Hospice News

OCTOBER 20, 2022

The main opportunity is to ensure continuity of care for our members from primary care to end-of-life care. The program’s potential to facilitate earlier adoption of palliative care was also a draw, the two executives said. . Sachin Jain , California-based SCAN Health Plan is a $4.3

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

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 Even as demographics drive up demand for serious illness and end-of-life care, public awareness is driving down utilization.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

In 2021, Wisconsin-based Aspirus Health System expanded with hospice and palliative care programs in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. That same year EmpRes Healthcare subsidiary Eden Health began offering hospice and palliative care in Idaho Falls. But it’s looking for ways to partner with them and provide true quality end-of-life care.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Nationwide, existing support and services are often scarce or insufficient to meet families’ needs, according to Ben Marcantonio, COO and interim president and CEO of the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO). Contributing to this is lack of public awareness and understanding around hospice and palliative care services.

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Hospice News

MARCH 10, 2023

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 News

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

This entails closer integration with palliative care and innovative payment models that allow for holistic, end-of-life care. Despite the margin pressures witnessed in home health, this shift opens doors to value-based arrangements for end-of-life care.

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Hospice News

MAY 9, 2022

To help move the needle, hospice and palliative care providers can serve as advocates and educators, according to Dr. Dan Morhaim, a retired emergency department physician and Maryland state delegate. “I I think everybody in hospice and palliative care has to be really vocal about this. That’s hard to do.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Startups such as Empathy, Betterleave Bereavement Care, Grief Refuge and Help Texts (formerly Grief Coach) have launched platforms designed to help families cope and assist with tasks such as funeral planning, account cancellations, legalities and financial arrangements. Palliative Care Providers Hitting Walls in Value-Based Reimbursement.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 4, 2023

General inpatient care is the second-highest level of care in terms of daily reimbursement rates, according to the U.S. Patients and families benefit from longer hospice stays in terms of quality experiences and supportive end-of-life care, while Medicare could reap the benefits of lowered health care costs, according to Gurian.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 2, 2023

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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Hospice News

JULY 11, 2023

In this Voices article, Josie Aquino, Director, Product Management, VNS Health talks about how VNS Health is using data and analytics to improve end-of-life care. Additionally, she discusses VNS’s outcomes-driven approach to end-of-life care, and how they are helping other organizations employ a similar approach.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Skilled nursing operators stretching their arms into hospice could help to fill gaps in access to end-of-life care, especially for terminally ill patients who lack caregiver support, according to Hosparus Health CEO David Cook. They rolled out the program across roughly 75% of its mid-Atlantic facilities.

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Hospice News

MAY 30, 2023

“We envision a large network of not-for-profit, community-based hospice providers working collaboratively to create standards for what a community should expect from an end-of-life care provider.” Branded at Ohio’s Hospice at United Church Homes, it provides care in more than three communities across the UCH footprint.

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AAHPM (American Academy of Hospice and Palliative)

AUGUST 11, 2023

In our discipline of palliative care, understanding the unique needs and characteristics of the population is essential for providing effective and high-quality care. By addressing these dimensions, clinicians enhance the quality of care and the overall well-being of patients.

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High Peaks Hospice

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Responsibilities: Collaborates with the Medical Director, Hospice Physicians, Executive Director, Hospice Care Coordinators (HCCs), and RN Case Managers to ensure quality and continuity of care across the continuum of services and locations of care. Attends Interdisciplinary Team (IDT) Meetings as requested.

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1-800-HOSPICE

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Hospice is tailored to symptom control, emotional support, and care coordination during end-of-life care. When patients receive too little time in hospice, families are more likely to be dissatisfied with the end-of-life care. Surprise question effective at predicting end of life.

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SAGE Palliative Medicine & Chronic Care podcast

AUGUST 18, 2017

This episode features Professor Matthew Allsop (Leeds Institute of Health Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK) who describes a study that outlined and applied an evaluation framework to examine how and when electronic documentation of advance care planning is occurring in end of life care services.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 12, 2023

They offer home health, they offer palliative care, and so forth. Fried: I think end-of-life care truly needs to be reimagined. Melton: I think the one good thing about VBID is it’s requiring palliative care to be involved. One of our team members helped us develop our patient care coordination app.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Hospice care reduces Medicare expenditures by about $3.5 billion for patients in their last year of life, a 3.1% reduction, according to a joint report released in March by the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO), the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC) and NORC at the University of Chicago.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Creating a directory of certified providers and services could help facilitate better care coordination and transitions of care, reduce some administrative tasks, and support interoperability throughout the health sector, CMS indicated.

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