Hospice News

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Schulte became CEO this past June, succeeding the company’s co-founder Dr. Ryan Van Werte. Its business model uses a mix of virtual palliative care, advance care planning, care coordination and symptom management services, among others. Can you tell me more about how the company has changed, especially during the past few years?

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AlayaCare

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

“The passion for innovation at AlayaCare to create technology that advances the digital transformation of the home care market matches my own ambitions in assuring the best technology and solutions are delivered to provide better outcomes for our customers and their clients,” said Andrew McDonald, Chief Product and Technology Officer at AlayaCare.

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Hospice News

JUNE 21, 2023

Among Delaware Valley’s palliative care recipients, hospital admissions were 50% lower and emergency department visits fell by 35%, generating about $9,000 in savings per patient during the last 90 days of life, according to Beth Souder, the ACO’s vice president of clinical operations. Main Line’s program is that kind of toolbox.”

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Hospice News

JANUARY 16, 2024

So it may be fitting that the founders of New Day Healthcare crafted a vision for their company around the table in CEO Scott Herman’s Texas home. Herman and the New Day team encapsulate that creative fire using the motto, “Burn the Ships,” a reference to a country song by the band Of King and Country. Can you explain that strategy?

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AlayaCare

MARCH 14, 2023

“As the healthcare industry continues to evolve with a growing demand for many aspects of care taking place in the home, we are focused on ensuring our clients—especially those with multiple lines of service—are equipped to deliver connected care for better performance,” said Craig Mandeville, CEO and founder, Forcura. “We

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AlayaCare

MAY 11, 2023

ACU makes it easy to onboard new staff and keeps our current staff upskilled on how to use and navigate through the platform,” said Cathy Lee, Service Leader at Classic LifeCare. I can definitely see us using ACU in the future to help train new hires and get them up to speed on the latest AlayaCare features,” added Lee.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Starting bar TBD, look for the GeriPal post, and follow #HPMParty on Twitter to keep us as we crawl! ** Today we celebrate eight years, around 2 million listens, and 300 podcasts! Thank you to Lynn Flint and Anne Kelly who serve as hosts for this episode, asking us the tough questions. We’ll learn a lot about you.

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Hospice News

JULY 13, 2023

Expanding our hospice and palliative care programs to Iron County is part of our commitment to providing high quality care and a vital service to our rural communities,” Kaster said in a statement. The city suggested a property that they owned and would lease to us,” Von Friedrichs-Fitzwater stated. “We

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Hospice News

JANUARY 3, 2023

Just think about it all the pharmacy needs, the nursing needs, the clergy needs, the supply needs, the equipment needs. When a person first comes to us, we usually provide a hospital bed, oxygen, medications and then the staff. Debbie Johnston, founder, Ask Nurse Debbie and Serenity First Hospice, author of The Hospice Handbook. “As

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 13, 2023

In the United States, about 177,360 children have conditions that warrant palliative care on an annual basis, according to the 2015 report “Dying in America: Improving Quality and Honoring Individual Preferences Near the End of Life,” published by the National Academies Press. Home health teams represented 5.5% of these referrals.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 9, 2023

But last year, all of our clients, every hospice client and tissue bank, was struggling with staffing, burnout and shortages,” Emma Payne, Help Texts founder and CEO, told Hospice News. “So So it also became really clear that we could use our existing platform to provide support around burnout and resilience as well.

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Hospice News

JULY 20, 2022

Looking ahead to greater reliance on value-based payment models, this approach may become even more critical, according to Igal Ladabaum, co-founder and CEO of Hospi Corp, the medical supply company that developed the Macy Catheter for rapid administration of medication and fluids. “As Some of it is through a grant.

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Hospice News

MARCH 13, 2023

As a descendant of the Mayo Clinic’s founders, his connection to medicine runs deep. Hospice News recently spoke with Mayo about the ways the CMO role has changed in an evolving industry, as well as the importance of effective medical and clinical staff integration as providers pursue growth.

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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 ). Eric: Alex, we’re going to be talking about end-of-life doulas. Why Beth? John: I do.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

But an ethical and inclusive approach to goals-of-care is critical to reaching these populations, according to Nneka Sederstrom, co-founder and CEO of UzObi, Inc. Pearson Studios Pearson Studios Nneka Sederstrom, CEO and co-founder of UzObi, Inc. UzObi, an advance care planning tech startup, began operations in January 2022.

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AlayaCare

MARCH 21, 2023

“The findings in this ROI report commissioned by AlayaCare re-validated our decision to integrate AlayaCare Cloud to manage all the aspects of home-based care that North Country Home Services offers,” said Chris Czadzeck, Chief Operating Officer at NCHS. “We To review the full results of the Nucleus Research ROI report, visit: ROI Report.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 8, 2023

What we would love for our lawmakers to do is really champion the program as it exists and make sure it’s protected from threats to its payment system,” Baird told Hospice News. So, having those conversations about what those improvements would be is going to be an important exercise in 2024.” There are, in fact, some outliers.

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Hospice News

MAY 5, 2023

He and co-founders Bishop Sandy McClain and André Lee, administrator, applied for a license to establish the hospice in 2020. Getting the word out about our existence and hospice was a big challenge for us. Here in Nashville, now we are back up to around 65 days as our average length of stay.

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GeriPal

APRIL 26, 2024

Summary Transcript Summary As Betty Ferrell says on our podcast today, nurses play an essential role in care of people with serious illness. We talk today with Betty Ferrell, who has been a nurse for 47 years, and is the founder and PI of ELNEC. We’re going to be talking about ambivalence with four amazing guests.

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Chicago Caregiving

JANUARY 30, 2024

Why might that be — and what can you do about it? More than anything, he worries about her falling. Environmental connection “Hearing connects us to our environment, makes us aware of what’s around us,” says Allison Green, Aud, a senior advisor in Glen Ellyn, Illinois. “We But you have to hear them.”

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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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AlayaCare

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

“The passion for innovation at AlayaCare to create technology that advances the digital transformation of the home care market matches my own ambitions in assuring the best technology and solutions are delivered to provide better outcomes for our customers and their clients,” said Andrew McDonald, Chief Product and Technology Officer at AlayaCare.

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AlayaCare

JANUARY 18, 2023

Our extensible platform in AlayaCare Cloud scales to provide configurations that support a broad range of service providers and markets,” said Adrian Schauer, CEO and Founder of AlayaCare. We are driven to modernize how home-based care and home infusion services will benefit from operational efficiency by eliminating repetitive tasks.

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Chicago Caregiving

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Humor also can make conversations about end-of-life issues a little easier. . Olivia Clarke, president and founder of nonprofit Humor Beats Cancer. Olivia Clarke is president and founder of nonprofit Humor Beats Cancer , an online community that promotes using humor to cope with cancer. Why laughter works .

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Hospice News

MAY 16, 2023

We want to emphasize that the comments being made about the board’s actions are purely speculative and seem intended to frighten those who rely on Alive for their care.” Five former board members joined the founders of Alive Hospice in filing a complaint with the state’s attorney general earlier this month.

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Hospice News

MAY 22, 2023

As you look at our population in Medicare, where they tend to have multiple chronic conditions, it becomes even more important for us that they have these plans in place, that they discuss them with their family and other caregivers before something critical happens and not during some critical illness.”

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Summary Transcript Summary In our podcast with palliative care pioneer Susan Block , she identified the psychological/psychiatric aspects of palliative care as the biggest are of need for improvement. And, we talk about these issues and more (with far more nuance than I can include in this post). This is Eric Widera.

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Minority Nurse

APRIL 3, 2024

Talk about your role in nursing. We offer our patients new opportunities to be informed and empowered in their care through grace. Nursing leaders can ensure our patients have the best outcomes by leading a team of professionals to their highest potential and encouraging their growth as caregivers.

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Solace

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Solace Cremation checked in with several leaders in the end-of-life and hospice arena to gather their views on the lessons he gives us with his choice. Besides being one of the presidents of our country, he did some remarkable and generous work. and that’s a beautiful thing,” they wrote.

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AlayaCare

JUNE 22, 2021

The US is now the fastest-growing part of AlayaCare’s business, representing 7x growth in the last 24 months. AlayaCare is uniquely positioned to help tackle common pain points related to scheduling challenges and balancing patient and caregiver preferences,” said Adrian Schauer, CEO & Founder, AlayaCare.

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AlayaCare

JUNE 23, 2021

The US is now the fastest-growing part of AlayaCare’s business, representing 7x growth in the last 24 months. AlayaCare is uniquely positioned to help tackle common pain points related to scheduling challenges and balancing patient and caregiver preferences,” said Adrian Schauer, CEO & Founder, AlayaCare. About AlayaCare.

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AlayaCare

AUGUST 6, 2018

The financing will be used to fund AlayaCare’s continued expansion with a focus on the US market, and further investment in its proprietary technology platform. Since its launch, AlayaCare has experienced double-digit monthly growth, expanded its operations in the US, Canada, and Australia and now employs over a 100+ staff.

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Minority Nurse

AUGUST 8, 2023

“It’s essential that we diversify the pipeline of our future healthcare workforce, including nurses, to better represent our patients and the communities we serve,” says Tom Mihaljevic, M.D., We remain committed to cultivating a workplace that embraces diversity, inclusion and equity to better serve our patients,” says Dr. Hancock.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Does it improve outcomes that patients, caregivers, and clinicians care about? Evidence has been mounting about the importance of the geriatric assessment for older adults with cancer, the subject of today’s podcast. We talk about: What is a practical geriatric assessment and how can busy oncologists actually do one?

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Hospice News

APRIL 26, 2022

The article is based on an interview that took place during a virtual panel discussion with Eric Gordon, Co-Founder and CRO, Evelyn Keegan-Wright, Head of Product, and Joe Randesi, Co-Founder and CEO at Element5. Our provider market, they’re taking care of patients. That’s what I hope we’re here to talk about.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 11, 2022

Susan led the Project on Death in America’s Faculty Scholars program , used her dual training in internal medicine and psychiatry to shine a light on psychosocial aspects of palliative care, and founded the Department of Psychosocial Care at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute and Brigham and Women’s Hospital. . Can you tell us why?

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AlayaCare

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

The acquisition of Arrow Solutions’ product and market expertise presents tremendous opportunity for AlayaCare to scale expansion in the US market. The acquisition of Arrow Solutions is the cornerstone of our expansion into the US Medicaid market and beyond,” said Adrian Schauer, AlayaCare CEO & Founder.

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