Hospice News

APRIL 4, 2023

In addition to skilled home health, Enclara’s services include hospice, palliative and personal care, and behavioral health. The acquisition presents opportunities for Elara Caring to fill gaps between its adjacent markets in Connecticut and Massachusetts.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 24, 2024

Emerging training models More palliative care education pathways have emerged in recent years, including a virtual reality-based training program that Brigham and Women’s Hospital launched into developing in November 2023. Luke’s Hospice & Palliative Medicine’s program. In 2022 Nashville-based HCA Healthcare Inc.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 17, 2023

Agrace employs roughly 9000 staff who provide hospice, palliative, personal care and adult day and memory care services to nearly 1,500 patients daily in 19 counties statewide. The nonprofit’s census has grown by 20% during the last half of 2022 alone, according to Agrace CEO Lynne Sexten. I took on the challenge.

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Hospice News

APRIL 11, 2023

Hospices have relied on data to enhances their ability to assess the quality and quantity of bedside care delivered during a patients’ final days. This includes two key quality measures: Hospice Visits in the Last Days of Life (HVLDL) and the Hospice Care Index (HCI).

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Hospice News

MARCH 20, 2023

Regardless of providers’ disparate methods, hospice remains a high-growth industry, expanding at an annual rate of 7% to 8% annually, Bank of America (BofA) Global Research reported in TKTK. By 2030, the hospice market’s total dollar value is expected to nearly double, reaching $64.7 billion, up from $34.5

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Hospice News

JUNE 28, 2023

“I am excited to join the executive team at Hospice of the Chesapeake and support future growth of the organization as well as continue to ensure the delivery of the highest-quality supportive and hospice care to the community,” Fetzer said. He’ll continue to serve as CMO of both organizations.

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Hospice News

APRIL 21, 2022

(NYSE: HUM) has signed a definitive agreement to sell a 60% stake in Kindred at Home’s (KAH) hospice and personal care business to the private equity firm Clayton, Dubilier & Rice (CDR) for $2.8 Last year also saw hospice assets trading at high multiples. Hospice partnership vs.ownership.

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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

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

You find yourself doing the wound care, because you want this patient to have some comfort. You even try to help with personal care, and things like that. I am also curious as to how does it affect your quality of life as a clinician. You have to go above and beyond to help. So you try to bridge that gap.

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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.

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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. 3–6 Big Provider, Payer Hospice Deals.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 10, 2022

My experience in patient oncology gave me the opportunity to care for a lot of end-of-life patients and others who came into the hospital with a quick diagnosis then went home to pass away. Those were the patients I took a kinship with, and that’s where I determined to focus my career on hospice.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 5, 2023

AREX Capital Management in June began urging the Dallas-based home health and hospice’s board of directors to explore strategic alternatives, in part driven by these two massive deals. AREX has been an Enhabit investor since it spun off from Encompass Health Corporation’s (NYSE: EHC) home health and hospice segments in July 2022.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 23, 2022

National immigration policies are limiting the scope of hospice workforce growth in these states, as well as many others nationwide, said Roque-Velasco. Additionally, immigrant workers make up 22% of the nation’s nursing assistants and 17% of the entire health care and social services industry, reported the Migration Policy Institute.

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