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Choice Health at Home Acquires Accentra

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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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Stillwater Hospice CFO: A Winning Recipe for Improving Rural Hospice Care

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Youve got to find staff who are willing and like to travel because they have a lot of windshield time. The constraints we deal with have increased costs and make it very difficult. How have the challenges of rural care delivery evolved in recent years? Staffing is very hard. Its also the logistics of remote care.

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Hospice of the Red River Valley Expands Services for Dual-Eligible Populations

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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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Oregon Regulators Review Compassus, Providence JV Amid Labor Union Concerns

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The deal includes 24 of Providences home health locations in four states as well as private duty services in southern California. Similarly, rural care is more expensive due to the longer distances our caregivers need to travel to get to patients. We are prepared and committed to ensuring any questions or concerns are addressed.

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Addus Bolstering Workforce, Building Density for Hospice, Home Health, Personal Care

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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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How the Digital Health Investment Slump May Affect Hospices

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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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Publicly Traded Hospice Execs See Signs of Improvement in Labor Market

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nurses leaving to travel), increasing recruitment success, and declining use of and bill rates for temp nurses.”. For Signify’s likely new parent company, CVS Health, more deal announcements are likely in the next 24 months, particularly in the value-based care and home health arenas, company executives indicated on the bus tour.

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