Hospice News

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Palliative care providers are taking varied routes to address the most disruptive forces they are encountering this year, rising to challenges that have been persistent across the sector. Martha Twaddle, The Waud Family Medical Directorships palliative medicine and supportive care clinical professor of medicine at Northwestern Medicine.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

The trend represents significant unmet needs that some say palliative care providers are well-positioned to fill. These are just some of the areas that palliative care teams could help to improve. Palliative care providers are really poised to help improve quality of life for both the recipient and their caregiver.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

The Maryland-based hospice and palliative care provider has seen a significant increase in demand for dementia care amid a growing population of seniors with Alzheimer’s disease and related conditions across its service region, which spans four counties in the state. Participation in the GUIDE model has grown since its inception.

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Hospice News

MAY 20, 2025

Palliative care providers face a host of unique recruitment and retention challenges compared to others, with organizations employing diverse strategies to rise above the competition. Having staff with a deep knowledge about the emotional, spiritual, psychosocial and physical patient needs addressed in palliative care is crucial, she stated.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 31, 2025

Hospices nationwide have been diversifying their services to include palliative care, PACE, home-based primary care and a host of other business lines. A growing number of operators have developed programs tailored to patients with specific diagnoses, providing specialized care tailored to their specific needs.

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Hospice News

APRIL 29, 2025

In addition to hospice, Kirva is in the process of stepping into the palliative care space, according to Hamilton Fried. She recently joined the organization with more than 32 years of health care experience. Its additional services include pediatric, dementia and veterans care.

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Hospice News

JUNE 17, 2025

“GUIDE funds some education as well as social service and medical care navigation that help both the patient and caregiver [and] also helps pay for caregiver respite,” Fetzer told Hospice News in an email. The health care ecosystem is waking up to the importance of caregivers.” Building dementia care infrastructure The U.S.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 31, 2025

The report surveyed thousands of home health, hospice, palliative and home care professionals nationwide about their technology investments in 2025. A large key for hospices to navigate is how quickly technology evolves, and the care delivery and operational challenges associated with that rapid pace, he stated.

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Hospice News

MAY 20, 2025

Hospice News: With our next session, Leveraging AI and Other Digital Tools in Hospice and Palliative Care. Ganesh Sundar: KanTime is an EMRa single platform for all lines of business in post-acute care: home health, hospice, palliative carepretty much the entire post-acute care spectrum. Weve been doing this for over 15 years.

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Hospice News

APRIL 11, 2025

Alivia Care emerged in 2020 when Community Hospice & Palliative Care, now an affiliate, formed a larger company with a broader range of services. The nonprofit provides home care, hospice, advance care and supportive and palliative care across northern Florida and southern Georgia.

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Caregiver Support Services

JANUARY 31, 2025

Palliative care plays a significant role in improving the quality of life for individuals managing serious illnesses. It can be easy to confuse palliative and hospice care, but one difference between them is that your loved one can receive palliative care at any stage of an illness.

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Hospice News

JULY 11, 2025

Etzel oversees the hospice’s dementia program and palliative care services. The Connecticut Hospice is joined by several other hospice and palliative care providers participating in the GUIDE model. These include Alivia Care Solutions, Avow Care Services, Delaware Hospice Inc.,

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Hospice News

MAY 30, 2025

A forthcoming alternative payment model for hospitals focuses on discharge planning and ensuring effective post-acute care, including hospice and palliative care when appropriate. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) late last year unveiled its new Transforming Episode Accountability Model (TEAM).

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Hospice News

JANUARY 22, 2025

Agrace provides hospice, palliative and supportive care across 19 counties in Wisconsin. Our expansion is a means of ensuring that Agrace meets the growing demand for patient-centered end-of-life care to underserved communities and residents throughout Wisconsin, Kirkland told Hospice News in an email.

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Hospice News

MAY 12, 2025

The new location will allow for expanded reach to underserved rural patient populations with limited access to hospice resources, according to Reace Wilson, regional care coordinator at Transitions Hospice. The company provides hospice, palliative care and bereavement in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio and Pennsylvania.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 3, 2025

For a number of years now, providers have leveraged AI to predict when a patient may become eligible for hospice or to determine the best time to begin palliative care. New frontiers of care Hospice is no longer just hospice, is a saying that has been floating around the space since at least 2019.

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Hospice News

MAY 16, 2025

It is based on a discussion with Cara McCarty Abbott, Founder and CEO at Betterleave; Sara Nigro, Director of Partnerships at BetterRX; and Lloyd Wilson, CEO at Sonder Hospice & Palliative Care. We’re going to be talking about the unsung heroes of home-based care: the caregivers at home. So this is an important topic.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

The Senator Elizabeth Dole 21st Century Veterans Healthcare and Benefits Improvement Act, currently winding its way through Congress, would likely increase access to hospice and palliative care for veterans, if enacted. The National Alliance for Care at Home and the National Coalition for Hospice and Palliative Care endorsed the legislation.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Lower health literacy levels can prevent individuals from understanding their options for end-of-life care and the resources available to them, she stated. A lack of supportive policies, particularly around Medicaid coverage for palliative care, has also exacerbated hospice inequities, according to Garret.

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Hospice News

MARCH 24, 2025

The nonprofit has supported Masons Law , a bill recently introduced in Iowa designed to establish regulatory guidelines for pediatric hospice and palliative care centers. If enacted, the legislation may have reverberating impacts on more equitable care delivery beyond just the states borders, she stated. million fundraising goal.

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GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

I say something like, Palliative care is, in many ways, the apotheosis of great palliative care. Today we talk with Naheed Dosani, a palliative care physician at St. Just out of fellowship, Naheed built a palliative care program for homeless persons called the Palliative Education and Care for the Homeless (PEACH) Program.

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HPNA podcast

JUNE 2, 2025

In this episode, we hear from Deb Russell, RN, MSN, FNP-BC, APRN-CNP, ACHPN with over 20 years in the field, currently leading care in an outpatient, harm-reduction-based palliative clinic. This conversation offers practical insights and compassionate strategies for anyone caring for patients with co-occurring serious illness and SUD.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Temporary telehealth flexibilities granted during the pandemic have opened up discussions around the future of technology in health care delivery, said Dr. Michael Fratkin, board president at the Institute for Rural Psychedelic Care. Fratkin is also a palliative care specialist at Humboldt Center for New Growth.

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Hospice News

MAY 23, 2025

Law makers in several states have proposed legislation supporting the establishment of pediatric hospice, respite and palliative care facilities in recent years. Another report from Pediatric Research estimated that 1-in-100 children are cared for in home settings annually.

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Hospice News

JUNE 25, 2025

Similar to adults, many seriously ill children prefer to die in the home versus in facility-based care settings. But several barriers are preventing greater access to goal-concordant, community-based pediatric palliative care delivery. But families often struggle to receive care and caregiver support in the home.

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Hospice News

MARCH 19, 2025

The certification signifies that a hospices heart failure program complies with current AHA standards and evidence-based requirements designed by heart failure and home-based care experts. of all patients who received the benefit, the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization reported. Close to 6.7

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Hospice News

APRIL 11, 2025

Patients with heart failure have multifaceted needs that could be better addressed with stronger palliative care collaborations, recent research has found. Patients who received home-based heart failure management alongside palliative care services also had fewer rehospitalizations over a six-month period compared to others.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 2, 2024

Fragmented health care has significant ties to adverse outcomes in patients with chronic or serious illnesses. Palliative care providers’ ability to navigate the health care system, coordinate the delivery of care, interact regularly with patients, and facilitate communication between providers can reduce this fragmentation.

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Hospice News

JUNE 17, 2022

As more health care reimbursement migrates towards value-based payment models, providers will need to master the art of care coordination. Seriously ill patients can easily fall through the cracks in a fragmented health care system, leading to poorer outcomes and costly hospital stays and emergency department visits.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

As more health care reimbursement migrates towards value-based payment models, providers will need to master the art of care coordination. Seriously ill patients can easily fall through the cracks in a fragmented health care system, leading to poorer outcomes and costly hospital stays and emergency department visits.

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Hospice News

MARCH 18, 2024

Care coordination and quality data will be engines for hospice referral growth. YoloCares offers hospice, supportive and palliative care, adult day services and advance care planning, among other programs. Those are very interesting subjects that are coming up across the health care organizations that we deal with so far.”

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Telehealth utilization for palliative care during the last decade has been associated with improved quality of life, patient satisfaction and symptom management. Researchers included palliative care professionals and educators at medical colleges and hospitals in India. The analysis comes at a time when current U.S.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Establishing consistent relationships with referral sources will not only fill palliative care’s business pipeline, but they also allow providers to develop better delivery models to meet the needs of their partners and patients.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 8, 2024

An increasingly diverse base of health care providers have taken an interest in the palliative care space, a trend that could be indicative of how strategic growth is taking shape in the field. As they build out their palliative care programs, many of these organizations are pursuing partnerships to foster coordination and growth.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Palliative care has been one of the largest growing segments of the health care industry in the last decade despite challenges such as staffing shortages, reimbursement headaches and misconceptions regarding this type of care. million people need palliative care.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Interest has mounted in the palliative care arena, but building and sustaining these services requires stronger reimbursement and workforce resources. But insufficient payment pathways represent a large hurdle for palliative care’s growth potential, Kulik said. “If That makes palliative care’s outlook good.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 4, 2022

The Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) is developing new reimbursement pathways for palliative care. As part of that process, CMMI is applying elements of its Medicare Care Choices Model (MCCM) demonstration, which ended Dec. MCCM was designed to test the impact of concurrent hospice and curative care.

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