Hospice News

JANUARY 27, 2023

New CEO Takes Reigns at Sangre de Cristo Community Care Colorado-based Sangre de Cristo Community Care named Melinda Egging as its new CEO. Egging will oversee operations of the hospice, home health and palliative care organization. This marks her return to the organization.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 10, 2022

million in the state’s 2023 fiscal year budget to support pediatric palliative care access. The funding is intended to support expanded palliative care services for seriously and terminally ill children amid rising demand. Sal DiDomenico has been a primary advocate of pediatric palliative care in the state’s legislature.

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Minority Nurse

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Palliative care can be equally rewarding and challenging. The right professional can be instrumental in ensuring patients’ needs are met to make their period of care more comfortable. So much of who people are impacts their experience of the palliative journey. This is far more than their white counterparts.

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Hospice News

MAY 14, 2024

Collins is also a certified hospice and palliative care nurse and end-of-life doula. She serves as vice-chair of the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization’s (NHPCO) End-of-Life Doula Advisory Council. There’s a huge variety even within the scope of what makes a doula who they are.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 8, 2022

George Mark Children’s House (GMCH) recently unveiled a pilot training program that aims to grow the pediatric palliative care nursing workforce, in partnership with The California State University (CSU) Shiley Haynes Institute for Palliative Care.

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Hospice News

MAY 17, 2024

The company provides bereavement services, dietary, physical, occupational and speech therapies, as well as child life specialist, among other services. The provider also offers care to adult populations, with a service region that spans Las Vegas and surrounding areas.

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Evidence-Based Nursing - BMJ blogs

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

This week’s blog is by Gilda Davis , PhD Student and Senior Lecturer in Children’s Nursing, University of Worcester @worcester_uni @uow_TCSNM with support from her Supervisory team: Professor Kerry Gaskin @GaskinKerry, Professor Győző Molnár @GyozoMolnar and Dr Jackie Bentley.

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Hospice News

APRIL 24, 2024

Health systems are increasingly growing their hospice and palliative care service lines, with philanthropy among the key ways to fuel these programs’ sustainability. Funding palliative, bereavement care Illinois-based Endeavor Health serves more than 1.3 We see this as a significant need amongst our communities.”

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 21, 2023

The hospice and senior care provider Helios Care is partnering with the integrated health system Bassett Healthcare Network to bring more extensive access to hospice and palliative care to patients in central New York.

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Hospice News

MARCH 27, 2024

However, the COVID-19 pandemic exposed gaps in preparedness when it comes to hospice and palliative care. COVID-19 caused widespread disruption across the health care system, including among hospices. Transitions of care were also adversely affected, she said.

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Hospice News

MARCH 14, 2024

The number of registered nurse and social worker visits during a patient’s final week is one of the seven quality measures that CMS uses to evaluate providers. Patients may be receiving several visits from these professionals during the last days of life, or multiple visits on the same day, that do not count toward the measure, she said.

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Hospice News

MARCH 25, 2024

The company was established in concert with his wife, Janet Seebert, director of nursing at Stoneridge Hospice, and his niece, Patti Bratzel, a registered nurse who became co-owner, and executive director. My wife was a nurse in emergency medicine for several years, and my niece was a long-time hospice nurse.

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Hospice News

APRIL 11, 2024

Angela Hospice provides adult and pediatric hospice, palliative care and grief support across Oakland County in southern Michigan. The nonprofit hospice provider’s subsidiary — Care Guide Partners – provides services at the center. The faith-based hospice and palliative care provider serves three counties in Illinois.

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Hospice News

MAY 19, 2023

Palliative care will be expanded. Hospice of the Panhandle has provided end-of-life services in West Virginia for more than 40 years, and also offers palliative care and pediatric hospice and palliative care. The hospice and palliative care provider operates in Illinois, Indiana, Missouri and Texas.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 19, 2023

In some respects, the two sectors are already inextricably linked, given the holistic nature of hospice care, including attention to patients’ psychosocial and spiritual needs as well as bereavement support for families. Hospices also lack quality measures associated with bereavement care.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

In addition to oversee AccentCare’s hospice and palliative care programs, he will also support its clinical care operations and patient experience initiatives. Prior to joining AccentCare, Natarajan founded Chicago Primary Care Sports Medicine.

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APRIL 11, 2023

Writing for the Mayo Clinic, Mary K Buss, MD, MPH made an interesting observation: “Many PCPs already engage in primary palliative care but may not recognize their actions as palliative care.” 1 In fact, general practitioners, not hospice or specialists, provide most palliative care.

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Hospice News

MARCH 8, 2024

Cane is also a registered nurse with a background in neonatal care and reproductive health legislation research. Laws impacting the reproductive health landscape could affect perinatal hospice utilization in a number of complex ways, from increasing disparities in access to rising demand for care, Cane indicated. .

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Hospice News

MARCH 31, 2023

We are also bringing a greater focus on providing bereavement counseling and resources to those we serve in our county,” Twiss said. Prolific nursing shortages were among the reasons legislators cited for the hospice’s proposed closure.

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Traditions Health

JANUARY 16, 2023

The Difference Between Palliative Care & Hospice Care If you have a loved one who is living with a chronic or debilitating illness, you have probably heard of ‘palliative care’ and ‘hospice care’ and may have simply assumed they were the same. Palliative Care: What Is It?

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Hospice News

JANUARY 13, 2023

Empath provides hospice, home health care, primary care, palliative care, PACE, AIDS and sexual wellness care, and adult day services to a combined total of more than 23,000 individuals. The son of a nurse and a minister, Fleece said he learned the importance of service early in life.

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Hospice News

MARCH 10, 2023

Marcantonio is COO and interim CEO at the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO). 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.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Illinois-based Great Lakes Health Partners, an Interim Healthcare franchise, is launching a grief support group for employees aimed at helping hospice workers deal with the stress of providing bedside end-of-life care. The home health and hospice provider also offers palliative care, as well as chronic disease management services for seniors.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 18, 2024

Bassett Healthcare Network is an integrated health system that includes five hospitals, a home health agency and two skilled nursing facilities, as well as dozens of community-based health centers and school-based health centers. Formerly known as Catskills Area Hospice and Palliative Care, the organization rebranded as Helios in 2019.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 29, 2022

Hospice News recently sat down with Ben Marcantonio, chief operating officer and interim president and CEO of the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO), to discuss how hospice providers are navigating a sea of challenges. What are some of the key issues that hospice and palliative care providers are facing?

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Hospice News

JUNE 2, 2023

Founded in 1978, Hosparus Health’s 600 employees and 500 volunteers provide care for more than 10,000 patients annually, including hospice, medical care, palliative medicine, mental health and bereavement services. “We Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).

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Hospice News

JULY 13, 2023

Through the new location, Aveanna provides advanced palliative care and hospice to community-based patients. Aspirus at Home provides hospice, skilled nursing and rehabilitation services such as physical, occupational and speech therapies. Aveanna Opens Hospice De Novo Aveanna Healthcare Holdings Inc.

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Hospice News

MAY 13, 2024

Patients, caregivers and family members surveyed rated the telehealth hospice services as “highly satisfactory,” including those from bereavement staff members along with clinicians. Health care professionals surveyed included hospice nurses and administrators, as well as oncology and palliative care clinicians.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 4, 2023

The hospital sought hospice licensure in the certificate of need state after Hospice and Home Care of Juneau (HHCJ) halted services last October, citing high staffing costs and insufficient nursing resources. We still just have one nurse trained right now,” Stout said during a board meeting. They have to be on-call 24/7.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Established in 1991, OpusCare provides hospice and palliative care in Florida, Georgia and Texas. All patient rooms in the facility are equidistant to a centralized nursing station to facilitate quick responses to urgent care needs, Roque-Velasco stated. It was a labor of love, but truly a dream come true.”

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Hospice News

JULY 1, 2022

Good Shepherd Hospice is an affiliate of Chapters Health System and provides care to more than 4,200 patients across three counties in the Sunshine States. This will make the organization’s third center for youth bereavement in the area, with additional locations in Auburndale and Sebring, Florida.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 24, 2023

New Hospice Facility Launches in Arizona Bonnie Irr, a retired hospice nurse, is launching a new inpatient facility in southwestern Arizona to improve end-of-life care access to families in need. The health system also operates the Sister Claire Tynan School of Nursing. Irr serves as executive director at The Hansen House.

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Hospice News

JUNE 6, 2022

Through the 18-bed facility, the hospice will provide patients inpatient end-of-life care when their symptoms can no longer be managed in the home. Patients will receive round-the-clock care from an interdisciplinary team of physicians, nurses, nurse practitioners and other medical aides.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 28, 2022

The program is designed to recognize up-and-coming industry members who are shaping the next decade of senior housing, skilled nursing, home health, and hospice care. It wasn’t long after I started working in hospice care that I knew this was my calling. A new reimbursement structure for palliative care.

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Hospice News

MAY 5, 2022

Amedisys cited Muscato’s integral roles in strategic investments such as the joint venture strategy the company is pursuing with its Tennessee-based subsidiary Contessa Health, which grew its reach into the high-acuity home care space. Hospice of Southern Maine provides care to more than 1,600 patients across 68 communities in the state.

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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 4, 2024

Patients who otherwise would be housed in facilities ill-equipped to correctly handle the complexities of end-of-life care.” Hudson Valley offers hospice and palliative care, along with music and pet therapy, reiki, a veterans program and end-of-life doula services.

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