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Lack of Staff, Guidelines Build Hurdles for Hospice Bereavement Care Programs

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Hospices often lack the financial and staffing resources needed to fully support bereaved families. As with nursing, the industry-wide labor shortage has impacted bereavement care, which is an underfunded service, according to Dr. Dawn Gross, palliative care physician at University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) Health.

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Federal Bill Calls for Bereavement Care Consensus Standards

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Proposed federal legislation could advance the development of an evidence-based definition of “high-quality” bereavement care. The language appears in the 2023 appropriations bill for the departments of Labor, Health & Human Services, Education, and related agencies. The legislation “encourages” the U.S.

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4 For-Profit Hospice Providers to Watch in 2023

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’s (NASDAQ: AMED) trajectory in 2023 is a tale of three companies, and they should be watched for three reasons. Among the considerations behind that choice was his experience in working with payers outside of traditional Medicare. A forthcoming second story will focus on nonprofit providers.

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Hospices Stepping Up Performance on Visits-in-Last-Days-of-Life Measure

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Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has developed a financial incentive to foster better performance on the measure, the service-intensity add-on. visits in the last seven days of life between May and November 2023. CMS introduced SIA in 2016. Through the predictive analytics data, hospice patients at St.

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Key Research Trends: Telehealth Impacts, Global Gaps in Hospice, Goal-Concordant Care

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The study spanned the telehealth experiences of terminally ill cancer patients 29 years old and under who were eligible to receive hospice care between 2021 and 2023. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) allowed hospices to perform routine home care visits virtually, as well as face-to-face recertification visits.

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Grief Coach Rebrands to Help Texts, Launches Health Care Worker Support Service

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The bereavement care tech platform Grief Coach has rebranded as Help Texts and is expanding its services to include support for health care workers who are contending with stress or burnout. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) requirement that hospices provide bereavement care for 13 months following a patient’s death.

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Angela Hospice’s New Inpatient Facility; Hosparus Opens PACE Center

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Hosparus Health in January 2023 applied for licensure , recently receiving a greenlight from the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), which requires providers to acquire a building and design a center to house a PACE program. Apex Design Build began construction of the facility in 2023.

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