AJN Off the Charts

MARCH 27, 2023

“I was always the strong one, the one with the answers, the one people came to for advice… ” – from the April Reflections essay, “ Take Off the Mask: Getting Real About Depression, Trauma, and Loss “ The April issue of AJN is now live. Here’s what’s new.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 30, 2024

In April, VITAS acquired Covenant’s hospice operations as well as one assisted living facility in an $85 million deal. VITAS Healthcare’s acquisition of Covenant Health and Community Services hospice business has emerged as a growth engine for the company.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 29, 2024

The location is set to open in April 2025 and will feature six three-bedroom homes for terminally ill homeless individuals in need of food, clothing, shelter and end-of-life care. Branded as Joshua’s House, the funds were approved by local board officials in Sacramento County, California, and will support the site’s construction.

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Hospice News

APRIL 12, 2023

The study was published in advance of National Health Care Decisions Day, observed annually on April 16. A significant contingent of Black, Asian and Hispanic respondents also indicated that current events have influenced whether or not they would document their end-of-life care decisions.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 31, 2024

VitalCaring came on the scene in July 2021, when its three principal owners — April Anthony, former CEO of Encompass Health’s (NYSE: EHC) home health and hospice business, and the private equity firms Vistria Group and Nautic Partners — purchased an undisclosed home health agency in Louisiana.

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Hospice News

MAY 12, 2023

Current and former employees of the nonprofit hospice organization filed a $5 million lawsuit in April for unpaid wages during the pandemic. California-based Community Hospice, Inc. recently responded to allegations of millions in unpaid staff hours. The lawsuit is currently pending in the Stanislaus County Superior Court in California.

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Hospice News

MARCH 3, 2023

RAND researchers analyzed Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS) Survey data from 653,208 caregivers whose family members received care from 3,107 hospices between April 2017 and March 2019.

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AJN Off the Charts

MARCH 25, 2024

The April issue of AJN is now live. The post Improving Patient Throughput: Recommended Reading in AJN’s April Issue appeared first on Off the Charts. How can an acuity-adaptable model improve patient throughput and care?

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 5, 2023

“Patients and families can expect the same high level of care and expertise that Hospice of Northwest Ohio has been providing for more than 40 years,” continued Russell, who took over the CEO role in April 2021.

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Hospice News

JULY 17, 2024

In April 2023, CareSource established a similar relationship with Pure Healthcare. The Tuesday Health partnership is only the most recent palliative care investment from CareSource. Last summer, the Medicare Advantage company inked a partnership agreement with the palliative care operator Radiant Health.

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Hospice News

JULY 29, 2022

2019 and April 2020. Despite these obstacles, the pandemic spurred an uptick in advance care planning utilization, as the outbreak moved more people to begin considering their own mortality or or that of their loved ones’, according to research published by the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) Network.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Roughly 588,000 of these professionals left the health care field in May, a jump from 519,000 recorded in April 2022. Resignations among health care workers are higher now than during the pandemic, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported. Burnout is a leading reason that many clinicians turn away from the health care field.

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Hospice News

APRIL 23, 2024

The organization recently concluded their third annual conference in September 2023 and an inaugural neuropalliative care research symposium in April. “We On the research end of things, the International Neuropalliative Care Society (INPCS) was founded in 2020 to help address these challenges and to bring attention to the specialty.

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Hospice News

MAY 18, 2022

Effective April 1, CMS began a 1% withholding. As of April, the rate of increase fell slightly to 8.3%, still close to a 40-year high, according to the U.S However, that amount may be a drop in the bucket as COVID-19 headwinds rage, inflation surges and employee wages climb. Department of Labor.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

Also last year, about 1,500 hospital workers at Sharp Grossmont Hospital in California voted to unionize with the Service Employees International Union, and employees from the affiliated Sharp HospiceCare followed suit in April. Also in Oregon, nurses at St.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Shetty, Centerwell’s newly appointed president, will come on board April 1. The segment earned more than $4.1 billion during Q4 2022, up from $4.08 billion in the prior year’s quarter. Its growth was offset by lost income from the hospice divestiture, according to Broussard.

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Hospice News

JUNE 20, 2023

The OCR in April announced an enforcement policy that would impose penalties on covered health care providers for noncompliance with HIPAA and the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act.

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Life & Death Matters

APRIL 4, 2023

Written by Isabelle Leslie The beginning of April has two very important days to reflect upon; Invisible Work Day and National Caregiver Day. It’s a coincidence that they occur very close together, but it’s fitting that they do.

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Hospice News

JUNE 28, 2024

In August 2022, April Anthony, former CEO of Encompass Health’s (NYSE: EHC) home health and hospice business, joined VitalCaring as its CEO and a third principal owner. More transactions followed, with an initial emphasis on home health care.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 3, 2024

At the time, VitalCaring CEO April Anthony was CEO of the Encompass home-based case segment. The case has a long circuitous history that dates back to 2022 when Encompass Health spinned off its home health and hospice business as a standalone company, now known as Enhabit Inc. NYSE: EHAB) brand.

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Hospice News

MAY 31, 2023

year-over-year in April 2023. “NHPCO heard from hospice providers throughout the country with concerns about the 2.8% hospice payment update, which is failing to keep pace with the rising costs hospice providers have experienced in recent years,” NHPCO COO and interim CEO Ben Marcantonio wrote in a letter to CMS.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

” Kusserow retired as CEO effective April 15 but remained chairman of the board of directors.Kusserow’s first tenure as CEO began in 2014. “Paul’s growth and innovative mindset is a critical and stabilizing force to the company. During his time leading the company, Amedisys’ market capitalization rose to more than $5.3

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Hospice News

JUNE 13, 2022

billion acquisition of LHC Group in April. . “The parties have been working cooperatively with the FTC and will continue to do so,” LHC Group indicated in an SEC filing. Optum announced its $5.5

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Hospice News

MARCH 4, 2023

The company in April of that year secured $13 million in seed money, with the venture capital firms General Catalyst and Aleph as the lead investors. Bereavement care tech startup Empathy launched in 2021 with an app designed to help reduce the burden on grieving families and provide additional layers of emotional support.

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Hospice News

JUNE 1, 2022

Croix entered Illinois in April 2021 with the purchase of Hospice Care of America in the city of Rockford. “Lombard fits nicely between our Des Plaines and Rockford locations which allows us to expand our patient reach to previously unserved areas.”. The terms of these deals were confidential.

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Hospice News

MAY 9, 2024

“We saw a sequential decline in average daily census throughout the fourth quarter of 2023, followed by a sequential increase in average daily census each month of the first quarter of 2024 that persisted into April,” Carlisle said. “As

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Dr. Scott Nelson of Clevland, Mississippi was convicted last April of certifying patients for hospice who were not terminally ill. District Judge Debra Brown has sentenced a Mississippi hospice physician to five years in prison for taking $16 million in fraudulent Medicare claims.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Last April, Bristol Hospice acquired Hospice Select in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. Last year, Troy Backus became Bristol’s VP of mergers and acquisitions last October, after serving as the company’s vice president of business development since 2007. This followed its March 2022 acquisition of Missouri-based Hope Hospice, and the Dec.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Becoming Medicare-certified in April 2023, the hospice served its first patient last June. We got our license in April 2023 and accepted our first patients on June 7, 2023. The home health organization has provided care in Denver, Colorado, since 1923. They came to Denver from upstate New York in 1923.

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Hospice News

JULY 19, 2023

He was most recently executive-in-residence at UnitedHealth Group since April. . — one patient, one family, one neighborhood at a time.” This is not the first role Desai has held with the company. Desai also served as president and CEO of Optum Pacific West between 2021 and 2022. Desai succeeds Dr.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 4, 2023

The organization recently unified all of its affiliates under the Hospice of the Chesapeake brand, including Hospice of Charles County and Calvert Hospice, which it acquired in April 2022. The financial terms of the transactions were undisclosed.

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Hospice News

JUNE 7, 2022

As of April, the home health and hospice segment had about 650 open nursing positions. Encompass Health’s hospice business saw net operating revenues fall 2.4% in Q1 2022 to $49.4 million, down from $50.6 million in the prior year’s quarter. Home health revenues rose 2.3%

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Hospice News

JUNE 6, 2022

hospice and palliative care physician specialists for every 100,000 adults 65 and older, according to an April 2018 study. Rising turnover during the pandemic has gut-punched many providers in an industry that can’t afford to lose more of its human resources. Currently the United States has 13.35

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Hospice News

JULY 13, 2022

CMS in April released the 2023 proposed payment rule for hospice providers, including the 2.7% per diem rate increase. The rule also contains a model for phasing in changes to the way CMS will use the wage index to inform payment rates in future years.

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Hospice News

MARCH 21, 2023

Effective April 1, affiliates Calvert Hospice and Hospice of Charles County will be known as Hospice of the Chesapeake. Maryland-based Hospice of the Chesapeake and its affiliates are unifying under the organization’s main brand.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 29, 2023

Empathy in April 2021 secured $13 million in seed money, with the venture capital firms General Catalyst and Aleph as the lead investors. Life insurance carriers that invest in bereavement support for beneficiaries also benefit from increased engagement with the people they serve.”

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 10, 2024

April Anthony served as CEO of Encompass home-based segment at the time, stepping into the same role at Texas-based VitalCaring with its launch in 2023. The events surrounding the case began in 2022 when Enhabit became a standalone home health and hospice business after its spinoff from Encompass.

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