Hospice News

MARCH 1, 2023

Formerly Visiting Nurse, Stillwater provides services to more than 4,000 patients across 12 counties in Indiana. in 2020, reported the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO). The hospice operates an inpatient facility that has served upwards of 10,000 patients since opening in 2001.

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Hospice News

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Alive Hospice’s service region spans 12 counties across central Tennessee. The nonprofit provided 16,233 palliative care visits across six hospitals that year, which was an additional 10,000 visits compared to 2020. The organization launched its telemedicine program in 2020 in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. of revenue.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 5, 2023

About 114 home health and hospice transactions occurred during the 12-month period ending Nov. Other stakeholders have cited a higher number of deals than PwC, but even those estimates fall short of 2021 and 2020 volume. 15, 2022, down 27% compared to the prior year, according to PwC Health Services’ U.S. Deals 2023 Outlook Report.

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Healthcare Law Insights blog

MARCH 12, 2024

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Hospice News

MARCH 30, 2023

The new facility at Broward Health Coral Springs features 12 patient beds and replaces a temporary unit with eight inpatient beds that VITAS had operated in the hospital since 2021. The Wisconsin-based hospice provider operates a 12-bed inpatient facility with a “relatively small” support staff team, Gerke said. Chemed Corp.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

That’s up from 1,700 patients in three states as of January 2020. But if you want your palliative care program to stand on its own two feet as a result of medical expense reduction for these patients in the last 12 months of life, it’s not just the goals-of-care conversations,” Smith said at the conference.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

“I admire the courage that it took to merge two long-standing non-profit hospice and palliative care agencies in an act to build sustainability and ensure our residents throughout our 12-county service area have access to quality serious illness and end of life care services.

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Hospice News

APRIL 20, 2023

In comparison, the first quarter of 2022 had 12 hospice-related deals, while the first quarter of 2021 had 13 transactions. That has happened in only two other years in the last two decades, with those years being 2019 and 2020.

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Hospice News

JUNE 14, 2023

During that time frame, “prescriptive” palliative laws stipulating that health care providers communicate all end-of-life care options was associated with a 12% to 18% increased likelihood of cancer patients dying at home or in hospice, researchers found.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 26, 2024

Patients 18 years and older at the Loyola University Medical Center who received an MUO diagnosis from May 2014 and August 2020 were included in the analysis. More than half (53.9%) the patients utilized hospice services, with an average length of stay of 12 days, the study found.

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Hospice News

JULY 28, 2022

During the past 12 months, the company has launched JVs that offer palliative care with Mount Sinai Health System , Baylor Scott & White Health , Memorial Hermann Health System , and Henry Ford Health System. Largely due to COVID-related disruption, this marks Amedisys’ first quarter of ADC growth since the third quarter of 2020.

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Hospice News

JUNE 23, 2023

The United Church Homes partnership also includes Pure Healthcare, Metta’s palliative care and supportive services affiliate, established in 2020. The initial rollout covers a 12-county region in southwest Ohio, but the organizations plan to expand statewide and beyond, Anthony Evans, president of Pure Healthcare, told Hospice News.

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Pallimed

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

in Pallimed on September 12, 2022 (1). Ballantyne disclosed her work in “legal consulting,” but did not clarify that this work involved receiving payments from law firms participating in multidistrict litigation against opioid manufacturers and distributors, which she had disclosed in several articles (1, 8, 9-12). September 12, 2022.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Like many in the space, the hospice provider has been fighting an uphill battle against COVID headwinds to varying degrees since 2020, including a slower flow in their referral streams, falling lengths of stay, and a reduced average daily census during some quarters. VITAS is a subsidiary of Chemed Corp. NYSE: CHE).

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Hospice News

JANUARY 30, 2023

For 2020, risk scores for MA patients were about 9.5% higher than those for fee-for-service beneficiaries, leading to $12 billion in improper payments, the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) estimated. Last year, the U.S.

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Daily Nurse

MARCH 11, 2024

In coordination with the AONL Foundation and Joslin Insight, five longitudinal studies have been conducted since 2020. The largest cohort of nurse leaders reporting intent to leave exists in the C-Suite with 15% of CNOs/CNEs planning to leave their positions within the next six months, contrasting with 12% of managers and 10% of directors.

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Hospice News

MAY 19, 2023

The law firm served roughly 550 individuals statewide in 2020. Meanwhile, Young will oversee a team of 12 registered nurses and 12 CNAs at each of the hospice’s inpatient facilities, including Esther’s House and Ernestine M. Raclin House. She’ll also be responsible for ensuring compliance at both units.

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Hospice News

MAY 30, 2023

The initial rollout covers a 12-county region in southwest Ohio, but the organizations plan to expand statewide and beyond, according to Anthony Evans, president of Pure Healthcare. In 2020, it merged with fellow nonprofit Stratum Health, thus expanding its footprint and scope of services.

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Hospice News

MARCH 29, 2023

In 2020, the average length of stay for Medicare patients enrolled in hospice was 97.0 The median length declined slightly to 17 days, down from 18 in 2020. Recent data show that hospice stays of six months or longer can reduce health care costs in a patient’s last 12 months by as much as 11%. Young told Hospice News.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Up until 2020 and 2021, LHC wasn’t as focused on being as acquisitive in hospice alone.”. In December 2020, AccentCare merged with Illinois-based Seasons Hospice & Palliative; it has since consolidated this subsidiary, along with six others, under the company’s main brand.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 16, 2022

The new unit comes two years after the 2020 opening of Regional Hospice’s dedicated inpatient unit for pediatric hospice patients. The standalone, 12-bed center took 13 months to build, and is being financed by the nonprofit’s $8 million capital campaign. The facility has the capacity to expand to 18-beds, up from the current 12.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

million people worldwide who need palliative care actually receive these services, according to a separate 2020 WHO report. The project aims to encourage the adoption of the Canadian Interdisciplinary Palliative Care Competency Framework, beginning with a network of providers across 12 home-based palliative care settings.

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Evidence-Based Nursing - BMJ blogs

JULY 30, 2022

In 2020 we clapped these staff as heroes whilst the Chancellor of the Exchequer (one Rishi Sunak) said. “ Ministers were warned early in 2020 that failing to undertake statutory health and safety risk assessments and failing to provide appropriate PPE was putting staff at serious risk. This is a major public scandal.

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Nurse.com

JULY 8, 2022

A total of 2,516 qualified nurses successfully completed the survey between November 12, 2021, and December 12, 2021, from across the U.S. Compared to our 2020 results ($73,000 for RNs, $107,000 for APRNs, and $45,000 for LPNs/LVNs), this year’s survey showed a significant rise in salary. Understanding the Nurse Gender Pay Gap.

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Hospice News

MAY 10, 2022

Case in point, the 15 deals the company completed in 2020 collectively grew EBITDA by 51.7% The company pointed toward two transactions in particular as recent success stories: its March 2020 joint venture with the San Diego-area health system Scripps Health and its purchase of First Call Hospice in June that same year.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 19, 2024

According to a 2020 study by the Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, alarmingly high rates of stress and an extraordinarily high symptom burden among patients with cancer were identified, exceeding those previously benchmarked and on par with noncancer patients with post-traumatic stress disorder.

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Evidence-Based Nursing - BMJ blogs

OCTOBER 22, 2023

Despite global recommendations that preterm infants should receive their vaccines at the same time as their full-term counterparts, empirical evidence undertaken outside of the UK suggests that they face unwarranted delays, with infants of the lowest gestational ages facing the longest delays (11, 12). Chichester: John Wiley and Sons Ltd.

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Hospice Red River Valley

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

She has been with the organization since November 2020. Applicants must hold a current, unrestricted registered nurse license in the United States or Canada and must have 500 hours of hospice and palliative nursing practice in the most recent 12 months or 1,000 hours in the most recent 24 months.

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Evidence-Based Nursing - BMJ blogs

JANUARY 15, 2023

Furthermore, NICE clinical guidance frequently accessed by midwives 12 , recommends discussing sleep deprivation with parents in the postnatal period but the link to postpartum psychosis is not discussed. 173(12); 1179-1188. 12(5): 568-578. Online] [link] [Accessed 2/12/22]. Accessed 12 December 2022]. Osborne LM.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 12, 2023

My last company, Apixio, we sold in 2020. We see a need to go to the patient — to those who may have 12 months or less to live, to those who may have five years to live — who have an unmet need from an access perspective where they reside. The others that I’ve worked with are more data analytics-oriented.

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Healthcare Law Insights blog

DECEMBER 14, 2023

On December 12, 2023, the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies Public Benefit Corporation (“MAPS PBC”) announced it has submitted a new drug application (“NDA”) to the FDA for the use of 3,4-Methylenedioxymethamphetamine (“MDMA”) for the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder (“PTSD”). Sci Rep 10, 20442 (2020).

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Daily Nurse

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Not surprisingly, during the height of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020, when nurses received so much media attention for their contributions to the fight against COVID-19, 89% of those surveyed rated nurses as having the highest ethical standards. That said, some changes in the survey dynamics are worth noting.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Thus, these assets have come at a premium in recent years, with hospice multiples r eaching as high as 29x in 2020. About 142 home health and hospice deals occurred during the 12-month period that ended May 15, according to PriceWaterhouseCooper. These reflected a 19% increase in value from the prior year.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 16, 2024

AMOREM has locations across 12 counties in northwest North Carolina, which include four inpatient care units. He previously served in similar roles at Seasons Hospice & Palliative Care since 2016 prior to its merger in 2020 with AccentCare.

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Hospice Red River Valley

MARCH 28, 2022

She has been with the organization since November 2020. Applicants must have 500 hours of hospice and palliative nursing assistant practice in the most recent 12 months or 1,000 hours in the most recent 24 months. Zierden is a graduate of Minnesota State Community and Technical College in Fergus Falls, Minn.,

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Pallimed

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

In November 2003, the Orlando Sentinel published a series of articles on OxyContin, exemplifying the media’s moral panic about opioids (12). Reassessing the 2016 Guideline; Creating the 2022 Opioid Guideline As part of a planned assessment process, CDC opened a docket for public comments on its 2016 Guideline in April 2020 (58).

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AlayaCare

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Where to begin: a 2020 software buying guide While “change is the only constant in life” as they say, it can be challenging to get change right, straight out of the gate, when it comes to switching software across operations. For this reason, AlayaCare created a new 2020 Private Duty Agency Software Buying Guide that explores 12 key areas specific (..)

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