Hospice News

JANUARY 19, 2024

The hospice will provide GIP care across the health system’s four hospitals. The organization serves 13 counties in southeast Texas and offers hospice, grief support services and a veterans program. Houston Hospice in October 2023 began opening up its inpatient unit for use to other providers across its service region.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 18, 2024

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) unveiled in July 2023. Hospices have increasingly recognized a growing need to ramp up support aimed at improving access to services such as respite care. Now, some emerging payment models are including caregiver support as a key component.

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Evidence-Based Nursing - BMJ blogs

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

I had not expected to include a child who had died 11 years ago, however when I met the mother to talk about her son who had died the previous year, she recognised me from 11 years ago when I had been involved with her daughter’s end of life care. The data collected was narrative.

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NHPCO

JUNE 21, 2023

For Immediate Release June 21, 2023 (Alexandria, VA) – The National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) published the following statement in response to a recent NBC News story on HCA Healthcare hospitals, suggesting that HCA hospitals may be inappropriately pushing patients toward hospice care.

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EAPC (European Association of Palliative Care)

JUNE 26, 2023

The theme of the seminar ‘A Human Rights based approach to Palliative Care: Towards Solutions for Public Health Palliative Care’ is highly relevant as 2023 marks 75 years since the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights was proclaimed by the United Nationals General Assembly in Paris on 10 December 1948.

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NHPCO

APRIL 17, 2023

For Immediate Release April 17, 2023 (Alexandria, VA) The National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) published the following statement in response to a recent Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) proposed rule that would update key components of hospice reimbursement and regulations in Fiscal Year (FY) 2024.

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Hope Hospice

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

November 30, 2023 — By the Bay Health, Mission Hospice & Home Care, and Hope Hospice today announced they will merge to become the largest independent not-for-profit hospice network in Northern California, uniquely positioned to provide compassionate care and impactful community services to more patients and families throughout the region.

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NHPCO

JULY 28, 2023

For Immediate Release July 28, 2023 New Research Shows Hospice Produces Better Outcomes, Lower Medicare Costs (Washington, D.C. Susan Lloyd, CEO of Delaware Hospice shared her personal experience with her mother’s end of life care. NHPCO provides education and resources to support that mission.

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NHPCO

MARCH 21, 2023

For Immediate Release March 22, 2023 New Research Shows Hospice Care Reduces Medicare Costs Hospice Care Contributed to $3.5 Multiple studies over many years have confirmed what hospice providers know: hospice care improves the end-of-life journey for patients and families.

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Minority Nurse

JULY 12, 2023

He’s also written two books to increase knowledge of end-of-life care. His second book, Letter to a Hospice Nurse , celebrates the lives of hospice patients and gives a format for surviving family and friends to process grief. I write and publish books to increase knowledge of end-of-life care.

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Hospice News

JULY 13, 2023

“Hospice is associated with lower Medicare end-of-life expenditures when hospice lengths of stay are longer than 10 days,” an NHPCO representative told Hospice News in an email. “In Recent data has found that seriously ill patients receiving palliative care services are more likely to choose hospice at the end of life.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 29, 2022

People’s experience of loss and grief in the last couple of years with the pandemic has been intensified and amplified in ways that no one‘s really experienced before. If passed, it provides funding for bereavement programs to expand their services and reach people who might not otherwise have access to grief and support services.

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