Hospice News

JANUARY 26, 2023

The community-based provider offers care in the home, at hospitals and in assisted living or skilled nursing facilities in the region. North Carolina-based Hospice & Palliative Care of Iredell County (HPCIC) has partnered with a local technical school to develop educational videos for family caregivers. Mitchell Mack Hospice House.

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Hospice News

APRIL 18, 2024

(NYSE: CHE), has completed its $85 million acquisition of Covenant Health and Community Services’ hospice operations and one assisted living facility location. The transaction also marks VITAS’ entry into the assisted living space. The nonprofit provider operates a 32-bed assisted living facility in Pensacola, Florida.

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Hospice News

APRIL 5, 2024

Patients in assisted living-based memory care facilities have higher mortality rates and are more likely to enroll in hospice, a new study indicates. We find a higher mortality rate and higher rate of hospice use among memory-care residential care/assisted living residents,” the study authors wrote. This is compared to 4.3%

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Hospice News

MARCH 13, 2024

VITAS Healthcare Corporation has penned an agreement to acquire Covenant Health and Community Services’ hospice operations and one of its assisted living facility locations for $85 million. The nonprofit provider operates a 32-bed assisted living facility in Pensacola, Florida. increase from the prior-year’s period.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

While private residences are the most frequently occurring location of care for hospice patients, long-term care facilities come in second, followed by assisted living facilities, according to the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO). Friedman, president of the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine.

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Hospice News

MAY 7, 2024

Recent senior living real estate transactions include the purchase of two Utah-based communities, Capitol Hill Senior Living and Southgate Senior Living. An additional growth factor was the successful integration of Pennant’s recent transactions, Guerisoli stated. Financial terms were not disclosed in these deals.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Assisted Living Communities (no longer preferable to call them Assisted Living Facilities, as we learned on the podcast) are…what, exactly? If you’ve seen one Assisted Living Community you’ve seen one Assisted Living Community. . Assisted living, I can’t even say the word.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

In addition to its own physician offices and hospitals, the company provides care in clinics, assisted living and skilled nursing facilities, and long-term care acute hospitals. Philadelphia-based First Docs is poised for multi-state expansion after securing new investment dollars from the private equity firm Webster Equity Partners.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Skilled nursing and assisted living facilities were the top two opportunities for referral growth, according to more than half of the Hospice News survey respondents. The home health, hospice and palliative care provider operates 43 locations across eight states with an average daily census of more than 3,300 patients. “A

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Hospice News

JULY 10, 2023

Patients in assisted living facilities, group homes, and other facilities received 3.2 Organizations that are delivering hospice and palliative care now are looking to the future and wanting to provide more of a full-service solution for seriously ill patients,” Singleton told Hospice News. About 12% of the 2.1

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Hospice News

AUGUST 11, 2023

Referrals from assisted living and skilled nursing facilities represent a large portion of hospice patients, along with hospital and health system referrals. Pandemic-related headwinds that strained hospice referrals may have lingering impacts on how providers are approaching their community outreach and marketing efforts.

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Hospice News

APRIL 5, 2024

This program honors the people focused on providing innovative cognitive care delivery across the behavioral health, home health and home care, hospice and palliative care, senior housing and senior living, and skilled nursing industries.

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Hospice News

JULY 25, 2023

There are new training models, like combined internal medicine and geriatrics residency programs, that include more teaching about geriatrics and clinical experiences in settings like the home, assisted living, or skilled nursing facilities.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

The Pennant Group (NASDAQ: PNTG) expects emerging rebounds in skilled nursing and assisting living — and its pipeline of forthcoming acquisitions — to offset the impact of continuing labor headwinds. Pennant is also starting to see occupancy rates improve among its skilled nursing and assisted living referral partners.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Iowa River Hospice provides community- and facility-based hospice to patients in the home or in hospital, assisted living or nursing facilities. Established in 1983, the nonprofit hospice provides end-of-life care services in Marshalltown, Iowa and surrounding communities in the central part of the state.

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Hospice News

JUNE 30, 2022

EdenHill Communities, established in 1906, offers a continuum of care that includes independent and assisted living, memory care, skilled nursing, rehabilitation, caregiving and now hospice services. The EdenHospice team includes a hospice physician, director of nursing, chaplain, social worker, aides and volunteers.

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Hospice News

JUNE 1, 2023

“Closing the inpatient facility will allow Hospice Ministries to put more focus on providing end of life care to patients in their ‘homes,’ whether it be their personal residence, a nursing home, or an assisted living facility.” The hospice provides home- and facility-based end-of-life care. Located in Trillium Woods, Mich.,

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Hospice News

JANUARY 1, 2024

Patients in assisted living facilities, group homes, and other facilities received 3.2 CMS is among the stakeholders recognizing a need for a more integrated, less siloed health care system, according to Matt Salmon, CEO of SALMON Health, a hospice, home health, palliative and senior living facility operator.

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Hospice News

JULY 25, 2022

The couple allegedly paid $2 million in kickbacks to multiple parties in exchange for Medicare beneficiary referrals, including payments to employees of hospitals, skilled nursing and assisted living facilities, as well as spouses of those individuals, according to Acting U.S. Attorney Phillip Talbert.

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Hospice News

JULY 6, 2022

Founded in 1984, CommuniCare Health Services is a family-owned company that provides post-acute services including skilled nursing, assisted living, independent living, behavioral health and long-term care. Hospice utilization among Medicare decedents in West Virginia reached 43.6% This fell below the national average of 50.3%

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

This can include payment for long-term care or some services provided in assisted living facilities. “In Patients in nursing homes on average were in hospice for 109 days of care in 2019, compared to 95 days among those receiving services in a private residence and 161 days in assisted living, NHPCO reported.

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Hospice News

APRIL 4, 2023

Established in 1986, Assisted Daily Living provides skilled home care, personal care and private duty services in hospitals, nursing homes and assisted living facilities throughout Rhode Island. In addition to skilled home health, Enclara’s services include hospice, palliative and personal care, and behavioral health.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 6, 2022

The hospice, palliative care, and home health network Care Synergy has become the national center for the Community Aging in Place, Advancing Better Living for Elders (CAPABLE) program, developed by Johns Hopkins University. In post-acute care, we see people further down in their health trajectory.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 17, 2023

Board-certified in hospice and palliative medicine, Howe has more than 20 years of experience as a physician and medical director for various health care organizations in the Denver area, including a number of rehabilitation, assisted living and skilled nursing home facilities. Shirlee Turner after 11 years of service at the company.

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Hospice News

MARCH 10, 2023

That spring, NHPCO and Goodwin Living partnered to release a revised version of an outreach guide aimed at helping hospice and palliative care providers improve awareness and access in African American communities. Goodwin provides assisted living, home health and hospice across northern Virginia, including in the Washington D.C.

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Hospice News

MAY 8, 2023

They can do presentations at places like assisted living facilities and senior communities. The mobile practice is focused on caring for patients who have been discharged alive from hospice until they once again are deemed eligible. G’s H.O.S.P.I.C.E Pocket Guide: 7 Things Physicians Need to Know to be Ready to Work.”

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Hospice News

JULY 6, 2022

Morrow County expects the new affiliation to enable expansion “in every care setting,” including assisted living and extended care facilities, along with hospice centers and in-patient hospital settings, the company stated in the announcement. Utah held the highest rate that year at 60.5%.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 20, 2023

The funding was issued as part of the Oregon Center for Nursing’s initiative to foster greater access to long-term care for patients in the home, and in assisted living, memory care or skilled nursing facilities throughout the state, according to Jana Bitton, the organization’s executive director.

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Hospice News

JULY 15, 2022

The organization will continue to provide care in patient homes, skilled nursing and assisted living facilities. The county’s hospice program is the latest casualty of the nursing shortage that has rendered a number of organizations unsustainable. An Iowa provider, simply called Hospice, closed its inpatient house as of Dec.

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Hospice News

JULY 11, 2022

Patients in assisted living facilities, group homes, and other facilities received 3.2 A group of 17 Illinois health care organizations is collaborating to expand access to home-based primary care, including a number of hospice and palliative care providers. Patients in the United States received more than 2.2

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Hospice News

AUGUST 5, 2022

About 20% of their patients receive care in their private residence or assisted living facilities. Minneapolis-based TT Capital Partners led the round, which will fuel the expansion of the company’s footprint in California, Ohio, Georgia, and Texas, as well as entry into new markets.

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Daily Nurse

APRIL 25, 2024

Hospice is provided for a person with a terminal illness whose doctor believes they have six months or less to live if the illness runs its natural course.” This can be out in the community, a long-term care facility, an assisted living facility, or an independent living community.”

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Hospice News

MARCH 22, 2024

Crouch in 2016 became a home care and assisted living facilities physician at the organization. Treasure Coast Hospice Appoints VP of Medical Services Florida-based Treasure Coast Hospice has tapped Dr. John Crouch as its new vice president of medical services. Lucie, as well as at Parkway Health and Rehabilitation Center. “I

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 14, 2022

We have started in skilled nursing facilities and assisted living facilities, and we have done some home-based palliative care. We have started in skilled nursing facilities and assisted living facilities, and we have done some home-based palliative care. We are really focused on value-based transformation.

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NHPCO

MARCH 4, 2022

(Alexandria, Va) – The National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) today announced that Rory will join the organization as the Vice President of Palliative and Advanced Care. At the same time, NHPCO is the organization that can lead the effort to define palliative care for the health care sector and for consumers.

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High Peaks Hospice

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Care is also provided in nursing homes, assisted living facilities, and hospice centers. Most hospice care is provided in the home – where the majority of Americans have said they would want to be at this time. Care is paid for by Medicare, Medicaid, and most private insurance plans and HMOs.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

It allows us to discharge patients when they are ready, and enables patients to choose a setting in which they are most comfortable – whether that’s in an assisted living facility or their own home.”. California isn’t the only market seeing a swell of this activity. Texas-based St.

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