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Breaking Down Barriers: The Crucial Role of Social Workers in Dispelling Hospice Misconceptions

Hospice News

JANUARY 22, 2024

Social workers have an increasingly important role to play in breaking down barriers among underserved populations, including misconceptions about hospice that can deter or dampen utilization. Gaines has worked in the hospice field for more than 15 years.

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HAP Foundation, NORC: Structural Racism Impedes Access to Hospice, Palliative Care

Hospice News

APRIL 11, 2024

Black Americans are frequently denied access to hospice and palliative care due to structural racism, and many of those communities lack sufficient information to make end-of-life care decisions, new research has found. Access to hospice and palliative care is perceived as lacking.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2022

This blog does not intend to revisit this pathway, but to raise awareness that as healthcare professionals, we have and always will have only one chance to get it right in palliative and end of life care. What is Palliative and End of Life Care? In October each year we recognise Hospice Care Week.

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5 Numbers that Shaped Hospice in 2022

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 Promise Team Spotlight: Mikaela, BSW / Social Worker

Hospice Promise

JUNE 26, 2023

Meet Mikaela, BSW, one of our newest Social Workers! Mikaela recently graduated from NAU in the Spring of 2022. “I could not imagine starting my career in social work at a greater place other than Hospice Promise.

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SCAN Group Invests in Guaranteed’s ‘Inclusive’ Hospice Technology Services

Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Medicare Advantage organization SCAN Group has invested an undisclosed dollar amount in tech-enabled hospice startup Guaranteed. The move comes nearly a year after California-based Guaranteed launched in August 2022, when founder and CEO Jessica McGlory began her own provider company two years after her father passed away.

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HopeHealth’s Expanding Scope of Pediatric Hospice, Palliative Services

Hospice News

APRIL 8, 2024

HopeHealth has been growing its pediatric hospice and supportive care service lines in recent years to address a range of unmet needs among seriously ill children and their families. HopeHealth provides home care, hospice, palliative and dementia care, as well as caregiver and grief support services.

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VITAS, Gentiva, Home Health & Hospice Care Expand Inpatient Services; Banner Health Shutters Hospice Programs in Phoenix

Hospice News

DECEMBER 13, 2023

VITAS Healthcare Expands Hospital-Based Inpatient Hospice Center Chemed Corp. NYSE: CHE) VITAS Healthcare recently expanded its inpatient hospice care unit at the Florida-based Broward Health Medical Center. Miami-based VITAS has provided community- and facility-based hospice care in the Broward County area since 1980.

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How Hospices Are Diversifying Their Services in 2024

Hospice News

JANUARY 31, 2024

Palliative care, pediatric end-of-life care and end-of-life doula (EOLD) services are top of mind for hospices that are diversifying their services in 2024. There’s going to be so much change around value-based care coming in some way, shape or form for hospices,” Kudner told Hospice News.

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Hospices Face ‘Astronomical’ Costs to Attract and Keep Staff

Hospice News

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Hospices are allocating more financial and operational resources on staffing initiatives than ever before to remain afloat and grow. Recruitment and retention have been top of mind for hospice providers amid ongoing workforce shortages that have only worsened with the pandemic. This is a rise from 33% the prior year.

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HopeHealth’s Dr. Leah McDonald Sees ‘System-Wide Embedding’ of Palliative Skills

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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Enhabit Appoints General Counsel; The Denver Hospice Gets New Medical Director

Hospice News

JANUARY 17, 2023

Home health and hospice provider Enhabit, Inc. He most recently served as a partner at Bradley, Arant, Boult, Cummings LLP, where he provided legal advice to health care, banking and environmental companies, among others. The company’s more than 10,000 employees provide care from 105 hospice and 252 home health locations in 34 states.

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VITAS Taps Alexander Fernandez as CFO, EVP

Hospice News

MARCH 8, 2023

Fernandez oversees the Florida-based hospice company’s finances, investor relations and accounting functions. I look forward to partnering with this team and all its employees, immersing myself in the culture and executing on strategies that ultimately contribute to ensuring VITAS as the premier provider of end-of-life care.”

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How Outpatient Palliative Care Clinics Advance Person-Centered Care

Hospice News

AUGUST 7, 2023

All palliative care, no matter the setting, seeks to alleviate symptoms and pain for people living with chronic illnesses. As it is not end-of-life care, patients can continue to receive life-prolonging or curative treatments, which they cannot receive if choosing hospice for most conditions.

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Blue Monarch CEO: Hospice Startup Seeks to Raise Bar on Quality

Hospice News

APRIL 26, 2022

Nurse practitioner Raphael and registered nurse Britt Akobundu, a married couple, launched San Diego-based Blue Monarch Hospice this past March, with the intent of improving the quality of life for not only patients and families, but also health care workers. . We’re fairly new and still in the early stages.

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UnityPoint VP Agnew: Educate Patients, Clinicians to Expand Hospice

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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Agape Care’s New M&A VP, New CEO Takes Helm at Community Hospice

Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Agape Care Group Appoints M&A VP. Alex Ferguson has stepped into the role of senior vice president of mergers and acquisitions at Agape Care Group. The South Carolina-based hospice and palliative care provider is a portfolio company of the private equity firm Ridgemont Equity Partners. as its president and CEO.

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Frontline Honors: Caitlin Berry, Advocate Aurora Health

Hospice News

JULY 28, 2022

Caitlin Berry, Registered Nurse, Hospice for Advocate Aurora Health, has been named a 2022 Frontline Honors honoree by Hospice News. Hospice News caught up with Berry to discuss their time in the hospice care industry. HSPN: What drew you to the Hospice Care industry?

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How Psychedelics Could Change Palliative Care

Hospice News

MAY 23, 2023

The focus to date has been concentrated on three areas: mental health, palliative and end-of-life care. The growing range of indications that are currently being explored will hopefully benefit millions of people suffering from treatable conditions,” Filament CEO Ben Lightburn, told Hospice News. “I

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Voices: Josie Aquino, LMSW, ACC, Director, Product Management, VNS Health

Hospice News

JULY 11, 2023

In this Voices article, Josie Aquino, Director, Product Management, VNS Health talks about how VNS Health is using data and analytics to improve end-of-life care. She explains why VNS is bullish toward concerns about a hospice carve-in, and she also shares an outlook on the VBID demonstration’s extension through 2030.

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Hospice Advocates Bring their Voices to Washington, DC

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JUNE 16, 2023

The meetings were part of Hospice Action Week, hosted in Washington, DC by the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) and its advocacy affiliate, the Hospice Action Network (HAN). Reimbursement was a focus of both the comments on the FY 2024 Hospice Wage Index proposed rule and Hospice Action Week.

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2023 NHPCO Facts and Figures Report Now Available

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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NHPCO Annual Leadership Conference Celebrates Volunteers and Awards Honorees

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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Palliative Care Conference: A Discussion with nVoq

Hospice News

JUNE 2, 2022

This article is based on a Q&A session with Jason Banks, Senior Director of Post Acute Sales at nVoq, during the Hospice News Palliative Care Conference. The Q&A took place on April 27, 2022. Hospice News: Jason has an incredible background in post-acute care that we’re going to talk about today.

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Voices: ??Dr. Khai Nguyen, National Medical Director, Geriatrician, CHAP

Hospice News

DECEMBER 5, 2022

In this Voices interview, Hospice News sits down with Dr. Khai Nguyen , National Medical Director, Geriatrician for CHAP, to talk about the age-friendly care movement. Hospice News: What career experiences do you most draw from in your role today? That roundtable approach is key in hospice as it is at CHAP.

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Improving Nursing Home Quality: Jasmine Travers, Alice Bonner, Isaac Longobardi, and Mike Wasserman

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JANUARY 20, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary In April 2022, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM) issued a report on how the United States delivers, regulates, finances, and measures the quality of nursing home care. For example, bachelor’s degrees for social workers.

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Breaking Down Barriers: The Crucial Role of Social Workers in Dispelling Hospice Misconceptions

HAP Foundation, NORC: Structural Racism Impedes Access to Hospice, Palliative Care

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Palliative and end of life care as a human right

5 Numbers that Shaped Hospice in 2022

Hospice Promise Team Spotlight: Mikaela, BSW / Social Worker

SCAN Group Invests in Guaranteed’s ‘Inclusive’ Hospice Technology Services

HopeHealth’s Expanding Scope of Pediatric Hospice, Palliative Services

VITAS, Gentiva, Home Health & Hospice Care Expand Inpatient Services; Banner Health Shutters Hospice Programs in Phoenix

How Hospices Are Diversifying Their Services in 2024

Hospices Face ‘Astronomical’ Costs to Attract and Keep Staff

HopeHealth’s Dr. Leah McDonald Sees ‘System-Wide Embedding’ of Palliative Skills

Enhabit Appoints General Counsel; The Denver Hospice Gets New Medical Director

VITAS Taps Alexander Fernandez as CFO, EVP

How Outpatient Palliative Care Clinics Advance Person-Centered Care

Blue Monarch CEO: Hospice Startup Seeks to Raise Bar on Quality

UnityPoint VP Agnew: Educate Patients, Clinicians to Expand Hospice

Agape Care’s New M&A VP, New CEO Takes Helm at Community Hospice

Frontline Honors: Caitlin Berry, Advocate Aurora Health

How Psychedelics Could Change Palliative Care

Voices: Josie Aquino, LMSW, ACC, Director, Product Management, VNS Health

Hospice Advocates Bring their Voices to Washington, DC

2023 NHPCO Facts and Figures Report Now Available

NHPCO Annual Leadership Conference Celebrates Volunteers and Awards Honorees

Palliative Care Conference: A Discussion with nVoq

Voices: ??Dr. Khai Nguyen, National Medical Director, Geriatrician, CHAP

Improving Nursing Home Quality: Jasmine Travers, Alice Bonner, Isaac Longobardi, and Mike Wasserman

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