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CMS Ramps Up Efforts to Root Out ‘Door Knocker’ Hospice Schemes

Hospice News

The scams include bad actors reaching out to beneficiaries with offers of free goods and services, such as groceries, TVs, reclining chairs and furniture, Pryor explained. “We have hospice beneficiaries who are unfortunately fraudulently signed up for the benefit in these kind of, what we call, ‘door knocker scams.’”

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Avanlee Care Joins Forces with Walmart on Caregiver Support

Hospice News

Avanlee Care has teamed up with Walmart (NYSE:WMT) to allow families in certain markets to order groceries, health or pharmacy products from the retail giant’s stores through its caregiver support mobile app.

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ShiftMed Partners with Uber to Transport Clinical Staff to Client Locations

Hospice News

High-performing clinicians will also receive vouchers for meals and grocery delivery from Uber Eats through this program. Beyond its own employees, the company plans to make these services available to their health care partners to help improve their own shift coverage and boost retention.

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Hospices Work to Recruit More Volunteers Before COVID PHE Ends

Hospice News

Hospice volunteers have also made deliveries of groceries and household supplies, or have held song vigils or “drive-by parades” outside of patient facilities and homes, among other activities. Volunteers themselves have proposed new ways of fostering interaction with patients during some of the worst days of the pandemic, Benton said.

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Budget Bites

Chicago Caregiving

And grocery prices specifically have gone even higher, especially for staples such as dairy, meat, and fresh fruits and vegetables. To help ease the financial burden, Illinois canceled its 1% state tax on groceries for the current fiscal year, from July 2022 through June 2023.

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Providers Leverage Community Partnerships to Expand Palliative Care Programs, Support Patients

Hospice News

These are people that we see in the grocery store. “We are just here as an added resource to maximize the quality that we can give them,” she said. “These are people that we go to church with. We want to make sure that they’re out and about as much as they can, as often as they can.

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What Will It Take? When Will We Act?

AJN Off the Charts

This time Uvalde, Texas, is grieving for 19 children and two teachers, and it’s less than two weeks since a shooting in a Buffalo grocery store left 10 dead. How can we continue to do nothing as our children, our families, our neighbors are killed in places where they should be safe: schools, churches, grocery stores, community events?

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