Hospice News

APRIL 17, 2024

The addition of HomeCare Hospice to our network will allow us to better serve our community and meet the growing needs of patients in need of compassionate end-of-life care.” About 19,000 Medicare beneficiaries elected hospice in the state last year, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

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HopeHealth

MARCH 1, 2024

“What would you like us to know about you, so we can care for you the way you want to be cared for?” Hospice social worker Laura McGuire usually asks patients this first. It’s just the beginning. The post Tell me how I can help: Meet a hospice social worker appeared first on HopeHealth.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Though his narrow definition of suffering as injured or threatened personhood has been critiqued , the central concept was a motivating force for many of us to enter the fields of geriatrics and palliative care, Eric and I included. Today we talk about suffering in the many forms we encounter in palliative care. This is Eric Widera.

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Hospice News

MARCH 6, 2024

When I think about the staffing issues and just some of the career burnout, and how to really attract and grow our specialty area of palliative medicine, we have a lot of forces working against us,” Campbell told Palliative Care News at the conference. There are a lot of specialty areas within medicine. NYSE: CHE).

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Hospice News

JANUARY 31, 2024

Hospice News spoke with VitalCaring President Luke James about the company’s anticipated trajectory at the Home Care 100 Conference in Scottsdale, Arizona. VitalCaring VitalCaring VitalCaring President Luke James We spoke early last year about VitalCaring’s launch. Currently, today, it’s about 15% of our revenue.

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Hospice News

MARCH 22, 2024

Hospice News recently spoke with Hagfors about the ways the industry has changed since Partners In Care came on the scene — and how it is moving towards the future. That’s a big problem for us in our service area, and that ultimately will be available to all the other hospices in our service area as well, just to improve care overall.

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Hospice News

MARCH 28, 2024

It’s about honoring the trust placed in us and ensuring that every patient receives the support they deserve. It’s about empowering patients to live their lives to the fullest, regardless of the challenges they may encounter. HSPN: What’s your favorite part about your job?

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Hospice News

APRIL 19, 2024

“As a clinician, we’re often expecting these untrained, informal caregivers to do what it took some of us years in school to be trained to be able to do,” Ferebee said at the conference. “We’re We’re asking them to assess the needs of their loved one and then implement intervention based on it.

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GeriPal

APRIL 11, 2024

This podcast was initially sparked by Josh’s “Note From a Family Meeting” Substack post titled “ Ambivalence in Clinical Decision-Making ,” which discussed Bryanna’s and Jenny’s 2022 article titled “ Two Minds, One Patient: Clearing up Confusion About Ambivalence.” Does being ambivalent mean you don’t care about the decision?

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GeriPal

APRIL 26, 2024

We’re going to be talking about ambivalence with four amazing guests. Who is with us today? Jenny was previously on our podcast talking about the ethics of nudging. Today we’re going to be talking about ambivalence, what it is, what should we do about it. Transcript Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal podcast.

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Hospice News

APRIL 16, 2024

It gives us a sense of real confidence as we look not just in terms of our performance, but potentially how we might think about M&A opportunities.” This reflects patient census growth of about 900,000 people during 2023. Optum Health currently serves more than 4.1 This followed its $5.4

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Hospice News

APRIL 8, 2024

I developed a proposal and presented it to our senior leadership and to our board of directors, who very happily agreed that this was absolutely in keeping with our mission and something that really made sense for us to offer, because there was this need out there not being filled. It’s about having strong institutional support and buy-in.

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GeriPal

MARCH 14, 2024

The rules of the challenge were simple: fluids must be thickened to “honey consistency” using a beverage thickener for a 12-hour contiguous period. All of us failed the challenge. We then decided to challenge others and asked them to post their videos online using the hashtag #thickenedliquidchallenge. To talk about this.

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Hospice News

MARCH 1, 2024

It’s how somebody feels about stuff 30 days, three months, six months [out]. Education about palliative care is important across the entire care continuum — from patients and families to providers to the C-suite and beyond. And that I think is what moves the needle in terms of receptivity and letting us in the room,” said Gelfman. “In

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Hospice News

JANUARY 18, 2024

Hospice News spoke with Helios CEO Dan Ayres about how this collaboration came together and what these providers see on the horizon for their organizations and the patients they serve. While the counties that we currently serve are better than the rest of the state, it’s only at about 30%. That’s the big news.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Hospice News spoke with Parsons about the ways community-based nonprofits can lead the way towards a better health care system, as well as his plans for Blue Ridge in 2024 and beyond. Loudoun County is very much a priority for us and other de novo opportunities that we’re looking at. Where are you at with the construction?

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary Communicating about a serious illness is hard. Last week’s podcast we talked about the challenge around miscommunication in serious illness. We’ve also invited Sunita Puri to talk about the language of life sustaining treatments, in particular CPR. Eric: And Alex, who do we have with us today?

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 6, 2023

About a month ago we had a hospice nursing applicant who came to us and mentioned that a primary concern was struggling with the bereavement side and finding some ways to cope after a patient passes. We didn’t have this support available, and a light bulb went off for us for us to start developing it.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Hospice News spoke with Hotchkiss about the implications of his new research for hospices and how they can apply feedback from patients’ families to fine-tune their services and motivate clinical employees. The footprint of a hospice’s online reviews tells the story about what a hospice values. But even that has something for us too.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 4, 2023

As soon as I became acquainted with what they were doing and what they were all about, it all made sense,” Mulder told Hospice News. The world of health care is rapidly changing around us. But that’s made up by other folks who are finding some financial benefit from the work that we do, that just doesn’t pass down to us.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 7, 2023

They decry the lack of serious attention and prioritization this issue has in the US. My kids ask – why don’t adults care about this issue the same way that they and their friends care about it? Eric: And Alex, who do we have with us today? It’s the end of the world as we know it. This is Eric Widera.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Hospice News spoke with Wingard about the forthcoming merger, growing consolidation in the nonprofit sector and her priorities for 2024. I also would say that there are positive or favorable tailwinds that are here with us as well. Skelly Wingard, CEO, By the Bay Health What’s top of mind for you, as you look ahead to 2024?

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GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

We start off the conversation by talking about whether patients with cancer and cancer pain are really that different, and their paper that was just published on January 11 th in JAMA Oncology showing that substance use disorder is not uncommon in individuals with cancer. Who do we have with us today? This is Eric Widera.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Why are we talking about that? I know there’s a lot of different controversial topics, but maybe that’s one of the answers to starting to fix that problem if we think about it a little differently. We serve about 60,000 folks a day, 26,000 caregivers, 17 states at a couple 100 offices. We’re just in the downstate market.

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Hospice News

APRIL 23, 2024

Stroke is life altering for everyone,” said Creutzfeldt, who sees about 500 stroke patients admitted to Harborview annually. “We We talked about how to integrate health equity research into neuropalliative care,” Creutzfeldt explained. “We Palliative care offers support for a variety of symptoms through interdisciplinary care.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary One of the things I love about Liz Dzeng’s work is the way in which it draws upon, echoes, and advances our understanding of the influence of culture on the end of life experience. Eric: And Alex, I see two people with us, one in the room with me also. Alex: We’ve got a lot to talk about.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

We can help them with 24/7 services when they need to work or they’re worried about an emergency at 2 o’clock in the morning. Helping them understand is a very important role for us.” It’s having very open communication with parents and other providers that allows us to engage in our respective communities.

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Hospice News

MARCH 10, 2023

Palazzo spoke with Hospice News about what it takes to market and grow a hospice business, with an emphasis on building relationships with referral sources and families. When we talk about marketing, are we speaking primarily about the referral sources? Are we talking about educating patients and families?

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Hospice News

MARCH 25, 2024

We started initially as a home health agency [Southland Home Care], then sold it in 2020 and began talking about opening a hospice. The pandemic really slowed down how many patients were being referred to us for hospice. We have really carried that spirit forward with us. It’s how we strive to provide five-star service.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 5, 2024

If we’re going to have operating costs that allow us to provide this level of incredible care, it is the side of business that we have to pay attention to,” Wingard said. We look first at the nexus of how we expand our services to the community in a way that positions us further in the value-based world.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

I completed an emergency medicine residency program and I really saw a gap in both knowledge and clinical skills in terms of talking to people with life-limiting illnesses about how it affects them. It’s [about] having a hospital institute that really embraces palliative care and allows it to grow and flourish for good quality outcomes.

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Hospice News

MAY 12, 2023

The issue first gained attention late last year in California, but stakeholders have also raised concerns about providers in Nevada, Arizona and Texas. Hospice News sat down with Jingle to talk about how these concerns are presenting themselves in her markets, how regulators should respond and the benefits of engaging with policymakers.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

That seems to be common among a lot of providers that do have the capabilities that we’re talking about is value-based care. But with the costs of some of the things that are coming with home health, and just the cost of labor, a lot of us are seeing margin compression. Unlike hospice, I’ll take PACE, for example.

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GeriPal

APRIL 4, 2024

The Cruzan ruling led to a flood of interest in Advance Directives, and eventually to the Patient Self Determination Act, which mandates provision of information about advanced directives to all hospitalized patients. We use Bernie’s NEJM Perspective as a springboard for discussion. Eric: And Alex, who do we have with us today?

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Hospice News spoke with Hamilton Fried about the hospice provider’s recent growth and the opportunities she sees within value-based care. So PACE is a natural fit for us. Hospice has always been about an interdisciplinary team model, and PACE allows us to provide that type of care. We’ll see what the data show.

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Hospice News

MAY 25, 2023

Anthony Spano: We are very lucky to have Nikki Davis on stage, so I wanted to just open up and give her the chance to tell us a little bit about herself. Nikki Davis: I’m a nurse practitioner and have been working in geriatrics and palliative care for about 21 years now. Talk to us about that.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

People living with heart failure continue to have unmet care needs and face uncertainty about their prognosis. We’re starting with primary palliative care, and then when things get really complicated, we call a palliative care specialist to help us out.” And palliative care can help.” Primary palliative care is what we all do.

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