Hospice News

MARCH 20, 2023

Hospices are blazing trails toward growth, each provider with its own range of strategies. 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. Hospice News edited comments for length and clarity.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Katie Leonard, director of pediatrics at Anchor Health, has been named a 2022 Future Leader by Hospice News. . The program is designed to recognize up-and-coming industry members who are shaping the next decade of senior housing, skilled nursing, home health, and hospice care.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 4, 2023

Alaska-based Bartlett Regional Hospital recently received approval from legislators to relaunch hospice and home health services nearly a year after a local provider shut down. Bartlett Regional Hospital in January began the process of taking over HHCJ’s hospice and home health patients to fill care delivery gaps in southeast Alaska.

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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. In some respects, the two sectors are already inextricably linked, given the holistic nature of hospice care, including attention to patients’ psychosocial and spiritual needs as well as bereavement support for families.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 17, 2023

Home health and hospice provider Enhabit, Inc. The company’s more than 10,000 employees provide care from 105 hospice and 252 home health locations in 34 states. Enhabit plans to open 10 hospice de novos each year in its existing home health markets. The Denver Hospice Appoints New Medical Director.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

The bonus program included a one-time retention payment that ranged from $2,000 to $15,000 per employee for nurses, nurse managers, home health aides and social workers. Since its implementation in July 2022, VITAS has bolstered its ranks with 275 newly hired licensed clinicians, including 103 during Q4, the company reported.

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Hospice News

MAY 2, 2023

Addus HomeCare Corporation’s (NASDAQ: ADUS) hospice segment is seeing slow but steady improvement as pandemic headwinds ease. Meanwhile, the company’s near-term acquisition sights are set more on home health than in personal care amid potential payment shifts. We believe that hospice volumes will continue to steadily improve.”

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Hospice News

APRIL 27, 2022

drop in admissions to 16,530 in Q1, with referrals from senior housing and nursing homes staying below pre-pandemic levels for the time being. These pressures, coupled with rising inflation, staggered the nation’s largest hospice provider by market share in the early part of the year. The company saw an 8.9%

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Hospice News

MARCH 10, 2023

When marketing his hospice business, Transitions Care CEO Jim Palazzo makes it personal. Palazzo established Illinois-based Transitions Care in 2007 as a portfolio company of the Transitions Group — which also holds skilled nursing, home health, medical equipment and therapy assets. The hospice landscape has definitely changed.

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Hospice News

APRIL 4, 2023

Texas-headquartered hospice and home health company Elara Caring has inked a deal to acquire Assisted Daily Living, Inc., In addition to skilled home health, Enclara’s services include hospice, palliative and personal care, and behavioral health. a Rhode Island-based provider.

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High Peaks Hospice

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Ann Merkel and some of the group of original High Peaks Hospice founders gathered to create a video to document the story of High Peaks Hospice’s beginnings. Ann Merkel grew up in New Haven, Connecticut where the first hospice in the United States started in 1974. In 1982 Medicare authorized reimbursement for hospice care.

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Hospice News

APRIL 28, 2022

Tennessee-based Contessa Health provides a continuum of home-based care, including high-acuity services such as hospital-at-home and skilled nursing-at-home services. Home health and hospice provider Amedisys acquired the company last June for a price tag of $250 million. million in Q1, compared to $537.1

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

The company foresees opportunities to collaborate with other providers in the care continuum, including primary care physicians, home health, and hospice and palliative care organizations, according to CEO and Co-Founder Kris Engskov. “On Engskov, a former president of the U.S. division of Starbucks Corp. “We

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Founded in 1995, the Schwartz Center provides education, training and support to hospices, hospitals, palliative providers and other health care organizations in the United States, Ireland, New Zealand and the United Kingdom. The post Building Mental Health Supports for Palliative Care Teams appeared first on Hospice News.

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Hospice News

MAY 4, 2022

The bottom line is, what we have right now is insufficient,” Edo Banach, president and CEO of the National Hospice & Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO), told the audience at the Hospice News Palliative Care Conference in Chicago. PalliCare has a two-fold approach within its care and business models. Anthem, Inc.

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Hospice News

APRIL 17, 2023

Hospice News spoke with three palliative care providers that have risen to these challenges. Smith said Prospero’s global measure of success is providing more days for patients at home, rather than keeping them in hospitals, nursing homes or rehab facilities. Currently, Amedisys has many new partnerships in the works.

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Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

DECEMBER 9, 2021

What new areas of regulatory change will your teams monitor in 2022? Acumen’s contract name is “Quality Measure & Assessment Instrument Development & Maintenance & QRP Support for the Long-Term Care Hospital, Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility, Skilled Nursing Facility, Quality Reporting Programs, & Nursing Home Compare.”

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Hospice Law Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2021

On October 4, 2021, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed California bill SB-664 “Hospice licensure: moratorium on new licenses” (the “ Bill ”) into law. According the legislative history of the Bill, in December of 2020, the Los Angeles Times published an investigative series on the hospice industry.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

That was in April of 2022. Devon, I see that you have an R21 to study concurrent prescribing of opioids and benzodiazepines, which are like the second most common thing I prescribe in combination after opioids and laxatives for people in hospice. As of December of 2022, there is no X waiver anymore. Devon, welcome to GeriPal.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Hayden Jordan, director of palliative care for senior care provider PruittHealth Home, has been named a 2022 Future Leader by Hospice News. . The program is designed to recognize up-and-coming industry members who are shaping the next decade of senior housing, skilled nursing, home health, and hospice care.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Millicent Burke-Sinclair, president and CEO of the hospice and palliative care provider Four Seasons, has been named a 2022 Future Leader by Hospice News. The program is designed to recognize up-and-coming industry members who are shaping the next decade of senior housing, skilled nursing, home health, and hospice care.

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Hospice News

MAY 12, 2023

The hospice space — and the health care system at large — is in a state of flux, driven by value-based reimbursement models, an expanding home-based care continuum and industry-changing transactions. All of these factors herald big changes for Amedisys and the hospice community at large.

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2023

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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Hospice News

JUNE 23, 2022

Private equity firms are pouring investment dollars into hospices at a record pace. Despite a cool down in the hospice mergers and acquisitions market during the first quarter of 2022, private equity firms have stayed aggressive on deals. Private equity investors are likely to stay bullish on hospice.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Malaz: One day I was in internal medicine residency and I had to take care of a patient who was admitted from a nursing home with dementia. For me, right now, the worst thing, my nightmare is dying from dementia alone in a nursing home. People start thinking about putting them in a nursing home. Diane: Huge.

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GeriPal

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. We have Alice Bonner, who’s Chair of the Moving Forward Nursing Home Quality Coalition.

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Home Care Pulse

OCTOBER 25, 2022

And my husband and I moved to Key West in 2005, and he went to work for a certified home health agency and hospice organization down there. Like, Boy, wish I was home. It’s home care’s a lonely business. And at home healthcare they do generally mm-hmm. <Affirmative> And call me if you need me.

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Home Care Pulse

JUNE 21, 2022

With caregiver shortages topping the list of what agency owners consider a threat to their business in 2022, recruitment and retention is on everyone’s mind. So, what makes caregivers and nursing assistants quit? Nursing assistant turnover rates.

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Home Care Pulse

OCTOBER 25, 2022

And my husband and I moved to Key West in 2005, and he went to work for a certified home health agency and hospice organization down there. Like, Boy, wish I was home. It’s home care’s a lonely business. And at home healthcare they do generally mm-hmm. <Affirmative> And call me if you need me.

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Chicago Caregiving

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

After her wife was diagnosed with stage IV cancer in 2011, Marsha Wetzel spent the next two years taking care of Judy, her partner of 30 years, until Judy entered hospice care. Within weeks of Judy’s death, her family evicted Wetzel from the home they shared. Their recommendations included centering diverse family caregivers.

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Home Care Pulse

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

I spent some time at the branch level and then became a corporate level clinical educator for a national home health organization. And my main focus, which I loved in that role was to help develop professional home health and hospice aids. Suddenly people were realizing that, oh, you know, people wanted to stay home.

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