Hospice News

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Physician offices were identified among the most significant referral growth opportunities in 2024 by about 6% of 143 respondents to Hospice News’ 2024 Outlook Survey , conducted with Homecare Homebase. Meanwhile, 7% reported that their hospice organizations saw memory care settings as a significant referral source.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Through agilon’s partnership model, it can arm community-based physicians with the technology, data capabilities, human resources and insights that are often necessary to improve patient outcomes at scale along with reducing costs. We can co-invest in resources, whether they’re nurses, care managers, social workers.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

It can be hard to put together the right resources, and that’s [partly] with systematic failures in public policy,” Broyles said at the C-TAC–Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC) Leadership Summit.

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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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Life & Death Matters

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Kathy Kortes-Miller has generously provided the first chapter of her book “Talking about death won’t kill you” for us to post here! Have a read – we think you’ll agree it’s a stunning resource. If you are interested, Kathy is speaking about her book in our webinar on November 7, 2023.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

We wanted to make sure families felt supported and understood what’s happening, what resources are available to them in their situations. So, we developed an arrangement that allowed us to access these professionals whenever we needed it, and that relationship has been able to consistently be utilized to meet more patient needs.”

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Summary Transcript Summary We’ve talked about Falls a couple of times on this podcast, most recently with Tom Gill about the STRIDE study and before that with Sarah Szanton about the CAPABLE study. In addition to the podcast, you can see more about this in Carmen’s TEDx talk. It works really well for us.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 25, 2023

It’s going to be [about] trying to analyze the impact,” Silvers told Palliative Care News. “A A part of what the government is concerned about is that it might be easier for fraud, waste and abuse to happen in telehealth. They want to see if there’s any excessive use of medical care because of telehealth.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Having varied avenues of onboarding support for clinicians is an important part of retention, according to Diane Psaras, executive vice president and chief human resources officer of VITAS Healthcare, subsidiary of Chemed Corp. We want to make sure that they know about those as soon as possible, that hospice is really difficult work.

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Hospice News

MARCH 20, 2024

Having palliative teams in a variety of care settings can help connect caregivers with much needed resources and supportive care to avoid patients “falling through the cracks,” of a fragmented health system and reduce unnecessary hospitalizations, according to Andres.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Hospice News spoke with a group of industry leaders about the most impactful forces that will shape the space in the coming year. Hospice care reduces Medicare expenditures by about $3.5 Hospice care reduces Medicare expenditures by about $3.5 billion for patients in their last year of life, a 3.1%

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 12, 2023

These areas of Texas are where we already had existing ambulance resources, and expanding was our way of having a “backup to our backup” of health services. That means having multiple customers to support hiring those health care resources, and that takes having the payment infrastructure to build it.

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Hospice News

JUNE 24, 2022

Four years ago, I knew about 20 tech companies doing end-of-life work. Now I know about 450. Generally speaking, many of them grew up with routine, instantaneous access to information and other resources. . Grief Refuge has always been intended to be a source a resource to help people feel more supported during the in-between.”.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

It is not uncommon to get calls from faith leaders trying to help find resources and care for someone in a medical crisis. A predominant demand for this role is to educate people about their end-of-life care options, that’s probably about 60% of the job. It’s much easier to connect with us than a faceless health care provider.

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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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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

“We have realized that we’re going to need partnerships and worked with our home care and hospice agencies to identify the additional resources needed to grow our interdisciplinary team,” Sobrino-Bonilla said at the C-TAC-CAPC conference. It’s been a game changer for us in terms of being able to provide this continuum of care.”

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Some have leveraged technology to streamline their operations and reduce documentation burdens, while others have poured resources into sculpting their organizational culture and developing training and career pathways. Hospices are increasingly pouring financial resources into staffing development. NYSE: EHAB).

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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. Yes, there’s headwinds; we all know what those are with reimbursement shrinking and cost of care increasing, and recruitment and retention of our most important resource being really challenging.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 19, 2022

As they battle persistent misconceptions about their work, hospice and palliative providers must take every opportunity to make themselves heard, with every ounce of support they can get from lawmakers and others who are in a position to move policy forward. But that doesn’t mean we should throw the proverbial baby out with the bathwater.

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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 10, 2023

Heiss sat down with Hospice News to talk about her career trajectory and the ways the industry is evolving. From a pandemic to regulatory and payment changes, there is never a time to be bored in this industry, which also makes it a lifetime of learning and evolution for those of us who have been in the hospice space for many years.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

We’re going to think about the evolution of the product and new features that we think are interesting and specifically how those features can impact the three major groups that we work with — payers provider groups and the members themselves within our platform,” McCarty told Hospice News.

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GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

Eric: Alex, who do we have with us today? Alex, who’s with us today at the AAHPM meeting? She’s a researcher and we’re going to hear more about her research soon. Feel Like Making Science by Bad Company, and everybody’s going to sing, including Anne Kelly who’s filming us over there.

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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

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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AJN Off the Charts

JANUARY 16, 2024

Three considerations about nursing and AI. Here I would like to emphasize the need for us, as nurses, to take ownership of the tools and resources we use to mediate care delivery. If we don’t understand the technology we use, how will we advocate for safe and ethical care delivery?

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Discussions of a potential affiliation began about a year ago, according to Empath Health CEO Jonathan Fleece. That is going to make both of us even better. Combined with Trustbridge, Empath’s hospice operations alone will cover 1-in-5 seniors in its home state, with an average daily hospice census of about 5,000 patients.

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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

JUNE 21, 2022

He is also an ambassador for the hospital’s CalvaryCare program, designed to educate the health care community and the public about palliative care and hospice. We’ve cared for about between 15% and 20% of the cancer deaths in New York City and surrounding areas. Hospice has grown steadily.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

By joining Alivia about six months ago, he began “chapter two” of his career, moving in the same direction as the health care system itself — towards the home and community. The studies that I’ve read thus far about hospital-at-home say it’s decreased the overall cost by 15%, which is significant to CMS.

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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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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

AUGUST 2, 2023

But the ability to do that without the right amount of resources is the concern. Thinking about home health [and hospice] deserts, it’s a tragic thing to imagine that people wouldn’t have access. It is [also] really important that quality data is collected so that patients and families can make informed choices about their care.”

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NHPCO

APRIL 15, 2024

Insights’ monthly posts will expand consumer access to information, help the community learn from others’ experiences and best practices, and improve the public’s ability to make informed decisions about care before a crisis. NHPCO provides education and resources to support that mission.

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Hospice News

APRIL 20, 2023

About 90% indicated that they would prefer to manage compliance internally but lack the time and staff to do so, according to survey results that in90group shared with Hospice News. “An When you think about that and kind of lump that into the reimbursement rates, the challenges force us to deliver care more efficiently.”

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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

AUGUST 29, 2022

NHPCO’s board leadership opened up the conversation with me about next steps and asked if I would temporarily serve, since I have more than 20 years of experience in hospice and palliative care, and I’ve been with the organization for just under two years now. What has been your journey in the realm of hospice?

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