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Hospice Valley

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

315 total views Last Updated on November 13, 2021 by Frank Davis A hospice provider offers physical and emotional comfort to patients with terminal illnesses. These services can extend beyond the patient’s death as it provides bereavement counseling and support during the final stages of a patient’s life.

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Palliative Care’s Value-Based Future

Hospice News

APRIL 24, 2024

Many believe that the fee-for-service model does not sufficiently support a robust palliative care program, meaning that providers must turn to value-based systems for sustainable reimbursement. Currently, palliative care providers have a few avenues into value-based care. The question is how do you align incentives properly.

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Palliative Care’s Rising Profile in US Health Care

Hospice News

MARCH 20, 2024

A diverse range of health care providers have forged a pathway to palliative care services with an aim to improve quality outcomes among a growing seriously ill population. We’re now seeing a little bit more reach into the skilled nursing facilities that provide palliative care as well.

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How Death Doulas Can Help Hospices Improve Health Equity

Hospice News

APRIL 30, 2024

End-of-life doulas can help hospices’ efforts to improve health equity in hard to reach settings while also improving quality in the last days of life. The quantity and quality of patient visits during the last days of life is an important quality measure for hospice providers. There is absolutely an impact.

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Improving Inclusive Palliative Care for Transgender Patients

Hospice News

MAY 7, 2024

Palliative professionals are among the health care providers with room for improvement in their gender affirming practices, according to Zachary Fried, licensed clinical social worker and training supervisor of Optum at Home, a subsidiary of UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH). Furthermore, 85.3% of palliative teams, respectively.

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HopeHealth’s Expanding Scope of Pediatric Hospice, Palliative Services

Hospice News

APRIL 8, 2024

HopeHealth has been growing its pediatric hospice and supportive care service lines in recent years to address a range of unmet needs among seriously ill children and their families. HopeHealth provides home care, hospice, palliative and dementia care, as well as caregiver and grief support services.

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How Four Questions Can Reduce Costs, Boost Hospice Utilization

Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

You can help people live, love and laugh and learn and grow, even in the context of horrible progressive, irreversible terminal diseases, because they’re still alive,” Ihrig said at the Hospice News ELEVATE conference in Chicago. “You What does your “little voice” tell you [about life expectancy]? and Associates.

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Some Families May Not Access Hospice Without Caregiver Support

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. Without assistance or relief, these difficulties can impede access to hospice. The California-based company provides palliative care and offers caregiver support group series.

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PeaceHealth Hospice Nurses Move Forward with Strike

Hospice News

JANUARY 24, 2024

Hospice and home health nurses at PeaceHealth’s Sacred Heart Home Care Services have announced an impending strike following failed attempts to reach wage agreements in negotiations with the organization. Home care and hospice nurses at PeaceHealth have given notice that the strike will launch on Feb.

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AMOREM’s New Director of Faith Outreach: Build Community Relationships to Boost Hospice Access

Hospice News

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Hospices are reaching an inflection point when it comes to breaking down communication barriers around spiritual care among underserved communities, according to William Williamson, who recently became the new director of faith outreach at AMOREM. What has been your experience in hospice thus far? What does the role involve?

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Stoneridge Hospice Owner Rollie Seebert: Hospices Help Address the ‘Demographic Tsunami’

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. Stoneridge Hospice provides home-based hospice and also contracts with other providers to offer facility-based services. Stoneridge Hospice launched in 2020.

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Bringing Palliative Telehealth to Rural Tennessee

Hospice News

APRIL 16, 2024

A Tennessee provider is working to break down barriers to palliative care for rural cancer patients in their home state. For cancer patients in rural areas, accessing palliative care services can be a burden due to the distance needed to travel to a clinic or for an in-home provider to come to them.

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Helios Care CEO Dan Ayres: Hospice Partnerships Drive Innovation

Hospice News

JANUARY 18, 2024

Helios Care is working to change the face of hospice in its update New York service region, with a new partnership with the Bassett Healthcare Network as a cornerstone of its strategy. Formerly known as Catskills Area Hospice and Palliative Care, the organization rebranded as Helios in 2019. This is purely a collaboration.

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Palliative Care ‘Across the Pond:’ Providers Face Similar Challenges Globally

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.

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Congresswoman Van Duyne: Hospice Licensing Should Remain with the States

Hospice News

MARCH 6, 2023

Hospice licensing should remain under the authority of state governments rather than federal agencies, though lawmakers “haven’t ruled anything out” when it comes to program integrity, according Rep. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) on reported instances of hospice fraud in several states. Beth Van Duyne (R-Texas).

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Survey: 72% Say U.S. Health System Does Poor Job of Caring for Seniors

Hospice News

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

About 72% of respondents to a National Partnership for Healthcare and Hospice Innovation (NPHI) survey said they do not believe that the U.S. health care system does a good job of caring for the aging population. Though 74% expressed a positive view of hospice care, only 31% said they trusted the health care system as a whole.

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Comfort Care Homes Build Bridges to Hospice for Underserved Patients

Hospice News

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

For terminally ill patients who lack secure housing or loved ones to care for them, hospice is typically not an option. Organizations called comfort care homes have been working to fill this gap. These are generally nonprofit residential facilities that will give patients a place to stay while they receive hospice care.

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The Forces Driving, Impeding Access to Pediatric Palliative Care

Hospice News

OCTOBER 13, 2023

There are so many things that need to be addressed to improve quality and access to pediatric palliative and hospice care,” Leonard told Palliative Care News in an email. Many of these children live in countries with limited numbers of pediatric palliative care providers, WHO reported. Home health teams represented 5.5%

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Wages Rising for Hospice Workers; Aides See 9.09% Increase

Hospice News

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Wages for hospice aides and CNAs are rising faster than those for other interdisciplinary team members as providers seek to stem rampant turnover among those employees. The shortages also have reduced clinical capacity, which has contributed to drops in patient census and length of stay for many providers. “We for nurses.

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What New Allegations that HCA Healthcare Pressured Patients Mean for Hospices

Hospice News

JUNE 22, 2023

Recent allegations that staff at HCA Healthcare (NYSE: HCA) put pressure on patients to enter hospice dovetail with longstanding questions over how and when patients should be referred. SEIU benchmarked HCA’s hospice transfer rates against national data. It’s hard to say that you have proof.

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Post-PHE Hospice Regulation: How Telehealth Rules Will Change

Hospice News

MAY 9, 2023

The future of telehealth in hospice care delivery is among the questions swirling around the expiration of the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE) on May 11. Though initially the telehealth waivers weren’t intended to be permanent, they will likely have long-term impacts in hospice. Providers can use telehealth as a follow-up tool.

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End-of-Life Doulas: A Podcast with Jane Euler, Beth Klint, and John Loughnane

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MARCH 7, 2024

We also invited Beth Klint to speak about the doula’s role within a traditional hospice organization. We are delighted to welcome Jane Euler, who is lead doula and co-founder of Present for You, which is a benefit LLC company that provides doula support at the end-of-life. Starting bar is Luckys Indoor/Outdoor. Why Beth?

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From the Trenches: Nurse Practitioner Obiora on Where Hospice Succeeds, What Needs to Change

Hospice News

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

In hospice, clinicians in the field have the closest relationships with patients and families, giving them direct insight into their needs and the challenge of providing care when many operators are understaffed. Akunesokwu (Neso) Obiora entered the palliative care field nearly 20 years ago as a hospice aide.

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Palliative Care A Differentiator For Home Health Operators

Hospice News

JUNE 2, 2023

Home health care providers are increasingly recognizing the clinical value of palliative care, despite its tricky payer landscape and relatively low margins. Hospices have a much larger presence in the space, but more home health agencies are showing an interest — including companies that provide both of those services.

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Telling the ‘Story of Hospice’ in 2023: Perspectives from 8 Industry Leaders

Hospice News

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

If you were to write a book about hospice in 2023, what would you call it? To help answer that question, Hospice News asked the CEOs of eight providers how they would title a book about the state of the field today. Croix Hospice, AccentCare, Chapters Health System, Alivia Care, Enhabit, Inc.,

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Providers to Lawmakers: Hospice a ‘Huge Value to Medicare’

Hospice News

JULY 31, 2023

Rising regulatory scrutiny around length of stay may be having adverse impacts on health care costs and quality, hospice leaders said in a recent Congressional briefing. Longer stays yield greater savings Regulators have fixed their gaze on longer hospice stays as signals of potential fraud, waste and abuse. Additionally, the U.S.

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Palliative Care the Next Generation: How the Service May Grow and Evolve

Hospice News

APRIL 14, 2023

Providers use a range of approaches to providing the service, from consults with advance care planning to short-term transitional care or longer-term symptom management for the chronically ill. These types of care are distinct from one another, and providers often have to emphasize the differences between the two in their marketing.

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Health Systems Expanding Into Hospice Could Disrupt Competitive Playing Field

Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

As health and hospital systems show a growing interest in home-based care, the competitive landscape for hospices could change — both in terms of market share and staff recruitment. . Some hospice providers feel that this represents a conflict of interest for health systems,Dresang said.

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Voices: Megha Kadiyala, SVP, Product Management, Enclara Pharmacia

Hospice News

OCTOBER 18, 2023

In this Voices interview, Hospice News sits down with Megha Kadiyala, SVP, Product Management, Enclara Pharmacia, to talk about technology as it relates to the nurse experience. Hospice News: What career experiences do you most draw from, in your role today? When it comes to the nurse experience, what does success look like for you?

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How Hospice, Behavioral Health May Cross Paths

Hospice News

JANUARY 19, 2023

Hospice and behavioral health care could increasingly intersect in coming years as demand for specialized care grows. In some respects, the two sectors are already inextricably linked, given the holistic nature of hospice care, including attention to patients’ psychosocial and spiritual needs as well as bereavement support for families.

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Senate Again Takes Up Hospice, Palliative Staffing Bill

Hospice News

MAY 20, 2022

have reintroduced the Palliative Care and Hospice Education Training Act (PCHETA), designed to bolster the field’s shrinking workforce with federal support. . If enacted, PCHETA would support hospice and palliative care training programs for physicians, nurses, pharmacists, social workers and chaplains. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wisc.)

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Palliative Researcher Oliver: Family Caregivers Are Also Patients

Hospice News

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

In many instances, hospices will not be able to provide care if patients lack the support of a family caregiver. Louis, is currently researching behavioral interventions to enhance the lives of caregivers for family members with advanced illnesses. You’ve personally been a caregiver yourself.

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Housing Insecurity a Threat to Seniors, Poses a Risk for Hospice Providers

Hospice News

JULY 7, 2022

Dying in America is expensive, putting some patients at risk of losing their homes. As health care providers, payers, and other stakeholders seek to address social determinants of health, they may need to pay more attention to the issue of housing. The lack of routine care can delay or prevent referrals to hospice.

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Advance Care Planning a Bridge to Hospice Among Latino Communities

Hospice News

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Early advance care planning can help strengthen trust between providers and patients and families, according to a recent report from Compassion & Choices and the National Hispanic Council on Aging. As with other demographic groups, hospice utilization among Hispanic, Latino and Latinx populations is low in comparison to Caucasians.

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Hospice Sustainability Rides Hand in Hand With Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Hospice News

JUNE 22, 2022

The business case for diversity, equity and inclusion in hospice care. It could impact hospices’ sustainability as well as their access to patients. Initiatives to reach underserved populations have been a rising priority among hospice providers. Where hospices swing and miss in diversity.

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Palliative Care News’ Top 5 Stories of 2023

Hospice News

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Securing reimbursement — and the promise of value-based contracts — continues to be top of mind for many palliative care providers as they look ahead to 2024. Meanwhile, more providers are increasingly working to address health disparities among underserved populations in various settings, including prisons and rural areas, among others.

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Key Research Trends: State CON Laws, Dementia Patient Trajectories Reshaping Hospice

Hospice News

JULY 25, 2023

Data are reshaping the health care space, and hospice is no exception. Hospice providers have needed a window into access and utilization, as well as how lawmakers are shaping policies around health care. Data on CON laws has taken on new significance as regulators zero in on the hospice space.

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Voices: ??Dr. Khai Nguyen, National Medical Director, Geriatrician, CHAP

Hospice News

DECEMBER 5, 2022

In this Voices interview, Hospice News sits down with Dr. Khai Nguyen , National Medical Director, Geriatrician for CHAP, to talk about the age-friendly care movement. Hospice News: What career experiences do you most draw from in your role today? What does it stand for? For those who don’t know, what is CHAP?

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3 Palliative Care Providers to Watch

Hospice News

APRIL 17, 2023

Providers are consistently looking for new methods to deliver responsive, value-based services that can generate savings and reduce high-acuity utilization. Hospice News spoke with three palliative care providers that have risen to these challenges. Enter UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH).

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Transitions Care CEO: Hospice Marketing Doesn’t Work in a Vacuum

Hospice News

MARCH 10, 2023

When marketing his hospice business, Transitions Care CEO Jim Palazzo makes it personal. Palazzo established Illinois-based Transitions Care in 2007 as a portfolio company of the Transitions Group — which also holds skilled nursing, home health, medical equipment and therapy assets. Marketing hospice — this is a very personal thing.

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Congressional Briefing Demonstrates the Value of the Medicare Hospice Benefit

NHPCO

JULY 28, 2023

For Immediate Release July 28, 2023 New Research Shows Hospice Produces Better Outcomes, Lower Medicare Costs (Washington, D.C. billion in Medicare savings in 2019, while also providing multiple benefits to patients, families, and caregivers. Hospice made that happen for mom, for me, and my family.”

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The Power of Hospice Nursing

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APRIL 25, 2024

Death and dying are an intrinsic aspect of our work as nurses, and hospice is a nursing specialty for those who feel especially comfortable and conversant with the care of patients facing the dying process. Hospice is focused solely on symptom management and support through the dying process. Most hospice patients die in their homes.

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Voices: Kristy Fisher, Director of Nursing and Clinical Operations at CareXM

Hospice News

OCTOBER 10, 2022

In this Voices interview, Hospice News sits down with Kristy Fisher, Director of Nursing and Clinical Operations at CareXM, to learn how hospice providers are doing more with less in an effort to add time back into nurses’ days so they can focus on patients. This article is sponsored by CareXM.

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Hospice News ELEVATE: Fireside Chat with IntellaTriage

Hospice News

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

This article is based on a Hospice News discussion with Daniel Reese, CEO of IntellaTriage at the Hospice News Elevate Conference in Chicago. Hospice News: I am pleased to welcome Daniel Reese, CEO of IntellaTriage. Hospice News: All right. How does nurse triage make an impact? I really appreciate it. 1:00 a.m.,

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Does Hospice Provide Caregivers At Home

Palliative Care’s Value-Based Future

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Palliative Care’s Rising Profile in US Health Care

How Death Doulas Can Help Hospices Improve Health Equity

Improving Inclusive Palliative Care for Transgender Patients

HopeHealth’s Expanding Scope of Pediatric Hospice, Palliative Services

How Four Questions Can Reduce Costs, Boost Hospice Utilization

Some Families May Not Access Hospice Without Caregiver Support

PeaceHealth Hospice Nurses Move Forward with Strike

AMOREM’s New Director of Faith Outreach: Build Community Relationships to Boost Hospice Access

Stoneridge Hospice Owner Rollie Seebert: Hospices Help Address the ‘Demographic Tsunami’

Bringing Palliative Telehealth to Rural Tennessee

Helios Care CEO Dan Ayres: Hospice Partnerships Drive Innovation

Palliative Care ‘Across the Pond:’ Providers Face Similar Challenges Globally

Congresswoman Van Duyne: Hospice Licensing Should Remain with the States

Survey: 72% Say U.S. Health System Does Poor Job of Caring for Seniors

Comfort Care Homes Build Bridges to Hospice for Underserved Patients

The Forces Driving, Impeding Access to Pediatric Palliative Care

Wages Rising for Hospice Workers; Aides See 9.09% Increase

What New Allegations that HCA Healthcare Pressured Patients Mean for Hospices

Post-PHE Hospice Regulation: How Telehealth Rules Will Change

End-of-Life Doulas: A Podcast with Jane Euler, Beth Klint, and John Loughnane

From the Trenches: Nurse Practitioner Obiora on Where Hospice Succeeds, What Needs to Change

Palliative Care A Differentiator For Home Health Operators

Telling the ‘Story of Hospice’ in 2023: Perspectives from 8 Industry Leaders

Providers to Lawmakers: Hospice a ‘Huge Value to Medicare’

Palliative Care the Next Generation: How the Service May Grow and Evolve

Health Systems Expanding Into Hospice Could Disrupt Competitive Playing Field

Voices: Megha Kadiyala, SVP, Product Management, Enclara Pharmacia

How Hospice, Behavioral Health May Cross Paths

Senate Again Takes Up Hospice, Palliative Staffing Bill

Palliative Researcher Oliver: Family Caregivers Are Also Patients

Housing Insecurity a Threat to Seniors, Poses a Risk for Hospice Providers

Advance Care Planning a Bridge to Hospice Among Latino Communities

Hospice Sustainability Rides Hand in Hand With Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Palliative Care News’ Top 5 Stories of 2023

Key Research Trends: State CON Laws, Dementia Patient Trajectories Reshaping Hospice

Voices: ??Dr. Khai Nguyen, National Medical Director, Geriatrician, CHAP

3 Palliative Care Providers to Watch

Transitions Care CEO: Hospice Marketing Doesn’t Work in a Vacuum

Congressional Briefing Demonstrates the Value of the Medicare Hospice Benefit

The Power of Hospice Nursing

Voices: Kristy Fisher, Director of Nursing and Clinical Operations at CareXM

Hospice News ELEVATE: Fireside Chat with IntellaTriage

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