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Big Bend Hospice, Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare Launch Transitional Care Partnership

Hospice News

Florida-based Big Bend Hospice and the Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare system are partnering to provide transitional care to seriously and terminally ill patients. The initiative is designed to ensure smooth and effective transitions of care and to prevent patients from slipping through the cracks in a fragmented health care system.

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A Look at Hospice Care at Home for Cancer Patients

Traditions Health

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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Key Trends to Watch: Health Systems Moving into Hospice, Home-Based Care

Hospice News

California-based Kaiser Permanente, one of the nation’s largest integrated health systems, is among those making big investments in the home setting, including hospice and palliative care. The division offers home health care, palliative care and hospice in addition to high-acuity services like hospital-at-home. “We

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NAHC, NHPCO Name Transition Board to Guide 2024 Merger

Hospice News

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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How Nonprofit Palliative Care Providers Are Raising Philanthropic Dollars

Hospice News

It’s important to tell people that our palliative care program is comprehensive and includes more than medical care, but also behavioral health and things like food, diet, home safety and medication management. Capital Caring offers palliative services through its Primary Care at Home program.

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Hospice M&A Going Strong, But Non-Medical Home Care a Rising Star

Hospice News

“Mount Sinai at Home builds upon this momentum and offers consolidated opportunities for patients and physicians, decreasing the fragmentation that often plagues the health care industry. It’s exciting to be creating a care model that is blazing the trail for advanced care at home.”.

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NAHC and NHPCO Announce Transition Board of Directors

NHPCO

The as-of-yet to be named organization will combine the strengths of NAHC and NHPCO, creating a better and more powerful advocate for the entire care-at-home community. The board and officers will be ratified when the Definitive Agreements are signed in early 2024. The proposed Transition Board is as follows: Ken Albert, R.N.,

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