Hospice News

AUGUST 23, 2023

Enhabit Inc. (NYSE: EHAB) has confirmed that it will begin considering “strategic alternatives” that could include a potential sale or merger. The Dallas-based home health and hospice provider announced today that it had satisfied the conditions of its Tax Matters Agreement (TMA) with its former parent company Encompass Health (NYSE: EHC). Enhabit emerged from the 2021 spinoff of Encompass Health’s home health and hospice segment.

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Minority Nurse

AUGUST 23, 2023

There has been a greater focus on creating healthy work environments in recent years, and nurses deserve kindness, too. Regardless of your nursing position, remember that kindness is still in style. If you are a nursing student, new graduate nurse, educator, or chief nursing officer, remember that the foundation of nursing is rooted in caring. I don’t know what has happened to nursing over time, but we must return to caring basics as a nursing profession.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 23, 2023

Texas-based Midland Health recently opened a new inpatient palliative care center aimed at improving access and quality outcomes among seriously ill patients and their families. Dubbed the Center for Serious Illness and Supportive Care, the facility will be based at the health system’s Midland Memorial Hospital. In addition to supporting hospital-based palliative patients, a second objective is to expand those services beyond its facility walls and into the community, according to Kathryn Lagus,

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Daily Nurse

AUGUST 23, 2023

Buffalo, NY, nurse Trinetta Alston has made it her mission in life to help others, and in the past year, she has opened her heart to help as many Tops supermarket associates as possible. Tops in Buffalo was the site of a mass shooting on May 14, 2022, and days later, Alston started talking with survivors to help them heal from this tragic event. Daily Nurse honors Trinetta Alson as the Nurse of the Week for showing kindness, compassion, and empathy for the survivors of this tragic day by conn

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Home Care Pulse

AUGUST 23, 2023

HCP WEBINAR SERIES The State of Post-Acute Care in 2023: The Customer & Employee Experience With the release of the 2023 HCP Benchmarking Report, we have new data and insights on how post-acute care businesses have been impacted by ongoing industry challenges, and what the most successful organizations are doing to overcome them. Join HCP for a 6-part webinar series breaking down the key findings from each section of the 2023 HCP Benchmarking Report, including sales & marketing, recruit

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AT Home Care & Hospice

AUGUST 23, 2023

National Immunization Awareness Month August is National Immunization Awareness Month (NIAM). This annual event is an important reminder that vaccination is one of the safest and most effective strategies for preventing transmissible diseases. Each year, millions of people of all ages benefit from receiving vaccines. Older adults are particularly susceptible to certain vaccine-preventable illnesses and The post National Immunization Awareness Month appeared first on AT Home Care & Hospice.

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Healthcare Law Insights podcast

AUGUST 23, 2023

It’s been hard to keep track of all the new changes related to government oversight of hospices. This growing list now includes an expansion of the 36-month rule to hospices, which will limit the frequency that hospices can change ownership. There are important exceptions to the rule that all hospices will need to closely consider when evaluating all types of organizational changes, including traditional acquisitions and other types of consolidations.

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Healthcare Law Insights blog

AUGUST 23, 2023

Distances in rural health care can be hard to fathom. A 2018 study found it took rural Americans, on average, 17 minutes to get to a hospital, but only 10 minutes in an urban center. [i] The distance between rural hospitals can be vastly further – in 2019, a National Institutes of Health study noted that hospitals in one rural state were generally at least 50 miles apart.

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