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

Hospice News

This article details recent key research findings on hospice care, including the effects of telehealth utilization among terminally ill pediatric patients, along with barriers to improved goal-concordant end-of-life care in Asia, Canada and Europe. The data comes at a time of regulatory flux around telehealth rules.

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Hospices Welcome VBID’s Demise, But Questions Remain

Hospice News

In case you missed it, Hospice News has launched a new specialty publication for palliative care professionals. You can subscribe to Palliative Care News here: Subscribe today! The Medicare Advantage hospice carve-in will be carved back out by the end of this year. A fraction of beneficiaries received any of these “extras.”

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Avera at Home Gets Personal with Kore Cares Joint Venture

Hospice News

Its services include nursing care, meal preparation, companionship, housekeeping, transportation, assistance with activities of daily living and companionship, and a senior care coordination program. “By The JV is currently honing its focus on expanding access to home care for seniors across South Dakota.

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

Hospice News

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 Providers Getting Mixed Messages on GIP Utilization, Length of Stay

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The intensity of GIP care often includes higher-cost services such as increased medication management, 24/7 clinical staffing assistance and other operational expenses. General inpatient care is the second-highest level of care in terms of daily reimbursement rates, according to the U.S.

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Health Systems Expanding Into Hospice Could Disrupt Competitive Playing Field

Hospice News

Last year Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian formed a home care and hospice venture in the California — rebranded as Hoag at Home. In 2021, Wisconsin-based Aspirus Health System expanded with hospice and palliative care programs in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. Home health and hospice are critical to the continuum of care.

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

Hospice News

“If you think about how they’ve taken on strains in their capacity, these post-acute services – home health and hospice – they can get patients out of very expensive settings,” Klementz told Hospice News at the Home Care 100 Conference. They rolled out the program across roughly 75% of its mid-Atlantic facilities.