Hospice News
SEPTEMBER 18, 2023
Garlock previously provided prison-based hospice care to fellow incarcerated individuals at the Kilby Correctional Facility, part of the Alabama Department of Corrections system. Quality issues are tied to a limited supply of clinicians who are trained to provide hospice care in prison settings, Garlock indicated.
Hospice News
JANUARY 24, 2024
(NYSE: HCA) and the University of Central Florida (UCF) launched a graduate fellowship program in palliative medicine , which closely followed a similar program rolled out by Ohio’s Hospice and Kettering Health in 2021. The pediatric palliative and hospice care provider is based in California.
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Hospice News
AUGUST 18, 2022
Maryland-based hospice and palliative care provider Gilchrist recently formed a joint venture with the hospital system Luminis Health to expand the full scope of senior and geriatric care in the state’s southern region. You can’t do that if you don’t contract and work with someone to provide hospice care.
Hospice News
JUNE 9, 2023
Increasingly, both policymakers and providers are seeing potential opportunities to reform the Medicare Hospice Benefit, including the prospect of concurrent care. Driving these conversations is the need to lighten the nation’s heavy health care spend, which in 2021 reached $4.3 trillion , according to the U.S.
Hospice News
MARCH 22, 2024
McMahon ascended to the role in 2021, serving in various other positions at UnitedHealth Group since 2003, including executive vice president of enterprise operations and CEO of Optum Rx, among other management positions in finance, information technology and operations.
Hospice News
NOVEMBER 14, 2023
. — Nick Westfall, CEO, VITAS Healthcare Earlier access and longer hospice stays can reduce health care costs in the last year of life by as much as 11%, a recent joint report found from the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO), the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC) and NORC at the University of Chicago.
Pallimed
JULY 11, 2022
Hospice and palliative medicine (HPM) is the fifth largest medical subspecialty! A close look at the fellowship match data from Dec 2021, shows that HPM has the fifth highest number of matched applicants, behind the big 4: Cardiovascular, Pulmonary and Critical Care, Hematology and Oncology, and Gastroenterology.
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