Hospice News

APRIL 22, 2022

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. Diversity in population can yield diverse presentations of symptoms,” Kozlov said.

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Hospice News

MAY 2, 2022

Without assistance or relief, these difficulties can impede access to hospice. Research has shown that patients who are faced with end-of-life decisions may be less likely to choose hospice unless they have a network of friends or family who can serve as home caregivers. founders of Mettle Health. This only worsened during COVID-19.

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Hospice News

JUNE 28, 2023

Hospice of the Chesapeake Appoints New CMO Maryland-based Hospice of the Chesapeake recently named Dr. Marny Fetzer as its new chief medical officer. Fetzer is currently system medical director for palliative care and hospice services at Illinois-based Ascension Health.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 16, 2024

Niagara Hospice CEO Retires Lockport, N.Y.-based based Niagara Hospice will soon have a new president and CEO with the upcoming retirement of John Lomeo, who has led the organization since 2000. Niagara Hospice is part of The Hospice and Palliative Care Group (HPCG), an organization that provides administrative services.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

We additionally discussed hospice care as an option for care that might follow the trial of rehabilitation. Summary Transcript Summary Often podcasts meet clinical reality. That’s why we do this podcast- to address real world issues in palliative care, geriatrics, and bioethics. Ann, welcome to the GeriPal podcast. Ann: Thank you.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

In case you missed it, Hospice News has launched a new specialty publication for palliative care professionals. Without assistance or relief, these difficulties can impede access to hospice and other types of home-based care. Anything can happen any second, and you have to constantly react,” Kim told Hospice News.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Declines in digital health investment have implications for hospice and palliative care providers. Investors poured heaps of money into digital health in 2020 and 2021, but this year they are clutching their purse strings a little tighter.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 19, 2023

Hospice and behavioral health care could increasingly intersect in coming years as demand for specialized care grows. In some respects, the two sectors are already inextricably linked, given the holistic nature of hospice care, including attention to patients’ psychosocial and spiritual needs as well as bereavement support for families.

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Hospice News

MARCH 29, 2023

Though evidence shows that longer hospice stays reduce costs, providers are still walking a regulatory tightrope. On one hand, longer hospice stays can lead to improved patient and family satisfaction and greater cost saving opportunities. Young told Hospice News. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the U.S.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 24, 2022

Effective governance can be critical to a hospice’s performance and growth, and a number of providers have been working to optimize the engagement of their boards of directors or trustees. . It’s more forward facing than looking backwards,” Bill Musik, CEO of Integri3D, told Hospice News. “A Among these were North Hawaii Hospice.

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Hospice News

JULY 18, 2023

Home-based care veteran Rob Radics took the helm as CEO of Fortis Home Health & Hospice in May, and in the early days of his tenure is laser-focused on hospice growth. Radics’ 25-year career includes his founding of the hospice and home health company, Five Points Healthcare, which he led for nine years before selling the business.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 19, 2022

In 2022, the hospice community laid the groundwork for a transformational 2023. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) developed new approaches for enforcing hospice regulations that will become effective on Jan. The following are the most-read Hospice News articles of 2022. #1 During late 2021 and 2022, the U.S.

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NHPCO

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

In addition, the implementation of the poorly designed algorithm, which has been widely criticized by congressional leaders, technical expert panel participants, and hospice community and association leaders, will hinder a widely shared goal of improving sector quality.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Hospice leaders have kept their eyes on four key numbers as 2022 progressed: clinical capacity, length of stay, labor costs and utilization. A fifth, the rising number of new hospices in certain states, has emerged as a priority in recent weeks. These metrics are key to understanding what hospices experienced this year.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 18, 2023

The stress and financial burden of caregiving can be a barrier to hospice utilization. Many hospice patients would not be able to receive care in their homes unless their family and loved ones are able to care for them.

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Hospice News

JULY 7, 2022

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) as of 2020 allows Medicare Advantage plans to cover supplemental non-medical benefits , including those designated as “general supports for living,” which can include some forms of housing assistance. The lack of routine care can delay or prevent referrals to hospice. For about 8.6

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Since the company launched in 2020, Founder and CEO Alfonso Montiel had days when he feared Texas-based Silverstone Hospice would not survive. Silverstone came on the scene after Montiel’s purchase and rebranding of Comfort Care Hospice in the Dallas-Fort Worth region. Montiel came to hospice through a circuitous route.

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Hospice News

APRIL 4, 2023

Texas-headquartered hospice and home health company Elara Caring has inked a deal to acquire Assisted Daily Living, Inc., In addition to skilled home health, Enclara’s services include hospice, palliative and personal care, and behavioral health. The post Elara Caring Acquires of Assisted Daily Living appeared first on Hospice News.

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Hospice News

MARCH 10, 2023

Croix Hospice recently made changes to its executive team. Croix provides hospice to nearly 4,000 patients daily across the Midwest. The hospice promoted Eric Lewis to chief accounting officer, who joined St. Croix Hospice since 2018, previously serving as director of marketing and communications. Shake Ups in St.

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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? 12389 Johnston E et al (2020) Hospital or home?

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NHPCO

OCTOBER 5, 2023

For Immediate Release October 5, 2023 Photo Link (Alexandria, Va) – This week the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) honored standout members of the hospice and palliative care community during the 2023 NHPCO Annual Leadership Conference in Little Rock, Arkansas.

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GeriPal

JULY 14, 2022

This was the opening paragraph that I wrote in March of 2020 when introducing a podcast we did with Dr. Jim Wright , the medical director at Canterbury Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center in suburban Richmond. That was his literally his life during those spring months of 2020 and it scared the hell out of me. .

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High Peaks Hospice

APRIL 21, 2022

Our volunteers, some of whom are pictured above, are an exceptional group of caring and compassionate people who each bring a rich variety of life skills and interest to our hospice service. Thank you to all the staff and volunteers who were present. High Peaks Hospice is very lucky to have you as a part of our team!

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Though his narrow definition of suffering as injured or threatened personhood has been critiqued , the central concept was a motivating force for many of us to enter the fields of geriatrics and palliative care, Eric and I included. Today we talk about suffering in the many forms we encounter in palliative care. Pain Manag Nurs. doi: 10.1016/j.pmn.2023.11.004.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Many links: VA Presents: My Life, My Story: George: A Voice To Be Heard on Apple Podcasts. Journal of Hospice and Palliative Nursing, 22 (5):392-400 / PMID: 32740304. Summary Transcript Summary. Eric and I weren’t sure what to call this podcast – storytelling and medicine? Narrative medicine? Wonderful work. Bennett, C.R.,

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Healthcare Law Insights podcast

JUNE 3, 2020

Overview: This episode commonly asked questions from hospices across the country. The group shares legal and accounting perspectives as well as practical considerations to help hospices as they operationalize their use of relief payments.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

We have Vickie Leff who’s Executive Director of the Advanced Palliative and Hospice Social Work Certification Program and also teaches in the UNC School of Social Work. And then to see her show up in our hospice unit in April of 2020, it just completely broke my heart. Alex: This is Alex Smith. Matthew: Thank you.

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Palliverse

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

Time for reflection was provided when I presented my findings to tutors and this also involved review of video footage of assessments. They would all come back together to present their information to each other. One or more members of the team could be present either in person or virtually in a more collaborative approach.

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Pallimed

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

WLF’s complaint compelled the CDC to re-open a second open comment period for the public, lasting 30 days in duration, rather than the two-day period for comment which CDC had originally presented via a September 2015 webinar (4, 35). Terri Lewis, a beloved colleague and tireless advocate for patients with disabilities and chronic pain.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

2020 Hospital at Home-Plus: A Platform of Facility-Based Care. JAGS Hospital-at-Home Interventions vs In-Hospital Stay for Patients With Chronic Disease Who Present to the Emergency Department: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis. Maybe it wasn’t a slip of the tongue there, a lot of thread of hospice in there.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 19, 2023

He’s been a hospice and nursing home director. As you mentioned, it was published in JAGS in 2020, and we really started from the time of inception of POLST, so in the early 1990s, up until about February 2020 was the date that we cut off. Welcome, Abby. Abby: Thanks for having me. Welcome, Karl. We changed our name.

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AAHPM (American Academy of Hospice and Palliative)

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

2020 AAHPM Research Scholar Recipient. I presented a poster to groups who were excited to be in a room together to engage with each other and the science. Submitted by Natalie C. Ernecoff, PhD, MPH. It has been a hard year, and the path forward remains uncertain — but we believe we will find a path.

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Red M.D.

OCTOBER 8, 2020

(published in General Surgery News September 2020). It’s twenty-six years later and I’ve managed to use this tragedy to inspire a career focused on both trauma and hospice and palliative medicine. My hospice attending provided some cursory instruction and assured me she was available if I had questions, and that was that.

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Pallimed

MAY 3, 2021

Finally, the FDA determined that PROP’s request to limit the maximum duration of treatment with opioid analgesia to 90 days was “not supportable” based on the evidence presented in the Petition (17). The Backlash to the PROP Petition Begins This unity within the supporters of the petitioning group was short-lived.

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Pallimed

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Lewis PhD, Beverly Schechtman and Carrie Judy “I'm present. Chou publicly acknowledged his funding from AHRQ in a presentation at AMDG's "Patient-Centered Approach to Chronic Opioid Management Conference," held on August 9, 2019 (45). Kollas MD, Terri A. Uh … I do have a conflict.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Don’t get me wrong, the evidence points to cost savings, but as Chris Callahan and Kathleen Unroe pointed out in a JAGS editorial in 2020 “in comprehensive dementia care models, savings may accrue to Medicare, but the expenses accrue to a fluid and unstable network of local service providers, patients, and their families.” Diane: Fantastic.

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Pallimed

JANUARY 30, 2021

This is exactly how we felt when we read the AAHPM Quarterly Winter 2020 Let’s Think About It Again. This is exactly how we felt when we read the AAHPM Quarterly Winter 2020 Let’s Think About It Again. The type of rumination that fills you with so much angst that you have no choice but to act. And many more questions.

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