Hospice Valley

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

262 total views Last Updated on November 3, 2021 by Frank Davis Hospice care at home is a type of care that focuses on the needs of the patient and their family. The post What is Hospice Care at Home appeared first on Hospice Valley.

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Traditions Health

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

A Look at Hospice Care at Home for Cancer Patients The Role of Hospice Care at Home Hospice care is a type of care based on the philosophy that comprehensive care for seriously ill patients should attend to more than just their physical symptoms, and instead, focus on all their holistic needs.

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HomeTouch

MARCH 21, 2022

If you feel like the time has come for you to hire some assistance whilst staying in the comfort of your own home, look no further. HomeTouch offers a wide range of care at home services, each unique to the client's needs. Call us if you have any questions about our … Continue reading "Care At Home: What Are My Options?".

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Three Oaks Hospice

JUNE 25, 2021

A terminal illness diagnosis brings many challenges, but it doesn't have to mean leaving your home or being without the support of those you love. In-home hospice care helps you or your loved one remain in a familiar, comfortable environment during the final days, weeks, or months of life.

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Euro-American Connections & Homecare

APRIL 27, 2023

Tune in on Saturday April 29, 2023, as WDRC talk show host will be interviewing Maggie Drag, the founder and owner of Euro American Connections and Homecare, about her unique approach to elderly care at home. Maggie Drag talks about her unique approach to elderly care at home in WDRC interview. The post Tune in!

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SAGE Palliative Medicine & Chronic Care podcast

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Increasingly, people at end-of-life want to die at home but this relies heavily on family carers to support the patient. Many carers struggle with the practical and emotional burden of caring for a loved one at home. What this paper adds?

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

The newly formed National Alliance for Care at Home on Thursday called the bill “an opportunity to advance hospice benefit discussion.” The Alliance is the combined organization formed by the merger of the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) and the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC).

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 3, 2024

31, these flexibilities allowed hospices to perform routine home care visits virtually and conduct face-to-face recertification visits. The National Alliance for Care at Home spearheaded the effort. Currently set to expire Dec.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

The National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC) and the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) on Thursday announced a new name for their recently combined organization.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Palliative care’s service, payment propositions Palliative care programs vary widely across the nation, Susan Ponder-Stansel, president and CEO of Florida-based Alivia Care Inc., said at the National Association for Home Care & Hospice’s (NAHC) Financial Management Conference in Las Vegas.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

“As cancer diagnoses rise in the United States, supportive cancer care is critical to improving outcomes,” said Dr. Andrew T. Leitner, chair of the Department of Supportive Care Medicine at City of Hope, in a press release.

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Hospice News

JUNE 18, 2024

Unifying the voice of health care at home has been a longstanding goal of NAHC, as it is the essence of the original formation of NAHC in 1982. The NAHC-NHPCO Alliance will be the leading authority and unifying voice of the care at home community,” said Kenneth Albert, NAHC board chair and chair-elect of the NAHC-NHPCO Alliance.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 26, 2024

We will ensure that health care at home continues to evolve as an integral and vital partner in the continuum of care in America.” Landers is the best individual to lead our newly merged organization into the future,” the alliance’s board said in a statement shared with Hospice News. “We

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Hospice utilization rates in Oklahoma reached 47.77% among Medicare decedents in 2022, reported the National Alliance for Care at Home. Heart to Heart provides hospice, palliative care and grief support. Seniors 65 and older represent 17.7% of the state’s overall population, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 2, 2023

The new location is the most recent of a series of investments that Kaiser has made in the home setting, including hospice and palliative care. Two years ago Kaiser united its home-based services in Southern California and Hawaii under a single division — Care at Home — led by Vice President Angel Vargas.

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Hospice News

APRIL 3, 2023

The move included subsidiaries Seasons Hospice & Palliative Care, Sta-Home, Gareda, HRS, Texas Home Health, Southeastern Health Care at Home, and Guardian. AccentCare early last year unified its seven business lines under the company’s main brand.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 4, 2024

that year, according to National Alliance for Care at Home. Hospice utilization rates reached 51.81% among Medicare decedents during 2022, which was above the national average of 49.1% Socioeconomic trends are also a strategic factor, Williams indicated. of South Carolina’s population, the U.S.

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NHPCO

AUGUST 26, 2024

Landers brings almost two decades of experience as a physician, executive leader and health policy advocate to The Alliance, which represents care at home and community providers across the country. Dr. Landers has dedicated his career to seeking home- and community-based health care solutions for people of all ages.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Amedisys (NASDAQ: AMED) subsidiary Contessa has penned an agreement the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) to offer a “full spectrum of home-based care.”. The JV will offer each of these services in the home setting. “We The JV’s patients will have access to Contessa’s Palliative Care at Home services.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 13, 2023

As Contessa Health pioneers a growing value-based palliative care-at-home program, they’ve encountered some learning curves when it comes to operating within a new payment system. Contessa is a subsidiary of Amedisys (NASDAQ: AMED), which the home health and hospice provider acquired in 2021 for $250 million.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 30, 2023

The grant will also support efforts to address social determinants of health, according to Dr. Heidi Young, associate chief medical officer for Capital Caring and medical director of the Primary Care at Home program. million home-based primary care visits during 2016, up from less than 1 million in 1996, the study found.

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Hospice News

MAY 25, 2023

I have spent about 11 years total with Optum and then worked with Aspire, but now I’m currently working with Contessa and Amedisys to help support palliative care at home programs. That’s what Contessa was founded on and we’ve been able to expand on that for palliative care at home services.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Generally, Amedisys’ palliative care services will benefit BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee’s members living with complex and serious conditions such as cancer or heart failure. Amedisys projects its higher-acuity care segment’s revenue to more than triple in 2023, however, largely driven by growth in the Palliative Care at Home arm.

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NHPCO

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

NHPCO is currently integrating into the Alliance, a newly-formed national organization that is combining the two leading organizations supporting the care-at-home community – NHPCO and the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC).

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Hospice News

MAY 3, 2024

“We are proud to partner with Big Bend Hospice to develop innovative care models that allow people to receive excellent care at home, where they feel most comfortable.”

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Contessa provides nurse practitioner managers, field staff, virtual care clinicians, data and analytics services, marketing and supplies, Dawn Black, clinical manager for palliative care at home at Contessa Health, said in a presentation at the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization’s Annual Leadership Conference in Denver.

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NHPCO

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 26, 2024 (Alexandria, VA and Washington, D.C.) — The National Alliance for Care at Home (the Alliance), a new national organization formed by the integration of the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC) and the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) recognizes the introduction of (..)

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NHPCO

JUNE 18, 2024

and Alexandria, VA – On June 10, the Board Chairs and chief executive officers of the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC) and the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) met in Washington, D.C. Together, we will make home the center of health care.”

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NHPCO

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 1, 2024 (Alexandria, VA and Washington, D.C.) – The National Alliance for Care at Home (the Alliance) is spearheading a national coalition of hospice, home health, and palliative care organizations to urge Congress to extend vital telehealth flexibilities that have enhanced both hospice and home health care across the (..)

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

There’s still just so many misconceptions about care at home. I would really like to see us, as a whole, collective care at home industry, come together and really get good at educating the consumer on the strength that care at home can bring, as well as just helping to define it in a way that the consumer can understand.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 29, 2024

The partnership will unlock a new era of home-based care, according to DiCosmo. “The next chapter for StateServ and Delta Care will transform the care-at-home market for DME and pharmacy across the United States,” DiCosmo said.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Sinai looked to expand its palliative care program, the health system opted to pursue partnerships with providers that have a longer history of developing payor contracts for those services. Many of the folks who work with our Palliative Care at Home Program also participate in one way or another in the hospital-at-home program.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 2, 2024

This [Alliance] is a tremendous resource to our industry [as] we build a tent large enough for all stakeholders in the health care at home sector.” “We have been very thoughtful about how we brought these two organizations together.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Coupled with the telehealth disparities are inequities pertaining to hospice care. About 38% of a total 50,400 Asian American Medicare decedents elected the hospice benefit in 2022, according to the National Alliance for Care at Home. This is compared to 51.6% of more than 2.1

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Together for Short Lives

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

This is reducing their choice and control and is causing unnecessary and unplanned emergency admissions to hospital among children and young people with life-limiting or life-threatening conditions, some of whom prefer to access palliative care at home. […] The post Together for Short Lives makes formal representation to Spending Review 2024 (..)

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Given the critical role of family caregivers in home-based care, hospices have a vested interest in expanding their access to support. Families caring for seriously ill loved ones face systemic barriers that could threaten patients’ ability to receive care at home, including at the end of life.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 21, 2023

This proposed Transition Board is made up of experienced veterans of the care at home community, who possess the vision to understand both the opportunity and obligation to build an even stronger future for our sectors of the American health care delivery system,” Ken Albert, proposed chair of the Transition Board, said in a statement.

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