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. Much remains to be accomplished when it comes to improving hospice visits during the final stages of life, Escalante indicated.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Is Bereavement Care Going High Tech? A number of entrepreneurs have emerged with tech solutions that offer grief and logistical support to bereaved families. Combined, Asians, African Americans and Hispanics in 2018 represented only 20% of Medicare hospice patients, while the remaining 80% were Caucasian, according NHPCO.

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Hospice News

JULY 18, 2023

These can represent significant expenses for hospice and palliative care providers in today’s reimbursement climate. Hospice & Community Care also has two office locations in the state, along with a 24-bed inpatient center, a residential center and a bereavement facility, the Pathways Center for Grief & Loss.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Mission Hospice, By the Bay Health, and Hope Hospice share a rich history and commitment to serving the Bay Area community with comprehensive end-of-life care, education, and grief support,” said Mission Hospice CEO Dolores Miller, in a statement. Favorable demographics are also driving demand.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Guaranteed Health is redefining the end-of-life-care experience by building a-first-of-its-kind technology and AI-enabled platform that supports patients, caregivers, providers and payers. Guaranteed serves Medicare and Medicaid patients across five counties in southern California, including the Los Angeles region.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 18, 2024

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) unveiled in July 2023. In 2021, these conditions tied with cancer as the most frequently occurring principal diagnoses for Medicare decedents who elected the benefit, according to the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization.

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Hospice News

APRIL 22, 2022

The hospice provider began as an all-volunteer organization in 1977 and provides pediatric palliative care and grief support services in addition to hospice. Francis, the organization rebranded in 2020 to reflect its expanded scope of community-based services in an area with a growing need for serious illness and end-of-life care.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 19, 2024

The hospice will provide GIP care across the health system’s four hospitals. About 143,284 Medicare dcedents utilized the hospice benefit in Texas during 2021, according to the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). UTMB Health’s service region includes 10 cities in Texas. currently, reported the U.S.

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Hospice News

MARCH 1, 2023

Kosciusko Home Care & Hospice (KHCH) has merged with Stillwater Hospice amid mounting financial pressures. The two Indiana-based nonprofit hospices joined forces to ensure continued access to end-of-life care in the Kosciusko County area. Hospice utilization among Medicare decedents in Indiana reached a rate of 47.3%

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Earlier in the year, Yonah Klein was appointed director of strategy at Unity Hospice and Palliative Care. Technology a key to growing home-based hospice care, workforce The future of end-of-life care is heading further into the home, according to Klein. prior to that.

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Hospice News

JULY 5, 2022

Along with administrative offices, the location will be home to Hospice of Washington County’s outpatient palliative care clinic, along with its bereavement and grief counseling offices. Demographic tailwinds are anticipated to drive up demand for serious illness and end-of-life care in Iowa. About 17.7%

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NHPCO

JUNE 21, 2023

In a recent comment letter , NHPCO included examples of hospital pressures on hospices and recommended that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) or its contractors “should publish specific and accessible guidance about the hospital mortality metric specifically for hospitals and hospices.”

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NHPCO

APRIL 17, 2023

For Immediate Release April 17, 2023 (Alexandria, VA) The National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) published the following statement in response to a recent Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) proposed rule that would update key components of hospice reimbursement and regulations in Fiscal Year (FY) 2024.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 26, 2022

In addition to hospice, the nonprofit provider also offers palliative care and grief support. in 2018, according to the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization. It became certified to offer hospice under the Medicare benefit in 1990, which Cogswell told local news was a “game changer,” in end-of-life care.

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Hospice News

MAY 13, 2022

The company has expanded its palliative care services in light of potential opportunities in the value-based insurance design (VBID) demonstration. Commonly called the Medicare Advantage hospice carve-in, the VBID program requires participating hospices to offer palliative care upstream.

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Hospice of the North Coast

AUGUST 25, 2023

The hospice care team comprises medical experts, social workers, chaplains, and volunteers who collectively address the needs of patients and their families. Hospice services are adaptable, available either at home or specialized facilities, and can be funded through various means, including Medicare/Medicaid and private insurance.

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Traditions Health

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

A comprehensive care team comprised of physicians, nurses, hospice aides, social workers, spiritual professionals, and trained volunteers. Similarly, many veteran families fear that paying for extended hospice care will force them to take a significant cut from their savings, potentially bankrupting themselves in the process.

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Hospice Nurse Hero

JANUARY 11, 2024

Understanding the Challenges of End-of-Life Conversations: 1. Emotional Turbulence: End-of-life discussions are emotionally charged, and both patients and their families may experience a range of emotions like fear, grief, and anxiety. Be kind to yourself.

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High Peaks Hospice

JUNE 27, 2023

. ● Elicits and listens to the story of patients, family, and friends encouraging life review. Knowledge of family and group treatment, community resources, and the dynamics of terminal illness, grief, and bereavement. Attend or assist at events and services, some of which may be during evening or weekend hours.

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High Peaks Hospice

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Elicits and listens to the story of patient, family and friends encouraging life review. ? Knowledge of family and group treatment, community resources and the dynamics of terminal illness, grief, and bereavement. Hospice experience and/or equivalent education is preferred. Excellent counseling, advocacy and collaboration skills.

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Shining Light Hospice

APRIL 8, 2022

What separates Hospice from Home Health is the type of medical care the patient receives from each service. For instance, Home Health Care may be considered for rehabilitation or to prevent hospitalization. Hospice is indicated for end of life care for patients with a terminal illness. What Is Hospice Care?

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Shining Light Hospice

DECEMBER 24, 2021

In general, hospice care is available when patients are expected to live six months or less if their disease progresses at its typical rate. The majority of hospice care in the US is covered by Medicare, the federal health insurance program. Medicare will cover: Medical and nursing services. Social worker services.

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Hospice News

JULY 13, 2023

This is the first of a two-part service that will detail key findings from recent research on hospice care, featuring numbers that could influence they ways hospices communicate and operate. Hospices’ cost-savings potential A study published in March revealed that hospice saved Medicare roughly $3.5

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GeriPal

AUGUST 11, 2022

And so my first introduction to the field came with my first job in 1982, when I went to the Cambridge Hospital to do primary care and internal medicine. Was before the Medicare hospice benefit. And one was the Medicare hospice benefit. There was a little bit of teaching about end of life care. Susan: Yes.

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GeriPal

MARCH 7, 2024

That’s getting a little off-topic because that’s after death, but I think with what doulas do is reprocessing and helping with some grief we can. In fact, I worked for senior care options payer-provider in Massachusetts, where I am coupled end-of-life care from hospice back in 2009.

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NHPCO

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

I have long worked to advance bipartisan solutions that expand the public’s access to palliative and end-of-life care. These services provide patients facing serious illness and their families with the high-quality care and comfort they deserve. Thank you to the NHPCO for this award and their work?

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GeriPal

JUNE 22, 2023

And people are getting life sentences. They’re going to get older, they’re going to struggle with geriatric conditions, and they’re going to need palliative services and eventually end-of-life care. Alex: … in other words, than you might be in a Medicare-regulated hospice facility?

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Hospice News

AUGUST 29, 2022

We want to make sure that access to this care continues at the forefront, and that people with serious and terminal illnesses are getting their needs met. We know about 50% of all Medicare beneficiaries who are eligible for hospice care receive it. One is that the the reimbursement for hospice care in the [U.S.

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Home Care Pulse

JULY 25, 2023

I’m the senior nurse educator at H C P, Speaker 1 ( 00:25 ): And you’re listening to Vision, the podcast for leaders and forward thinkers in the care industry. Today we’ll be discussing the importance of unifying the care continuum for end of life care. Speaker 3 ( 00:38 ): Hi, glad to be here.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Hospice News sat down with McGlory to discuss the factors that led her to pivot her career toward end-of-life care, what she designed Guaranteed to achieve, and her strategies for making that happen. Have you previously worked in health care or hospice before? Can you tell me more about your own professional background?

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