Hospice News

MARCH 19, 2024

Connecticut legislators recently introduced a bill that aims to create a statewide pediatric hospice and palliative program. If enacted, the bill would require the Connecticut Department of Public Health (DPH) to create a plan for the development of the program and establish general statutes around its implementation.

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Hospice News

JUNE 20, 2024

We are delighted that this engagement will also create jobs in Connecticut, and bring Pennant’s proven operating model to the East Coast.” HHCAH operates eight locations, employing more than 1,000 staff that provide care throughout the state of Connecticut. Flaks, president and CEO of Hartford HealthCare, in a statement. “We

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Hospice News

JUNE 7, 2023

Integrating palliative consultations into care management for heart failure patients improves utilization and fosters greater understanding among referring clinicians, research from the Veteran Affairs (VA) Connecticut Healthcare System has found. It also operates nine clinics in eastern Connecticut.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 19, 2024

HHCAH operates eight locations, employing more than 900 staff that provide care throughout the state of Connecticut. Elizabeth Healthcare, Trustbridge Hospice and Jackson Health System. The home health and hospice provider reported an operating revenue of $144.8 million in Fiscal Year (FY) 2022.

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Hospice News

JUNE 21, 2024

Researchers from the Yale Cancer Center in New Haven, Connecticut, and the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston conducted the study , which appeared in JAMA Oncology. Aggressive treatment to terminally ill advanced cancer patients did not increase their lifespan, a recent study found.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Connecticut-based Regional Hospice recently opened a new grief support center to extend its bereavement services further across the state’s northwestern region. The new facility, dubbed The Center for Hope & Healing, is located in Washington Depot, Connecticut.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

NavigatorACO will serve communities in the New York City metropolitan area, including the Bronx, Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, Nassau, Westchester, and Rockland counties as well as Connecticut’s Middlesex, New London, and New Haven counties. Each of these members has a shared savings arrangement with the ACO.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 5, 2024

We must ensure that every patient’s health care rights and wishes are respected by increased access to advance care planning,” said Barragán in a statement.

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Hospice News

APRIL 15, 2024

Higher volumes of palliative care physicians were found in regions such as California, Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, Massachusetts, southern New York and in Washington D.C., according to Chen. Multiple states had “very few” or minimal “clusters” of palliative clinicians, including Alaska, Nevada, North Dakota and Wyoming, she added.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Brigham and Women’s Hospital is a teaching hospital of the Harvard Medical School system.The hospital-based system is part of Mass General Brigham in Massachusetts, which includes 16 health care organizations in its home state, Connecticut, Maine, New Hampshire and Rhode Island.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Other outliers include Massachusetts ($45.08), Connecticut ($45.15) and on the lower end of the spectrum, Tennessee ($33.93). Nationally, hourly wages for hospice RNs reached $38.08 this year, but geographic variations exist. Hourly rates are highest in California, for example, at $53.74, and lowest in Mississippi at $32.90.

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Hospice News

MAY 4, 2023

While serving as partner at Manatt Health, he will continue to serve on the board of The Connecticut Hospice, the nation’s first to be established in 1974. Hospice and palliative care are still in the mix for Banach.

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Hospice News

APRIL 4, 2023

The acquisition presents opportunities for Elara Caring to fill gaps between its adjacent markets in Connecticut and Massachusetts. In addition to skilled home health, Enclara’s services include hospice, palliative and personal care, and behavioral health.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Hartford, Connecticut-based CareCentrix manages care for 19 million members through a network of over 7,400 locations across more than 25 states, providing home nursing, durable medical equipment, home infusion, and in-home palliative care. health care strategy.”.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Hartford, Connecticut-based CareCentrix manages care for 19 million members through a network of over 7,400 locations across more than 25 states. Key to this will be the data analytics capabilities that CareCentrix brings to the table. Walgreens now holds a 55% stake in the company, valued at $800 million valuation net of debt.

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Hospice News

JULY 18, 2024

HHCAH operates eight locations, employing more than 1,000 staff that provide care throughout the state of Connecticut. The health system retains ownership of HHCAH, with Pennant providing financial support services, human resources advising, information technology and other management consulting services.

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Minority Nurse

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

I hope more schools follow in the footsteps of Rutgers Nursing and Southern Connecticut State University, who have added the book to their curricula. . “I hope, especially at this moment in time that’s rife with disinformation, that the legacy of these women is carried far and wide, especially in the nursing world.

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Hospice News

MAY 17, 2022

The Connecticut-based consulting firm Simitree recently unveiled a new Market Analysis Platform (MAP) to assist health care providers as they navigate these decisions. By using data to explore new markets and understand who the players and the providers and the patterns are, they can determine if it matches their strengths.”.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 17, 2023

In 2020, Family Resource formed a partnership with Connecticut-based Great Point Partners, a health care-focused private equity firm. Main goals of the partnership include pursuing “ongoing strategic market share growth, industry acquisitions and geographic expansion,” according to the company.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Initially, the company will focus on moving into Rhode Island, upstate New York, Connecticut, the Carolinas, and Tennessee. Now, the company will rapidly expand into new markets, beginning this quarter of the year, according to Bhatia.

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Hospice News

MAY 3, 2024

Lawmakers in Connecticut and Vermont have recently introduced legislation aimed at protecting hospice and home health workers. A bill in Connecticut proposed to broaden the scope of background checks for state and public agency employees to include suspected criminal activity and ongoing investigations.

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Hospice News

APRIL 21, 2022

Summit Health’s more than 2,500 providers operate across 340 locations in Connecticut, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania and Oregon. Hagfors previously served as CEO of the Bend Memorial Clinic – now known as Summit Health – from 2011 to 2016. Summit Health offers primary, urgent and specialty care services, including palliative care.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Connecticut-based Stamford Health has relaunched an enhanced version of its shuttered palliative care program. The health system’s revamped service line will be available to all patients seen at its Carl & Dorothy Bennett Cancer Center.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 6, 2022

A number of states have or are planning to implement and scale CAPABLE using funds from the American Rescue Plan of 2021 or their Medicaid programs, including Connecticut, Massachusetts, Vermont, and Care Synergy’s home state of Colorado, among others. Now, the program is poised for further growth, Szanton told Hospice News.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

The home-based care provider operates in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Pennsylvania and in St. However, turnover rates may be showing signs of improvement, said Josh Klein, founder and CEO of Royal Care and Emerest Health Companies. Louis, Missouri.

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Hospice News

JUNE 28, 2022

Additionally, three states — Connecticut, Delaware and Massachusetts —appointed commissions to study the issue. Several states also enacted or considered CON reform bills, some of which removed requirements for certain settings, including Michigan, Tennessee, Washington, Montana and Virginia. CONs and the quality question.

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Hospice News

MARCH 26, 2024

She serves as the director of adult inpatient palliative care at the Yale School of Medicine in Connecticut. To me, that means that more patients and families were able to benefit from hospice hopefully over a longer period of time, which is very meaningful when their days are limited and they’re in this acute time of crisis.”

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Hospice News

JUNE 21, 2022

She built a regional network of assisted and independent living, skilled nursing and rest home communities in Connecticut, Maine and Massachusetts. She joined Trinity Health in 2018 as the first president of senior communities in the New England region. Hamilton-Crawford succeeds Steve Kastner, who announced his retirement last year.

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Hospice News

MAY 25, 2022

A total of 30 transactions occurred during Q1 this year in the hospice and home health space, compared to 41 deals in Q4 of last year, according to a report from Irving Levin Associates, a Connecticut-based M&A firm focused on senior housing and health care transactions.

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Hospice News

MAY 6, 2024

Legislation has cropped up in states such as Connecticut , New Jersey and Illinois proposing the development of dedicated pediatric hospice and palliative care programs with both private insurer and Medicaid reimbursement routes.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 18, 2024

The five counties that we now serve are the size of Rhode Island and Connecticut combined. That’s the big news. No one can remember the last time New York State gave a CON into a hospice. And it’s rural with low population density. Where we fit in is with that braided service coming out of the health care system.

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HPNA podcast

JANUARY 15, 2024

About Amisha: Amisha Parekh de Campos, PhD, MPH, RN, CHPN has a joint appointment as an Assistant Clinical Professor, University of Connecticut School of Nursing, and Quality and Education Coordinator of the Middlesex Health Hospice Program, Middletown, CT. Amisha was also featured in the Journal of Hospice and Palliative Nursing.

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Diversity Nursing

APRIL 23, 2024

Alabama Annual median wage: $65,900 Alaska Annual median wage: $106,410 Arizona Annual median wage: $88,310 Arkansas Annual median wage: $72,920 California Annual median wage: $133,990 Colorado Annual median wage: $86,900 Connecticut Annual median wage: $100,620 Delaware Annual median wage: $93,200 District of Columbia Annual median wage: $105,220 (..)

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Hospice News

AUGUST 16, 2022

Connecticut-based Regional Hospice has opened an inpatient unit at New Milford Hospital in partnership with the health system Nuvance Health. The health system has also designated Regional as its preferred hospice provider in its home state. The unit, called the Center for Comfort Care & Healing, is located in the town of Danbury.

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Solace

MARCH 30, 2023

Their memorial forests are located around the country including California, Minnesota, Illinois, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York and Arizona. The company, based in California, lets you choose a tree and includes a marker and ceremony.

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Diversity Nursing

JUNE 19, 2024

Connecticut $48.96 State RN hourly mean wage Cost of living index RN hourly mean wage, adjusted by cost of living California $66.20 Minnesota $45.59 Georgia $43.27 Oregon $54.54 New Mexico $44.30 Texas $43.37 Illinois $42.14 Washington $53.38 Nevada $46.97 Oklahoma $39.48 Michigan $41.45 Delaware $45.51 Wisconsin $41.93 Wyoming $40.38

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Diversity Nursing

JUNE 20, 2024

Connecticut $65.86 State NP hourly mean wage Cost of living index NP hourly mean wage, adjusted by cost of living Nevada $71.48 New Mexico $65.76 Oklahoma $59.77 Minnesota $64.91 Texas $62.51 Illinois $61.01 Mississippi $56.49 Kansas $57.34 Wisconsin $61.70 Nebraska $58.50 North Dakota $61.42 Indiana $59.29 Georgia $58.25 Wyoming $59.40

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