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3 Keys to Hospice Social Worker Recruitment and Retention

Hospice News

Three important considerations can help hospices recruit and retain social workers — a respectful workplace culture, reasonable workloads and continuing education opportunities. Workforce shortages remain the industry’s most damaging headwind, and that includes social workers.

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Hospice News’ Top 10 Stories of 2022

Hospice News

In 2022, the hospice community laid the groundwork for a transformational 2023. During late 2021 and 2022, the U.S. These were some of the key themes in the most-read Hospice News articles of 2022 that centered around the merger and acquisition landscape as well as the regulatory climate. 3–6 Big Provider, Payer Hospice Deals.

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HopeHealth’s Expanding Scope of Pediatric Hospice, Palliative Services

Hospice News

I started advocating pretty early on that I thought it would be really beneficial to form a separate, dedicated team of nurses, physicians, social workers and chaplains to take part in this care. Our team officially began towards the end of 2021 heading into 2022.

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How Outpatient Palliative Care Clinics Advance Person-Centered Care

Hospice News

This reality presents a valuable opportunity for palliative care to directly support patients by focusing on their lifestyle and goals.” To meet growing demand, more outpatient palliative care clinics and programs are cropping up. The patient will then be referred to an outpatient clinic or home-based provider for further care.

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5 Numbers that Shaped Hospice in 2022

Hospice News

Hospice leaders have kept their eyes on four key numbers as 2022 progressed: clinical capacity, length of stay, labor costs and utilization. The workforce shortage had an influence on each one of these indicators, making it perhaps the most significant, though unfortunate, hospice trend of 2022. Clinical capacity. Length of stay.

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How ACO Flex Could Make Hospice ‘Top of Mind’ with Primary Care Providers

Hospice News

There’s lots of opportunities here in terms of bringing palliative care and hospice care more front and center and more top of mind, frankly, to those on the care team to present that to their patients,” Behan said. billion in 2022, making it the sixth consecutive year the program has generated significant savings.

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How Hospices Are Diversifying Their Services in 2024

Hospice News

The nonprofit’s pediatric program grew its capacity to 120 patients in 2022, a rise from a previous census volume of 40. 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. But it goes both ways.

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