Hospice News

JUNE 11, 2024

Travel is among the largest costs when it comes to dual-eligible hospice patients, according to Capron. You don’t get reimbursed for those travel expenses when we’re talking about dual eligibles,” Capron said. These patients can have high health care costs when they can’t get to a physician.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 17, 2024

Additionally, hospice clinicians often travel far distances to reach patients in rural areas, resulting in lower census volumes and safety risks in more remote areas, according to Kuhlman. This puts rural and frontier hospices at a disadvantage when it comes to growing their workforce and clinical capacity, he stated.

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Today's Caregiver

MAY 20, 2024

With the busiest Memorial Day travel weekend in nearly two decades approaching—according to AAA, an estimated 43.8 million Americans are projected to travel between May 23 and 27.

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Daily Nurse

MARCH 21, 2023

According to Vivian Health’s Future of Healthcare Work Report findings, clinicians on long- and short-term travel contracts are more willing to explore permanent employment in 2023 than in previous years. Of all respondents, 36% were employed in travel positions, with 44% employed in permanent positions.

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Today's Caregiver

AUGUST 29, 2024

If you are one of the many people taking an end-of-summer getaway this Labor Day weekend, there are special steps you should take if you are also traveling with someone who has dementia.

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Caregiver Support Services

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Want to travel, but don’t want to give up the work you enjoy? Here’s how: Choose Your Destination Wisely Not all destinations are created equal when it comes to balancing caregiving and travel. Here’s how: Choose Your Destination Wisely Not all destinations are created equal when it comes to balancing caregiving and travel.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 4, 2023

Right now, patients who cannot travel easily sometimes have to travel several hours for their visits, which is difficult and inconvenient for them,” Vale told Palliative Care News. Our staff also has to travel several hours to do home visits, reducing the number of patients we can see.

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Hospice News

JUNE 8, 2022

It has also reduced travel time for the palliative care team and curbed unnecessary patient transfers and recurring hospitalizations. The company has more than 119,000 employees serving communities in six states.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Both sectors have seen improvements in access to care and a reduction in unnecessary travel burdens for providers and families.” By allowing this telehealth flexibility, physicians and nurse practitioners can spend more time delivering care and less time traveling between patient locations.”

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

It enhances communication, reduces the financial burden of travel and increases patient and caregiver satisfaction. Utilization of telehealth was found to reduce overall health care spending and expensive emergency care visits while also minimizing travel and out-of-pocket costs for in-person patient visits.

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Hospice News

JUNE 8, 2022

Providers have also had to compete for new hires with travel nurse companies. With some of the travel nursing contract rates that they can be getting elsewhere, we felt some of that just like everyone else. Some of those travel assignments have started to subside. Addus continued to see increased turnover early in the year.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Identify other opportunities for carbon reduction, such as more efficient staff scheduling and ways to reduce travel for clinical staff. This will support another of the program’s long-term goals — more efficient staff travel, Barros added. But this is part of Agrace’s mission and is worth the investments.”.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

These kinds of technologies have been proliferating through the hospice and palliative care ecosystem for several years to identify patients in need of their services, increase touch points without additional employee travel, reduce the burden on staff, build efficiency and, more recently, prevent the spread of COVID-19. “I

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Hospice News

MAY 23, 2022

With these factors in mind, temp — or “travel” — nursing companies will likely feast in the near term while hospices continue to famine, even if staffing service rates gradually come down. “We’ve seen an overall decline in contract (travel) nursing.

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Life & Death Matters

JULY 3, 2023

As summer approaches and travel resumes, it is not uncommon for family members with loved ones in long-term care to ask this question as they try to decide whether or not to take a vacation…whether that is going on a long-planned family holiday for a few weeks, spending a couple of nights away in a […] The post “Do I Stay or do I Go?”

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AlayaCare

JUNE 23, 2023

Suboptimal schedules can result in wasted time and increased labor costs due to overtime and unnecessary travel. By optimizing schedules, agencies can reduce overtime costs, minimize travel time, and improve overall efficiency. By implementing telehealth, your organization can reduce travel expenses and optimize your caregivers’ time.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 12, 2022

Adding an additional location in the southeastern portion of the state means that staff will not have to travel as far to see patients and will be able to do more home visits, according to Jamie Hanson, St. Croix Hospice’s clinical director in Minnesota.

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Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

DECEMBER 5, 2024

This week, I embarked on a journey: six flights in three days, traveling from the American Speech Language Hearing Association (ASHA) conference in Seattle to Asheville, NC, spanning three time zones, grabbing sleep mostly in air, and all capped by a red-eye flight. Despite the itinerary, missing ASHA was never a consideration. At 7:30 a.m.

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Daily Nurse

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Nursing school has played a huge role in starting my nursing career on my journey to becoming a nurse leader. While living in Idaho, I was studying to receive a Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN). During school, I also worked internships at different hospitals. The hands-on applications in hospitals made concepts, procedures, and general […].

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Hospice News

AUGUST 18, 2022

Telehealth has also enabled providers to boost efficiency, reduce travel times to patient locations, and increase clinical touchpoints — critical considerations in a time of rising expenses and workforce shortages. What started as a stop-gap solution to prevent the virus from spreading has become an integrated component of care delivery.

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Hospice News

JULY 16, 2024

Many rural-based regions in the state only have one hospice organization serving several counties, often facing staffing shortages, increasing demand and higher travel costs, the report indicated. The number of hospice providers in Pennsylvania dropped by 4.7% Census Bureau.

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Hospice News

MAY 10, 2024

The programs offer patients unique travel experiences at the end of life, such as a tour of a Hawaiian island or a city in Italy, Ostashen said. Patients who have utilized the AR services are assessed for symptoms such as blood pressure, shortness of breath, anxiety, nausea and pain at both the beginning and conclusion of their experiences.

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Hospice News

JULY 14, 2022

Making matters worse for those organizations, the proposed payment cuts if finalized come at a time when costs are skyrocketing for supplies, labor, gas and travel expenses, and wages. Increasingly, home-based health care companies are seeking to extend their business lines more broadly across the care continuum.

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Daily Nurse

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Nurses are the backbone of the nation’s healthcare system and play a vital role in providing clinical care to patients and supporting other healthcare workers. According to the American Association of Colleges of Nursing, nursing is the largest healthcare profession in the United States, with 4.2 million registered nurses.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 20, 2023

Moreover, technology could offer a unique opportunity for patients and families to do things virtually that were previously not possible in a physical sense, such as traveling to remote destinations together.” Other operators are similarly embracing virtual reality technology.

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Hospice News

APRIL 16, 2024

For cancer patients in rural areas, accessing palliative care services can be a burden due to the distance needed to travel to a clinic or for an in-home provider to come to them. This also relieves some burden on city-based providers to travel to their patients. That’s why I think this model will be feasible.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Moreover, they had not received annual wage increases for at least two years at that point, and their travel reimbursement remained the same, despite rising gas prices. . Charles Health System acknowledged the difficulties associated with travel. A top priority for the St.

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AlayaCare

AUGUST 8, 2022

Reduce your agency’s carbon footprint through reduced travel. Employee home proximity, travel distance and even mode of transportation. With these new optimization features, your agency can: Create more efficient schedules and routes. Determine the best care worker to perform visits in the best order on the best days.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

This will improve the lives of our nurses, there will be less travel time and more density of patients in the metro areas,” Choice Health at Home CEO and Founder David Jackson told Hospice News’ sister site Home Health Care News. Financial terms of the acquisition were undisclosed.

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Palliverse

OCTOBER 8, 2024

We estimated that in the next months, he would become too unwell to travel. We encouraged him to make travel plans as soon as possible and offered to talk to his son. Eventually, long-distance travel stopped being an option. We wish him safe travels on his next journey. He said he would have to convince his son.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Caregivers may need to travel farther distances to specialized cancer centers that provide these services, which can impact their ability to manage other aspects of their lives, he explained. Caregivers often lack a safe space to discuss the hardships of caring for a seriously or terminally ill family member, he stated.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 30, 2023

The company operates a range of subsidiaries that fall underneath the “Virgin” name, including an airline, a record company and a publicly traded space travel firm, Virgin Galactic (NYSE: SPCE). A key example of this in the larger business world is Richard Branson’s The Virgin Group.

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Hospice News

APRIL 5, 2023

Barnett, in her public comments on the proposal, contends that hospice patients are often too sick to travel for an in-person examination and that they need to receive pain management quickly upon admission. Pain management is a cornerstone of hospice care and can have a substantial impact on patient and family satisfaction.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

nurses leaving to travel), increasing recruitment success, and declining use of and bill rates for temp nurses.”. “Not surprisingly, labor was a key discussion in all our meetings, and the takeaway is that we have seen the worst of the tightness in the nursing labor market,” Tanquilut and Phillips said in the note.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 13, 2024

The nation has a small supply of these providers, which ripples effects for families that often travel long distances to receive the care they need, he stated. We have to put more resources into this to cover the places that are under-resourced.”

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

The service also widens the company’s labor pool to include clinicians who do not own cars but need to travel to patient locations, as well as those who have limited access to public transportation. ShiftMed’s internal data show that transportation is a barrier for 30% of clinical staff, according to Laufer.

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Daily Nurse

JANUARY 25, 2023

NJ nurse Claire Donaghy found a second home in Rwanda, a nation she first visited as a surgical team member with Operation Smile in 2014. Donaghy is a nursing professor at William Paterson University and is eager to return to lend her expertise to this important mission. Daily Nurse is proud to name Claire Donaghy […]

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