Hospice News

JUNE 20, 2023

In the intervening years, Hyatt was executive director of operations for Kaiser Permanente in Northern Colorado. Care Synergy provides back-office and administrative support to a network of nonprofit, home-based care providers, primarily in Colorado. The nonprofit has provided hospice care in two Colorado counties since 1978.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 1, 2022

The National Institutes of Health is financing the research, which includes the University of Alabama at Birmingham, Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center, the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, and Maryland-based TidalHealth Peninsula Regional.

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Hospice News

JUNE 28, 2023

Hospice Collaborative Care Synergy Taps New CMO Dr. Robert Howe is stepping in as chief medical officer for Care Synergy, a group of nonprofit hospice, home health and palliative care providers in Colorado. HopeWest Names New Vice President Colorado-based HopeWest has named Lindsay Kampfer as its vice president of hospice and palliative care.

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Hospice News

JULY 28, 2023

Meanwhile, Care Synergy is a group that provides back-office and administrative support to its network of nonprofit, home-based care providers, primarily in Colorado. In addition to The Denver Hospice, its affiliates include Colorado Visiting Nurse Association (CVNA), Pathways, and Pikes Peak Hospice and Palliative Care, among others.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Care Synergy provides back-office and administrative support to a network of nonprofit, home-based care providers, primarily in Colorado. Its affiliates include the Colorado Visiting Nurse Association (CVNA), The Denver Hospice, Pathways, and Pikes Peak Hospice and Palliative Care, among others. .

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Hospice News

MARCH 8, 2024

Other states without certificate of need laws include Colorado, Idaho, Kansas, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, Utah and North and South Dakota. Hansen also serves as executive director of the Homecare & Hospice Association of Utah (HHAU).

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Hospice News

JANUARY 17, 2023

Established in 1978, The Denver Hospice provides care to more than 4,000 hospice and around 1,200 palliative care patients annually in nine counties in Colorado. . The Denver Hospice is an affiliate of the Care Synergy network, a collaborative of nonprofit hospice, home health and palliative care providers in Colorado.

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Hospice News

MAY 22, 2023

In January, researchers at the University of Colorado Denver received a $2.1 For example, Johns Hopkins Medicine in 2019 established a Center for Psychedelic and Consciousness Research backed by $17 million in grants.

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Hospice News

MAY 9, 2023

Fratkin, palliative care specialist, Humboldt Center for New Growth and founding partner, Fire & Water Consulting States like Oregon and Colorado have been at the forefront of changing psychedelic and cannabis policies. What’s happening now has been a long haul of education and evolving basics and fundamentals around assisted therapies.

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Hospice News

MAY 24, 2023

California, Colorado, Hawaii, Maine and Oregon each have established Medicaid reimbursement for community-based palliative care. Colorado, Maryland and New York include palliative care as part of their health care facility licensing. Therefore, those services are available only to individuals with a terminal or life-limiting condition.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Others include Care Synergy in Colorado and Wisconsin Hospice & Palliative Care Collaborative, among others. Nonprofit hospices in several states have formed similar coalitions. Three hospices in 2013 established Ohio’s Hospice, for instance. CHN is actively recruiting new members. “We

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Dr. Sarguni Singh, a hospitalist researcher and assistant professor in the division of Hospital Medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, argues that providers are increasingly sending sicker and sicker patients to skilled nursing facilities for rehab without fully understanding who truly benefits from it.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Given these factors, many of these patients should be receiving some form of palliative care, Dr. Larry Allen, chief of cardiology at the University of Colorado, said in a recent AHA webinar. This population also tends to see high rates of hospitalizations. Allen is also chair of the AHA’s Clinical Cardiology Council.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Unroe as the project leader: Regenstrief Institute Brown University University of Maryland, Baltimore University of Utah Hebrew Rehabilitation Center The Regents of University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) University of Colorado at Denver Institute for Healthcare Improvement Rhode Island Hospital University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Duke (..)

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Hospice News

JULY 24, 2023

California, Colorado, Hawaii, Maine and Oregon each have established Medicaid reimbursement for community-based palliative care. The bill would authorize licensed, Medicaid-approved home health and hospice agencies to provide care in patients’ homes.

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Hospice News

MAY 23, 2024

Rai will lead clinical operations across all of the Colorado-based hospice collaborative’s affiliated organizations. Its affiliates include The Denver Hospice, Pikes Peak Hospice & Palliative Care, Pathways Hospice and the Colorado Visiting Nurses Association (CVNA).

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She is a first generation Chinese-American and also a member of Compassion & Choices’ Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Leadership Council , which the Colorado-based end-of-life advocacy organization launched in 2021. “A

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Hospice News

JULY 19, 2024

Pikes Peak Hospice & Palliative Care Expands Inpatient Unit Colorado-based Pikes Peak Hospice & Palliative Care is expanding its inpatient care unit. Pikes Peak is an affiliate of Care Synergy, a group of nonprofit home health, hospice and palliative care providers in Colorado.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

That transaction follows Pennant’s purchase of Benefit Home Healthcare and Benefit By Your Side, a Colorado-based company that offers home health care, private duty and community health services. The company’s most recent transaction was its June acquisition of Bluebird Home Health, Bluebird Hospice and Bluebird Home Care.

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Hospice News

JUNE 21, 2022

Colorado-based HopeWest President and CEO Christy Whitney Borchard recently announced her retirement. The hospice’s 424 employees and roughly 1,200 volunteers now provide hospice and palliative care to more than 2,500 patients across five counties in western Colorado. HopeWest CEO retires.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Earlier this year Pennant also acquired Benefit Home Healthcare and Benefit By Your Side, a Colorado-based company that offers home health care, private duty and community health services. Financial terms for all of these transactions were undisclosed.

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Hospice News

MARCH 15, 2024

These include states with some of the largest growing seriously ill populations, such as California, Colorado, Hawaii, Maine, Massachusetts, Oregon and Washington, among others, she added. More than 15 states have established Medicaid palliative programs, according to Fields.

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JUNE 3, 2024

Dr. Coats, PhD, APRN-BC, FPCN, FAAN is Director of Research for Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association (HPNA) and faculty at the University of Colorado, College of Nursing, Anschutz Medical Campus, in Aurora, CO. She currently practices in the UCHealth Senior's Clinic as a nurse practitioner.

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Hospice News

JUNE 20, 2023

The transaction follows Pennant’s May acquisition of the assets of Benefit Home Healthcare and Benefit By Your Side, a Colorado-based company that offers home health care, private duty, and community health services. (NASDAQ: PNTG) has acquired Idaho-based Bluebird Home Health, Bluebird Hospice and Bluebird Home Care for an undisclosed sum.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

The Utah-headquartered provider’s service region covers a sizable portion of its home state in addition to Arizona, Colorado, Idaho and Nevada. Colorado doesn’t seem to have many deals. Hospice News recently connected with Norris to discuss how Canyon has been stretching its geographic footprint.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

That transaction followed its acquisition of Benefit Home Healthcare and Benefit By Your Side, a Colorado-based company that offers home health care, private duty and community health services. This followed Pennant’s purchase in June of Bluebird Home Health, Bluebird Hospice and Bluebird Home Care.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

WTWH is a portfolio company of the Colorado-based private equity firm Mountaingate Capital and the parent organization of Aging Media Network, which it acquired this year. The two media properties are focused on the home medical equipment industry and mobility professionals, including rehabilitation suppliers and clinicians.

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Hospice News

MARCH 26, 2024

Veterans Administration health care systems, one in Colorado and another in Washington state. The four-year study took place in two U.S. Participants in the study received six phone calls with a nurse to help with symptom management and six with a social worker to address psychosocial needs.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Shelley Moore Capito (R-West Virginia) and Michael Bennet (D-Colorado). The bill would establish a tax credit up to $5,000 for eligible, working family caregivers. The sponsors of the Senate bill included Sens. Meanwhile, U.S. Linda Sánchez (D-California) and Mike Carey (R-Ohio) introduced a similar bill in the House. “As

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Hospice News

JULY 22, 2022

More people are stepping into death doula work, according to founders of the Colorado-based organization Deathwives. Carroll: We started locally in Colorado Springs and Denver, but now we teach people all over the world. We can clear the cobwebs free around dying with death doulas who can help people pass with peace.

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Daily Nurse

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Captain Molly Murphy, a trailblazing ICU nurse from Colorado, has shattered glass ceilings by becoming the first female nurse to successfully complete the grueling Ranger School training in the Army.

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JULY 18, 2024

Lauren Treat, MD University of Colorado AAHPM reached out to the 2024 Emerging Leaders to gain insight into what motivated them to pursue leadership positions and what they find more fulfilling in their experiences.

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Hospice News

JUNE 30, 2022

The Avenir license deal is one of three the CompleteOK has executed this year, including one located in Littleton, Colorado, and another in Wichita Falls, Texas. “From a saturation standpoint, it’s second to California in terms of the number of home health and hospice agencies that exist.”. Agenda Health represented Avenir in the transaction.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 5, 2022

Roughly 64 individuals from 37 pediatric hospice and palliative care programs in Alaska, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon and Washington accepted and responded with feedback. There is a need to support pediatric hospice and palliative care programs throughout the U.S.

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Hospice News

APRIL 30, 2024

The Colorado-based organization provides death doula certification and training, along with doula referral assistance. Misunderstandings, fear and mistrust of the health system also represent main barriers to care among underserved groups, according to Lauren Carroll, founder of The DeathWives.

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Daily Nurse

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

3 at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver for the Emergency Nursing Association’s (ENA) Emergency Nursing 2022. Thousands of emergency nurses from around the world are convening Sept. From stroke codes and triage to behavioral care and transgender patients, the ENA conference highlights key health care issues.

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Home Care Pulse

JANUARY 30, 2023

HCP WEBINAR Staying Compliant in 2023: What You Need to Know About Colorado’s Training Requirements Tuesday, February 21st @ 2pm EST Tuesday, February 21st @ 2pm EST Tuesday, February 21st @ 2pm EST 2:00pm EST | 60 min 2:00pm EST | 60 min 2:00pm EST | 60 min Are you ready to meet and exceed state training requirements in 2023?

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