Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

The North Carolina-based company provides home health, hospice and palliative care services across its home state and in South Carolina and Virginia. The North Carolina-based nonprofit provides hospice and advanced illness care, grief support and caregiver resources.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Formerly Hospice & Palliative Care Charlotte Region, VIA Health Partners currently serves 32 counties in North and South Carolina. VIA offers community-based serious illness and end-of-life care, and also operates five inpatient hospice facilities in North Carolina and one in South Carolina.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 12, 2024

Heart’n Soul recently sought to establish services in the Mecklenburg County region of North Carolina. Mecklenburg County has six licensed hospice providers, according to data shared with Hospice News by the Association for Home Care & Hospice of North Carolina (AHHC-NC). The hospice’s CON application was ultimately denied.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

The South Carolina-based hospice and palliative care provider is a portfolio company of the private equity firm Ridgemont Equity Partners. Agape employs a staff of 1,450 employees that provide end-of-life and serious illness care to roughly 3,600 patients in South and North Carolina, as well as in Georgia.

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Hospice News

MAY 27, 2022

South Carolina-headquartered Agape Care is a portfolio company of the private equity firm Ridgemont Equity Partners. Most recently, Agape Care Group entered North Carolina by acquiring Hospice of the Carolina Foothills for an undisclosed sum.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

The nonprofit Samaritan’s palliative care arm operates in South New Jersey, including Bulington, Camden and Gloucester counties. The South Jersey region is no exception to this trend, highlighting the pressing need for initiatives that expand education and access to palliative care.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 5, 2024

Other nonprofits, such as North Carolina-headquartered VIA Health Partners, have gone the acquisition route. Formerly Hospice & Palliative Care Charlotte Region, VIA Health Partners currently serves 32 counties in North and South Carolina. The nonprofit was established in 1978 as Hospice at Charlotte.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

The organization recently entered a joint venture with Bon Secours Mercy Health (BSMH), which serves home health and hospice patients in Florida, Illinois, Kentucky, Ohio, South Carolina and Virginia. Compassus also expanded last October through its JV with Ascension Health, branded as Ascension at Home.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 22, 2024

I think we’ve been pretty successful at stretching in the southeast quadrant of the United States from Oklahoma to the Carolinas. We’re looking at Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma and then down through Louisiana, through the Carolinas, up to Virginia. We want that consistency, because that is how we can best deliver care to patients.

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Hospice News

JUNE 10, 2024

Most recently, the company entered into a joint venture with Bon Secours Mercy Health (BSMH) that serves home health and hospice patients in Florida, Illinois, Kentucky, Ohio, South Carolina and Virginia. The company also operates a JV with Ascension Health branded as Ascension at Home that expanded in Oct.

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Hospice News

MAY 3, 2024

These agencies are serving patients in Florida, Illinois, Kentucky, Ohio, South Carolina and Virginia. Through the JV, Compassus will operate 10 home health agencies and 11 hospice locations previously managed by BSMH. BSMH is maintaining ownership of associated real estate assets. BSMH and Compassus will each hold a 50% stake.

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Hospice News

MAY 25, 2022

Agape Care Group has expanded to North Carolina with the purchase of Hospice of the Carolina Foothills. Our aligned mission to deeply serve communities is evident in the history of care delivered across the Carolinas and has been the core of Hospice of the Carolina Foothills for many years.”.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

The formulation of these rules has a significant influence on how patients receive end-of-life care, according to Tim Rogers, president and CEO of the Association for Home & Hospice Care of North Carolina and the South Carolina Home Care & Hospice Association. Both North and South Carolina are CON states.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

In another example, Hospice Care of South Carolina has been using predictive analytics to risk-stratify patients since at least 2020. “This has really helped the patients feel at ease and reduce a lot of those unnecessary emergency department visits and rehospitalizations.”

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Hospice News

AUGUST 9, 2024

Founded in 1987, Well Care Health provides home health and hospice across 69 counties in North and South Carolina. Tying it [all] to patient acuity will help better understand what you can absorb from a new admission perspective.” The hospice and home health provider also offers skilled nursing services and rehabilitation therapies.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Formerly Hospice & Palliative Care Charlotte Region, VIA Health Partners currently serves 32 counties in North and South Carolina. The nonprofit offers community-based serious illness and end-of-life care, and also operates five inpatient hospice facilities in North Carolina and one in South Carolina.

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Diversity Nursing

JUNE 19, 2024

North Carolina $39.68 South Carolina $39.13 South Dakota $33.19 North Carolina $39.68 South Carolina $39.13 South Dakota $33.19 State RN hourly mean wage Cost of living index RN hourly mean wage, adjusted by cost of living California $66.20 Minnesota $45.59 Georgia $43.27 Oregon $54.54

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Diversity Nursing

JUNE 20, 2024

South Dakota $58.17 North Carolina $58.46 South Carolina $56.22 South Dakota $58.17 North Carolina $58.46 South Carolina $56.22 State NP hourly mean wage Cost of living index NP hourly mean wage, adjusted by cost of living Nevada $71.48 New Mexico $65.76 Oklahoma $59.77 Minnesota $64.91

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Diversity Nursing

APRIL 23, 2024

Alabama Annual median wage: $65,900 Alaska Annual median wage: $106,410 Arizona Annual median wage: $88,310 Arkansas Annual median wage: $72,920 California Annual median wage: $133,990 Colorado Annual median wage: $86,900 Connecticut Annual median wage: $100,620 Delaware Annual median wage: $93,200 District of Columbia Annual median wage: $105,220 (..)

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Hospice News

JULY 31, 2024

Investment, integration challenges A significant challenge is that technology often takes time to fully mature before hospices begin seeing the potential benefits, according to Matt Chadwick, CFO, Well Care Home Health, which offers hospice and home health in North and South Carolina.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

The South Carolina-based hospice provider is a portfolio company of the private equity firm Ridgemont Equity Partners. In addition to Georgia, Agape also provides hospice and palliative care in both South and North Carolina. Agape Care Group has launched a de novo in Milledgeville, Georgia. .

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Derrick was also a clinical instructor of medicine at the Medical University of South Carolina. Hospice Care of the Lowcountry provides end-of-life and palliative care to two counties in South Carolina.

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Hospice News

JULY 6, 2023

” Key considerations for hospice pediatric inpatient facilities VIA Health Partners provides adult and pediatric hospice and palliative care in North Carolina and South Carolina. The nonprofit operates inpatient hospice facilities, with pediatric care provided at each location. “We

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Building stronger collaborative models between community-based palliative care providers and mental health professionals could help improve quality and health disparities, according to Julie Turner, a licensed mental health counselor based in South Carolina. “A

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Minority Nurse

APRIL 28, 2022

Polly Sheppard has been on a mission since surviving the 2015 Emmanuel AME church massacre in South Carolina. Aside from Wyoming, South Carolina is the only state that has failed to pass some form of law against hate crimes, but the current bill has faced a steep uphill battle. Because we didn’t have it.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 19, 2024

GHC operated locations in South Carolina and Georgia, which are key growth markets for Agape. Before that transaction, the hospice provider purchased Georgia-based Lanier Hospice in January and Hospice of the Carolina Foothills in May. Agape in September 2022 acquired GHC Hospice for a confidential amount.

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Hospice News

JUNE 14, 2024

Though increased regulatory oversight in response to the fraudulent activity has been warranted, it has posed some unintended negative consequences for providers and patients alike, according to Pamela Duncan Owens, chief compliance officer at Agape Care, a South Carolina-headquartered hospice and palliative care provider.

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AJN Off the Charts

APRIL 8, 2024

A nursing student treats a volunteer acting as a disaster victim during a high-fidelity simulation at the University of South Carolina Aiken Convocation Center. Hannah Mottel, DNP, RN, CNE, CHSE, is an assistant professor at the University of South Carolina in Aiken. Photo courtesy of the authors.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 15, 2023

She is based in Charleston, South Carolina. Bradford is an advanced certified hospice and palliative care nurse practitioner and an active member of both the Hospice and Palliative Nurse Association and the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine.

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Hospice News

JUNE 10, 2022

Dare County Home Health & Hospice in North Carolina, for instance, sold its operations to Brightspring Health Services for $2.9 South Carolina-headquartered Agape Care is a portfolio company of the private equity firm Ridgemont Equity Partners. million last September.

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Diversity Nursing

JANUARY 17, 2023

North Carolina AdventHealth Hendersonville. Rhode Island South County Hospital. South Carolina Beaufort Memorial Hospital. Alabama South Baldwin Regional Medical Center. South Dakota Sanford USD Medical Center. Utah Intermountain Alta View Hospital. Colorado Centura Health Castle Rock Adventist Hospital.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Caris Healthcare provides adult and pediatric hospice care to more than 40,000 patients and families across 28 locations in Georgia, Missouri, South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia. We need to ensure we have investigations and appropriate remedial measures.”

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Hospice News

MARCH 6, 2024

The hospice and palliative care provider serves 32 counties in North and South Carolina. “And that is that a traditional hospice and palliative care organization is not positioned well in a world of attribution or world of value base, because we’re too far down the food chain.”

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Traditions Health

MARCH 8, 2024

In this capacity, Crooke will be responsible for oversight of Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, and South Carolina, strategic financial goals, and streamlining operations. Crooke lives in Spartanburg, South Carolina with her husband. Together they have seven adult children.

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Hospice News

JUNE 27, 2024

A portfolio company of Ridgemont Equity, the South Carolina-based hospice and palliative provider offers care across nine states. Hospices today are facing one of the most challenging regulatory environments that the industry has seen, according to Pamela Duncan Owens, chief compliance officer of Agape Care.

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AJN Off the Charts

MAY 17, 2023

When the Civil War broke out, Tubman went to union-occupied Port Royal, South Carolina. She served as a nurse, cook, scout, and spy for the 1st South Carolina Volunteers Regiment. Born into slavery as Araminta Ross in 1820, Tubman escaped from slavery in 1849 by fleeing to Philadelphia.

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Hospice News

MARCH 2, 2023

The South Carolina-based nonprofit has operated two resale stores for the past 18 years. But in late 2022 and early 2023, providers are seeing signs of recovery. The past year has brought Hospice & Community Care its greatest resale revenue boost in recent memory, according to Graham.

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