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St. Croix Hospice Leverages Predictive Analytics to Boost Quality

Hospice News

The post-acute data analytics company develops machine learning solutions designed to identify patients in need of home health, hospice or palliative care services as early as possible in the course of their illnesses. visits in the last seven days of life between May and November 2023. Croix received an average of roughly 10.3

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VyncaCare CEO Schulte: Redesign Serious Illness Care for Patients’ Changing Needs

Hospice News

Its business model uses a mix of virtual palliative care, advance care planning, care coordination and symptom management services, among others. The provider has expanded to four new states and nearly doubled its patient census bring 2023 alone. We do traditional Medicare. We do fee-for-service.

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HSPN Palliative Care: Fireside Chat with Contessa and Netsmart

Hospice News

This article is based on a discussion with Anthony Spano, Director of Client Development at Netsmart and Nikki Davis, Vice President of Palliative Care Programs at Contessa Health. The conversation took place on April 20, 2023, during the Hospice News Palliative Care Conference. For a patient, a panel is essential.

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Voices: Josie Aquino, LMSW, ACC,  Director, Product Management, VNS Health

Hospice News

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. Editor’s Note: This article has been edited for length and clarity.

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Hospices Need a ’Huge Catapult’ to Replenish Workforce

Hospice News

Hospice and palliative care need greater recognition among disciplines across the board, beyond medicine and nursing, according to Eunju Lee, palliative care social worker at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a proposed rule calling for a 2.7%

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Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) Model: A Podcast with Malaz Boustani and Diane Ty

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Don’t get me wrong, the evidence points to cost savings, but as Chris Callahan and Kathleen Unroe pointed out in a JAGS editorial in 2020 “in comprehensive dementia care models, savings may accrue to Medicare, but the expenses accrue to a fluid and unstable network of local service providers, patients, and their families.” Diane: Huge.

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Ep.17: How Home Care Agencies Can Reduce Hospital Readmissions

Home Care Pulse

I was working in home Health back when it was first introduced back in 2010, as a way for c m s to not only create structured penalties for hospitals with excessive readmissions, but also to reward and incentivize those providers for effective care coordination and collaboration with post-acute providers across the care continuum.