Daily Nurse

JANUARY 10, 2025

A new study published in JAMA Network Open finds that geriatric nurse practitioners (NPs) helped expand the geriatric workforce and kept the combined geriatric physician and NP workforce on pace with the growth of the older population. counties lack specialized geriatric healthcare professionals. Read the full study here.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

The findings could indicate that telepalliative care could be an effective avenue for caregiver support, according to researcher Joseph Greer, psychologist and associate professor of psychology at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), an affiliate of Harvard Medical School.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Hospices’ public outreach efforts have evolved in recent years, with providers finding new strategies to dispel myths that have long impeded access to care. We find people want to hear from others who have already walked through their journey,” he said.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 23, 2025

Youve got to find staff who are willing and like to travel because they have a lot of windshield time. We have a hard time finding clinicians sometimes to do all the face-to-face visits, so if the flexibilities expire that would be a big hit to rural hospices. If we can find the right people to hire and work with, thats helpful.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

This is according to recent research findings, which could help inform approaches to care under the new Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) payment model. The studys findings illustrate the crucial role caregivers play in the lives of dementia patients, Reuben said.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Key hospice findings The webinar discussion highlighted results from the joint repor t, dubbed the 2024 Hospice Chartbook, which examined Medicare hospice decedent trends during 2023. according to the findings. But when we’re looking at length of stay by diagnosis, the hospice benefit is ever-changing.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

The most exciting part was the impact on emergency room visits and hospitalizations, which is a pretty dramatic finding. It was highly statistically significant, so not at all likely to be a chance finding, Sachs said. A control group did not see any such reductions.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

I wanted to find that, because when you go then to a CMO or CEO and say ‘I want another physician in palliative care,’ I can then tell them, this is what you told us. So where is the money?” A second group of interviews occurred among administrators and staff at four of the health system’s hospitals.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 3, 2024

We are always trying to find more underserved communities and patients who are in need. So our preference is to always have as much alignment in a contract as possible. Health equity is a big part of the ACO REACH model. Can you talk about any work you may have done around that?

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

When they get the [Medicare Beneficiary Identification (MBI)] from the beneficiary, ultimately in many of these cases [the beneficiary] finds out that they’ve inadvertently signed up for the hospice benefit and that creates other issues for them regarding their normal Medicare coverage,” Pryor said during the webinar.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

The research findings indicated that hospices have room for improvement when it comes to public education and clear communication with patients and their families, according to Hotchkiss. For families, dissatisfaction may be tied to a lack of understanding around the nature of interdisciplinary hospice services, Hotchkiss stated.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 31, 2025

Among the first steps has been identifying the best possible staff to provide palliative care, as well as finding creative ways to support these services, he indicated. Organizational culture and values play an important role in the ability to find and keep a pool of dedicated staff.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Sometimes what we do find is that patients who need palliative care probably don’t get it in the same way, particularly people who are underserved, minoritized populations. There are some gaps certainly related to access to palliative care.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

The agencies can also review accreditation organization findings and, if serious issues are identified, conduct a validation survey to determine whether the hospice has taken corrective action. CMS has “encouraged” state agencies to refer hospices for enforcement remedies when deemed appropriate.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

And if you go online and start looking for information, you’re going to find a lot of stuff, but how are you going to know that it’s the right stuff?,” “As a practicing clinician, I will tell you that when I meet patients, if somebody’s really sick with cancer, it’s an overwhelming experience.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Its really trying to find out what is the most important thing right now, Hawkins told Palliative Care News. Finding a balance in clinical capacity will be pivotal to further expansion into the community-based pediatric palliative care landscape, Hemker said. Care can be disjointed.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 10, 2024

The three met and began collaborating at the Texas Medical Centers (TMCi) Biodesign program, which tasked them with finding solutions to problems affecting the health system. Desh Mohan and Katelin Cherry, the companys chief technology officer. Koda Health spun out of that work as an independent company.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 17, 2025

My prediction for 2025 is that we will continue to educate on this significant avenue of care but will struggle to find sustainable solutions until a more comprehensive payment structure is created. Given the savings that it creates for communities and payors, why is this continuing to happen?

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GeriPal

JANUARY 16, 2025

Find answers to these questions and more in this weeks podcast. And importantly, our social worker, Aunt Kelly, actually does a search and I would say 75% of the time she finds somebody maybe even higher than that, finds somebody who’s actually a surrogate. Why not use the older term unbefriended?

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Among the reports key findings around the biggest challenges in caregiver support included: Roughly 30% of transplant centers nationwide do not have caregiver support programs. The NAC surveys findings illuminate a greater need for stronger caregiver support, according to Dr. Anuradha Lala-Trindade, survey reviewer for the project.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 17, 2025

Finding innovative, creative ways to deliver quality services is a significant part of hospice care delivery, he stated. Hospices have taken varied approaches to end-of-life care delivery, and that diversity is a key to addressing patients physical, emotional, psychosocial and spiritual needs, Fleece indicated.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Legislators must find a way to safeguard against fraud, waste and abuse, as well as misuse of unsafe and unethical billing practices, Fratkin added. Program integrity concerns are also a large consideration in future telemedicine regulation.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 27, 2025

One of the most striking findings is that a lot of times residents need help from our palliative and hospice care providers to have those difficult goals-of-care conversations, he told Palliative Care News.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

We will continue to be focused on using our capital to find additional acquisition targets that meet our strategic criteria while we await the closing of the Gentiva transaction,” Allison said during the earnings call.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

From a clinician standpoint, unfortunately it’s time that could be better spent on caring for patients, versus trying to address the concerns of a widely cast net [and] finding that balance between the program integrity and the bedside time and making sure that both of those are in check.”

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

A physicians narrative explanation should include a clinical face-to-face finding that explains the patients clinical decline, Nowicki stated. CMS conditions of payment (COPs) require a hospice physician to write a narrative summary that explains a terminally ill patients medical condition and their prognosis of six months or less of life.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 9, 2024

There began really my longtime study of many cases, looking at what we could do better and what tools we could find in our healthcare world and beyond to communicate better with very vulnerable patients. Again, we’ve got to find lots of tools. We weren’t saying the right things. We weren’t using the right semantics.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Among the most significant data was a report finding that longer hospice stays have reduced health care costs in the last year of life by as much as 11%. Data have also become increasingly important tools in communicating the benefits of hospice care at wider public levels.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 10, 2025

First and foremost, the industry is going to continue to find that the number-one influencing factor of any providers ability to continue to meet the demand on the marketplaces is their abilities to attract and retain talent. It will just continue to be one of the most critically important things for 2025 and beyond.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 24, 2025

We find tremendous market interest in our ability to identify patients on service. With driving interest, the most obvious is the long-term outlook of senior populations and increasing access for hospice, the awareness around the need for palliative care.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 11, 2024

Finding the right balance of support and career development for bereavement care professionals is key to recruitment and retention as hospices combat labor strains. It can be challenging to find and train bereavement professionals to help families with different types of losses, she said. It’s really this growing specialty.

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Minority Nurse

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Finding time for self-care Find time for yourself, as this will help prevent burnout. Finding support from family and friends Find support from your friends and family. Find a Mentor(s) Find a mentor who has balanced work while pursuing an advanced degree. Study groups Form a study group with your peers.

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Hospice News

JULY 26, 2024

What we were hoping to find in this project is whether relationships between mindset and well-being were true for all [medical] students,” Speicher told Palliative Care News. “We Purpose and relevance: Finding value and meaningful purpose in their work. Sense of belonging: Feeling connected, supported and respected in their work.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Leaders of many palliative care programs nationwide have indicated that they are unable to find qualified clinicians in their service regions, Bowman stated. Insufficient staffing resources have created gaps of palliative care access in rural regions and in community-based care settings.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Though law enforcement and regulatory agencies have increased oversight in the industry, bad actors have continued to find loopholes and evade scrutiny. Sources cited that fraudulent actors often maintain multiple provider numbers, which enables the perpetrators to move patients between the various hospices they own.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 17, 2024

The findings appeared in the Journal of Pain and Symptom Management. These new findings show the solution to this problem has been right in front of us all along: the primary care physician (PCP).” American health care is facing an impending crisis. Founded in 2016, agilon health, inc. offers primary care physician services nationwide.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 2, 2024

“Specifically, access to qualified hires was frequently at the top for pediatric programs,” Rachael Heitner, associate director of research and insights at CAPC, stated in a recent webinar highlighting the survey’s findings. We are a field that’s growing fast, and programs can’t always find qualified people. How can we as a U.S.

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