Hospice News

OCTOBER 30, 2023

As hospices nationwide develop new services to engage patients further upstream, some are rebranding to reflect their expanded scope and to avoid the word “hospice” in their company names, hoping to ameliorate patients’ anxiety about end-of-life care.

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Hospice News

MAY 6, 2024

Complicating ethical considerations is a lack of a sufficient hospice workforce trained to provide pediatric end-of-life care to growing patient populations in need of support, Torkildson stated. Nearly 1-in-5 (19.4%) of children nationwide had a special health care need from 2019 to 2020, according to the U.S.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 14, 2022

National health care expenditures in the U.S. seen in 2020, with the slowdown largely attributed to reduced spending on COVID-19 support, including Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans and the Provider Relief Fund (PRF). These sources continue to provide funding in 2021, but at much lower levels and in 2020.”. to reach $4.3

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Hospice News

MARCH 11, 2024

A nationwide survey from Pew Research Center in 2020 of more than 8,600 African Americans found that nearly three-quarters identify their belief system as some type of Christian faith, while 3% identify as non-Christians. Spiritual care providers are an important part of addressing historical mistrust issues, according to Praver.

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HPNA podcast

JANUARY 15, 2024

In this episode, we welcome Amisha Parekh de Campos, PhD, MPH, RN, CHPN to the show where she speaks on the research that she is conducting surrounding people of color in end-of-life care. Joseph in 2009; additional certifications include hospice and palliative care (CHPN). She received her BSN from the University of St.

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Hospice News

APRIL 22, 2022

Race and socioeconomic status continue to deepen disparities in access to end-of-life care across the country. Recent research from Rutgers University-New Brunswick in New Jersey has revealed gaps in hospice referrals and palliative care consultations among underserved patient populations in the state.

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Hospice News

APRIL 29, 2022

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) launched the MCCM in 2016 to explore the idea of allowing hospice patients to receive concurrent curative care. Initially slated to complete in 2020, CMS extended the program until December 2021. . ” Despite these acknowledgments, signs point towards positive results.

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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. The illness often presents with an advanced disease progression with a median survival of approximately three to seven months of life following diagnosis, data shows.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Like many in the hospice space, VITAS has seen workforce clinical capacity compress and impact revenue to varying degrees since 2020. The Nashville-Tennessee-based home care and hospice provider has seen responses to job postings improve during the past year and recently hired two full-time RN case managers, Turner stated.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 22, 2022

This marks the third affiliation that Chapters announced or completed during 2022, following Cornerstone Hospice & Palliative Care early in the year and Hope Healthcare just last week. “In Combined, Chapters Health and Capital Caring Health employ more than 4,000 staff in additional to 3,000 volunteers.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 17, 2023

In our collaboration with Family Resource, we have discovered the perfect partner — one that not only shares our passion for care, but also possesses the resources and expertise to provide our caregivers with the support they need to so they can offer the best quality of care to all clients.” Seniors 65 and older represent 16.8%

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 4, 2022

MCCM beneficiaries ultimately appeared to have received better-quality end-of-life care according to established quality measures, such as spending more days at home at the end of life,” CMMI authors wrote in a report attached to the paper.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 11, 2023

Queen City Hospice provides end-of-life care in six counties across the Cincinnati area in the southwest part of the state. Queen City Hospice has been on a growth trajectory since Addus Homecare purchased the provider for $192 million in 2020. This is a rise from 17.8% currently, according to the U.S.

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Hospice News

JUNE 16, 2023

Issues in complex end-of-life care treatments The limited use of these treatments for end-of-life hospice care is also tied to length of stay issues, the NHPCO indicated in its letter to CMS. The median length declined slightly to 17 days, down from 18 in 2020, MedPAC reported.

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Hospice News

MAY 9, 2023

Fratkin is a chair on American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine’s “Safe Use of Psychedelic Assisted Therapy” forum and also sits on the Compassion & Choices’ health care advisory council. In 2020, Oregon essentially decriminalized the personal use of a number of drugs that remain illegal at the federal level.

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Hospice News

MAY 26, 2023

For the past several years, Chapters Health has been on an aggressive and ambitious trajectory to change the way chronic illness management and end-of-life care is administered in our communities,” Molosky said. “We The two providers have growth and innovation in their immediate sights, he said in a recent combined statement.

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Hospice News

MARCH 30, 2023

The UCH partnership will also include Pure Healthcare, the palliative care and supportive services arm of Ohio’s Hospice, established in 2020. Demographics are driving up a need for serious illness and end-of-life care in Ohio.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 9, 2023

More than 20% of hospice decedents in 2020 suffered from dementia, up from 18.5% in 2019, the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) reported. of terminal diagnoses in 2020, while cancer accounted for 7.2%. Comparatively, circulatory and heart diseases, the next highest, represented 10.2%

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Hospice News

JULY 6, 2023

Many patients fall through the cracks of the nation’s health care system, and hospice and palliative care providers can help to fill in some of those gaps, according to Sonya Dolan, director of operations at California-based Mettle Health. Miller serves as president and counselor at Mettle Health.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Though new to the hospice arena, Callaway has previously served in both the home health and acute care spaces and has seen how care collaborations across the continuum can improve the quality of end-of-life care among aging populations. “I VIA Health Partners was established in 1978 as Hospice at Charlotte.

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Evidence-Based Nursing - BMJ blogs

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

Where the child has an oncology diagnosis, there is an established body of evidence, but for children with a life limiting condition, the evidence is more limited (Duc, Herbert and Heussler 2017; Johnston et al 2020). 12389 Johnston E et al (2020) Hospital or home? The data collected was narrative.

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Hospice News

MARCH 8, 2024

Alivia Care emerged in 2020 when Community Hospice & Palliative Care, now an affiliate, formed a larger company with a wider range of services. Headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida, the nonprofit hospice and palliative care provider has since expanded its geographic reach across the Southeast region to include Georgia.

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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

JULY 26, 2022

At 30%, the Empire State ranked 50th in utilization among the states and the District of Columbia in 2018, according to the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization. of the state’s residents were 65 or older in 2020, making New York 25th that year in population growth among seniors, according to the research organization PRB.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 26, 2024

California-based Hospice by the Bay has also rebranded as By the Bay Health to recognize that it now offers more services than end-of-life care, including palliative care, comfort care, grief counseling, pediatric care, and skilled home health care as well as hospice services.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

McDonald graduated in 2020 from HopeHealth’s hospice and palliative medicine fellowship program. Resources are limited among an aging population with high care needs. It’s bringing palliative medicine consults outside of the hospital and into people’s homes, into long-term care centers and cancer or heart failure clinics.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Even as demographics drive up demand for serious illness and end-of-life care, public awareness is driving down utilization. Nearly 50% of residents in a 2020 statewide survey indicated that they were not aware of health care services and support options available to seniors. Seniors are projected to make up 27.5%

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Hospice News

MARCH 1, 2023

Kosciusko Home Care & Hospice (KHCH) has merged with Stillwater Hospice amid mounting financial pressures. The two Indiana-based nonprofit hospices joined forces to ensure continued access to end-of-life care in the Kosciusko County area. in 2020, reported the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO).

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Hospice News

MAY 16, 2023

The petition cites concerns that a change in ownership could adversely affect quality and access to care among underserved communities. The hospice indicated that any future considerations will not impede the community’s access to end-of-life care, according to Alive Hospice’s executive committee, speaking on behalf of its governing board.

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NHPCO

MARCH 5, 2024

This outcome is a direct response which follows over five years of advocacy and engagement by NHPCO, including meetings and official filings with CMS’ VBID team in February 2024 , August 2022 , August 2021 , and Spring 2020. NHPCO provides education and resources to support that mission.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 15, 2022

“As home and community-based medicine continues to garner steam in the national landscape, the ability for organizations like Chapters Health System and Hope Healthcare to continue being front and center in redesigning end-of-life care is paramount,” the two CEOs told Hospice News in a joint email.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 1, 2023

State medical facilities plans (SMFPs) are programs built into CON processes that focus on expanding health care services among populations with specific unmet needs. Lee, along with co-founders Bishop Sandy McClain and CEO David Turner, applied for a license to establish the hospice in 2020 during the pandemic.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Our goal is the highest-quality end-of-life care possible,” Good Samaritan CEO Aaron Housh told the Times. Since I’ve been here I’ve met families who want this level of care. It’s hard to believe it’s not available here.”

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Hospice News

AUGUST 17, 2023

The National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) convened a group of hospice leaders at Times Square in New York City to commemorate Carter’s hospice experience. Some hospice executives have said they believe that his example will prompt more Americans to learn more about this form of end-of-life care.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

The company merged with Illinois-based Seasons Hospice & Palliative Care in 2020. AccentCare provides hospice, palliative and personal care, along with home health, non-medical services, care management and high-acuity home care. We truly function as a team with one goal: to best serve our patients.”

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 5, 2022

The transactions come after the Archdiocese of New Orleans filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in May 2020 and announced shortly after that it would be selling off a portion of its 2,500 rental low-income senior living, according to local news. currently, according to the U.S.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 4, 2022

In 2020 the company partnered with the investment firms Trive Capital and Coltala Holdings to widen its reach as a post-acute care company. Earlier this year Choice secured a $190 million credit line led by Oxford Finance, a global specialty financial firm focused on life sciences and health care investments. “Our

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