Hospice News

MARCH 3, 2023

The number of hospices operating in the United States rose to 5,058 in 2020, the most recent year for which data are available, the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) reported. hospices between 2019 and 2020. For six of the seven measures, for-profit and nonprofit hospices had average scores of 94.7%

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Hospice News

APRIL 10, 2024

A lack of trained staff and evolving health laws are among the leading barriers to expanding perinatal palliative and hospice care among underserved populations. It’s about plugging these populations into the health system better, regardless of ethnicity, race or background, and give them the care they need.”

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Hospice News

MAY 1, 2023

Things improved in 2020, the most recent year for which data are available, but not enough to put them in the black. In its place, the organization made agreements with local hospitals to provide inpatient hospice care in their facilities. Meanwhile, Arkansas Hospice has fared better.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Utilization continuous home care has dropped precipitously during the past decade, with labor pressures, regulatory scrutiny and billing challenges as contributing factors. Continuous home care (CHC) represented 0.9% of hospice care days during 2022, according to the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO).

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Hospice News

APRIL 1, 2024

Empath Health has completed its affiliation with Trustbridge, making the organization the largest nonprofit post-acute care provider in the state of Florida. The affiliation includes Trustbridge’s hospice brands, Hospice of Palm Beach County and Hospice by the Sea.

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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 19, 2024

‘We wanted to give those people more of a runway to have bigger conversations, with also the understanding that we’re going to be in a place to talk about hospice care with them as well. So their program is not just a palliative care program, it’s meant to also kind of continue that care,” Dolan told Palliative Care News.

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Hospice News

MARCH 29, 2023

“The bottom line is in many ways the same issues that hospices have wrestled with for some time: what’s your average length of stay?” Young told Hospice News. 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.

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Hospice News

MARCH 11, 2024

Spiritual hospice care providers are an important link to building bridges of access and trust among underserved African American populations. If a hospice provider does have that cultural sensitivity and ability to connect on that spiritual level, then how can they respond to these community’s needs?”

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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

Alive Hospice provides bereavement services to roughly 700 adults and children in Tennessee annually. “As As board members, we also are committed to sustaining the legacy of Alive so that generations of Middle Tennesseans will benefit from hospice care into the future, regardless of their ability to pay,” Alive’s executive committee stated.

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Hospice News

MARCH 14, 2024

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). Social worker visits in the last days of life also rose to 9% in 2021, up from 7% in 2020.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Empath Health CEO Jonathan Fleece Trustbridge provides comprehensive care that addresses the needs of patients at any stage of their illness with services including palliative care, hospice care, grief support services, pharmacy and durable medical equipment.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

“Our purpose and privilege is to provide compassionate care to our patients and their loved ones and we believe The Center for Hope & Healing is the perfect complement to our Center for Comfort Care and Healing in Danbury that provides inpatient hospice care.” Construction for the North Star wing is underway.

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NHPCO

DECEMBER 15, 2022

(Alexandria, Va) – The National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) published the 2022 edition of NHPCO Facts and Figures , an annual report on key data points related to the delivery of hospice care, including information on patient characteristics, location and level of care, Medicare hospice spending, and hospice providers.

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Hospice News

MARCH 13, 2024

The company has provided hospice care for roughly 45 years, and also offers palliative care. VITAS’ staff of 10,537 care professionals provide care to an average daily census of 19,455 patients. VITAS provides services in 15 states and in the District of Columbia. increase from the prior-year’s period.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Live discharges can occur for a number of reasons, including the patient or family changing their minds about receiving hospice care, or the patient improves and no longer needs those services. A patient may choose to resume curative treatment, or they might move out of the hospice’s service area. About 15.4% Of those, 5.7%

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Hospice News

AUGUST 10, 2022

These clinicians partner closely with the nurses in the long term care and assisted living facilities. The clinic launched in 2020, initially serving 14 locations. The mobile clinic does not offer hospice care, but its clinical staff does continue to collaborate with those providers after a patient elects the benefit.

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Hospice News

APRIL 23, 2024

We have evidence to show that early cancer palliative care interventions improve outcomes. On the research end of things, the International Neuropalliative Care Society (INPCS) was founded in 2020 to help address these challenges and to bring attention to the specialty.

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Hospice News

MAY 16, 2023

It’s a safe place to learn how to care for hospice patients. The Florida-based hospice provider became part of Empath Health when that organization merged with fellow nonprofit Stratum Health in 2020. In addition to Tidewell, Empath also operates Suncoast Hospice. Tidewell was previously a Stratum affiliate.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

The financial burden on caregivers is associated with a range of negative outcomes , according to a 2020 BMC Palliative Care study. These outcomes are particularly damaging for families who are “systematically disadvantaged financially,” leading to inequities in access and utilization of palliative and hospice care.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

million full-risk beneficiaries through its managed care and health insurance services. The company also operates a large ACO that in 2020 received the second highest payout among 513 participants in the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP), according to CMS. based Seasons Hospice & Palliative Care.

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Hospice News

JUNE 20, 2023

And in 2020, about 54.1% of its Medicare decedents elected hospice care, the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization reported. Demographic tailwinds and high utilization rates make Idaho an attractive market for Pennant, which is also based in that state. Census Bureau.

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Hospice News

JULY 8, 2022

Among patients who received inpatient discharge instructions indicating hospice, nearly 1 in 10 did not enroll within 30 days of leaving the hospital, according to recent research from Trella Health. The company used data from the last quarter of 2020 and the third of 2021. This perspective is backed by other research.

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Hospice News

JUNE 16, 2022

Hospice provider Complete Oklahoma has acquired a license from Houston-based Avenir Hospice Care, establishing the company’s first foothold in Texas. Price tags for hospice assets have been breaking records during the past three years. Financial terms were undisclosed.

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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

DECEMBER 16, 2022

The system also operates four hospitals and several family care clinics, with 4,500 caregivers, more than 350 active medical staff and 250 visiting medical staff. The push to unionize began in 2020, according to St. Charles Hospice nurse Cherie Iannucci, who helped organize the movement to seek union representation.

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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

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

As of 2020, Miami-based VITAS is the nation’s largest hospice provider by market share, operating 50 locations in 14 states. Through the third quarter of 2023, the company’s 10,443 employees cared for 19,047 patients daily. “She VITAS Healthcare, a subsidiary of of Chemed Corp.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Many seniors have experienced some form of trauma or abuse in their lifetime, which can carry impacts for those both delivering and receiving hospice care. This is the first of a two-part series that will examine the challenges that hospice patients and employees face related to abuse and trauma experiences and how providers respond.

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Hospice News

APRIL 4, 2023

Roughly 265,000 adults will be 60 or older by 2040 statewide, representing nearly a quarter (23%) of the state’s overall population, according to projections from the 2020 Rhode Island Health Aging Data Report.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 30, 2023

California-based Hospice by the Bay has 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

JANUARY 26, 2024

Digging into palliative care barriers Not enough cancer patients with malignant ureteral obstruction (MUO) receive concurrent palliative care services when the need arises, according to a study published in January in Urology Practice, a journal of the American Urological Association (AUA).

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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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Home Care Pulse

JULY 26, 2022

– July 2021: What is the Hospice Care Index? – What did this level of oversight tell hospice agencies? Article Contents: July 2021: What is the Hospice Care Index? What did this level of oversight tell hospice agencies? July 2021: What is the Hospice Care Index? Questions abounded.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Kansas City-based Hospice Care of America (HCA) was recently acquired by a newly formed holdings company established by the private equity firm Kain Capital LLC. Kain Capital established PERA Holdings as a way to gain a foothold in the hospice market. Financial details of the transaction were undisclosed.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 3, 2023

It would have prohibited the establishment of for-profit hospices in New York state and forbid current for-profit operators from increasing capacity. . Data suggest that hospice care is underutilized in New York compared to other states, straining other elements of the health care system,” Hochul wrote in her veto.

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