Hospice News

JANUARY 3, 2024

A group of hospice providers and data scientists at the New Jersey-based health system have developed artificial intelligence (AI) technology aimed at helping its clinical teams to better identify when a patient is nearing the end of life or could benefit from serious illness care.

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Hospice News

MARCH 1, 2024

Speaking on behalf of the entire HPSC family, we are thrilled to partner with Frontpoint Health to provide excellent patient care to even more people throughout Texas and the greater Southeast,” Johnson said in a press release. Post-transaction, Frontpoint’s service area will reach more than 176 Texas counties. “If

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 13, 2023

“Promoting Cheryl into this position will be a smooth transition for our staff and patients,” Courtney Owens, TCMH chief nursing officer, said in a statement. Maley is a ‘homegrown’ director, working throughout her career at TCMH and up through the various patient care areas to the director position.”

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

“I admire the courage that it took to merge two long-standing non-profit hospice and palliative care agencies in an act to build sustainability and ensure our residents throughout our 12-county service area have access to quality serious illness and end of life care services.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Concern is mounting around whether current health equity initiatives will be a flash in the pan or yield long term improvement on reducing disparities in hospice care among communities of color. Many people who could benefit from hospice are not getting the care they deserve,” Deese told Hospice News in an email. “We

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Hospice News

JULY 15, 2022

The return of sequestration is adding to the financial storms brewing in hospice, as providers contend with rising costs of delivering patient care, inflation and lackluster reimbursement. If CMS and Congress do not take urgent action, some providers will be forced to close, and patient access to hospice care nationwide will decrease.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Their frontline experience provides invaluable insights into patient care, workflow efficiency and the overall functioning of our healthcare system. Beyond the final days or weeks, our mission should encompass ensuring that every eligible patient receives the complete benefit.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 2, 2023

The California-based hospice has calculated these cost savings by taking the number of patient care hours served by a volunteer and multiplying this amount by average hourly staff rates. Historically, about 10% of the hospice’s volunteers who visit patients are pre-med students.

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Hospice News

JULY 14, 2022

The health system cited declining patient admissions as the main reason for ending services. This was largely driven by trends of more serious illness and end-of-life care moving into the home, according UPMC officials. “In Though this fell slightly under the national average of 50.3% I understand.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 15, 2023

I’m thrilled to join the Silverado team, which continues to set the bar for exceptional patient care,” said Wolda. “In Patel is fellowship trained in geriatric medicine with an emphasis on palliative and end-of-life care. Wolda’s previous experience also includes a number of executive and area leadership roles.

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Hospice News

MAY 19, 2022

These factors can make the always-difficult decision about end-of-life care even harder for patients and families. Pain and symptom management is the highest priority for patients and families, according to a 2014 study. Hospices may have had to temporarily order a more expensive competing product,” said Solien.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 18, 2024

Hospices have increasingly recognized a growing need to ramp up support aimed at improving access to services such as respite care. But financial obstacles exist when it comes to expanding and diversifying the breadth of caregiving resources in serious illness and end-of-life care. Caregiver issues really run the gambit.

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NHPCO

JANUARY 12, 2024

On the other hand, NHPCO is disappointed by MedPAC’s recommendation to Congress that hospice reimbursement rates for patient care should not be updated in 2025, although by law hospice payment rates are pegged to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) inpatient hospital market basket rate.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Hopefully, this proposed legislation will increase the number of professionals entering the field of end-of-life care, thus relieving some pressures from the nursing shortage.” YoloCares raised clinical pay as part of its “expansion strategy” to provide improved access to quality care providers, he indicated.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Gaining brand recognition among patients in the community has come with difficulties in a saturated and competitive market, McGlory stated. Though greater transparency in hospice program integrity has opened the door to more patients in need of end-of-life care, she said. Hospice News photo.)

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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. Additionally, she discusses VNS’s outcomes-driven approach to end-of-life care, and how they are helping other organizations employ a similar approach.

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Hospice News

MARCH 22, 2024

Since then, the company has grown in terms of census, grown more sophisticated in its approach to end-of-life care and expanded into other business lines. A 35-year health care veteran, Hagfors has led Partners In Care for more than two years. Partners In Care has done that well with home health care.

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Hospice News

JULY 19, 2022

We are here for patient care. End-of-life care grew out of a great American crusade for social change. The voices and wishes of the dying, and of those who were caring for them, needed to be heard. Hospice leaders have to remember why we are here. We must stay connected to the reason we exist.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

“Growing and developing our own EMTs provides staff a chance to expand their skills and grow within the organization while meeting a huge patient care need,” Holmes said in a company statement. Most medical, nursing and social work students receive little training in hospice and palliative care during the course of their education.

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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. Length of Service Traditions Health has consistently demonstrated that superior clinical care can align seamlessly with every aspect of our patients’ needs.

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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.

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Hospice News

JULY 5, 2022

The hospice is remodeling the office space in order to meet the unique needs of the organization, including serving as a central hub of communication, support and supplies for staff regarding patient care needs, Lopez continued. Demographic tailwinds are anticipated to drive up demand for serious illness and end-of-life care in Iowa.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 4, 2023

“It’s almost as if two pieces aren’t talking to each other on inpatient care,” Gurian said. You take on more risk for oversight for providing it, but you don’t get the same force of consequences for not doing this level of patient care. Because the difference there is really having a chilling effect.”

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Hospice News

MAY 17, 2023

Centers for Medicaid & Medicaid Services (CMS) in 2020 issued a number of flexibilities intended to ease burdens on health care providers during the pandemic. This included the temporary lifting of the requirement that volunteers provide at least 5% of hospice patient care hours. CMS will reinstate the rule as of Jan.

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Hospice News

JULY 20, 2022

These operators get into hospice for the “wrong reasons” that focus solely on profit and not on patient care, the CEO said. In states where CONs have been eliminated or don’t exist, “chaos and inconsistency in care prevails,” according to Dresang. While some highlight the benefits of CONs, others find fault in these laws.

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Hospice News

MARCH 1, 2024

Kei Ouchi, associate professor of emergency medicine at Harvard Medical School/Brigham and Women’s Hospital, told Palliative Care News. “So, So, I think they have a harder time involving palliative care initially because they equate palliative care to end of life care.

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Hope Hospice

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

November 30, 2023 — By the Bay Health, Mission Hospice & Home Care, and Hope Hospice today announced they will merge to become the largest independent not-for-profit hospice network in Northern California, uniquely positioned to provide compassionate care and impactful community services to more patients and families throughout the region.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 14, 2023

So we’re going to have a link to the article that you published in JAMA IM titled The Hospital Culture and Intensity of End-of-Life Care at Three Academic Hospitals. And I was interested in intensity of end-of-life care and differences in intensity of end-of-life care. Liz: Right.

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Traditions Health

MARCH 30, 2024

We’re supportive of one another, and we communicate constantly about patient care. We’re available to show our patients compassion. A) Providing comfort and guidance to patients and families is what makes my work matter. Hospice adds a level of support and comfort to end-of-life care. A) The people.

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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. This is a rise from 33% the prior year. It’s a mix of our culture and us taking actions after listening to staff feedback.”.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Illinois-based Great Lakes Health Partners, an Interim Healthcare franchise, is launching a grief support group for employees aimed at helping hospice workers deal with the stress of providing bedside end-of-life care. We figured that it needs to be flexible, on different days of the week depending on patient care needs.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Trogdon recently shared her thoughts with Hospice News about her career in hospice and palliative care, and the biggest forces of change at play in serious illness and end-of-life care. My role was more than just teaching clinicians how to document patient visits. Those feelings can easily bleed into patient care.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 12, 2023

That’s really a significant investment that we’ve made and innovation in how we care for staff with personal days, recognition, we have a fleet car program, all the things that we can do to make this the most desirable place to work in our communities. Fried: I think end-of-life care truly needs to be reimagined.

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Daily Nurse

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

.” The performance improvement initiative began at the end of 2017 to address concerns about lower-than-expected metrics related to the medical center’s organ donation process.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 25, 2023

“Technology and pharmacy partners are part of the ecosystem that help hospices adapt to patient needs as they progress at the end of life. These partners open doors around access to end-of-life care.”

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Seasons Hospice

OCTOBER 16, 2023

This became a model for the interdisciplinary approach to end-of-life care. Her work emphasized the importance of comprehensive pain management, emotional support, and spiritual care. Today Palliative care has evolved into a specialized medical fiel d with a broad scope of practice.

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Hospice News

MARCH 22, 2024

Crouch’s promotion is a testament to his dedication to our mission and commitment to patient care,” Treasure Coast Hospice CEO Jackie Kendrick said in a statement. Crouch brings more than 30 years of health care leadership experience to the role.

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