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Incoming Samaritan CEO Phillip Heath: Reduce Dependence on Medicare

Hospice News

I think the last area that’s been important to us to recruit outside of our physicians, and our nurse practitioners have been in our palliative medicine area and our primary care practice. One of the things that we’re doing also is launch our new program on social isolation and loneliness with the frail elderly.

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EdenHill Senior Living Communities Starts In-House Hospice Business

Hospice News

The senior living operator launched the new business line to ease care transitions and improve care collaboration, according to Rachel Clark, hospice director of EdenHospice. Patients have already begun receiving care through EdenHospice, which is currently awaiting Medicare certification. Projections from the U.S.

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VITAS Expects Recruitment Gains to Spur 2023 Growth, Revenue

Hospice News

The bonus program included a one-time retention payment that ranged from $2,000 to $15,000 per employee for nurses, nurse managers, home health aides and social workers. The majority of these hires were nurses, Westfall indicated. VITAS saw nursing home admissions rise 9.4% in Q4, along with a 2.7%

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VITAS Community Access Program Spurs Upward Trend, but Staffing, COVID Headwinds Still Sting

Hospice News

Since 2020, the company has been beleaguered by the staffing shortage, reduced lengths of stay, and disruption in skilled nursing, senior housing, and to some extent acute-care referrals. These factors, along with the return of Medicare sequestration, have contributed to declining revenues. drop among those referred from hospitals.

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CareConnectMD Building Hospice Network as Footprint Grows

Hospice News

We contract with [the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation (CMMI)] as a direct contracting entity, and our job is to coordinate a network of providers, called DCE participants, and then also preferred providers, which would be hospices, home health agencies that can help coordinate the care as the patients move into the home setting.”.

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Lifematters Selects AlayaCare as a Home Care Software Partner

AlayaCare

offering a full range of in-home services, from home care, to skilled nursing services, to highly-specialized care for chronic diseases. Home care is seeing greater participation in Medicare Advantage Plans and Transitional Care programs for healthcare systems and skilled nursing facilities, which are also important programs for Lifematters.

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Common Hospice Myths Debunked

Traditions Health

Most patients do not view this as giving up, but as coming to peace with their prognosis and deciding to live the best possible life for the time that remains. Patients with Medicare usually pay very little or nothing for hospice services. A patient may enroll in hospice care only to improve and be discharged from care.

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