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2023 NHPCO Facts and Figures Report Now Available

NHPCO

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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Hospices Face ‘Astronomical’ Costs to Attract and Keep Staff

Hospice News

More than 67% of the 203 hospice care professionals surveyed indicated that staffing would be their greatest non-COVID related challenge this year, according to the 2022 Hospice News Outlook Survey and Report. This is a rise from 33% the prior year.

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

Hospice News

When did you begin offering hospice services, and what is your scope of care thus far? We started in March 2022 and are very much still in the startup phase. Right now, we’re a community-based provider, and we also work with a hospital system to provide general inpatient hospice care. . We can close that gap.

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Government Funding Bill Extends Telehealth Flexibilities, Averts Cap Cut

NHPCO

December 20, 2022 . As NHPCO advised its members in a Member Alert this morning, the legislation contains measures that will affect hospices positively and negatively. There is no requirement for hospices to use MFTs or MHCs and a social worker is still required if needed under a patient’s plan of care.

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

Hospice News

It most recently acquired GHC Hospice in a move that expanded its reach in Georgia and South Carolina markets. This followed other 2022 acquisitions of Georgia-based Lanier Hospice in January and Hospice of the Carolina Foothills in May. Trustbridge Names New Hospice CMO.

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

Hospice News

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.

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Is Hospice Losing Its Way: A Podcast with Ira Byock and Joseph Shega

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Summary Transcript Summary In November of 2022, Ava Kofman published a piece in the New Yorker titled “How Hospice Became a For-Profit Hustle.” Some viewed this piece as an affront to the amazing work hospice does for those approaching the end of their lives by cherry picking stories of a few bad actors to paint hospice is a bad light.

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