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The Employment Outlook for Hospice Aides

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Fluctuating supply and demand A teeter-totter effect is taking place in terms of supply and demand when it comes to aides. Employment of home health and personal care aides is projected to grow by 22% between 2022 and 2032, according to a recent U.S. The national average wage rate for hospice aides is $18.23

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Wages Rising for Hospice Workers; Aides See 9.09% Increase

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Wages for hospice aides and CNAs are rising faster than those for other interdisciplinary team members as providers seek to stem rampant turnover among those employees. Medical social workers saw an average 4.07% hourly increase, but in terms of productivity tended to have larger caseloads, with a national average of 29.15

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Nursing Educator Shortage Contributing to Hospice Labor Pressures

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The bill would have authorized $100 million over the course of five years to support programs designed to bolster clinical education in hospice and palliative care, along with related interdisciplinary professions such as chaplaincy, pharmacy and social work.

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Wage Hikes, Labor Shortages Put Hospices Between a Rock and a Hard Place

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The State of New York’s recently approved budget for Fiscal Year 2023 required that home care and hospice aides be paid at least $2 more than the state’s $15 standard minimum wage. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) uses the wage index to account for regional labor costs when it calculates hospice per diems. “To

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‘Doing Good by Doing Well:’ Founder Jessica McGlory Launches Guaranteed with $6.5 Million Seed Round

Hospice News

So when I was researching what hospice was, I was learning through Googling, instead of necessarily learning from the doctors that that’s what he needed. After that, when he went into in-home hospice, I can’t tell you how much the home hospice aides and the nurses were working so hard to try to give my dad the best experience.

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HopeHealth’s Expanding Scope of Pediatric Hospice, Palliative Services

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We have chaplains, hospice aides, social work support and a robust grief support program of counselors that specialize in the loss of a child. It’s also seeing what other pediatric hospice and palliative programs are doing around the country as you try to build and learn from them as far as what barriers they find.

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Key Trends That Will Shape the Hospice Industry in 2023

Hospice News

Hospices may benefit from practices like internal audits to ensure their documents are consistent with their degree of compliance. It almost goes without saying that the ongoing labor pressures will persist for the near term, and associated disruption extends beyond the scarcity of jobseekers in the field.

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