Hospice News

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Two of the nation’s largest hospice and home-based care industry organizations are merging and have announced a combined board that will guide the transition. Recently, many of those efforts have included advocacy around program integrity within the Medicare Hospice Benefit.

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Hospice News

MARCH 3, 2023

Gentiva’s recent $710 million acquisition of ProMedica’s hospice and home-based care assets bucks prevailing trends in today’s M&A market. Many in the space expect smaller deals to become more prevalent during the first half of 2023, particularly in light of rising interest rates and other economic forces.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 25, 2023

Forging partnerships with health systems and physician groups has become a cornerstone of AccentCare’s growth strategy as it seeks to expand the breadth of this post-acute care services. AccentCare has been building such partnerships for years, but in 2023 they have become a rising priority.

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Home Care Pulse

JANUARY 26, 2023

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Hospice News

MARCH 21, 2023

While compensation is an important factor for attracting and keeping staff, hospices need to consider other crucial aspects. Employee benefits, a career path, organizational culture and leadership engagement also weigh into workers’ decisions to join, stay or leave a hospice.

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Home Care Pulse

JANUARY 26, 2023

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Natarajan’s role expanded after previously serving as the post-acute company’s chief medical officer for hospice since 2005. In addition to oversee AccentCare’s hospice and palliative care programs, he will also support its clinical care operations and patient experience initiatives.

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Hospice News

APRIL 28, 2023

When it comes to value-based payment models, home health has a head start on hospice. But those providers’ experiences can lend some insights into how hospices can prepare themselves. Hospices are only now taking their first steps into value-based reimbursement.

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Home Care Pulse

JANUARY 26, 2023

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Once among the nation’s largest home health and hospice providers, Humana Inc. The following year, the insurance giant divested Kindred’s hospice and personal care segments, selling a 60% stake to the private equity firm Clayton, Dubilier and Rice (CDR) for $2.8 NYSE:) acquired the company in 2021.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 16, 2024

For New Day, it meant a new way of thinking about home-based care delivery, driven by technology, non-traditioal investment strategies and extension of those principles across the home-based care continuum. New Day Health Care started in mid-2020, the middle of COVID at what seemed to be a peak of uncertainty.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 6, 2022

During that time, he helped spearhead the company’s aggressive hospice expansion, epitomized by the industry-shaping acquisitions of Compassionate Care Hospice, AseraCare and other businesses. We think it’s transformative,” Kusserow said Tuesday at the Bank of America Securities Home Care Conference, referring to Contessa.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

This article is based on a Hospice News discussion with Daniel Schwartz, Chief Strategy Officer at Elara Caring, Devin Woodley, VP of Managed Care Contracting and B2B Sales at VNS Health, Gavin Baumgardner, VP and National Medical Director for Complex and Palliative care at Amedisys, and Anthony Spano, Director of Client Development at Netsmart.

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NHPCO

DECEMBER 21, 2023

For Immediate Release December 21, 2023 The National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC) and the National Hospice & Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) jointly announced today that they have developed a proposed slate of Transition Board of Directors and officers for 2024.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Though hospice deal volume dipped in 2022 compared to previous years, five particular transactions could paint a larger picture of where investors see value in the space. These interesting, unusual or groundbreaking deals could signal what’s to come in 2023 and help shape the hospice market’s long-term future. s (NYSE: HUM) $2.8

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 19, 2022

In 2022, the hospice community laid the groundwork for a transformational 2023. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) developed new approaches for enforcing hospice regulations that will become effective on Jan. These trends in value-based care have even influenced the M&A market.

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Home Care Pulse

JUNE 27, 2023

17: How Home Care Agencies Can Reduce Hospital Readmissions Michelle Cone and Laura Coyle of HomeWell Care Services address why home care plays a crucial role in reducing hospital readmissions, how they're prioritizing this at HomeWell, and what they would suggest as the first step to improving outcomes.

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Home Care Pulse

OCTOBER 25, 2022

And today we’re gonna discuss this, a big topic, the top five challenges the care industry is facing, and how agencies can respond. Now to tackle this big subject, we are so lucky to be joined by Kristen Wheeler, and many of you probably know her in the healthcare industry since 1990 and in home care since 2006.

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Home Care Pulse

OCTOBER 25, 2022

And today we’re gonna discuss this, a big topic, the top five challenges the care industry is facing, and how agencies can respond. Now to tackle this big subject, we are so lucky to be joined by Kristen Wheeler, and many of you probably know her in the healthcare industry since 1990 and in home care since 2006.

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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. This year saw a slow but significant start, with mainly smaller and fewer hospice transactions taking place.

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