and high-quality care.

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Hospices Need a ’Huge Catapult’ to Replenish Workforce

Hospice News

In enacted, the recently reintroduced Palliative Care and Hospice Education Training Act (PCHETA) could make a dent in the recruitment barriers that hospices keep hitting. The training issue is a serious impediment to hospice recruitment, as very few students in any clinical discipline receive exposure to hospice or palliative care concepts.

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