Hospice News

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Bailey Woodhams, business development manager for consulting firm Maxwell Healthcare Associates, 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

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Palliative care organizations that integrate employee feedback into their staff development policies have a fighting chance in battling ongoing burnout and turnover in the field. The palliative care workforce is facing a wide range of challenges that impact their ability to thrive in the field.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Oncology practices have increasingly collaborated with palliative care providers — or built their own service lines — to better support cancer patients throughout their health care journeys. Integrating palliative care deeper into oncology practices “empowers” these providers to improve utilization and quality, she indicated.

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GeriPal

APRIL 26, 2024

As I argue on the podcast, ELNEC has likely done more to lift the primary palliative care skills of clinicians than any other initiative. He is a palliative care physician at the Durham VA Medical Center in Duke and blogs on Substack at Notes from a Family Meeting. From you reading the 2022 article that was authored? Josh: Yeah.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 16, 2022

The webinar took place in September 2022. 3 Keys to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in Palliative Care. With the onset of widespread diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives across all industries, palliative care is transforming health equity in today’s society. As the next major quality issue in the U.S.,

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Palliverse

JULY 12, 2022

My colleague Kaye Basire wanted everyone to know about this event which will precede the Hospice New Zealand conference 2022. The draft agenda can be downloaded below: Aotearoa Palliative Care Research Day – Hybrid Event. We all recognise the importance of research in enhancing patient care.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Lauren O’Dwyer, CFO at Anvoi Hospice and Anvoi Management, LLC, has been named a 2022 Future Leader by Hospice News. This all affects patient care, and the support to administrators, nurses and everyone that’s part of caring for patients. Future Leaders are individuals nominated by their peers.

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Hospice News

JUNE 9, 2022

This article is based on a Palliative Care conference Q&A with Tina Taylor, Vice President of Palliative Care Compassus and Christina Andrews, Director of Professional Services at Axxess. The Q&A took place on April 27, 2022. Tina Taylor: I’m Tina Taylor, vice president of palliative care at Compassus.

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Hospice News

MARCH 1, 2024

In case you missed it, Hospice News has launched a new specialty publication for palliative care professionals. You can subscribe to Palliative Care News here: Subscribe today! Frontpoint Health has completed its acquisition of the Texas-based home health and hospice company High Plains Senior Care Group (HPSC).

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Scott Ginn held the role since November 2022 prior to Guidroz’s ascension. “In She replaces Cathy Swanson, who has led the nonprofit hospice and palliative care provider since 2021 when it rebranded as AMOREM following the merger of Burke Hospice & Palliative Care and Caldwell Hospice and Palliative Care.

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Hospice News

MAY 12, 2023

Established in 1979, the nonprofit organization provides hospice and palliative care in three counties near the San Francisco area of northern California. Attorneys at the law firm Blumenthal Nordrehaug Bhowmik De Blouw LLP are representing the health care workers in the matter. reported an 83% employee retention rate in 2022.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 2, 2023

CMS in 2022 began working the legislation’s provisions into its rulemaking. The agency isn’t imposing these penalties on hospices yet, according to Judi Lund Person, vice president of policy and compliance for the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO). Nevertheless, the agency does have the authority to do so.

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Hospice News

APRIL 18, 2023

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is insufficient to support hospice patients’ care needs, a major industry group said. The National Hospice & Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) recently took the pulse of its provider members as it pertains to the proposed rule. this year. increase.

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High Peaks Hospice

MAY 6, 2022

I place calls to patients, families, providers, pharmacies, DeltaCare, DME, and Funeral Homes for many different reasons. I have to be kind, sensitive, patient, caring, empathetic, and show love to them regardless of how they are acting at the moment. . Happy Nurses Week 2022 and thank you again to ALL of our nursing staff!

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 27, 2023

This can put a strain on employee’s home life, which can cause them to leave their jobs, Shelley Henry, president of The Amity Group said in a presentation at the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization’s (NHPCO) Annual Leadership Conference in Little Rock, Arkansas. “We

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

billion in 2022 and went on to make a bid to purchase Amedisys (NASDAQ: AMED) for $3.3 In total hospice care saves Medicare roughly $3.5 billion for patients in their final year of life, the findings showed. Stillwater Hospice’s merger with Kosciusko Home Care & Hospice (KHCH) in March marked another significant move.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

As those problems proliferate, the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO), the National Association for Home Care and Hospice (NAHC), LeadingAge and the National Partnership for Hospice and Healthcare Innovation (NPHI) have been speaking out not only individually, but collectively.

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Hospice News

MARCH 13, 2023

Kusserow led Amedisys between 2014 and the first quarter of 2022, when he retired as CEO but stayed on as chairman. I am passionate about patient care and giving Amedisys’ caregivers the tools and support needed to focus on what they do best,” Ashworth said in statement. “I

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Hospice News

APRIL 28, 2023

To date, much of this has centered around diversified programs like palliative care, PACE and other services. But starting in 2022, CMS began rolling it out nationwide. Dallas-based Frontpoint is an emerging provider of home health, hospice, palliative and personal care with a focus on Medicare Advantage enrollees in Texas markets. “I’m

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Enhabit in late 2022 began piloting this strategy in some of its markets and soon rehired some nurses who had left the company citing caseload issues. Guaranteed The California-based hospice startup Guaranteed found staffing to be a challenge as they launched in 2022.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 2, 2023

Roughly 78% of hospice and palliative care providers around the globe indicated “less or much less” use of volunteers since the pandemic’s onset, according to a 2022 study in the International Journal of Health Policy and Management. Many hospices saw volunteer volumes dip drastically as they suspended activities during the pandemic.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

31, 2022. “On The company has been aggressive on acquisitions for the past two years but paused in early 2022 to integrate its most recently acquired assets and accumulate capital. But executives indicated that they would be back on the hunt during the second half of 2022 and into 2023. The company in March received a $1.5

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Signify is a value-based care enablement company that concentrates on care in the home, including home health and palliative care. CVS indicated that the transaction will lay the foundation for further expansion in home-based health care. million individuals in their homes. Signify earned $246.2

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Hospice News

AUGUST 22, 2022

Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) is reportedly bidding to acquire value-based care platform Signify Health (NYSE: SGNY), which provides tech-enabled home health and complex care management services, among others. Signify partners with payers and health systems to offer home-based care. Signify earned $246.2

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Hospice News

MAY 17, 2023

This included the temporary lifting of the requirement that volunteers provide at least 5% of hospice patient care hours. Configuring the 5% hospice volunteer requirement back into the patient care equation will take a creative and multigenerational approach, according to Dr. CMS will reinstate the rule as of Jan.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 5, 2022

among Medicare decedents in 2018, according to the National Hospice & Palliative Care Organization. Croix has also launched five de novos so far in 2022, in Missouri, Nebraska, South Dakota, Minnesota, and Kansas. “We This represents 46% growth in the senior population since 2015. Hospice utilization in Indiana reached 48.9%

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AAHPM (American Academy of Hospice and Palliative)

AUGUST 11, 2023

In our discipline of palliative care, understanding the unique needs and characteristics of the population is essential for providing effective and high-quality care. In recent years, with the rise of value-based care, palliative care has expanded beyond the realms of hospital and immediate cancer pain care.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 8, 2023

A large contingent of these companies were established with the purpose of selling the license at a profit, with little concern for patient care. Arizona had 239 new Medicare-certified hospices appear between 2018 and 2022, representing 52% of all providers in the state. billion, a rate of 12%, Noridian indicated.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Summary Transcript Summary Last week we talked about a trial of a nurse and social worker outpatient palliative care intervention published in JAMA. For context, listen to the prior podcast with Scott on “ nudges ” and prior podcast with Kate on who should get palliative care. and consulting for Papa Health.

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Hospice News

JUNE 16, 2022

In part, the trend of more hospitals and health systems in hospice is a response to growing demand and strain on acute care services. More health systems are looking to expand into community-based hospice and palliative care to complement existing offerings while creating new care delivery channels.

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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. Trustbridge Names New Hospice CMO.

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Hospice News

JUNE 27, 2023

Now, many operators are contracting with managed care plans for other service lines, such as palliative care, or they may be participating in the hospice component of the value-based insurance design model. But providers will have to take care to ensure that contracts are structured to be mutually beneficial.

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Hospice News

JULY 11, 2023

Now, as a product manager, I channel these experiences towards improving outcomes during the most critical moments of patients’ lives, an aspect of care often overlooked despite its importance. My commitment extends beyond individual patient care to working with organizations to make a larger impact on improving outcomes.

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Hospice News

JUNE 22, 2023

Also, across the board, more health care has been steadily moving into the home setting, particularly in the wake of the pandemic. Additionally, we believe the home will become a more important setting for health care in the future, with continuing growth in demand.” Joe Morelle (D-N.Y.) told Hospice News.

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NHPCO

DECEMBER 13, 2023

The findings in this report reflect patients who received care in Calendar Year (CY) 2021, or Fiscal Year (FY) 2021, provided by hospices certified by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and reimbursed under the Medicare Hospice Benefit. However, this year started to see the return to pre COVID-19 levels in some areas.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

Summary Transcript Summary The CDC’s Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain excludes those undergoing cancer treatment, palliative care, and end-of-life care. That was in April of 2022. Jessie Merlin is an addiction and palliative care physician, and professor of medicine at the University of Pittsburgh.

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Palliverse

JUNE 16, 2022

. “NSW residents will have access to the highest quality care and pain management services at the end of their life, with palliative care and specialist health services to receive a record $743 million funding boost over the next five years. ” Quoted from this NSW government press release.

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