Hospice News

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Demand is rising, driven by factors such as the aging population, growing demand for comfort and quality of life and integration with other healthcare facilities. Our program is staffed by nurse practitioners and social workers, under the oversight of our medical director.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Other supporters include organizations such as the Center for Medicare Advocacy, LeadingAge, the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC), the National Partnership for Healthcare and Hospice Innovation (NPHI), Respecting Choices, and the Social Work Hospice & Palliative Care Network (SWHPN).

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Hospice News

APRIL 11, 2024

Some had experienced racism and noticed they were treated differently than white people Some healthcare providers continued medical treatment even when the patient with a serious illness wanted to stop curative care. Some patients with serious illnesses didn’t get enough help with managing their pain.

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Hospice News

APRIL 3, 2024

Aveanna Taps New Chief Legal Executive Aveanna Healthcare Holdings Inc. He was previously chief legal officer at diagnostic imaging company MedQuest Associates, serving in the same role at CRH Healthcare LLC prior to that. NASDAQ: AVAH) has appointed Jerry Perchik as its new chief legal officer and secretary.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

The national average hourly rate for hospice aides and CNAs rose 9.09% in 2022, compared to a 4.52% increase in 2021, 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). . for nurses.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 1, 2023

The national average hourly rate for Hospice registered nurses rose 4.58% in 2023, down from a 5.95% increase in 2022, according to a new report by the Hospital & Healthcare Compensation Service (HCS) in cooperation with the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC). The effective date of the research is July 1, 2023.

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Hospice News

MARCH 19, 2024

Connecticut’s statewide Palliative Care Advisory Council (PCAC) plans to work collaboratively with DPH to develop the pediatric hospice program plan, according to Tracy Wodatch, president and CEO of the Connecticut Association for Healthcare at Home. Keeping the staff’s skills honed for less demand is challenging.

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Hospice News

JUNE 13, 2022

Strategies revealed in the study include increasing the amount of social workers and re-allocating non-clinical responsibilities, such as scheduling, to other areas of the organization.”. Admission liaisons, nurses, aides and IT staff saw the largest increase, according to the National Association of Home Care & Hospice (NAHC).

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 13, 2023

VITAS Healthcare Expands Hospital-Based Inpatient Hospice Center Chemed Corp. NYSE: CHE) VITAS Healthcare recently expanded its inpatient hospice care unit at the Florida-based Broward Health Medical Center. An interdisciplinary team of physicians, nurses, social workers, chaplains, volunteers and bereavement experts provide 24/7 care.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

In day-to-day practice, It’s hard to imagine providing excellent hospice or palliative care services without access to a team social worker. But are we really taking full advantage of ALL social workers have to offer our field? I don’t know if this person was a social worker or not. Barbara: Yay.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 10, 2024

New Jersey-based Valley Health System is partnering with Family of Caring Healthcare to offer palliative services to their patients. Family of Caring Healthcare System includes 10 health and rehabilitation centers that provide subacute care and rehabilitative services, assisted living, and long-term care.

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Hospice News

APRIL 25, 2024

NYSE: CHE) subsidiary VITAS Healthcare is ramping up its strategic growth plans in both hospice and palliative care amid rising demand for these services. The initiative included a one-time retention payment that ranges from $2,000 to $15,000 per employee for nurses, nurse managers, home health aides and social workers.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Capacity gains driven by a slate of new hires has propelled VITAS Healthcare to pre-pandemic performance. In case you missed it, Hospice News has launched a new specialty publication for palliative care professionals. You can subscribe to Palliative Care News here: Subscribe today! NYSE: CHE).

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Hospice News

MARCH 6, 2024

How do we attract nurse practitioners, physicians, social workers and other interdisciplinary team members? There are a lot of specialty areas within medicine. How do we keep them motivated doing some of the hardest work in the practice of medicine today? There’s a lot of stress in a position [of] providing palliative care. NYSE: CHE).

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Hospice News

MAY 31, 2023

The palliative growth was spurred by a two-year pilot project funded by a quality improvement grant from the Harvard Pilgrim Healthcare Foundation. Additional palliative team members included Kim Danforth, a licensed social worker, and Brooke Simmons as its new medical assistant.

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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. Workforce and patient census are rebounding for the Chemed Corp.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

So when you think about a home-based palliative care program, and you were hoping to include RNs and social workers in there, they’re not considered billable clinicians. You can’t do incident billing in the home, you can only do that in a clinic setting or in an office-based setting.”

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Hospice News

MARCH 8, 2023

NYSE: CHE) VITAS Healthcare has appointed Alexander Fernandez as its CFO and executive vice president (EVP). Prior to that, Fernandez was COO of Tenet Healthcare Corp.’s The program included a one-time retention payment ranging from $2,000 to $15,000 per employee for nurses, nurse managers, social workers and home health aides.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Turnover remains a big risk Health care workers have increasingly dropped out of the workforce in the past few years, according to a report from Definitive Healthcare (NASDAQ: DH). This is in addition to widespread attrition among registered nurses, social workers, back-office staff and other professionals.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Through the arrangement, Goodwin Hospice staff, primarily social workers, refer families to Present for You’s death doula services, particularly when caregivers may need more respite or families are in need of greater touch points and communication, Eulers stated.

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Hospice News

APRIL 23, 2024

The pilot, which ran from September 2015 through February 2016, had 82 patients enrolled across four counties and palliative care organizations: Collabria Care in Napa, Interim Healthcare in Redding, ResolutionCare in Eureka and YoloCares in Davis. Thus far in 2024, 625 patients have been active in the program; 1,000 were enrolled in 2023.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 19, 2024

Bethany Walton, senior oncology social worker and collaborative care therapist at the Lipson Cancer Institute, said Collaborative Care began in 2021 as an extension of the program already in place serving Rochester Regional Health’s Primary and OBGYN Offices. The patient is always an active part of the decision.

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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). As with other health care workers, burnout has been a contributing factor.

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Hospice News

APRIL 27, 2023

Investments in their workforce have spurred VITAS Healthcare forward on the road to pre-pandemic financial and clinical performance. Aging Media Network photo Aging Media Network photo VITAS Healthcare CEO Nick Westfall In Q1, the company’s ADC rose 3% year-over-year to 17,830.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

The last few years in particular carried exacerbated pressures on palliative care workers, according to Beth Lown, chief medical officer at the Schwartz Center for Compassionate Healthcare based in Boston. During that time frame, workers reported low levels of well-being that indicated a higher potential risk of burnout.

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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. Not only have daily clinical visits in the last week of life improved, so too have bedside presence from other interdisciplinary team members such as social workers and chaplains, she stated.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

NYSE: CHE) subsidiary VITAS Healthcare is banking on improved recruitment and retention to spur upward movement on patient census, admissions and length of stay. To recap, we have now generated two quarters of sequential growth in licensed healthcare workers, sequential growth and admissions, as well as [average daily census].

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Though its temporary bonus program has ended, VITAS Healthcare has built on the momentum it created with accelerated hiring and corresponding gains in capacity. VITAS is a subsidiary of Chemed Corp. NYSE: CHE).

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Hospice News

JULY 25, 2023

It is important for older people to receive holistic care from an interprofessional team, so not just the physician but also nurses, social workers, physical therapists, and others. We know that internalized ageism is really detrimental to the health of both patients and also healthcare professionals.

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Corecubed Care Marketing Solutions

APRIL 4, 2024

They turn to a trusted referral partner—a healthcare provider, social worker, or physician—for. From the moment a referral partner recommends a care company to the ongoing collaboration between agencies and partners, trust is the invisible thread that binds them together.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

The interventions that VITAS Healthcare has implemented in response to the industry-wide labor shortage have generated some positive momentum that extends beyond the number of workers on the payroll. VITAS is a subsidiary of Chemed Corp. NYSE: CHE). Where are they going to go? Were they gonna take two months off?’

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Hospice News

AUGUST 28, 2023

Workplace violence has been associated with higher likelihood of instances of burnout, depression, anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) among staff, a 2021 Healthcare study found. Everyone has a different comfort level, and it’s helping your workers understand actions they can take to be and feel safe,” Carrol said.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Abuse and trauma experiences impact those delivering and receiving hospice care in many ways, some evident and some less apparent, according to Carole Fisher, president, National Partnership for Healthcare and Hospice Innovation (NPHI). We have a duty to look out for this in anyone, a social worker, physician, nurse or patient.

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AT Home Care & Hospice

APRIL 25, 2023

Counseling in the Post-Acute Healthcare Setting In acute healthcare settings, such as an inpatient stay at the hospital, the quality care delivered to patients is facilitated by readily available resources such as multidisciplinary healthcare teams all operating out of one facility.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

VITAS Healthcare, a subsidiary of Chemed (NYSE: CHE), is seeing the benefits of ongoing community access initiatives as it continues to battle headwinds that started with the COVID-19 pandemic. The recent increase reflects investments the hospice provider has made in recruitment and retention during the past two years.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

The ability to afford wages for nurses, social workers and home health and hospice aides has been challenged by lagging reimbursement rates, according to Karen Senkus, health officer at Chippewa County Health Department. These include Residential Healthcare Group, among others.

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Hospice News

MARCH 26, 2023

NYSE: CHEM) subisidary VITAS Healthcare expanded its clinical staff by 103 employees during Q4 in 2022, and a total 275 during the last half of the year – with registered nurses representing the bulk. The company expects the program to attract roughly 25 new health care workers each month during 2023 at an estimated cost of $40 million.

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