Hospice News

MARCH 11, 2024

Spiritual hospice care providers are an important link to building bridges of access and trust among underserved African American populations. The hospice and palliative care provider also offers advance care planning and grief counseling services. Effective Jan.

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Hope Hospice

MAY 17, 2023

2023 Hike for Hope Exceeds Goal With $153k Raised Fundraiser benefits Hope Hospice patient care and community programs DUBLIN, CA – Despite drizzly weather, nearly 850 supporters of Hope Hospice gathered at Del Valle Regional Park on May 6 for the nonprofit organization’s signature Hike for Hope.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

The center’s services will include support and educational resources for individuals and families coping with serious and terminal illnesses, grief and end-of-life situations in the community of Calvert County, Maryland. Hospice of the Chesapeake provides services in four west coast Maryland counties. million toward an expansion.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 11, 2022

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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NHPCO

MARCH 21, 2023

For Immediate Release March 22, 2023 New Research Shows Hospice Care Reduces Medicare Costs Hospice Care Contributed to $3.5 billion less than it would have been had they not received hospice care. In the last year of life, the total costs of care to Medicare for beneficiaries who used hospice was 3.1

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NHPCO

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Alexandria, VA) Congress has released the text of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023, an omnibus funding package that will fund the government through Fiscal Year 2023. As NHPCO advised its members in a Member Alert this morning, the legislation contains measures that will affect hospices positively and negatively.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 25, 2023

Before coming to Hosparus in 2021, Cook led an organization in North Carolina that offered both hospice and PACE. I was interested in PACE services just because of the similarity that it has to hospice care and the need that it fills, often for some of the poor folks in a community.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 19, 2024

We’re really focusing on providing quality of care for patients and families needing GIP level of hospice care. Established in 1980, the nonprofit hospice is also part of the Texas Medical Center. The organization serves 13 counties in southeast Texas and offers hospice, grief support services and a veterans program.

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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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Hospice News

MAY 19, 2023

Hospice of the Panhandle Promotes New CEO from Within West Virginia-based Hospice of the Panhandle has appointed Chief Clinical Officer Nikki Bigiarelli as its new CEO. Bigiarelli will work alongside its current CEO Margaret Cogswell before she retires on June 1, 2023. Cogswell has led the organization for the past 36 years.

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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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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

At the same time, the ratio of potential caregivers to seriously ill seniors is expected to shrink to 4-to-1 by 2023, a “sharp decline” from 7-to-1 in 2010, AARP reported. Caregivers need practical support and guidance for their experience of taking care of this person, and for their emotional, anticipatory grief they’re feeling.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Serenity’s website describes the services as “innovative hospice care.” We’ve started a grief group, because we want to be there after it’s over and because people really need that help and follow up. Looking ahead to 2023, what are some of your priorities and concerns that are on your radar?

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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. billion less than it would have been had they not received hospice care.

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Hope Hospice

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Anyone interested in sponsoring should connect with Hope Hospice prior to April 5 so that their company logo/family name can be included on the event T-shirt. Participants in the 2023 event encountered residual rainy weather from that season’s unprecedented storms. Details are available at TheHikeForHope.com.

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Hope Hospice

JULY 6, 2022

But a growing number of hikers have no direct connection to Hope Hospice—they’re community members who hear about our mission and our programs, and they fundraise to help support our cause. The 2023 event is tentatively planned for May 6. Registration will open in spring 2023 at TheHikeForHope.com. ABOUT HOPE HOSPICE.

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Minority Nurse

JULY 12, 2023

Flores, RN, CHPN, BS, a hospice nurse in Colorado since 2012. In 2020 Flores was a featured guest on the TV Show, The Doctors , sharing his expertise on end-of-life hospice care. He’s also written two books to increase knowledge of end-of-life care. Nursing is a second career for Derek J.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 29, 2022

We want to make sure that access to this care continues at the forefront, and that people with serious and terminal illnesses are getting their needs met. We know about 50% of all Medicare beneficiaries who are eligible for hospice care receive it. That’s a key priority. Another piece of legislation is a bereavement bill.

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Hospice News

JULY 13, 2023

This is the first of a two-part service that will detail key findings from recent research on hospice care, featuring numbers that could influence they ways hospices communicate and operate. Hospices’ cost-savings potential A study published in March revealed that hospice saved Medicare roughly $3.5

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 5, 2023

A rich mix of hospice merger and acquisition (M&A) activity at the end of 2023 is fueling trends into next year. Hospice M&A activity has diverged from the frenzied pace set in recent years. Texas-based Choice Health at Home LLC is another provider fueling smaller deals in the latter part of 2023.

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