Hospice News

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Hospice providers are increasingly focused on memory care settings and physician offices as referral sources. Though many hospices see facility-based care as their primary referral engines, a growing base of providers are seeking ties to community-based organizations to increase access and utilization this year.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 18, 2024

Helios Care is working to change the face of hospice in its update New York service region, with a new partnership with the Bassett Healthcare Network as a cornerstone of its strategy. Formerly known as Catskills Area Hospice and Palliative Care, the organization rebranded as Helios in 2019. This is purely a collaboration.

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Hospice News

MARCH 6, 2024

Coastal Hospice & Palliative Care recently began exploring ways to improve clinical outcomes during the last days of life, an important quality measure in end-of-life care. This window into a patient’s conditions has helped hospice teams better assess approaches to care delivery, Escalante said.

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Hospice News

JUNE 15, 2023

Today, she is the executive director of the program, Idaho-based Hospice and Palliative Care of the Wood River Valley, which serves an average of 55 patients daily in a largely rural community. The organization’s interdisciplinary care model, which includes some concurrent care, is funded 100% through philanthropy.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Caregivers can be a key to reducing hospice revocations and the associated emergency department costs, according to Benjamin Swig, director of Acadian Health. He is also director of health care innovation and strategy at Acadian Companies, parent organization of Acadian Health. Photo courtesy of Acadian Health.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Palliative care has been one of the largest growing segments of the health care industry in the last decade despite challenges such as staffing shortages, reimbursement headaches and misconceptions regarding this type of care. million people need palliative care.

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GeriPal

MARCH 7, 2024

Check out the Pub Crawl GeriPal post for more info, and follow #HPMParty on Twitter to keep us as we crawl! ** In the last several years, I’ve seen more and more articles about end-of-life doulas ( like this NY Times article from 2021 ). I’m unsure what they do, how often they’re used, and who pays for their work. Why Beth?

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Hospice News

AUGUST 3, 2023

The nonprofit health system’s inpatient center provided important end-of-life care and respite services to these communities, according to Kasey Kamholz, board of directors president of the Homestead Hospice House. All told, the nonprofit operates 12 hospitals and more than 100 specialty care sites.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 16, 2024

Niagara Hospice is part of The Hospice and Palliative Care Group (HPCG), an organization that provides administrative services. Other providers in the group include Kalos Health, Liberty Home Care, Hospice of Orleans and The Niagara Hospice Alliance. “It This followed the launch of its dementia care and family support program in 2019.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Want to read more palliative care-focused content like this? Subscribe to Palliative Care News today ! Amedisys (NASDAQ: AMED) is pushing forward on palliative care growth in 2024 through its innovation arm, Contessa. For now, Amedisys shows no signs of slowing down on palliative care. million beneficiaries. billion.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 13, 2023

As Contessa Health pioneers a growing value-based palliative care-at-home program, they’ve encountered some learning curves when it comes to operating within a new payment system. Contessa’s specialty is high-acuity care in the home, including hospital-at-home and skilled nursing facility-at-home programs.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 19, 2022

Pennsylvania-based Homeland at Home recently added community-based palliative care to its repertoire of services in response to rising demand for this care. In addition to palliative, Homeland at Home provides facility- and home-based hospice, home health, personal and skilled nursing care, along with bereavement support.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 14, 2023

Past payment model demonstrations that included community-based palliative care offer a window into how these services could generate cost savings and improved quality. Among those demos is the Medicare Care Choices Model (MCCM), which ran between 2016 and 2021. An analysis from the U.S.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Clinicians often lack exposure to palliative care during their medical training – an issue blocking growth of this workforce during a time of rising demand. One key to growing the supply of palliative care clinicians hinges on data that demonstrates how these services improve patient outcomes.

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Freedom Home Care and Medical Staffing

APRIL 16, 2024

Welcome Laura Bogira to Our Team at Freedom Home Care! We at Freedom Home Care are excited to announce a new addition to our wonderful team as Director of Business Development. Please join us in welcoming Laura Bogira, a seasoned RN/BSN with over 18 years of rich experience in the healthcare industry.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 29, 2023

The program is designed to recognize up-and-coming industry members who are shaping the next decade of home health, hospice care, senior housing, skilled nursing, and behavioral health. Powell sat down with Hospice News to talk about her career trajectory and the ways the industry is evolving.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Training and education are keys to caring for patients and employees with unique needs impacted by trauma and abuse. The third is moving away from a very medicalized approach and focusing on what conversations help us get informed on trauma in the past and present.” That’s a fundamental place to begin,” Natarajan told Hospice News.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 18, 2023

A revolution is needed in hospice care, complete with a new mindset, updated care models and redesigned payment systems, Dr Monisha Pujari, medical director for Longleaf Hospice, told Hospice News. Hospice News spoke with Pujari about her vision for hospice care and what it would take to make it a reality.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Community-based nonprofit hospices can help blaze a trail towards a better future in American health care. By year’s end, Parsons expects that census to grow to 400, in tandem with expansion in its hospice and palliative care services, as well as its new Program for All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) initiative set to launch this year.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 26, 2024

Hospice News spoke with Bristol CEO Alex Mauricio at the Home Care 100 Conference in Scottsdale, Arizona, to talk about the company’s growth outlook for 2024, its speciality care coordination program and opportunities for hospice providers in the assisted living space. We’ll do the same this year. It could be anybody.

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Hospice News

JULY 20, 2022

Palliative care providers are seeking ways to improve efficiency as costs rise and the limited avenues for reimbursement remain unchanged. Payers, including Medicare, like to see providers reduce the costs of care. They also work with a few payers who offer standardized reimbursement for palliative care, according to Hamilton.

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Hospice News

APRIL 5, 2023

A group of hospice and palliative care leaders with nursing experience established 1Care in October 2020. Hospice News spoke with Belluomini about the ways executives with clinical experience help to foster growth, referral relationships and staff satisfaction. We are all nurses and don’t have any business people involved.

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Hospice News

MAY 8, 2023

Kaishauna Guidry, a former teacher turned hospice physician, continues to leverage her background in education to help terminally ill patients find the care they need. Few businesses have to work as hard as hospices to dispel myths and misconceptions about their practices. I thought it was withholding care. G’s H.O.S.P.I.C.E

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Hospice News

JUNE 23, 2023

Patients are more likely to create an advance care plan if they receive nurse-led palliative care services versus those who had standard care alone. Yael Schenker, director of the palliative research center and professor in the division of general internal medicine at University of Pittsburg, said in a press release.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 22, 2023

As the hospice and palliative care workforce dwindles, some stakeholders are hard at work to develop career paths for staff in related disciplines, including social work. Everyone talks about the workforce shortage in health care, and a lot of that results in difficulties and continuity of care, which can be catastrophic for patients.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 9, 2022

This extends the nonprofit hospice and palliative care provider’s Green River location, which cares for patients in five Kentucky counties. “We We have been a proud part of this community since 1989 and are humbled to be the partner of choice for those facing serious illness,” Community Director Jennifer Thompson said in a statement.

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Hospice News

JUNE 21, 2023

The Delaware Valley Accountable Care Organization (ACO) has leveraged a comprehensive, community-based palliative care program developed by its partner Main Line Health to reduce costs of care by $9,000 per eligible patient. The key to this was the anticipated reductions in the total cost of care.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 16, 2022

The system also operates four hospitals and several family care clinics, with 4,500 caregivers, more than 350 active medical staff and 250 visiting medical staff. Many of my co-workers had left after the new director. It’s similar to what we see elsewhere where nurses and other health care workers are pursuing unionization.

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Hospice News

APRIL 11, 2023

Hospices have relied on data to enhances their ability to assess the quality and quantity of bedside care delivered during a patients’ final days. This includes two key quality measures: Hospice Visits in the Last Days of Life (HVLDL) and the Hospice Care Index (HCI).

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Onboarding processes have an important role in preparing hospice clinicians for the nuances of providing end-of-life care. Employee feedback has most commonly centered around the importance of understanding the nature of hospice care and the interdisciplinary components involved, Psaras stated.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 22, 2024

Eduardo Bruera is a true pioneer in the field of palliative care. Bruera founded the first academic fellowship program in palliative care at the University of Alberta in Canada. This department has emerged as the largest clinical and academic palliative care program in the world. What drew you to the palliative care field?

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Minority Nurse

APRIL 3, 2024

For 17 years, she has been dedicated to women’s services and has a wealth of knowledge in managing inpatient and outpatient obstetric care. Since 2019, Coles has been Director of Women’s & Children’s Services at the University of Maryland Baltimore Washington Medical Center (UM BWMC). Talk about your role in nursing.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Hospice nurses pointed to this issue as their number-one concern about their jobs in a recent survey by The Amity Group. We have access to documentation that has nothing to do with patient care and doesn’t promote communication between the team, it just just a lot of documentation,” Henry said. NYSE: CHE). “We

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Globally, the need for hospice and palliative care has been growing faster than people can access them. This was the impetus behind the World Hospice Palliative Care Alliance (WHPCA), which emerged from an Oct. 8, 2005 meeting of health care leaders in South Korea. Case in point, as many as 71% of the U.S.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

The program is designed to recognize up-and-coming industry members who are shaping the next decade of home health, hospice care, senior housing, skilled nursing, and behavioral health. Amy Rose, director of palliative products for Axxess, has been named a 2023 Future Leader by Hospice News. What drew you to this industry?

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

About a year ago, we did a kind of a deep dive into some of our challenges, and we realized that we needed to do a new staffing model, one that would attract dedicated, experienced hospice nurses,” Kalvaitis said at the Hospice News ELEVATE conference in Chicago. At Enhabit Inc.’s Patient satisfaction went up; our quality scores went up.”

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

“When we’ve looked at the investments on retention and what led to an engaged, loyal workforce that provides better care, it is substantially cheaper for us to serve our businesses when we invest in retention versus having to backfill those open positions,” Miller told Hospice News. Last year, we had less than 20% turnover.

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