Hospice News

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Aging LGBTQ+ populations have few options for quality end-of-life care – particularly those in rural areas – and hospices are ramping up efforts to reach them. Access to hospice can be challenging for many seniors in remote or rural regions. I think increasingly in our world, sadly, many rural people are alone.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

A systematic overhaul of the nation’s health care education programs is needed to ensure that future clinicians are prepared to provide palliative and hospice care amid rising demand, according to Dr. Leah McDonald of HopeHealth. McDonald is a hospice and palliative care physician at HopeHealth.

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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. The hospice provider’s strategic growth plans include a geographic stretch into Pennsylvania. The funding follows a $6.5

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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.

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Hospice News

MARCH 11, 2024

Spiritual hospice care providers are an important link to building bridges of access and trust among underserved African American populations. The hospice and palliative care provider also offers advance care planning and grief counseling services.

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Hospice News

MARCH 1, 2024

The online clinical training platform CareAcademy has developed a hospice care curriculum. The new curriculum is designed to offer “foundational orientation training” for hospice aides, nurses, volunteers, social workers, chaplains and other spiritual care providers, as well as physicians.

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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. Rural-based hospice providers face a range of challenges to improve access among their underserved patient populations.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

In 2019 the Minnesota-headquartered hospice provider began utilizing a predictive analytics tool from Medalogix. The post-acute data analytics company develops machine learning solutions designed to identify patients in need of home health, hospice or palliative care services as early as possible in the course of their illnesses.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

The inpatient center will allow for smoother transitions to hospice care among eligible hospitalized and emergency patients, as well as home- and community-based referrals, according to Gayle Mattson, president and CEO of Hospice of Cincinnati/HOC Navigators. These include Residential Healthcare Group, among others.

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Hospice News

JUNE 2, 2022

This article is based on a Q&A session with Jason Banks, Senior Director of Post Acute Sales at nVoq, during the Hospice News Palliative Care Conference. Hospice News: Jason has an incredible background in post-acute care that we’re going to talk about today. Banks: I ran a hospice and palliative care.

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Hospice News

APRIL 8, 2024

HopeHealth is also a hospice and palliative medicine teaching affiliate for The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University. The health system in 2021 began providing inpatient and community-based pediatric palliative and hospice care to infants, children and young adults. I’m a pediatrician.

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Hospice News

APRIL 22, 2022

Francis Reflections Lifestage Care recently opened a new inpatient hospice care center inside the Melbourne Regional Medical Center. A swelling demand for hospice in the community spurred the unit’s development. Volunteers, social workers, chaplains and bereavement counselors also make up the center’s staff.

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Seasons Hospice

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Quality Matters Palliative care, a specialized medical approach focused on improving the quality of life for individuals facing serious illnesses, has a long and rich history that spans centuries. The modern palliative care movement has gained significant momentum in recent decades.

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Hospice of the North Coast

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Amidst the challenges, the compassion of hospice care for dementia shines as a beacon of hope, offering comfort, dignity, and understanding during life’s final chapter. When Is It Time to Consider Hospice?

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Hospice News

AUGUST 28, 2023

Employee and patient safety concerns represent a barrier to hospice care among underserved, urban communities, particularly those with higher crime rates. Hospice workers’ personal biases and perceptions of these communities also contribute to inequities, McCann-Davis said. based in New York.

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Traditions Health

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

If you are caring for a veteran who is terminally ill or nearing the end of life, hospice care can be a smart choice. Corresponding with remedial care, hospice care focuses on facilitating a patient’s quality of life rather than extending its length.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

If enacted, the legislation would remove co-pays and patient fees for advance care planning (ACP) services, allow social workers to conduct these conversations, expand provider education about associated billing codes, and improve reporting on barriers to ACP utilization.

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Shining Light Hospice

MARCH 27, 2023

The Roles of Medical Professionals in Hospice Care Hospice care is a type of health care that focuses on providing comfort and support to patients and families during the end-of-life process. What Is Hospice Care?

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Hospice News

JANUARY 1, 2024

Staffing strains and quality concerns have hospice providers relying more heavily on technology to strengthen the delivery, timing and experience of end-of-life care. There’s a human element to it and a patient-centered care element to it that helps advance health care overall.

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Hospice of the North Coast

AUGUST 25, 2023

Hospice services, a specialized form of care tailored to individuals with terminal illnesses and their families, go beyond mere symptom management – they prioritize comfort and solace. What exactly does hospice care entail? Their aim is to elevate the quality of life.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 17, 2023

Howe is passionate regarding education as he leads teams of specially trained clinical staff, including nurse practitioners, registered nurses, social workers, chaplains and certified nurse aides, all of whom he believes are experts in the care of patients with advanced and terminal illnesses.”. ALC Hospice Care Names COO.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Harbor Hospice is also part of the health system, which operates 50 locations across seven states, including Texas. The center will provide patients with “around-the-clock” hospice care and offer 24-hour visitation hours for loved ones, according to Brenna Rodriguez, vice president of operations at Harbor Hospice.

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1-800-HOSPICE

APRIL 11, 2023

Writing for the Mayo Clinic, Mary K Buss, MD, MPH made an interesting observation: “Many PCPs already engage in primary palliative care but may not recognize their actions as palliative care.” 1 In fact, general practitioners, not hospice or specialists, provide most palliative care.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 9, 2022

You hear cultural competency as a sort of ‘buzz word,’ but it’s really about being able to develop a safe space for LGBTQ+ patients to be taken care of and share their wishes.”. The hospice, home health and palliative care provider serves close to 40,000 patients.

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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. She explains why VNS is bullish toward concerns about a hospice carve-in, and she also shares an outlook on the VBID demonstration’s extension through 2030.

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NHPCO

JUNE 21, 2023

For Immediate Release June 21, 2023 (Alexandria, VA) – The National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) published the following statement in response to a recent NBC News story on HCA Healthcare hospitals, suggesting that HCA hospitals may be inappropriately pushing patients toward hospice care.

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NHPCO

DECEMBER 13, 2023

The 2023 Facts and Figures report continues to see the impact of COVID-19 on patient care and the effect of the COVID-19 waivers to the traditional delivery of hospice care. NHPCO Facts and Figures is an essential resource for the hospice community. NHPCO provides education and resources to support that mission.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Agape Care Group Appoints M&A VP. Alex Ferguson has stepped into the role of senior vice president of mergers and acquisitions at Agape Care Group. The South Carolina-based hospice and palliative care provider is a portfolio company of the private equity firm Ridgemont Equity Partners.

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Traditions Health

APRIL 14, 2024

When the time comes to make profound decisions about end-of-life care for a loved one, every question becomes a quest for the exceptional. Navigating injury or illness can be frightening, but our team meets you where you are with the specialized care you need in the place where you’re most comfortable—at home.

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NHPCO

JUNE 16, 2023

The meetings were part of Hospice Action Week, hosted in Washington, DC by the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) and its advocacy affiliate, the Hospice Action Network (HAN). We continue to advocate for 34 program integrity recommendations we made in January.

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Hospice News

JULY 1, 2022

An aim of the resource center is to provide a safe place for individuals to work through difficult emotions and grief, and help survivors address the physical, mental, social and spiritual impact of losing a family member or close friend, Hill continued. It currently operates an inpatient hospice facility in Centreville, Maryland.

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The Bucket-List Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Teresa immediately spoke with Heather Randall, a social worker, about Nancy’s situation. The Hospice Care Plus staff, both for the home hospice program in Berea and those at the Compassionate Care Center in Richmond, immediately began reaching out to friends and supporters to help pull the wedding together.

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The Bucket-List Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2022

This summer, in the middle of a pandemic and while my soon-to-be husband was receiving hospice care, I married the love of my life. I’ve been his caregiver since November 2019, when Hospice Care Plus started caring for him in our home. But Junann, our hospice chaplain, said, “God makes a way out of no way.”

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Seasons Hospice

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Here are some ways you can support them: Respect their wishes – Everyone has different wants and needs when it comes to end-of-life care. And lastly, understand that there are ways to care for someone who is facing end-of-life possibilities that will not only help and bring them peace but also give you a sense of peace, too.

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The Bucket-List Blog

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Once, during a conversation with Hospice Care Plus chaplain, Sally Iseral, Harold said, “I really would love to find a way to have Dairy Queen breakfast about two times a week.”. Hospice staff are always listening for what’s important to those in our care, hoping to assist them with whatever may bring joy or support quality of life.

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Shining Light Hospice

DECEMBER 24, 2021

What is Hospice? Hospice care offers all patients the opportunity to spend their last days as comfortably as possible, with support and care that includes loved ones as well. In general, hospice care is available when patients are expected to live six months or less if their disease progresses at its typical rate.

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Evidence-Based Nursing - BMJ blogs

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

This blog does not intend to revisit this pathway, but to raise awareness that as healthcare professionals, we have and always will have only one chance to get it right in palliative and end of life care. What is Palliative and End of Life Care? The Cornerstone of Humanity.

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