Hospice News

JUNE 7, 2022

Brent Guerisoli effective August 1 will become CEO of The Pennant Group, Inc. Guerisoli joined Pennant in 2012 and until August the company’s president and COO. NASDAQ: PNTG). Current CEO Daniel Walker will retire from the position but remain board chairman.

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AUGUST 30, 2023

Misperceptions were a contributing factor in a 24% appointment cancellation rate for patients referred to Knight Cancer Institute’s palliative care clinic between January and August 2021, according to Sarah Espe Lewis, palliative care nurse navigator at the institute.

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AUGUST 19, 2022

We’re honoring two amazing caregivers as August’s Heroes of the Month. The post August Heroes of The Month appeared first on Freedom Home Care. These women have exemplified what it means to serve your clients at the highest level. They show professionalism and compassion day in and day out!

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AUGUST 1, 2024

We're Rolling Out the Blue Carpet Join us on August 15th for a documentary premiere Come and meet our new President, Dr. Brooke Flinders! Join Frontier Nursing University at 6:00 pm for a premiere at the Speed Museum Cinema in Louisville, Ky on August 15th for a reception and viewing of Nurse-Midwives: Addressing the Maternal Health Crisis.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

In August of last year, Bristol Hospice opened four new locations within a single week in three different states. In June 2024, Bristol Hospice acquired Mississippi-based Mid-Delta Hospice, a move that marked its entry into that state. Symmetries of perspective between Mauricio and Esquerra helped move the transaction forward.

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MAY 8, 2024

Last August, the DOJ began investigating potential antitrust concerns related to the Amedisys-Optum deal. In June 2023, the company penned an agreement to acquire Amedisys in an all-cash transaction of $101 per share, or about $3.3 This followed its $5.4 billion acquisition of LHC Group, which closed in February of that year.

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MARCH 27, 2024

We are pleased to announce that applications will be accepted until August 1, 2024,” said USF associate professor and program director, Janet Roman, in a statement. In response to growing need, more educational and academic institutions have been creating new pathways for hospice and palliative care clinical training. “We

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Hospice News

JUNE 26, 2024

Enhabit recently completed a strategic review, which began last August, to consider alternatives such as a merger or sale. (NYSE: EHAB) and shareholder AREX Capital Management continue to feud over the home health and hospice provider’s decision to remain an independent company.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

In August the organization tapped Dr. Steven Landers as its new CEO, the first executive role filled. After more than 40 years of history each, NAHC and NHPCO in June inked a deal to affiliate after announcing a possible collaboration last March.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Amedisys’ board recommended that stockholders vote to approve the acquisition, according to an August filing with the U.S. The transaction followed a previous offer to acquire Amedisys by the home infusion company Option Care Health (NASDAQ: OPCH) for $3.6 Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

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AJN Off the Charts

JULY 25, 2022

”—Alison Stoltzfus in her August Reflections essay, “To Care When There Isn’t Enough” The August issue of AJN is now live. There’s much more in our August issue, including: A Viewpoint on incorporating music-listening interventions into clinical nursing practice. Here’s what’s new.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 10, 2024

From March 2019 to August 2024, these companies allegedly submitted more than $54 million in fraudulent claims to Medicare for services that were never provided and not needed. In total, they received more than $23 million for those claims, the Justice Department reported.

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AJN Off the Charts

JULY 27, 2023

The August issue of AJN is now live. The post Recommended Reading from the August Issue of AJN appeared first on Off the Charts. This month’s Original Research article is on nurses’ self-reported QI engagement and competence.

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Hospice News

MAY 8, 2024

The company has completed a strategic review, which began last August, to consider alternatives such as a merger or sale.Progress on the company’s goals had not been fast enough , CEO Barbara Jacobsmeyer said at the time. The home health and hospice provider Enhabit, Inc.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 7, 2024

The transaction involves two separate purchase agreements, with one projected to complete by August 1 and the other by January 1, pending customary closing conditions and regulatory approval processes. The Pennant Group agreed to acquire Signature Healthcare at Home’s hospice and home health assets for a price tag of $80 million.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Enhabit in August confirmed that it would indeed begin considering “strategic alternatives” that could include a potential sale or merger. (NYSE: EHAB) must be put up for sale, according to a letter from minority investor AREX Capital Management to the home health and hospice company’s board. AREX owns about 4.7% of Enhabit’s shares.

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Hospice News

JULY 11, 2024

The transaction involves two separate purchase agreements, with one projected to complete by August 1 and the other by January 1, pending customary closing conditions and regulatory approval processes. This deal is a great example of that.” Acquiring Signature will boost Pennant’s existing presence across three states.

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MAY 3, 2022

This is the company’s second investment from Insight Partners, which also led a $15 million Series A round last August. With the Series B round complete, Element5 has raised a total $48.5 million in capital to date. Insight Partners is focused on the technology and software space. To date the firm has invested in more than 600 companies.

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OCTOBER 24, 2023

For a 12-month period starting August 2020, researchers set up an embedded palliative care consultation service in a 350-bed urban community hospital that saw around 45,000 ED visits annually. “This ED-embedded palliative care consultation service was clinically meaningful, operationally viable, and delivered a 6.7x ROI,” the authors found.

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Hospice News

MAY 24, 2024

Last August AREX urged the company to consider a full and fair sale process. “We are disappointed that AREX has initiated a proxy contest to take control of the board in the wake of the extensive strategic review that they demanded.” The company owns 4.8% of Enhabit’s shares.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

The Dallas-based home health and hospice company has been digging into a strategic review process since August that could result in a possible sale or merger of some or all of its assets. “As Enhabit satisfied TMA conditions in August, which cleared the company to consider its options.

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JUNE 3, 2024

If the final rule drops in August, there’s only four months to implement this huge change. They are going to have to build out a process for collecting emails and putting that in the EMR to send to the right vendors,” Barnett told Hospice News. “If We support it, but we need more time to make sure that it actually works.”

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Hospice News

APRIL 11, 2024

The research began in August 2022 with participation from NORC, the HAP Foundation and Arreola Research. Roughly 82% of Medicare decedents in 2018 were Caucasian, according to the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization. Comparatively, that year, slightly more than 8% were African-American; 6.7% were Hispanic; 1.8%

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AUGUST 2, 2023

The hospital began admitting palliative patients to the facility on August 1. Additionally, the health system’s hospitalist service, nurses and other end-of-life care health professionals will remain involved in patients’ interdisciplinary care. It features six palliative patient beds and respite areas for families.

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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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SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

“Comments from management teams we met with suggest that July, indeed, was soft, likely due to increased vacations (both among clinicians and patients), but trends appear to have inflected in late August and into this month as school has resumed in most markets,” Tanquilut and Phillips wrote. “We

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MAY 14, 2024

In August 2023, PeaceHealth reached an agreement with hospital nurses that raised wages 8%. The nonprofit health system offers hospice, palliative, pediatric, primary and immediate and urgent care, along with behavioral health and home-based services, among others. Nurses with three years of experience now receive an hourly wage of $47.74.

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AUGUST 2, 2024

The NAHC-NHPCO Alliance is currently establishing its executive lineup, anticipating to make a CEO announcement by roughly mid-August, according to Albert. We have to get to that granular level when putting these two organizations together, because what’s really at stake is all of [the providers’] representation.”

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JUNE 20, 2024

Tennessee-based Alive Hospice operates a summer grief camp, dubbed Camp Forget-Me-Not , which typically takes place annually during a weekend in August at the YMCA Camp Widjiwagan in Nashville. Branded as Camp Monarch , the hospice offers the two-day program during the first or second week of August at Madonna University’s Welcome Center.

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OCTOBER 12, 2022

WBA in August acquired a 55% majority stake in CareCentrix for $330 million. The Walgreens Boots Alliance (WBA) is a Fortune 500 health care and retail powerhouse and parent company of the Walgreens retail pharmacy chain. CareCentrix is valued at $800 million net of debt. “We

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Hospice News

MARCH 7, 2024

The company announced last August that it was considering its alternatives. “We are in the later stages of our strategic review, but don’t intend to disclose developments unless and until we determine further disclosure is appropriate or necessary.”

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Case in point, Oregon-based Hospice of Redmond in August began working with the organization Pet Peace of Mind to find safe homes for patients’ pets. Worries about their pets can contribute to great stress and anxiety for dying patients, impacting quality of life, according to Tania Crawford, volunteer coordinator at Hospice of Redmond.

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DECEMBER 8, 2022

also established a pediatric palliative care professional training program in August in collaboration with the University of Oklahoma Health Science Center. Recognizing the growing need, more providers and educators are working to expand clinical education in this specialty. Case in point, Children’s Medical Research, Inc.

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OCTOBER 31, 2023

Our third quarter results included two months of operations of Tennessee Quality Care, a provider of home health, hospice and private duty nursing, which we acquired on August 1, 2023,” CFO Brian Poff said in the earnings call. “We

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JULY 18, 2024

The transaction involves two separate purchase agreements, with one projected to complete by August 1 and the other by January 1, pending customary closing conditions and regulatory approval processes. The Signature deal was five years in the making, according to the company’s President and COO John Gochnour.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2023

In August, these organizations sent a joint letter to CMS asking to delay the program to allow for the development of a new methodology. “We

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