Hospice News

OCTOBER 25, 2024

By expanding into Pasco County, we are providing families with a premier choice, backed by decades of expertise and compassion.” Its most recent de novo features a wraparound porch and meeting spaces for community events and bereaved families. Big Bend Hospice serves eight counties across Florida, with a location in each area.

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Hospice News

MAY 2, 2025

Our team members really benefit from our [therapy] dogs almost as much as the patients and families do, Asmus told Hospice News. Therapy animals offer nonjudgmental support and a comforting environment while also fostering opportunities for greater patient and family engagement.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Wider utilization of telepalliative services could help ease family caregiver burdens and improve quality among seriously ill patient populations, research has found. Quality-of-life scores were equivalent among patients and family caregivers between the virtual care and in-person groups, the study found. That is one of the benefits.

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Hospice News

APRIL 9, 2025

Providing support and care to seriously ill loved ones comes with myriad difficulties for todays family caregivers. The documentary is centered around the daily challenges and triumphs of family caregivers told through personal stories. Both actors have experienced the challenges of family caregiving.

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Hospice News

MARCH 26, 2025

Serious and terminally ill children and their families often have limited options when it comes to pediatric hospice, respite and palliative care. The program is aiming to build a larger base of resources for families nationwide with a multitude of unmet needs through three main pillars, Jonathan Cottor said, NCPPCHs CEO and founder.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

The new program is designed to alleviate stress for patients and families alike while also improving care collaboration as dementia conditions reach critical stages, she added. Responding to the community’s needs is a “responsibility we cannot ignore,” she added.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 29, 2025

Ensuring that hospices bereavement programs are equipped to support grieving families of all walks takes thoughtful consideration and a two-pronged strategic approach, she stated. Colorado-based Judis House provides grief support to bereaved children and families.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 23, 2024

We will continue to work with providers, patients and their families, and industry, to improve hospice care across the nation. Vulnerable families rely on trusted hospice providers, and pushing forward with flawed data could unfairly harm them. Stakeholders applauded the delay, including the National Alliance for Care at Home.

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Hospice News

APRIL 18, 2025

Their clinicians dont show up, or if they do, they deliver shoddy care, thereby causing greater suffering for patients and families. Moreover, these practices tarnish the reputation of all hospices and leave families with a poor perception of what should be person-centered end-of-life care. We could have kept them comfortable at home.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

He also stated an emphasis on improving quality for terminally ill patients and their families. End-of-life care decisions are difficult and sensitive for patients and their families, Kennedy said in a Senate Finance Committee hearing.

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Hospice News

MAY 8, 2025

The State of Family Caregiving Needs: Supporting Policies, Practices This podcast episode discusses how a rising number of stakeholders are recognizing that in order to continue caring for terminally ill patients in the home, they will also have to take care of their family caregivers. Listen to the episode and subscribe today !

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Hospice News

MARCH 21, 2025

Home health and hospice became a part of my career and Ive been able to advocate for other families to have the experiences that my family has had. Were all pushing on this to make sure that the hospice benefit is protected for those at the heart of it, the patients, families, caregivers and clinicians.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 10, 2025

Understanding the priorities of an evolving chaplain workforce will be key to providing quality end-of-life experiences for patients and families amid rising demand, Sullivan indicated. Sullivan is also an end-of-life doula and chaplain.

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Together for Short Lives

MAY 12, 2025

When a parent feels lost or alone, our Family Support Hub is just a call away. Each year we support thousands of families of seriously ill children through their toughest times.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Both patients and families benefit from the involvement of both oncology and palliative care.” Lower Cape Fear LifeCare has been providing palliative medicine in various settings to people in North Carolina for more than 30 years.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

I’m grateful for Congressman Panetta’s partnership as we work to address the rampant fraud and abuse in the hospice benefit that breaches trust between patients, families and the medical community. “When it comes to end-of-life care, you only have one chance to get it right,” Van Duyne said in a statement emailed to Hospice News.

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Hospice News

MAY 2, 2025

This change reflects our growth into a comprehensive, person-centered health care system designed to support individuals and families through every stage of aging, serious illness and grief.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Mayo has focused on geriatric care for 17 years, completing a residency in family practice at Bethesda St. His great, great grandfather, Dr. William Worrall Mayo, immigrated to Minnesota from England in the 1840s, later establishing a family practice. Joe’s Hospital in St. Paul, Minnesota and going on to practice in St. and Charles H.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 8, 2025

The concept of ohana in Hawaiian culture centers around developing supportive relationships among more than just blood-related family members, but also across communities. The concept is central to not only community members cultural values, but also the ability to provide goal concordant and inclusive care, according to Ho.

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Hospice News

MARCH 7, 2025

A dire need exists to be able to better support physicians, hospital discharge planners and social workers on culturally relevant approaches to care at home and having end-of-life conversations with minority families and patients. The R stands for responsiveness to patient and family needs, and the E stands for empathy and human connection.

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Hospice News

MARCH 7, 2025

Launched in 2016, the MCCM model was designed to curb costs, improve quality and family satisfaction, and keep patients in their homes. Palliative care providers may hold powerful leverage to create meaningful change through data on their patient and family outcomes, she said.

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Hospice News

APRIL 4, 2025

Forces fueling quality measures More health care providers across the continuum are leveraging palliative care as a way to improve overall patient and family experiences, said Yonah Klein, chief growth officer at Unity Hospice and Palliative Care.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

At the heart of what we do are really two things: symptom management and support around decision making and helping families navigate difficult situations for their child who is facing a serious illness. We are a blank slate where families can sit and talk. The average inpatient pediatric palliative census is roughly 30 patients.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Hospice chaplains often lack formalized education in fostering goals-of-care discussions with patients and families, he said at the Annual Assembly of Hospice & Palliative Care , an event by the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (AAHPM) and the Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association (HPNA).

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 4, 2024

The end of these flexibilities could impact patients and families, particularly those in rural areas or with limited mobility, poor health equity or social determinants of health needs, according to Katy Barnett, director of home care and hospice operations and policy at LeadingAge. “An

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Aging Life Care Association

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

As families gather around the table, many will have the difficult conversations of how to care for mom or dad. The fight over the last piece of pumpkin pie may not be the only struggle this Thanksgiving. These conversations can be emotionally charged and test sibling bonds.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2025

While most care is provided wherever a patient calls home, we [also] have nine hospice inpatient units, which really serve to support patients that might be dealing with pain management issues or the family needs respite. It’s very special, because everything from the moment you walk in focuses on serving children and their families.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Vulnerable families rely on trusted hospice providers, and pushing forward with flawed data could unfairly harm them. Ill continue fighting to ensure families have access to the high-quality care they deserve and that CMS fixes these issues.” Van Duyne told Hospice News in an email.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 27, 2024

Having access to palliative care services sooner in a rare disease trajectory could benefit patients, their families and caregivers, according to the researchers. Caregivers supporting a loved one with a rare disease commonly report difficulties such as anxiety, stress, isolation, depression, financial strain and impaired ability to work.

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Hospice News

APRIL 1, 2025

Slow, purposeful palliative workforce growth can set the stage for programs to deliver a wide range of interdisciplinary services that meet a variety of patient and family needs, Moss said during Hospice News virtual Palliative Care Outlook Summit. Kerry Moss, palliative care medical director for Connecticut Children’s.

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Hospice News

MARCH 5, 2025

The legislation also proposes to require hospices in Nevada to provide written disclosures to patients and families once they start billing for their care. The new bill also includes new requirements for staff training and meeting nationally observed hospice care standards.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Topping the list of trends to watch in the last year was rising demand among swelling aging populations with chronic conditions, many of which lack the caregiving and family support to manage their symptoms in the home. More research has also tied these services to improved outcomes among patients and families and better care coordination.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

“Faith Home Health and Hospice shares [the hospital’s] commitment to exceptional service and is enthusiastic about partnering with [the hospital] to meet the needs of the patients and families.” Kansas is home to about 2.9 million people. Faith Home Health and Hospice assumed management of the programs effective Nov.

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Hospice News

APRIL 29, 2025

Texas-based InHome Connect provides community-based palliative care and support to family caregivers. The results illustrate the value proposition of deeper palliative care integration not only in hospice, but also across the health continuum, according to InHome Connect CEO Steve Wishart.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

The center is a central organizing unit of our mission fulfillment in the areas of grief, family support and loss in a place people can come to that’s welcoming, inviting and centered around hope and healing,” Parsons told Hospice News. “We

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Family caregiver support is lacking across organ transplant centers nationwide. Caregivers play a critical role in the transplant ecosystem, and embedding palliative care care teams into these settings could boost quality for patients and families, Lala-Trindade stated.

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Hospice News

APRIL 18, 2025

Providers are unveiling diverse tactics to improve outcomes and family satisfaction amid a sea of changes. Its having staff be comfortable having these conversations and listening to what is important to the patient and family members and be really tuned into what drives quality, because we dont have a chance to do this again differently.

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