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Key Research Trends: Telehealth Impacts, Global Gaps in Hospice, Goal-Concordant Care

Hospice News

Research trends can help hospice providers improve their understanding around the impacts of their services and where quality gaps may exist. Research on global and national levels can play an important role in the ability to understand issues around hospice utilization and disparities. Congress extended the flexibility through Dec.

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Health Systems Expanding Into Hospice Could Disrupt Competitive Playing Field

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The California-based hospice provider is among those that have seen health system and hospital M&A activity rise. Last year Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian formed a home care and hospice venture in the California — rebranded as Hoag at Home. Home health and hospice are critical to the continuum of care.

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Hospices Welcome VBID’s Demise, But Questions Remain

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Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced yesterday that it would bring to a close the hospice component of the value-based insurance design (VBID) demonstration, effective Dec. The right call “I applaud the decision to suspend the hospice component of VBID. So I think, yes, absolutely.

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Why Skilled Nursing, Assisted Living Operators Invest in Home-Based Hospice Programs

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Home-based care, including hospice, has become an increasingly attractive space for facility-based health care providers of all walks. Assisted living and skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) have been joining the mix, taking varied routes to growth into home-based hospice care.

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2024 Final Rule May Signal Changes in CMS’ Approach to Hospice Quality

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The focus on gathering data to both measure and understand gaps in access and quality signal an increased drive toward reducing disparities in end-of-life care — a goal regulators and hospice providers can agree upon, according to Ben Marcantonio, COO and interim CEO of the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO).

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St. Croix’s Strategic Executive Moves; NHPCO’s Ben Marcantonio Named Goodwin Living’s Board VP

Hospice News

Most recently the hospice opened a de novo in Wisconsin, its 14th location in that state. “We Croix Hospice continues to grow in response to the need for expert hospice care throughout the Midwest,” Bartness said in a statement. CHPC provides end-of-life services to homebound and facility-based patients.

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10 Hospice News ‘Hidden Gem’ Stories from 2022

Hospice News

Different health systems often fail to serve these families because they don’t have the right resources or because it’s very difficult to manage care.”. To Accelerate Hospice Growth, It’s Time to Embrace ‘The Social Determinants of Death’. Patients with dementia are among the fast-growing populations in terms of hospice utilization.

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