Hospice News

JUNE 9, 2025

New York City-based Mount Sinai Health System recently unveiled its new family caregiving center to improve how patients’ loved ones are recognized and supported in their roles. The health system announced the opening of its Steven S. Applebaum will lead the new facility. Elbaum Family Center for Caregiving in late May.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 8, 2025

The new collaborative includes Hawaii Care Choices, Hospice Maui, Kauai Hospice, Navian Hawaii, North Hawaii Hospice and St. This collaborative represents a new era for end-of-life care in Hawaii, Hawaii Care Choices CEO Brenda S. Ho told local news. that year, the Alliance reported.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

New Day Healthcare has acquired the home-based care company Christian Senior Care Services in Houston for an undisclosed sum. The deal, New Days 13th to date, expands the companys personal care services division into five additional counties in the Houston metro area. nationwide that year.

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Hospice News

APRIL 14, 2025

The DOJ sued the two companies starting in November of last year to block the UnitedHealth Group subsidiary Optum from acquiring Amedisys due to antitrust concerns. The insurance mammoth last year also purchased the home health and hospice provider LHC Group for $5.4 Department of Justices (DOJ) lawsuit against Amedisys Inc.

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Hospice News

MAY 27, 2025

Economic uncertainties may have put a damper on health care M&A during the first quarter of the year, but many still expect a rebound as 2025 progresses. There has been somewhat of a return to a kind of a frozen state, which happens when there’s disruption or uncertainty in the market, Wildebrandt told Hospice News.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 27, 2025

Everybody loves somebody the first six weeks; everybody celebrates the person who’s been there 20 years. But what about the two-year employee? If you look at your turnover numbers, that’s where you’re hurting. You’re not going to go very far showing up and bragging about what’s going right.

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Hospice News

MARCH 11, 2025

A key component of palliative care is understanding that chronic conditions may not be cured, but rather need to be managed, sometimes for many years. Dr. Brazzale said that studies are developing new ways to offer less subjective and more objective support for palliative care in general and integrative therapy in particular.

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Hospice News

APRIL 3, 2025

It’s one of our differentiating factors that we both have and can operate across a continuum. As we think through our top priorities for a 2025 year, along three main areas. We recognize that it’s very competitive. It’s important for us to recruit, retain the right people.

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Hospice News

APRIL 4, 2025

For a number of years now, providers have leveraged AI to predict when a patient may become eligible for hospice or to determine the best time to begin palliative care. These practices are gradually becoming more widespread, and providers are also exploring new ways to apply AI.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 27, 2024

UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH) subsidiary Optum entered a new waiver agreement that has delayed the deadline to complete its $3.3 Expected to close in the fourth quarter of this year, the agreement extended the deadline until 10 days after a final court decision is issued in the lawsuit, or by Dec.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 10, 2025

When it came to finding a new chief executive, Everett was at the top of his list, Parker told Hospice News. It’s been a good journey ever since. It’s primed for continued growth. It’s primed for continued growth. We’ve had some significant growth the last year and a half.

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Hospice News

MARCH 4, 2025

A new partnership between Humana Inc. Humana Medicare Advantage members who are eligible for the program in Michigan, New York, Illinois, Indiana, Tennessee, Pennsylvania and New Jersey may now receive services from Thyme Care. The company offers palliative care in addition to other services.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Over the years, Hospice of the Valley has grown. When I began 30 years ago, we were caring for about 140 hospice patients on any given day, and we had just shy of 100 employees. As a nonprofit, that’s been incredibly important to our community, to our board and, quite frankly, to our employees.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 2, 2025

The hospice mergers and acquisitions market has seen a host of changes in recent years, with buyers and sellers examining a range of risks and opportunities in the field this year. Subsequent years saw cooling periods that left many operators wondering whats next in store as 2025 unfolds. Scott Herman. Also, the U.S.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 10, 2025

During these conversations, four key themes rose to the forefront for the coming year. We dont anticipate there to be any meaningful new increased regulation or pushes but anticipate the current heightened level of scrutiny to continue. Croix Hospice Regulation continues to be the largest variable for next year and beyond.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 17, 2025

Perhaps the new administration will reinstate the Seriously Ill Population program that was terminated immediately prior to launch in 2021. Sadly, we believe that meaningful change in palliative care creating consistency and increased adoption remains several years away. Heath Bartness, CEO, St.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 31, 2025

These types of programs have proliferated among hospice companies in recent years. Late last year, Hospice of the Chesapeake unveiled a new dementia care program aimed at providing improved emotional, educational and practical support for patients and their caregivers as their conditions progress.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Palliative care providers are taking varied routes to address the most disruptive forces they are encountering this year, rising to challenges that have been persistent across the sector. At Northwestern there’s this enormous initiative across the whole system to really scale up palliative care in its fullness, Twaddle said.

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Hospice News

MARCH 6, 2025

Enhabit opened five new hospice operations during 2024, building on seven that were established during 2022 and 2023. Enhabit used income from the prior years de novos to finance the new locations launched in 2024. million of adjusted EBITDA in full year 2024, CFO Ryan Solomon said during the earnings presentation.

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Hospice News

MAY 20, 2025

As a new generation of hospice leaders rises to the forefront, hospices must carefully plan and execute CEO onboarding, which can be a complex process. Miller joined the organization in October 2021 as chief clinical officer, and a little more than a year later was promoted to COO. Preparation is absolutely paramount.

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Hospice News

MAY 5, 2025

year over year. increase from the prior years quarter. If there is a unique opportunity, not something of massive size, but a unique opportunity still at a level from a pro forma perspective that we think over time we can realize, that’s something we’ll consider.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

It’s not reasonable to think that a care provider who is trying to work with a multitude of patients always has the time to read [EHR] documents as just as comprehensively as they might like to,” says Nick Knowlton, VP of Strategic Initiatives for ResMed, the parent company of EHR platform MatrixCare. It’s not magic,” she says.

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Hospice News

APRIL 29, 2025

If youre not bringing all of those services and passing people through them seamlessly, then you’re getting single service providers that are cannibalizing each other, Hamilton Fried told Hospice News during the conference. She recently joined the organization with more than 32 years of health care experience.

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Hospice News

APRIL 2, 2025

Having completed six deals in the past 16 months, New Day Healthcare is on the hunt for acquisitions using a three-pronged strategy. New Day seeks three kinds of deals, which CEO G. When choosing new assets, New Day looks for companies whose culture aligns with their own that are strong with clinical quality and regulatory compliance.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Hospice investment trends took myriad routes this year, seeing a few common threads occurring among nonprofit and for-profit entities that hint at where the market may be heading. The scope of hospice deals in 2024 encompassed joint ventures and collaborative affiliations in addition to acquisitions.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 23, 2025

Summary Transcript CME Summary Its another deprescribing super special on today’s GeriPal Podcast, where we delve into the latest research on deprescribing medications prescribed to older adults. Our first guest is Emily McDonald, who’s a physician in general medicine and epidemiologist and Associate professor at McGill.

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Hospice News

MARCH 7, 2025

Though unlikely to take shape anytime soon, the potential for a palliative care carve-out in Medicare has been building in recent years, according to Rory Farrand, vice president of palliative and advanced care at the National Alliance for Care at Home.

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Hospice News

JUNE 3, 2025

The initiative includes the addition of two new medical directors, Dr. Asma Dilawari, new medical director for oncology care, and Dr. Nelia Jain, medical director for palliative care. The company is also boosting its cadre of oncology social workers with new hire Stephanie Broadnax Broussard.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

The company this year made its return to the M&A market after a hiatus of several years. That’s important, obviously, from a patient flow perspective, but also from a staffing perspective.” year over year. The post VITAS Seeking Large Acquisitions in Hospice CON States appeared first on Hospice News.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Croix Hospice has cut the ribbon for a new location in La Crosse, Wisconsin. The new office is St. The company expects that the new operation will reduce travel times for clinicians to visit patients in its service region. In March of last year, the hospice provider launched a de novo in the Clarinda, Iowa, community.

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Hospice News

MARCH 7, 2025

The new hospice startup is the first Black-owned hospice and home health organization statewide with a drive to improve utilization among underserved populations. Greater representation was among the main reasons for starting a new hospice and home health organization in the area, Couzens recently told Hospice News.

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Hospice News

MAY 30, 2025

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) late last year unveiled its new Transforming Episode Accountability Model (TEAM). Jamie Chang, chief medical officer for the health care tech firm WellSky told Hospice News. The post CMS TEAM Payment Model: What Hospices Need to Know appeared first on Hospice News.

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AlayaCare

MAY 21, 2025

Dave Marchand reveals how New Day Healthcare’s Carelytics platform bridges critical gaps in the traditional home healthcare delivery model by unifying patient data across service lines.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 9, 2025

Hospice providers across the country have recently launched new inpatient facilities as 2025 unfolds. The new year may also bring closures of certain hospice programs. VITAS Opens 2 New Locations VITAS Healthcare on Wednesday announced the opening of its new inpatient hospice unit in Fort Worth, Texas.

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Hospice News

JUNE 10, 2025

“We’ve talked about de novo growth, which we targeted roughly 10 sites a year. M&A; on a more small, medium-sized, targeted, strategic tuck-in basis, is a capability we look to prioritize as we think about late this year and early spring. For growth, the company is highly reliant on its de novo strategy.

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Hospice News

APRIL 22, 2025

Despite advancing measures to improve health equity in recent years, two leading barriers continue preventing wider hospice access, according to Alicia Bloom, senior vice president of operations at Empassion Health. Health equity gaps have swelled in hospice care in recent years. in 2023, compared to 17.9% among rural-based patients.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Several hospice and health care organizations have appointed new leaders to take the helm during a time of growing demand nationwide. Calvary Hospital Appoints New President New York-based Calvary Hospital recently announced that Michael Fosina has become its new president, succeeding CEO Jeff Menkes.

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