Hospice News

AUGUST 16, 2022

Part of our mission is providing agencies training insights and tools they need to meaningfully improve care in the home. Austin: I think CMS has always put a high value on patient outcome and the overall impact, whether it’s through CAHPS surveys or others.

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Hospice News

JUNE 16, 2023

The mission and function of the Medicare program have evolved over time, and the agency that runs it also may need to adapt to the new ways that health care organizations are doing business, according to SCAN Group CEO Dr. Sachin Jain. Jain currently leads California-based SCAN Group, parent company of SCAN Health Plan, a $4.3

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 25, 2022

And then once I began working for the organization, the mission grabbed me. I tell people that sometimes you come for a job, but you stay because of the mission. It’s a national issue for us when we’re talking about diverse communities – that they utilize hospice care at a lower rate. That was in 1992.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 14, 2022

The seeds of this agreement were planted about two-and-a-half years ago, around the time that SCAN Group CEO Dr. Sachin Jain took the helm at that organization in July 2020. Jain said that SCAN’s interactions with CareOregon felt like “talking to cousins” that “shared the same organizational DNA” in terms of their mission, vision and values.

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Hospice News

MAY 30, 2023

Today, about 25% of hospice providers are nonprofit. Simply put, we are stronger together, based on shared mission, values, and culture, than we are apart. Frankly, the private equity- and venture capital-backed for-profit hospices have used our model, heretofore, unwilling to work together to our detriment and their advantage.

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Hospice News

JULY 6, 2022

“As part of the Optum team and its value-based capabilities, we will be able to expand our patient-centered mission and help drive best care practices across the country,” said Keith G. Myers, LHC Group’s chairman and CEO when the deal was announced. The information came from sources “familiar with the matter,” according to the report.

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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

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Experience with value-based care Value-based reimbursement is a rising tide, particularly for AccentCare’s diverse business lines. Steward also developed a value-based care and chronic disease management platform that it sold to CareMax (NASDAQ: CMAX) last year for $25 million in cash and 23.5 Moreover, the U.S.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Amedisys executives have continuously expressed optimism about Contessa’s growth potential as it expands its hospital-at-home and community-based palliative care programs. “We Optum, a subsidiary of UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UHN), in June penned its agreement to acquire Amedisys in an all-cash transaction of $101 per share, or about $3.3

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Hospice News

JUNE 22, 2022

“As part of the Optum team and its value-based capabilities, we will be able to expand our patient-centered mission and help drive best care practices across the country,” said Keith G. The transaction is indicative of the rising profile of home-based care and value-based reimbursement models.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Hospice News spoke with a group of industry leaders — from publicly traded companies, private firms and nonprofit organizations — about the major trends and most pressing concerns on their radar as the new year approaches. I’m most worried about the [value-based insurance design (VBID) demonstration]. Key trends to watch. “I

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 31, 2022

You’ll see us going forward really looking at how we can build out a continuum of goods that we exist in,” Davis told Hospice News during the ELEVATE conference in Chicago. Hospice has been a part of the mission of LHC Group since the beginning, since the late 90s.

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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

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Most don’t even know about it, even if they do quality for it. It’s about making sure the people-centric, mission-driven culture of the organization carries on and is codified in future generations. And that’s a caution for us all to recognize. So, [it’s] really continuing to educate and just being a credible hospice.”

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Minority Nurse

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Daniel-Kimani joined BAYADA in 2017 as director of benefits and compensation, and then in January 2022, Daniel-Kimani became head of total rewards, DEI, and HR strategy to ensure employees are effectively compensated and recognized and to help both current and prospective employees find their unique connection to BAYADA’s mission and values.

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Hospice News

APRIL 24, 2024

It’s also about having extra layers of employee benefits and a wider scope of wellness support and assistance programs.” This involves communicating the value of these services in providing quality care and addressing patients’ needs.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 6, 2023

On his last day in the office, Sciullo sat down with Hospice News to talk about the need for care integration and his strategies for effective leadership in community-based health care. You’ve spoken before about keeping the patient and family as the “true center of hospice care.” That was the term you used at that time.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 16, 2024

“At the same time, I’m honored to be assuming my new position at HomeCare & Hospice and Total Senior Care and am looking forward to helping these tremendous organizations to continue their mission.” We’re seeing a big need this year for education and research and alignment of value-based care, specifically in the hospice community.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Trogdon recently shared her thoughts with Hospice News about her career in hospice and palliative care, and the biggest forces of change at play in serious illness and end-of-life care. When you work with a company like this for 15 years you learn a lot about all of the different service lines. What drew you to this industry?

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Hospice News

MAY 5, 2023

Communicating the value of longer hospice stays to referral partners, patients and families has been a longstanding challenge for the industry, and was among the hurdles that a startup like Heart N’ Soul had to overleap, according to CEO David Turner. Getting the word out about our existence and hospice was a big challenge for us.

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Hospice News

MAY 12, 2023

The hospice space — and the health care system at large — is in a state of flux, driven by value-based reimbursement models, an expanding home-based care continuum and industry-changing transactions. One of these changes is the ascendancy of value-based payment models. I think we have the solutions for them.” billion Option Care deal.

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Hospice News

MAY 2, 2022

Hand in hand with that goal is her mission to ensure that UnityPoint has the clinical staff it needs to care for the patients and families she is working to reach. So the goal is to continue to educate our communities, and especially our underserved communities who need to know about this service. We were able to bring her home.

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NHPCO

DECEMBER 19, 2023

The HAN Angel Awards were created to recognize select members of Congress on both sides of the aisle for their ongoing efforts to amplify the voices of patients, families, providers, and those advocating for the vital mission of hospice and palliative care in supporting patients and their families facing serious or life-limiting illness.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Can you tell me more about your own professional background? If you feel comfortable, can you tell me what it was about that experience that led you to decide that you wanted to be involved in this field professionally? I was only able to think about the fact he was gone. It was actually on that caregiving side. Definitely.

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Minority Nurse

AUGUST 16, 2023

The Mission “The mission is to promote excellence in nursing education to build a strong and diverse nursing workforce to advance the health of the nation and the global community,” says Beverly Malone, PhD, RN, FAAN, President and CEO of NLN. Malone explains what the first and last core values mean to the organization.

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High Peaks Hospice

OCTOBER 26, 2023

This event was chaired by Nappy Marcotte, a graduate of the hospice’s services, who has been an advocate for their mission and fundraiser for the non-profit organization for over a dozen years. Donations like this help us to continue meeting the hospice needs of everyone in the community.” For more information, visit www.kofc.org.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

We intend to be very intentional about our de novo expansion,” James told Hospice News. This is what we’re about. Really getting everybody into a common brand, a common identity, a common vision, a common mission and a common set of values that we’re all working toward, it sort of sounds easy.

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AlayaCare

MARCH 21, 2023

“One of the core pillars of AlayaCare as a technology-positive company is relying on data, measurement, and analytics to help us and our customers provide better home-based care and services to our loved ones who wish to recover and age at the place they call home,” said Adrian Schauer, Founder and CEO, AlayaCare.

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AlayaCare

MARCH 14, 2023

This strategic partnership marks Forcura’s second integration with an electronic health record (EHR) platform in the home care market, which was valued at $94.17 Like us, Forcura is driven by the latest innovation to improve care and experiences for consumers, physicians, and everybody in between.

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Minority Nurse

JUNE 29, 2023

And no matter how anxious you may be about the interview process, there’s one thing you want to bear in mind: nursing job interviews are a two-way street (or at least they should be). Why do you want to work for us? Tell us about a time you had a conflict with a colleague — how did you resolve it?

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Hospice News

MAY 31, 2022

Benton recently spoke with Hospice News about the market forces driving these collaboratives and the challenges and opportunities that come with them. When I started as a leader in the industry about four years ago, I was floored at how many hats a hospice leader in the nonprofit side often has to wear. How are you addressing these?

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

These leaders witnessed the impact the HIV/AIDS pandemic had on African hospices and their patients and decided to do something about it. This is a challenge for us, because we have a lot of U.S. So, you take that interest and you say, ‘Hey, how about palliative care? hospice leaders. But that funding stream has gone.”

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Hospice News

JUNE 14, 2022

This leaves hospices wrestling with an unfortunate reality: With this labor environment — coupled with a lack of professional education and misconceptions about hospice — they have few options to look for new staff without recruiting from other organizations. Burnout, poor wages and the pandemic itself were leading reasons.

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NHPCO

AUGUST 17, 2023

By sharing that choice publicly, the Carters have sparked a national conversation and countless private ones about the value of hospice. The Carters’ service to humanity has served as a wonderful example to all of us. He has shown us how to be deeply human. NHPCO provides education and resources to support that mission.

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Hospice News

JUNE 9, 2022

One of the things that seems to be coming down the road for hospice providers is value-based payments. However, as disasters go on we would get those patients that have terminal illnesses coming to us. I was the chief medical officer for the rescue mission of the [cruise ship] Diamond Princess in Japan. I think there are.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

In this Voices interview, Hospice News sits down with Michael Porpora, President – Hospice Division, OnePoint Patient Care, to talk about the current state of hospice pharmacy, technology and staffing. Our company is committed to our mission of ensuring communities have a local and sustainable pharmacy dedicated to hospice.

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JUNE 9, 2022

Can you each introduce yourselves from your experience in palliative care, and walk us through what each of your roles are? I’ve sat very heavily in the operational side of palliative care for about the past 15 years. Thank you each for being with us today. The discussion has been edited for length and clarity.

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