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

MAY 31, 2023

Marjorie Zyirek-Bacon has joined the medical center as a new palliative care physician. Additional palliative team members included Kim Danforth, a licensed social worker, and Brooke Simmons as its new medical assistant. The two organizations first rolled out these services in 2021 at the WCGH hospital.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 28, 2023

Employee and patient safety concerns represent a barrier to hospice care among underserved, urban communities, particularly those with higher crime rates. Between18% and 65% of home health care workers said they had experienced verbal abuse from patients during the past two decades, the CDC and NIOSH indicated in the report.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Guaranteed’s New SVP of Growth, Strategy Tech-enabled hospice startup Guaranteed has named Ryan Malone as its new senior vice president of growth and strategy. Before joining Guaranteed, Malone served as vice president of sales and partnerships at mental health provider Thriveworks since 2021. Carl Derrick as medical director.

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Hospice News

MAY 30, 2023

“The scholarship is a dependable way to assist hospice home care aids in furthering their careers, voicing their stories on the importance [of] what caregiving means to them and emphasize the changes that have occurred in their patients’ lives,” Winthorpe said in a statement. Seniors 65 and older represent 14.6% Census Bureau.

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Hospice News

APRIL 7, 2023

An estimated 1 in 13 children experienced such a loss before adulthood in 2022, up from an average of 14 in 2021, according to annual CBEM reports from the Judi’s House/JAG Institute. Around 1,192 children became “newly bereaved” each day in 2021 due to the death of a sibling or parent, the 2023 CBEM report found.

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Hospice News

APRIL 3, 2024

She will oversee a hospice average daily census in the high hundreds, across four states and that size organization falls into the upper tier of mid-size providers and has us positioned for expansion.” The company’s roughly 7,000 employees provide care to an average daily census of more than 11,000 patients.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 15, 2022

The unique needs of families and children facing life-limiting can wear pediatric palliative and hospice care clinicians especially thin, and the potential for burnout can leave providers even more short-staffed than many already are. Even outside of hospice, caring for seriously ill children can take a mental and emotional toll.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 26, 2022

The clearest example of how this works was the 2020 rebasing of payments for the four levels of hospice care. CMS that year reduced routine home care (RHC) rates by 2.7% and increased amounts for continuous home care, general inpatient care, and inpatient respite care by the same percentage.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Seriously ill children represent some of the most underserved populations nationwide in terms of quality and access to supportive health care, according to Katie Leonard, director of pediatrics at California-based Anchor Health. There is a great unmet need for supportive care at home. Each year an estimated 2.5

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Families caring for seriously ill loved ones face systemic barriers that could threaten patients’ ability to receive care at home, including at the end of life. If a family can’t withstand these burdens, the patient may have to receive care in a facility to ensure their needs are met.

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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. But the prevalence of mental health conditions and related concerns like isolation and substance abuse mean that hospice and behavioral health providers may need to find more ways to integrate their services.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 8, 2023

For nearly a decade, stakeholders have sought passage of the Palliative Care and Hospice Education Training Act (PCHETA). If enacted, PCHETA would support hospice and palliative care training programs for physicians, nurses, pharmacists, social workers and chaplains.

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Hospice News

APRIL 17, 2023

The UnitedHealth Group subsidiary Optum ultimately did acquire Prospero in early 2021 and is in the process of merging the company with its Landmark subsidiary. NASDAQ: AMED) acquired the business in 2021. When we would try to do palliative care before, we’d lose money,” Kusserow said. “I Amedisys Inc.

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Hospice News

JULY 11, 2023

I have channeled my passion for working with underserved communities, beginning as a licensed social worker for a large hospital system, where I experienced firsthand the disparities in healthcare access and limitations in delivering whole-person care. There are concerns about a hospice carve-in.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Mission Healthcare, a portfolio company of the private equity firm the Vistria Group, was founded in 2009 and provides care to roughly 5,000 patients daily across its home state in California, as well as in Arizona, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon, Utah and Washington.

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Hospice News

MAY 2, 2022

Katrina Agnew joined UnityPoint Health in December of 2021 as vice president of hospice. 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.

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NHPCO

JUNE 16, 2023

Noting that the hospice market basket calculation used to predetermine hospice reimbursements ahead of each fiscal year has resulted in rates that have not kept up with actual market basket increases, NHPCO recommended that CMS use its special exception and adjustment authority to make a one-time retrospective adjustment of 3.7%

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 19, 2022

In 2022, the hospice community laid the groundwork for a transformational 2023. During late 2021 and 2022, the U.S. 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

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Living With Hospice

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

You might want to try a pro and con approach or an upside to treatment and a downside to treatment and an upside to hospice care and a downside to hospice care. So it's interesting to hear comments from other countries about hospice care. A comparison, knowing that treatment is no longer going to cure you.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 24, 2022

Careful management of hospice care manager workloads correlates with longer lengths of stay. For many patients length of stay is a week or less, which is too short for them to receive the full benefit of hospice care. Length of stay is an important metric from both a clinical and business standpoint.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Generally, fewer clinicians has meant fewer patients have been receiving hospice care, according to industry observers and companies’ own reports. in the same period of 2021, according to research by Scott Fidel, analyst for Stephens. days in Q3, compared to 96 days in Q3 2021. drop year-over-year. The company saw a 10.6%

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GeriPal

AUGUST 25, 2022

What do we know about the differences between the two types of organizations when we’re thinking about hospice care? One is the patient population and a targeting of for-profit hospices around patients who are going to be potentially less costly and more profitable. People across all diagnoses want hospice care.

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Living With Hospice

JANUARY 30, 2021

I'm not a social worker. I do have a lot of experience with hospice care, death and dying. As I've been both a caregiver and a volunteer for hospice. For many years, I've seen hospice and end of life care from the patient's perspective, from the caregivers perspective. I'm not a nurse.

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2023

What is our role as hospice and palliative care providers in advocating for high-quality hospice care? If you are interested in signing the position statement “Core Roles and Responsibilities of Physicians in Hospice Care”, click here. JAMA IM 2021 Hospice Acquisitions by Profit-Driven Private Equity Firms.

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