Hospice News

DECEMBER 31, 2024

The partners will provide durable medical equipment and supplies to patients in Colorados Front Range region. The Colorado-based hospice provider collaborative Care Synergy has formed a joint venture with RCC Medical Equipment Co. This includes patients of Care Synergys affiliates.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Today, providers see patients with a growing range of diagnoses, with dementia-related illnesses becoming more prevalent. For example, the Medicare Hospice Benefit was initially designed in the 1970s and 80s to serve the needs of cancer patients.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Research has uncovered common threads of quality impacts among the largest hospices nationwide as providers employ a range of initiatives to uproot the underlying causes of staff and family caregiver dissatisfaction.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Chapters’ four new affiliates offer a range of services, including hospice, palliative care, supportive services, pediatrics, bereavement care and residential care, among others. The MSO program is oriented around hospices, whereas CareNu is designed for those who provide upstream services.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 6, 2025

The lack of hospice availability has left gaps in supportive services that address terminally ill patients full range of physical, emotional and spiritual needs.This has also worsened disparities among rural family caregivers. About 14% of hospices offer services in rural areas, the MedPAC report found.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 10, 2025

Westfall, VITAS Healthcare A rising tide for M&A with broader range of services I expect to see significant activity in M&A as organizations determine they can better stay relevant and vital to consumers, especially deals that allow for integration across verticals.

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Hospice News

APRIL 1, 2025

Slow, purposeful palliative workforce growth can set the stage for programs to deliver a wide range of interdisciplinary services that meet a variety of patient and family needs, Moss said during Hospice News virtual Palliative Care Outlook Summit. Kerry Moss, palliative care medical director for Connecticut Children’s.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 18, 2024

The gaps range everywhere from within the system, and also perceptions and views that the community also has around palliative care. Palliative Care News sat down with Barrett to discuss the barriers that cancer patients often experience when it comes to accessing palliative care. Do most cancer patients have access to palliative care?

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 2, 2024

New Day has roughly 8,000 employees across its brands and offers a broad range of benefits to both part- and full-time staff. Hospice acquisition playing into our home health piece is a natural transition for those patients that are heading down the path of life’s final journey.”

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

The health system provides pediatric palliative care, as well as primary, urgent and virtual care, behavioral health, cancer treatments and a range of other services. Seriously ill children sometimes see a range of health care specialists to address various physical, emotional and psychosocial needs.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 20, 2024

This years top coverage spanned a wide range of payment, legislative and research trends impacting the future delivery of palliative care. #1 Many patients are unaware that they can receive palliative care alongside these curative treatments to help support a range of physical, emotional and spiritual needs.

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Hospice News

MAY 12, 2025

This includes personal care, home health/home health aide, supported employment, group homes, adult foster care, home-delivered meals and a wide range of other supports. Medicaid is the nations largest payer for these services, Terzaghi told Hospice News in an email.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 8, 2025

Patients with serious mental illnesses (SMI) have a range of complex needs that greater integration of psychiatry into palliative care could help address.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Individuals with dementia have a range of medical, nonmedical and psychosocial needs to address, and often caregivers navigate a complex health care system and myriad community resources, Escalante stated.

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Hospice News

APRIL 22, 2025

Hospice care models have increasingly diversified to reach a broader range of patients with different beliefs, values and spiritual outlooks, but some providers see a long road ahead in the journey toward equitable access. Provider education about how to help patients access hospice is something that we need to continue to take on.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 10, 2025

More professionals from a wider range of interfaith groups are entering the field, according to Shana Sullivan, bereavement coordinator of Texas-based Heart to Heart Hospice. Hospice chaplains often have little recourse for upward mobility along their career ladders. Sullivan is also an end-of-life doula and chaplain.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 17, 2025

The decision to launch into new service realms can come with a range of operational and reimbursement questions. Some hospices have delved deeper into service diversification to improve timely access and expand their patient reach, while others remain focused on end-of-life care delivery.

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Hospice News

MAY 28, 2025

Congressman Schweikerts bill (HR 3467), while attempting to bring about wide-ranging changes to how Medicare Advantage operates, would also dismantle this vital program by forcing hospice care into Medicare Advantage plans, an Alliance spokesperson previously told Hospice News in an email.

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Hospice News

MARCH 14, 2025

However, these aggregated numbers do not reflect the sometimes significant differences in margins among individual providers, ranging from large, national companies to smaller, local nonprofits. The commission projected an aggregate 2025 margin of 8%. Also, estimating providers access to capital requires some guesswork.

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Hospice News

MAY 16, 2025

The range of myPlaces services includes home- and community-based care, and advance care planning is a part of its onboarding process for PACE participants. The company seeks partners that already serve the high-risk geriatric population but have not gone through the complex process of establishing their own programs, Pottharst said.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

In turn, the compliance officer oversees and is advised by a compliance committee that includes a range of senior managers and executives. “We This person should be separate from other roles such as legal, operations or financial leadership and have equal stature as other executives, OIG indicated.

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Hospice News

MARCH 24, 2025

Policymakers have historically had limited visibility into the broad range of services that impact health outcomes, according to Asia Williams, program officer of the National Academy of Medicines leadership consortium. The program focuses on advancing trust and engagement among diverse populations of patients and their families.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) ability to justify future reimbursement rate increases, which many hospice providers already consider insufficient to support the full range of their interdisciplinary services in today’s economic climate.

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Hospice News

MAY 14, 2025

Addressing referral complexities HopeHealth has been growing its pediatric hospice and supportive care service lines to address a broad range of unmet needs among seriously ill children and their families.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Today’s hospice leaders need to take a wide view into the range of challenges facing their interdisciplinary care teams, according to Dr. Andrew Mayo, chief medical officer at St. Croix Hospice. Mayo joined St. Croix Hospice in 2014 as an associate medical director.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 23, 2025

The center will be designed to address a range of nonmedical emotional, practical and psychosocial needs for pediatric populations and their families, said Patrice Austin, director of the Community PdsCare program.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 29, 2025

Having a wide range of grief support options is key and involves understanding the common limitations around community access, Rhiannon said. Understanding the nuances of the small, but significant aspects of outreach, messaging and service offerings can have profound impacts on improved grief support reach, she stated.

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Hospice News

MARCH 7, 2025

Connecticut Childrens provides a range of 30 pediatric services, including hospice, and has more than 40 locations in its home state, New York and Massachusetts. Advocacy can play an important role in shaping future palliative payment trends, according to Dr. Kerry Moss, palliative care medical director for Connecticut Children’s.

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Hospice News

APRIL 11, 2025

Alivia Care emerged in 2020 when Community Hospice & Palliative Care, now an affiliate, formed a larger company with a broader range of services. To me, that’s a great opportunity. The nonprofit provides home care, hospice, advance care and supportive and palliative care across northern Florida and southern Georgia.

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Hospice News

MAY 6, 2025

When we think about hospice, we look for, on a revenue basis, a 5% to 7% range. But five to 7% on the revenue side, with probably towards the upper end of that range. The company saw 9.9% year-over-year organic revenue growth during the first quarter, as well as higher average daily census, patient days and revenue per patient day.

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Hospice News

JUNE 12, 2025

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Hospice News

APRIL 29, 2025

Increased upstream expansion is needed to better reach a swelling aging population with a broad range of conditions, she indicated. Service diversification is more than a growing trend in the hospice space, according to Kirva Hospice CEO Cheryl Hamilton Fried.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 24, 2025

Challenges in palliative cares prowess A large challenge to operating a sustainable and growing palliative care program is that current reimbursement systems do not sufficiently cover the full range of these interdisciplinary services.

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Hospice News

MARCH 4, 2025

The rebranding move was intended to better reflect the organizations growing range of services and expanding hospice reach. Catskill Area Hospice & Palliative Care, established in 1983, rebranded as Helios Care in 2019. Helios Care now serves three counties in New York.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 27, 2024

The initiative is aimed at examining the diverse range of these illnesses and the patients impacted by them. A new research project launched this fall set out to examine how access to palliative care services can help support these patients physical, spiritual and practical needs.

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Hospice News

MAY 21, 2025

Currently, Medicare payment for palliative care only covers physician or licensed independent practitioner services and does not support the full range of interdisciplinary care, involving nurses, chaplains, aides and social workers. This shortage of funds has made community-based palliative care into a loss leader for many organizations.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

If we [have] a model that covers the full range of palliative care, thats a huge opportunity for hospice providers in the future. Among the examples was the [Medicare Care Choices Model (MCCM)] and looking at what worked and what didnt. There is so much opportunity to expand beyond the traditional hospice care we know right now.

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