Hospice News

JULY 27, 2023

NYSE: CHE) subsidiary VITAS Healthcare, but financial pressure points remain. All told, VITAS Healthcare has recruited 784 workers since the bonus program’s launch a year ago, the majority of whom were nurses. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) proposed 2.8% All told, hospice saves Medicare $3.5

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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. But we both know that as Medicare Advantage begins to expand, and [the U.S. We have one county the size of Rhode Island.

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Hospice News

MAY 30, 2023

Aides in 2022 represented a large percentage of job vacancies in the hospice space at nearly 20%, according to research from Hospital & Healthcare Compensation Service (HCS) and the National Association of Home Care & Hospice (NAHC). Participants included hospice aides, social workers, nurses, clinicians, chaplains and other staff.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Turnover rates for registered hospice nurses reached 25.15% in 2022, according to the 2022-2023 Hospice Salary & Benefits Report , published by Hospital & Healthcare Compensation Service (HCS) in cooperation with the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC). Nurses also accounted for 16.97% of vacancies.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

The case study analyzed results from Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers & Systems (CAHPS) surveys and the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) quality measures such as the Hospice Quality Reporting Program (HQRP) and the Hospice Item Set (HIS).

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Turnover rates for registered hospice nurses reached 25.15% in 2022, according to the 2022-2023 Hospice Salary & Benefits Report , published by Hospital & Healthcare Compensation Service (HCS) in cooperation with the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC). This entire Medicare Advantage carve-in, it makes sense.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 19, 2023

Chicago-based Oak Street Health consists of a network of value-based primary care facilities that serve upwards of 145,000 Medicare beneficiaries across 21 states. chief innovation officer for the National Partnership for Healthcare and Hospice Innovation (NPHI). Hospices also lack quality measures associated with bereavement care.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 22, 2022

While spiritual care falls under the bereavement assessment as part of the four core hospice services, reimbursement streams for chaplain staff are extremely shallow, according to George Handzo, director of health services research and quality at the HealthCare Chaplaincy Network. Limited opportunities for training.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Contributing to these declines were constraints on clinical capacity stemming from the labor shortage, as well as some instances of lower reimbursement for its home health services due to the shift of more patients towards Medicare Advantage, executives said in an earnings call. NYSE: CHEM) VITAS Healthcare. “So

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GeriPal

MARCH 7, 2024

It was started by a social worker who really saw some gaps in care with those at end-of-life, particularly those with chronic long-term illness, having important conversations. Despite this, in my 20-year career as a palliative care physician, I have yet to see a death doula in the wild. Why Beth? Jane, welcome to the GeriPal podcast.

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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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Hospice News

JULY 11, 2023

Josie Aquino: With 20+ years in healthcare, I have embraced a range of roles, each providing unique and invaluable experiences that have shaped my career and that I draw upon in my role today. For Medicare Advantage plans, a carve-in facilitates better care coordination and oversight.

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Hospice of the North Coast

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Key Takeaways Hospice care for dementia patients aims to reduce physical and emotional distress, safeguarding dignity and comfort, with a hospice team that includes physicians, nurses, social workers, chaplains, and volunteers. Who Makes Up the Hospice Team?

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NHPCO

JUNE 16, 2023

These congressional advocacy actions came a week after NHPCO filed detailed comments on the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ (CMS) Fiscal Year (FY) 2024 Hospice Wage Index and Quality Reporting Proposed Rule, demonstrating the importance of both legislative and regulatory advocacy for protecting and improving hospice and palliative care.

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GeriPal

JUNE 22, 2023

We start off part one by interviewing Michele DiTomas, who has been the longstanding Medical Director of the Hospice unit and currently is also the Chief Medical Executive for the Palliative care Initiative with the California Correctional Healthcare Services. I’ve known Michele a long time, since the Joint Medical Program.

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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. Department of Veteran Affairs), Tricare, Medicare, Medicaid, and private insurance. Tricare Tricare is a healthcare program that is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Defense.

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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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NHPCO

OCTOBER 5, 2023

In her decades of service, Lund Person has served as a key contact with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and helped ensure that policymakers hear the hospice voice. Norman then served as Founder and President and CEO for Caris HealthCare before becoming a Managing Partner and Executive Board Member.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary Often podcasts meet clinical reality. That’s why we do this podcast- to address real world issues in palliative care, geriatrics, and bioethics. But rarely does the podcast and clinical reality meet in the same day. Lynn Flint, author of the NEJM perspective titled, “Rehabbed to Death,” joins Eric and I as co-host.

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Seasons Hospice

MARCH 23, 2021

Social workers can help you and your loved one resolve any lingering end-of-life planning. Healthcare services. Social work services : Social services are available for our patients and their families to help them work through end-of-life stress. The Medicare hospice benefit covers over 85% of hospice patients.

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Pallimed

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

She cited a jaw dropping falsehood about what she thought his election would mean for healthcare, and especially healthcare for white people. We spent a while talking about her concerns, and why her healthcare was secure. Her Medicare coverage wasn’t changing, and this truth would bear out for her regardless of her belief.

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Kindful Hospice

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

We’ll also dispel some of the common myths that surround this important kind of healthcare. These teams have a diverse array of special skills, made up of spiritual advisors, social workers, doctors, nurses, and even trained volunteers. Hospice care can be covered by Medicare. Read on to learn more about hospice care.

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GeriPal

APRIL 27, 2023

Attendee 5: That we are so integrated into the very fabric of healthcare that it’s a no-brainer in every single discipline because you know what? We deepen ourselves into the fabric of care and we make healthcare work for people who are seriously ill. We’ve got a very large palliative care practice,” Rodgers told PCN.

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Hospice News

JUNE 1, 2022

Hospice and palliative care need greater recognition among disciplines across the board, beyond medicine and nursing, according to Eunju Lee, palliative care social worker at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. But clinical education will need a much larger boost to ensure a sustainable workforce, according to many providers.

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GeriPal

MARCH 9, 2023

Legalization is moving forward in several states , following the lead of Oregon and Colorado. FDA is considering approval, shifting away from Schedule I restrictions, paving the way for use in clinical practice. Potential use in palliative care , chronic pain , and for mood disorders is tantalizing. Research is exploding.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 25, 2022

And then secondly, around some of our quality measures, there’s been differences found in multiple papers by many teams around hospice disenrollment, higher rates of hospice disenrollment in for-profit hospices, and higher rates of healthcare utilization. We are delighted to welcome Melissa Aldridge to the GeriPal Podcast. Lauren: Hi.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Don’t get me wrong, the evidence points to cost savings, but as Chris Callahan and Kathleen Unroe pointed out in a JAGS editorial in 2020 “in comprehensive dementia care models, savings may accrue to Medicare, but the expenses accrue to a fluid and unstable network of local service providers, patients, and their families.”

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GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

I’m a geriatrically trained social worker and it was my grandmother. Susan: I got my start working for a member of Congress doing constituent casework and a lot of the casework was supporting older adults with VA, Social Security, Medicare, immigration casework. Greg: Yeah, great question.

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2023

We also have Joe Shega, who is a hospice physician, and he is a Chief Medical Officer and Vice President at VITAS Healthcare. This was an investigative report about fraud and healthcare, pure fraud, pure victimization of vulnerable people. Lauren: And looking in the Medicare data, you cannot figure out when a hospice changed ownership.

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Home Care Pulse

JULY 25, 2023

And so all of us in the healthcare profession, in in the he caring profession, I like, that’s my new thing, health, right? We can guide them to have a more total experience without the denial that that goes through our healthcare system. And what I want people to understand is that everybody dies.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 19, 2023

This was presented back in Tampa at a post-acute long-term care conference earlier this year, where we looked at the ability of speech recognition to drive down Medicare denials of claims. We’re getting comments from nurses, some social workers, from chaplains saying, “I get comments back from the family saying, thank you.

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GeriPal

JULY 13, 2023

Randy died February 26, 2023. We begin today’s podcast asking his co-authors Erin Kross, Bob Lee, and Ruth Engelberg, all from the University of Washington and the Cambia Palliative Care Center of Excellence, to reflect on Randy and his dedication to seeing this work completed while living with ALS. Erin, welcome to the GeriPal podcast.

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