Hospice News

MARCH 6, 2024

Want to read more palliative care-focused content like this? Subscribe to Palliative Care News today ! Staffing, public awareness and value-based payment represent the greatest disruptive forces shaping palliative care delivery in 2024 and beyond. There’s a lot of stress in a position [of] providing palliative care.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Some hospices that have layered end-of-life doulas (EOLDs) into their workforce are seeing a return on these investments in various forms – including quality outcomes, retention and care continuity. The Virginia-based hospice is part of Goodwin Living, a nonprofit senior living and health care organization.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 17, 2024

Hospice providers, industry groups and other stakeholders recently penned a letter urging Congress to improve payment infrastructures that would increase access to end-of-life care among rural populations. So, for access to rural care, we’re going to have to depend on smaller rural programs. A hope is that providers are heard.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Florida-based nonprofit Alivia Care is focused on gearing up for value-based systems in 2024. Alivia Care came into existence in 2020 when Community Hospice & Palliative Care, now an affiliate, formed a larger company with a wider range of services. What are your biggest 2024 focuses, challenges and goals?

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Hospice News

JANUARY 31, 2024

An intensive care unit (ICU) stay often challenges everyone involved. Integrating palliative care could alleviate some of the suffering through symptom management, improved communication about goals and treatment, and better training and resources for staff. Their valuable work often requires invasive interventions.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 14, 2023

Past payment model demonstrations that included community-based palliative care offer a window into how these services could generate cost savings and improved quality. Among those demos is the Medicare Care Choices Model (MCCM), which ran between 2016 and 2021. An analysis from the U.S.

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Hospice News

JUNE 1, 2023

Patient preferences are trending towards home-based hospice care, leaving some inpatient facilities between a rock and a hard place. The health system will no longer offer inpatient services at the MercyOne Johnston Hospice Care facility, citing “post-pandemic economic issues” in recent local news.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 2, 2023

A growing patient demand is fueling the emergence of integrative palliative care, a blend of traditional biomedical care for serious illness and suite of complementary therapies aimed at improving patient quality of life. That research, she believes, with further fuel interest in the integrative palliative care model. “P

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Hospice News

MARCH 25, 2024

Arizona-based Stoneridge Hospice launched services in 2020 with an aim to address a swelling aging population’s growing need for end-of-life care. The hospice provider also offers palliative care, veteran and bereavement services, and durable medical equipment (DME) and supplies. Stoneridge Hospice launched in 2020.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

The lines between traditional fee-for-service and value-based payment systems will begin to blur as regulators seek to balance rising demand with the associated costs, according to Burke Wise, cofounder of Empassion Health. So, increasingly there will be a lot of talk in traditional Medicare … Hospice is part of that risk side of things.”

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Hospice and home health care providers’ recruitment and retention strategies have narrowed their focus on workers’ key priorities, with organizational culture among the heaviest hitters on their lists. Minnesota-based Accurate Home Care provides respite, personal and private duty care, home health, nursing and homemaking services.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 17, 2023

As Jimmy Carter marks his sixth month in hospice care, the provider community is raising awareness by saluting the former president. The National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) convened a group of hospice leaders at Times Square in New York City to commemorate Carter’s hospice experience. In 2021 alone, more than 1.7

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Hospice News

MAY 1, 2023

Recognition of palliative care’s value has been steadily gaining among stakeholders in the form of improved patient outcomes and cost savings through reduced hospitalizations. Traditional Medicare only covers physician consults and doesn’t support the full range of interdisciplinary care.

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Hospice News

APRIL 4, 2024

Calls are growing louder for Congress to build stronger reimbursement and workforce incentives aimed at improving the availability and sustainability of rural-based end-of-life care. There is a strong financial incentive and the benefits of allowing beneficiaries to access care in their community to invest in and support rural providers.”

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has released a National Strategy to Support Family Caregivers to assist those who care for seriously ill loved ones. The HHS sub-agency Administration for Community Living (ACL) spearheaded the strategy’s development.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Caregivers can be a key to reducing hospice revocations and the associated emergency department costs, according to Benjamin Swig, director of Acadian Health. He is also director of health care innovation and strategy at Acadian Companies, parent organization of Acadian Health. Photo courtesy of Acadian Health.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Though regional variations exist, some palliative care delivery challenges are nearly universal for providers across the globe. Palliative care providers worldwide stand to benefit from sharing “lessons learned” to address common pain points. million people in European countries have a need for palliative care, the report found.

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Hospice News

JUNE 13, 2023

Department of Justice (DOJ) is prioritizing hospice as the agency cracks down on health care fraud. DOJ counts hospice claims among the root causes of rising Medicare costs in recent years, according to Lisa Miller, deputy assistant attorney general overseeing the department’s Crime Fraud Section.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Aetna, a subsidiary of CVS Health (NYSE: CVS), is leveraging a series of new benefits that, coupled with existing palliative care programs and ongoing hospice payment demonstrations, promise to keep patients in their homes and out of facilities.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 25, 2023

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) 2024 updates to the Accountable Care Organization Realizing Equity, Access and Community Health (ACO REACH) model: care coordination, managing health equity-related risks and social determinants of health. This is one giant step in that direction.”

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Given the critical role of family caregivers in home-based care, hospices have a vested interest in expanding their access to support. Families caring for seriously ill loved ones face systemic barriers that could threaten patients’ ability to receive care at home, including at the end of life. The U.S.

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Hospice News

JULY 22, 2022

Nationwide, health systems are experiencing broad shifts in patient volumes, staffing challenges, including high-cost agency contracts, and increasing supply and pharmacy costs,” Mark McPherson, president and CEO of Trinity Health At Home, told a local news outlet. These services operate under the brand Trinity Health at Home.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Hospice providers are increasingly focused on memory care settings and physician offices as referral sources. Though many hospices see facility-based care as their primary referral engines, a growing base of providers are seeking ties to community-based organizations to increase access and utilization this year. Among those, roughly 6.7

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 18, 2023

A revolution is needed in hospice care, complete with a new mindset, updated care models and redesigned payment systems, Dr Monisha Pujari, medical director for Longleaf Hospice, told Hospice News. Hospice News spoke with Pujari about her vision for hospice care and what it would take to make it a reality.

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Hospice News

JULY 28, 2023

Palliative care providers find themselves in a dilemma. Demand for the service they provide is growing, but that growth is hindered by a lack of industry-wide standards for palliative care. Many palliative care programs lose money because there isn’t a sustainable reimbursement model, according to Baird.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 20, 2023

More providers are investing in virtual reality (VR) programs as a growing body of research shows that it can ease pain symptoms and improve outcomes for palliative care patients. These findings suggest that there could be therapeutic benefits to expanding virtual reality programming in palliative care delivery, researchers indicated.

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Hospice News

JUNE 22, 2023

We don’t have all the personal things that are really between the caregiver and the patient,” Joe Lyons, research coordinator for SEIU’s health care division, told Hospice News. “It’s The company operates 180 hospitals and roughly 2,300 sites of care and earned close to $16 billion in the first quarter of 2023.

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Hospice News

MAY 19, 2022

The organization based its findings on indicators such as the number of people who passed away in their homes, the availability of palliative care, access to green burials and funeral costs. . The analysis also took into account the ratio of Medicare-certified health care providers to eligible patients, as well as probate processes.

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Hospice News

MARCH 6, 2024

Coastal Hospice & Palliative Care recently began exploring ways to improve clinical outcomes during the last days of life, an important quality measure in end-of-life care. This window into a patient’s conditions has helped hospice teams better assess approaches to care delivery, Escalante said.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 6, 2022

The hospice, palliative care, and home health network Care Synergy has become the national center for the Community Aging in Place, Advancing Better Living for Elders (CAPABLE) program, developed by Johns Hopkins University. With this new agreement, Care Synergy will be taking over those management functions. “We

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Hospice News

JULY 13, 2022

Signatories included the National Hospice & Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO), the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC), the National Partnership for Hospice Innovation (NPHI), and the Hospice Action Network, among others. Compensation costs for the health care and social assistance industry rose nearly 4.4

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Hospice News

MAY 2, 2022

The nation’s health care system is lacking in support for caregivers of the terminally ill, who are often left with a heavy financial and logistical burden. The nation is in need of a “total overhaul” in terms of how we think about caregiving and its place in the health care system, according to Sonya Dolan and BJ Miller, M.D.,

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Hospice News

MAY 19, 2022

Hospice providers and patients are having difficulty procuring medications due to nationwide drug shortages, threatening quality of care and patients’ access to hospice. Injectable medications are a particular concern because they have shorter shelf lives, making it harder for hospice to maintain sufficient back-up supplies.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Avanlee Care has teamed up with Walmart (NYSE:WMT) to allow families in certain markets to order groceries, health or pharmacy products from the retail giant’s stores through its caregiver support mobile app. Starting when I was 10, I watched my mother and my aunts care for my grandfather before he passed, and that was pre-iPads and iPhones.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

More than 67% of the 203 hospice care professionals surveyed indicated that staffing would be their greatest non-COVID related challenge this year, according to the 2022 Hospice News Outlook Survey and Report. We’re doing all we can to make sure that our people feel very well taken care of, and that requires time and effort.”.

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Hospice News

JULY 24, 2023

A New Jersey state bill that would establish community-based palliative care coverage is advancing in the state’s legislature. Palliative care in the home or the local community can dramatically improve the quality of life for the patient and their families and help extend the patient’s lifespan,” state Sen.

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Hospice News

JUNE 21, 2022

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Chiquita Brooks-LaSure, calling for a payment model demonstration designed to support greater access to palliative care. Signatories on the letter included the co-founders of the Senate Comprehensive Care Caucus, U.S. A bipartisan group of nine U.S. John Barrasso (R-Wy.),

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