Hospice News

APRIL 26, 2024

Generally, the organization found, their day shift was making seven to 10 visits within 12 hours, whereas the night time staff were making zero to four visits within that same time period. One reason some of them had left was boredom due to the low number of home visits they were making, Gatian indicated.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Stakeholders and policymakers who shape the hospice industry are making connections between a provider’s tax status and quality indicators. Their perceptions could have significant repercussions on the outlook of hospice investments. More private equity (PE) investors have stepped into the hospice and home health space in recent years.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Many feel that their adult children don’t understand them or are making something out of nothing — a fall, a burnt pot, a call from the police station. As an Aging Life Care™ advisor, I know how fiercely older adults cling to their independence.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Variations in auditing methodologies can make compliance a challenging feat for hospices, Arnold said during a recent Hospice News webinar. That’s an area where I think they have an opportunity for improvement is having more consistency in what is being looked at so us as providers can make sure we’re meeting that need.”

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Hospice News

JANUARY 17, 2024

That’s why this makes it a big issue. There are just not enough patients to make it financially feasible with so many challenging things in rural areas.” When providers have adequate reimbursement, they can care for more people and the technology can help make that happen in real time. Rural care delivery is more costly.

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Hospice News

APRIL 29, 2024

But it’s taking a broader approach … so we’re making sure employees’ particular needs are met. It’s] making sure that we’re asking people what we can do to support what is unique to you and applying some kind of strategy of support for every employee, looking at them individually.” You need to know what motivates each of them.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

We as physicians can better guide their medical-decision making and help with the strain, the pain symptoms and the overall physical and mental stress that comes with these types of illnesses. It’s making sense of what a person wants and is hoping for in terms of their long-term trajectory.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 10, 2024

The companys platform is designed to digitize patients decision-making around their care preferences and goals. The dialysis issue is among the most important plans to make. Koda Health spun out of that work as an independent company. Koda in February 2022 secured $3.5 A second funding round took place this year.

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Hospice News

JUNE 18, 2024

The decision-making process began last year when NAHC and NHPCO announced the affiliation in March. The leadership of both organizations have worked for 18 months to make this happen and the talented staff at NAHC and NHPCO are already hard at work integrating the two organizations.

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JANUARY 5, 2024

The organizations indicated that joining forces would make them stronger competitors in the marketplace as well as improve access to care, Wingard said. By the Bay and Mission in September announced their plans to merge. In the intervening months, Hope Hospice also joined the transaction. You’ve got to have the revenues.

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Hospice News

JULY 5, 2024

Palliative care with effective medication management, shared decision making and symptom management can help improve quality of life for heart disease patients, according to a scientific statement from the American Heart Association (AHA) — “Palliative Pharmacotherapy for Cardiovascular Disease.”

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Hospice News

MAY 15, 2024

Over half of trainees reported discussing medical cannabis with patients, but few considered themselves sufficiently informed to make cannabis-related clinical recommendations,” the study authors wrote. Though cannabis remains illegal federally, changes to state laws are making the practice more common.

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Hospice News

JULY 16, 2024

We want people to be able to critique it … working with you to make it function better.” We have elements here that we want to make sure that families and patients are confident that the service is actually being delivered. Hospice News / Merz Photography Hospice News / Merz Photography Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-Oregon).

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 6, 2023

We’re starting to see data where we are making an impact. Our program is focusing on how well we can make contact with patients, and then effectively communicate how our program can support them through their care journey. Davis What we’re doing to help these value-based programs are starting to really come out in the data.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

This bipartisan package makes dozens of key reforms to improve VA, including multiple bills I have been honored to lead in the House like Gerald’s Law and the Elizabeth Dole Home Care Act,” the bill’s sponsor, Rep. 8371 is the culmination of months of work, negotiation, and fine tuning on behalf of our Nation’s Veterans.

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Hospice News

APRIL 2, 2024

“By making cancer care more accessible and supportive, we hope to improve outcomes and reduce health inequities experienced by people with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities, a group that is disproportionately underserved when facing cancer.” ” More than 1.3 billion people live with some form of disability.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Cruetzfeldt added that it makes sense for a neurology practice to have embedded social workers and other palliative care specialists to ensure the best care for their patients. But a neurological illness can make you clumsy or forgetful or sad. Most of them want to have these skills,” she said. It just requires a different approach.”

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

When it comes to legislation, a few words can make a big difference. A couple of sentences in a 120-page set of amendments to the Social Security Act would make adjustments to the hospice payment cap for 2033 that would free up $927 million.

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Hospice News

MARCH 25, 2024

We all had some kind of experience with hospice and seeing the difference it can make for patients and families, and we knew that was going to be our next chapter and calling. It’s making decisions and maintaining a high level of review to execute a plan and make sure the results are heading in the direction you want to go.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

While AI has been a very popular marketing term, what we’re actually beginning to see are some valuable predictive analytics tools making their way into the hospice world, particularly when it comes to disease progression. One method is simply giving nurses a nudge when they are about to make an ordering decision.

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Hospice News

APRIL 23, 2024

Volunteers and community members worked tirelessly to make this vision a reality.” Establishing a facility for homeless hospice populations has been a project two years in the making, a process of building up structural, operational and financial support, she added.

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Hospice News

MAY 7, 2024

Another important consideration is documenting a patient’s appropriate pronoun preference, which can make or break a quality outcome, Morrow stated. It’s important to make sure that we’re inclusive,” Morrow said. [Their] biological families might have ostracized this patient or might not want to be involved with their care.”

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Hospice News

AUGUST 27, 2024

Having an engaged team in the c-suite that is capable of having open and honest discussions about these challenges is key to making informed business decisions, according to Franchitto. If we have an initiative that needs to happen, Diana will make sure it happens and that’s who needs to be at the table.”

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Hospice News

MAY 29, 2024

This is part of a larger issue in which CMS did not factor in the full scope of staffing investments that providers may need to make in order to comply, including the necessary clinical and clerical work at admission and discharge, according to NHPCO. These visits will require substantial clinical and clerical work.”

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

I’ll make sure. We can make this better. But, you know, among those biases, when I asked our residents, when I tried to get to some of their understandings of how you make difficult decisions to discontinue treatment, almost every one of the most common thing that came up was age of the patient. But she didn’t die.

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Hospice News

JULY 26, 2024

It’s an investment to make sure that we’re providing and staying up to date with the ins and outs of veterans programs and resources available to them. It’s making sure you have that receptivity and information, it’s something that makes a big difference.” So if they see a social worker coming in, they may not be receptive.

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Hospice News

MAY 31, 2024

Effective Jan. 1, 2025, CMS will implement some revisions to the program. “In

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Hospice News

MAY 29, 2024

We obviously don’t make money by our consultations like an ophthalmologist does, but we do a lot of cost avoidance and a lot of ability to help people make the right decision so that unnecessary expenditures are avoided,” she said. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is affecting the palliative care space. “We

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

A big priority has been to provide care upstream and to try and make sure that patients have access services and attention sooner in this trajectory. Just making sure that your hospice is financially solvent is important. Is that making any difference? What are some of HopeHealth’s biggest priorities right now?

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

“This is a big step toward making our work sustainable and making sure that members of our community get the care they deserve during one of the most difficult times of their lives,” an unidentified Providence worker said in a press release.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 12, 2024

Our desire to get into the PACE program was driven by a need to make the continuum of care more smooth for the frail aging population, particularly those who may be among the most vulnerable.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 11, 2024

And making most I can do, I can use my mouth even though I only have six fingers here. So let’s say you have to have a capacity to make that decision, right? All of the evidence shows that for mental illnesses in individual cases of mental illness, we cannot make those predictions. Yeah, exactly. We’ll see.

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Hospice News

JUNE 10, 2024

The defendants allegedly used the foreign nationals’ identifying information to open bank accounts, to sign property leases, and, by Fichidzhyan, to make phone calls to Medicare, and submitted false and fraudulent claims to Medicare for hospice services,” the Justice Department indicated in a statement. “In Justice Department.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

That’s really where the journey begins in developing a fundamental place to start, to build a space of psychological safety and focus on how we can make people feel more comfortable about sharing what has happened and ensuring security of that patient and team member. “Trauma can be very nuanced. Trauma can be very nuanced.

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Hospice News

JUNE 4, 2024

Strategy #3: Make changes to empower staff Change management is a process. As hospices make changes to empower their staff members, the key is to find quick wins, Moss says. She recalls how changes to documentation started with a move from physical technology to cloud-based technology, making it easy for clinicians to “just talk.”

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 24, 2024

A common thread is a desire to make a difference in the quality of patients’ lives, according to Compassus CEO Michael Asselta, who took the helm of that company in May. A fragmented health care environment can make this a complicated, but not impossible, goal to achieve, Asselta added.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

We also support their caregivers with guidance and encouragement, to help make the time together as peaceful as possible.” We develop a personalized care plan that will honor their wishes and values and truly make a difference for them and their families.” Demographics are driving demand for hospice in Oklahoma.

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