Hospice News

JUNE 16, 2023

base rate increase for next year, which some in the hospice community have called inadequate. 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.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Cancer remains a common diagnosis among hospice patients, but the proportion of these individuals has fallen over the years. 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.

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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

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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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

A systematic overhaul of the nation’s health care education programs is needed to ensure that future clinicians are prepared to provide palliative and hospice care amid rising demand, according to Dr. Leah McDonald of HopeHealth. McDonald is a hospice and palliative care physician at HopeHealth.

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Hospice News

APRIL 22, 2022

Francis Reflections Lifestage Care recently opened a new inpatient hospice care center inside the Melbourne Regional Medical Center. A swelling demand for hospice in the community spurred the unit’s development. Francis Reflections Melbourne Care Center includes a private bathroom and overnight space for loved ones.

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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. that year, according to NHPCO.

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Hospice News

JULY 26, 2022

The new law requires the New York State Department of Health to develop a public awareness campaign to promote advance care planning. The campaign must include education about hospice and palliative care, according to the newly approved legislation. About 17.4%

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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

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. It’s not overcrowding a market; it’s bringing in a new era of representation to hospice care. You need data on the population to prove that.”

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 5, 2022

The home health and hospice acquisition extends CommCare’s reach across Louisiana and in parts of Mississippi where Notre Dame provides services. The Notre Dame Health System launched services in 1977, and in the past two years provided roughly 131,000 days of hospice care to more than 1,800 patients.

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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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NHPCO

DECEMBER 13, 2023

NHPCO Facts and Figures is the leading resource for hospice providers and others interested in understanding the work of the community. The 2023 Facts and Figures report continues to see the impact of COVID-19 on patient care and the effect of the COVID-19 waivers to the traditional delivery of hospice care.

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Hospice News

JUNE 14, 2023

Researchers compared trends among states that had palliative care lows on their books against those that did not. More than half (50.1%) of cancer decedents in the study died at home or in hospice, the JAMA study found. Georgia is among the most active, passing nine palliative bills since January 1, 2020, the data showed.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Earlier in the year, Yonah Klein was appointed director of strategy at Unity Hospice and Palliative Care. Technology a key to growing home-based hospice care, workforce The future of end-of-life care is heading further into the home, according to Klein.

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Hospice News

APRIL 21, 2022

Witnessing the success of that oncology collaboration led physicians in other Summit departments to recognize the benefits of offering palliative care, according to Partners In Care CEO Greg Hagfors. ” Partners In Care offers palliative, home health and community- and facility-based hospice care, among other services. “The

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Hospice News

APRIL 7, 2023

.” One key set of data pertains to the utilization of continuous home care (CHC), general inpatient care (GIP) and inpatient respite care (IRC). In doing so, the agency expected a corresponding increase in utilization that, to date, has not materialized.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2023

“Frank and Chris have done everything to ensure that the Calvary family is at the side of anyone who needs end-of-life care,” Decina said in a statement. ” Calvary Hospital’s scope of acute-care services focuses almost exclusively on hospice and palliative care.

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Hospice News

JUNE 28, 2023

“I am excited to join the executive team at Hospice of the Chesapeake and support future growth of the organization as well as continue to ensure the delivery of the highest-quality supportive and hospice care to the community,” Fetzer said.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 25, 2023

“Technology and pharmacy partners are part of the ecosystem that help hospices adapt to patient needs as they progress at the end of life. These partners open doors around access to end-of-life care.”

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AUGUST 3, 2022

Alexandria, VA – It is with deep sadness that the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) and Hospice Action Network (HAN) learned of the tragic death of Representative Jackie Walorski (IN-2) in a car accident that killed four people including two members of her team. .

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Hospice News

MARCH 10, 2023

Most recently the hospice opened a de novo in Wisconsin, its 14th location in that state. “We Croix Hospice continues to grow in response to the need for expert hospice care throughout the Midwest,” Bartness said in a statement. Cottrell joined the hospice in 2016.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has developed some avenues to reimbursement for palliative care services through value-based payment programs and demonstrations. The most visible attempt began in 2020 when CMS began allowing Medicare Advantage (MA) plans to cover palliative care as a supplemental benefit.

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MARCH 22, 2024

“His clinical expertise, compassion and leadership abilities will be invaluable in guiding our clinical teams so that Treasure Coast Hospice can continue to build upon its legacy of providing comfort and quality end-of-life care to our community.” Cannone as its new executive vice president and COO.

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Hospice News

MAY 17, 2023

The return of volunteer requirements is among the regulatory changes being implemented with the end of the COVID-19 public health emergency. Centers for Medicaid & Medicaid Services (CMS) in 2020 issued a number of flexibilities intended to ease burdens on health care providers during the pandemic.

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Hospice News

JUNE 22, 2023

Moreover, families frequently give feedback that they wished their loved ones had entered hospice earlier in order to reap the full benefits, often via Consumer Assessment of Health Care Provider and Systems (CAHPS) surveys, according to the National Hospice & Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO).

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Hospice News

JANUARY 16, 2024

“A director of faith outreach is not a common position in the hospice industry,” McFalls said. But AMOREM wants to ensure its faith communities that they are a priority for the organization and that they feel supported when any of their congregants need end-of-life care.”

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Hospice News

MARCH 20, 2023

Through that program, we believe that we’ll have a much greater usage percentage for our patients to be able to access us.” – Jim Palazzo, CEO, Transitions Care “I was interested in PACE services just because of the similarity that it has to hospice care and the need that it fills, often for some of the poor folks in a community.

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JUNE 28, 2023

For Immediate Release June 28, 2023 (Alexandria, VA) – The National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) has released the 2023 edition of the Pediatric Facts and Figures Report. Pediatric palliative and hospice care in the United States started in the mid to late 1990s.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 26, 2022

Hospice utilization in Hawaii reached 45.4% in 2018, according to the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization. Though utilization runs low compared to other states, the need for hospice care is high in Hawaii. A swelling aging population is rising demand for serious and terminal illness care statewide.

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AT Home Care & Hospice

MAY 23, 2023

According to the 2020 Census , more than 55 million people aged 65 and older live in America today, and those numbers will grow in the coming years. Many families find that end-of-life care for a loved one comes with complex medical and emotional needs. population.

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Hospice News

MAY 2, 2022

Though professionally she has cared for terminally ill patients for more than 30 years, her personal experience after her mother’s diagnosis with Stage 4 pancreatic cancer underscored the critical importance of her work. This drives her commitment to expand access to hospice care, particularly among underserved populations.

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High Peaks Hospice

MARCH 1, 2022

In July 2020, early into the pandemic, Dr. Gedney officially joined our team as our new Medical Director. Almost two years later he continues to love his job and embraces the challenges that innately come along with it such as being the largest hospice geographically in the United States, second only to a hospice in Alaska.

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JULY 12, 2023

Flores, RN, CHPN, BS, a hospice nurse in Colorado since 2012. In 2020 Flores was a featured guest on the TV Show, The Doctors , sharing his expertise on end-of-life hospice care. He’s also written two books to increase knowledge of end-of-life care.

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Seasons Hospice

JANUARY 7, 2021

After a tumultuous year in 2020, many are looking forward to 2021 as a year of renewed hope. Here at Seasons Hospice of Tulsa and Muskogee, we would like to share some words of encouragement with you and your family as we move into the new year.

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Seasons Hospice

DECEMBER 17, 2020

As 2020 comes to a close, you may be thinking of a way that you can improve your life for 2021. As an older adult, you may be wondering what you can do this year to better your life. If you or a loved one are dealing with a life-limiting illness, don’t put off hospice care in 2021. You’re not alone.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2022

“People in the final stages of life should have access to the compassionate care that hospice and palliative care provide. I have long worked to advance bipartisan solutions that expand the public’s access to palliative and end-of-life care. Thank you to the NHPCO for this award and their work?

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