Hospice News

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Healthy competition can be a good thing, driving innovation and quality improvement, Shumway stated. Its hard to help them understand all the different levels of care. More providers can also mean greater access during a time of growing demand among swelling aging populations.

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JANUARY 23, 2025

Why is it so hard? Well, I guess the question to all of you is, why is deprescribing so hard? Why is it so hard to deprescribe? Amy 03:21 At the risk of repeating what you’ve had said on your prior deprescribing ones, it’s hard to undo things. Eric 03:42 That’s the hard thing. Alex 03:43 Right.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

The nation lacks a sufficient supply of palliative care professionals amid a swelling population of seriously ill patients, driving up demand. The flexibilities have allowed palliative care providers to reach patients in rural areas and hard-to-reach locations. Congress extended the expiration date, initially set for Dec.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 22, 2022

This is particularly so with the social and behavioral needs that are crucial to improving care but are often very hard to assess in traditional care settings,” Signify Health CEO Kyle Armbrester, said in a statement. “We The post Amazon Reportedly Bids to Acquire Signify Health appeared first on Hospice News.

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Hospice News

MAY 31, 2024

Among the factors is a drive to improve health disparities and remove barriers to care. Expanded telehealth services have brought benefits in terms of improved access among underserved patients in rural and hard to reach geographic areas, according to Bivek Pathak, chief information and digital strategy officer at Empath Health.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 13, 2025

Her wealth of experience and strategic development vision will be invaluable as we continue driving growth and fostering excellence at Traditions Health, CEO Brian Lantier said in an announcement shared with Hospice News. We are thrilled to welcome Kim to the team as our chief growth officer.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 21, 2024

Comfort care, while it might add to the confusion on some levels, can also be beneficial, because we’ll have those hard conversations and that’s what we’re good at,” Dedes said. It’s hard for our referral partners to get all the details and they don’t need to. We’re the experts at explaining our services, so that’s how we manage it.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Driving this trend are reimbursement and regulatory pressures, as well as a need to compete with larger, well-capitalized for-profit entities, according to Mark Kulik, senior managing director for the M&A advisory firm The Braff Group. In addition, some nonprofits have also been acquired by for-profit companies.

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Hospice News

MAY 6, 2022

Even without a multistate drive to raise pay home care aides, several states have already increased their standard minimum wage for all workers. With government-led wage increases and high demand for labor, some hospice providers are finding themselves between a rock and a hard place.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

There’s a new paradigm driven by consumerism, demographics, advances in care delivery and the cost of driving care into the home …” Kusserow said in an earnings call. So we’re out pushing those very hard and having a lot of conversations. Change creates opportunity.” So we’re hopeful we can do that,” Kusserow said. “We’ve

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Our drive to high-quality care is directly intertwined with the vision for health equity.”. Health outcomes are unequal. The four-year program — often called the Medicare Advantage hospice carve-in — launched Jan. 1, 2021, with 53 participating health plans.

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Hospice News

JUNE 8, 2022

Hospices are leveraging expanded telehealth options to maximize access for hard-to-reach rural patients despite lingering regulatory uncertainties. We are not physically entering their private space, not requiring them or staff to drive. What’s most important is creating that safe space to share. We have to blast through these biases.

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Hospice News

JULY 23, 2024

It’s a physician-directed benefit, and yet, sometimes physicians aren’t really involved at the leadership level of the organizations and in helping drive the direction that we’re taking and in helping really influence the direction of care and quality of care. The course is somewhat smoother.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 19, 2024

It’s just very hard to sustain when you’re losing money on 80% of your patients.” Revamping the hospice benefit with expanded palliative care coverage is needed to drive down costs and improve outcomes, he stated at the Elevate conference in Washington D.C. This aging population is changing the manner in which we’re providing services.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 22, 2023

As the hospice and palliative care workforce dwindles, some stakeholders are hard at work to develop career paths for staff in related disciplines, including social work. Behavior theory is always part of what we do, and [gamification] actually does drive discussion. That is one of the driving forces behind this.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Hospice providers have increasingly turned to technology to connect with hard-to-reach patients, streamline back-office functions and stay ahead of the curve on worsening health conditions. Many operators have likewise leveraged tech to better engage employees in hopes of stronger recruitment and retention.

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Hospice News

JULY 12, 2022

Care integration can be really hard when you have a bunch of disparate providers. The company’s JV strategy has been “impactful” in driving organic patient admission growth, according to LHC President and COO Joshua Proffitt. We’ve got this incredible opportunity to be able to bring all of this [care] together for patients.”.

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Hospice News

MARCH 4, 2024

But then the problem is that it’s hard to reimburse and it’s hard for everyone to know what exactly palliative care is. So the state [of palliative care] is on the move. a little fractured, but I think there’s some cause for optimism.”

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Much of the Central Oregon region is mountainous and endures cold winters with snow accumulation, which can affect roads and driving conditions. “St. We understand that in the winter driving conditions can be difficult, and we believe in supporting our caregivers to ensure they can reach our patients safely to provide the necessary care.”.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 4, 2023

Inaccurate billing was among the driving forces behind the OIG’s recently announced nationwide audit of general inpatient hospice services (GIP) , the regulatory watchdog stated. It’s making it really hard for a lot of folks to operate, which is counterintuitive to the hospice benefit,” Baird said during a recent Congressional briefing.

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Hospice News

JUNE 9, 2023

Driving these conversations is the need to lighten the nation’s heavy health care spend, which in 2021 reached $4.3 This often leaves hospice providers between a rock and a hard place when it comes to eligibility, Tarrah Lowry, COO of the Florida-based hospice provider Trustbridge, said. “We trillion , according to the U.S.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

It’s this connection to the people we serve that underscores the necessity for the hard, flexible work we do. It can also drive a seamless experience for the staff that are coming together, for the financials that are coming together, and for the overall experience the patients and the referral networks get.

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Hospice News

MAY 31, 2022

Benton recently spoke with Hospice News about the market forces driving these collaboratives and the challenges and opportunities that come with them. It’s very hard to proactively lead when you are in the weeds just keeping up with patient care, ongoing staff education and shortages, and keeping up with regulation and reimbursement changes.

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Hospice News

MARCH 15, 2024

Department of Health & Human Services Office of the Inspector General (OIG) continue to take a hard look at issues such as recertifications and billing for services outside the hospice benefit, including medications. Hospices have come under closer scrutiny in recent years as the U.S.

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Hospice News

JULY 26, 2024

While medical school is full of diverse students, hospice and palliative care is not tremendously diverse, and that can make it very hard to recruit different types of people.” We found that it was particularly true for historically underrepresented students in medical school.”

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Hospice News

JUNE 4, 2024

This is particularly exciting as we think about reaching hard-to-reach populations, where palliative care clinicians are not locally available. Telehealth has the potential to drive earlier engagement to palliative care among seriously ill seniors in particular, according Frydman.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 17, 2023

“As we actively pursue opportunities to integrate other agencies into ours, our goal is for owners to feel confident that they are selling to a company whose values align with theirs and who will preserve the reputation they worked so hard to create,” Wiberg stated. Seniors 65 and older represent 16.8%

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Our local teams are reporting out regularly on efforts to reduce direct and administrative costs while driving revenue to meet their commitments,” Pennant CEO Brent Guerisoli said in an earnings conference call. “As

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Among the strategies driving these gains were initiatives to speed the hiring process. By implementing new technologies and investing in leadership development programs, Elara Caring boosted its caregiver workforce by 21% during the second quarter. The Dallas-based home-based care provider operates 200 locations in 17 states.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

So, it’s getting to a deeper level of investment to truly drive long-term retention and build and meet our employees where they need balance.”. “What we’ve heard from staff members that left us from hospice for less pay was that they had more work-life balance with backup coverage.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

The company expects the program to bring in roughly 25 new health care workers each month in 2023 at an estimated cost of $40 million, which VITAS hopes to offset with increased volume as staffing gains drive up capacity. “We

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Most hospices are sliding into 2023 between a rock and a hard place, beset by headwinds, labor shortages and questions with no easy answers. A drive towards system integration. Payment models can drive change. Through the cracks, providers can see glimmers of improvement. But this optimism is tempered by uncertainty.

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Hospice News

MARCH 21, 2023

We see in some markets, it doesn’t matter how high the signup bonuses, it’s really hard to pull in [clinicians],” Nycz told Hospice News during the Staffing Summit. “In The Dallas-headquartered hospice provides care in 30 states and also offers palliative and personal care, among other services.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 18, 2024

While the health care system at large is not equipped to meet the demand for caregiver support, the GUIDE model features components that could drive improvement, according to Steven Lee, co-founder and CEO of ianacare, a Boston-based patient and caregiver resource company. It’s a whole different animal” Dolan told Hospice News.

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AlayaCare

AUGUST 8, 2022

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Competition in the health care market has been driving up salaries, particularly among nurses, according to Jennifer Lemere, vice president of clinical operations at St. Really driving those differentiators about the clinical experience would be incredibly important as we talk with and build out effective workforces in this area.”

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Part of the CMS’ refreshed strategic goals announced in 2021 including a drive towards more equitable and high-quality person-centered care. The agency outlined a plan aimed at driving up value-based care during the next decade. The audit activity is something that I think is hard for all hospice providers,” Lowry said.

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