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Voices: Michael Porpora, President – Hospice Division, OnePoint Patient Care

Hospice News

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

This article is sponsored by OnePoint Patient Care. In this Voices interview, Hospice News sits down with Michael Porpora, President – Hospice Division, OnePoint Patient Care, to talk about the current state of hospice pharmacy, technology and staffing.

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Awareness, Education Keys to Trauma-Informed Hospice Care

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). Victims of financial abuse lose up to $36.5 billion annually nationwide, the report found.

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Reducing the Administrative Burden: A Win-Win for Hospice Care

Hospice News

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

You’re not able to directly engage with the patient as much. If we can use technology and tools to drive greater efficiency and to allow the clinician to focus more directly on patient care and the things that they do well, they’ll have better job satisfaction at the end of the day.”

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Hospice Care versus Home Health Care

Shining Light Hospice

APRIL 8, 2022

In the next section, we will discuss the differences between Hospice and Home Health care. What Is Hospice Care? Hospice is the care provided for a terminally ill patient who has a life expectancy of six months or less. This ensures proper access to medical, emotional, and spiritual care.

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Opening the Envelope: Understanding the Hospice Care Index Inaugural Report

Home Care Pulse

JULY 26, 2022

– July 2021: What is the Hospice Care Index? – What did this level of oversight tell hospice agencies? Article Contents: July 2021: What is the Hospice Care Index? What did this level of oversight tell hospice agencies? July 2021: What is the Hospice Care Index? Questions abounded.

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Is Home Hospice Care A Good Idea?

Seasons Hospice

JUNE 28, 2022

There are plenty of ways to get care and support while making sure that everyone involved is taken care of. One of the biggest support systems is hospice care. Hospice care is a type of medical care that focuses on providing comfort and support to people who are terminally ill.

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Voices: Rebecca Christensen, PharmD, Director of Clinical Services

Hospice News

AUGUST 8, 2023

In this Voices Interview, Hospice News sits down with Rebecca Christensen, Director of Clinical Services at BetterRX, to talk about the keys to achieving the most efficient patient care. Hospice News: What career experiences do you most draw from in your role today? Why are you passionate about hospice?

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Growing Neuropalliative Care: Overcoming Barriers to Scale

Hospice News

APRIL 23, 2024

Medicare covers most expenses related to palliative care, but as with other health care services, reimbursement remains low. Additionally, more specialists are getting involved in hospice care, Daly added, but there’s a need for that in palliative care, too.

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St. Croix Hospices Opens Wisconsin De Novo

Hospice News

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

“We have been serving the state of Wisconsin for many years, continuing our long tradition of exceptional patient care,” St. Croix Hospice CEO Heath Bartness said in a press release. “That reputation of excellence leads more patients, families and facilities to seek our services.”

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Volunteers Are The Heart of Hospice Care

Hospice of the North Coast

APRIL 1, 2023

Hospice of the North Coast is blessed to have a thriving volunteer department assisting our patients and families in many ways. Our patient care and pet therapists see our patients wherever they call home. Also, bringing a presence of comfort, respite for caregiving family members, and friendship.

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St. Croix Expands Further in Kansas

Hospice News

APRIL 26, 2023

“Our new Manhattan branch will headquarter more local staff within the communities they are already serving, allowing us to increase access and convenience to hospice care where there is great need.” Between October 2021 and September 2022 nearly 50% of eligible patients who reside in the service area for St.

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Hackensack Meridian Health Pilots Predictive Analytics Training Model

Hospice News

JANUARY 3, 2024

“It’s a gentle nudge to help us take the best care of our patients.” The predictive analytics tool calculates the likelihood that a patient will die within six months and become eligible to receive hospice care. The nonprofit health system employs more than 35,000 team members, including roughly 7,000 physicians.

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Frontpoint Health Acquires High Plains Senior Care Group

Hospice News

MARCH 1, 2024

The transaction will further support Frontpoint’s larger effort to reach patients in rural Texas markets, aided by its newly acquired resources. “We We see a huge opportunity for hospice care, in particular in the more rural sections of Texas where we think there’s quite a bit of opportunity for best-in-class care,” Korte said.

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Hospices Stepping Up Performance on Visits-in-Last-Days-of-Life Measure

Hospice News

MARCH 14, 2024

The number of registered nurse and social worker visits during a patient’s final week is one of the seven quality measures that CMS uses to evaluate providers. The greatest barrier to further improvement is the ever-present workforce shortage affecting the health care industry at large and hospices in particular.

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Tidewell Hospice Develops Simulation Lab for Clinical Training

Hospice News

MAY 16, 2023

. “The simulation lab allows the new caregivers to practice the specialty care of hospice and really learn what hospice care is in a realistic environment prior to going into the patient’s homes,” Smith told Hospice News. “It’s

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2 Ways New CMS Rules Could Impact Hospice Providers

Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

During the past two years, CMS has introduced a host of other new regulations, as well as updated survey processes, increased auditing activities and enhanced reviews of providers’ claims, patient eligibility and quality measures. Additional documentation processes can be a stressor on clinical staff retention in particular, she stated.

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Why Choose Traditions Health?

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. A personalized approach, an unwavering commitment to comfort and dignity, and a deep understanding of each patient’s unique needs are at the heart of the hospice services we provide.

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Who’s Watching Me? Addressing the Second-Guessing of Hospice Patient Care

Healthcare Law Insights podcast

JANUARY 19, 2022

Providing hospice care to vulnerable individuals can embroil hospices in a variety of unwanted situations. The emotions surrounding the death of a loved one can cause families and caregivers to question the kind of care provided.

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How 3 Hospice Companies Are Beating the Workforce Shortage

Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

She came to the space with the goal of returning hospice care back to its roots, while integrating a more modern approach to meet the changing needs and expectations of patients and families, she told Hospice News. Entrepreneur Jessica McGlory founded Guaranteed two years after her own father passed away.

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SCAN CEO Sachin Jain: Health Care ‘Middlemen’ Contribute to System’s Fragmentation

Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Middlemen in any industry should be adding value, and that value should be measured in health care through the lens of whether it actually improves patient care, full stop.” Jain recently wrote about the influence of health care middleware companies in a column in Forbes. Look at this hospice palliative continuum.

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How the 4 Largest Hospice Industry Groups Work Together to Support Program Integrity

Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

A large contingent of these companies were established with the purpose of selling the license at a profit, with little concern for patient care. In some instances, multiple hospices have been operating out of the same address without a corresponding increase in the population of eligible patients.

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VITAS Healthcare Strengthens Executive Team with Key Promotions in Hospice Operations, HME Department

Hospice News

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Kathleen Coronado, a registered nurse, has been promoted to associate VP of hospice operations after 18 years at VITAS. Starting out as a bedside nurse in 2006, Coronado has held multiple roles within VITAS, including team manager, inpatient unit manager and patient care administrator.

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The Bird’s-eye View of a Hospice Volunteer Coordinator

Traditions Health

APRIL 22, 2024

That’s important because volunteers enter patients’ homes. A vital role in hospice care She’s worked as a volunteer coordinator for more than six years, but before that, was a hospice nurse for 23 years. During that time, she’s come to understand what patients need, and how volunteers can add value.

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Emerging Services Help Hospice Patients Reduce Anxiety About Pets’ Future

Hospice News

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Worries about their pets can contribute to great stress and anxiety for dying patients, impacting quality of life, according to Tania Crawford, volunteer coordinator at Hospice of Redmond. The organization also deploys volunteers to help families care for animals in the home. “In

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St. Croix Hospice Moves Into Indiana with Adaptive Deal

Hospice News

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Croix Hospice’s growth is showing no signs of slowing down. Last month the company acquired Michigan-based Corpore Sano Hospice, after purchasing Illinois-based Lexington Hospice Care earlier this summer. We found a culture in the team at Adaptive that was aligned with ours,” Phenneger told Hospice News.

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NHPCO: Proposed 2.8% Hospice Payment Hike Insufficient

Hospice News

APRIL 18, 2023

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is insufficient to support hospice patients’ care needs, a major industry group said. CMS earlier this month released its 2024 hospice proposed rule , which included the 2.8% base payment rate increase recently proposed by the U.S.

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Future Leader: Drake Jarman, SVP of Growth, Hospice, Amedisys

Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

The program is designed to recognize up-and-coming industry members who are shaping the next decade of home health, hospice care, senior housing, skilled nursing, and behavioral health. Drake Jarman, senior vice president of growth of hospice at Amedisys Inc. Advocating for a comprehensive approach to hospice care.

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Partners In Care Sets Sights on Service Diversificaton, Hospice-Pharmacy Partnership

Hospice News

MARCH 22, 2024

It has historically been nonprofits that have dominated the market, and now there are more and more for profits entering hospice care. Partners In Care has done that well with home health care. Our home health care census is actually larger than our hospice census at this time.

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Blue Monarch CEO: Hospice Startup Seeks to Raise Bar on Quality

Hospice News

APRIL 26, 2022

Right now, we’re a community-based provider, and we also work with a hospital system to provide general inpatient hospice care. . It’s just a matter of time before the need for hospice rises. The health care system is strained. We’re starting small to be able to manage patients coming to us. We can close that gap.

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Agape Care Names New Palliative Medical Director; Silverado Taps New Sales VP

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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Sangre de Cristo Taps New CEO, YoloCares Names Palliative Care Director

Hospice News

JANUARY 27, 2023

YoloCares is among the nonprofit hospices that make up the California Hospice Network, joining the coalition last year. The network is designed to support providers’ ability to grow and sustain community-based hospice care and leverage their collective scale and resources in value-based payment programs.

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St. Croix CMO Mayo: Clinical, Medical Onboarding Critical to Hospice Growth

Hospice News

MARCH 13, 2023

“They had taken the multi-disciplinary approach to care and brought that all under one roof to address what it is to be human in the dying process. That’s what really drew me into hospice care.” Mayo recently made Becker Healthcare’s list of Top 110 CMOs to Know , the only hospice executive to be included this year.

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Future Leaders Class of 2022: Lauren O’Dwyer, CFO, Anvoi Hospice and Anvoi Management

Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

The program is designed to recognize up-and-coming industry members who are shaping the next decade of senior housing, skilled nursing, home health, and hospice care. We’ve had to adjust to employees working from home and what that meant for hospice. These have really increased due to the constant change in the hospice market.

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The Barriers Creating Pediatric Palliative Care Inequities

Hospice News

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

The needle is slowly moving closer to improvement around pediatric palliative payment incentives that could make this care more affordable and accessible. Some states have begun instilling regulations in place requiring private insurance companies to cover palliative and hospice care for eligible children.

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Hospice of the Panhandle Taps New CEO; New Strategy Director Appointed at Unity Hospice

Hospice News

MAY 19, 2023

We are excited Jonathan Blank accepted this position and are thrilled how he has demonstrated commitment to mission-focused leadership and building a strong care team.” Center for Hospice Care Taps Two New Directors Indiana-based Center for Hospice Care (CHC) recently tapped two new directors to head its patient services.

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What New Allegations that HCA Healthcare Pressured Patients Mean for Hospices

Hospice News

JUNE 22, 2023

Moreover, families frequently give feedback that they wished their loved ones had entered hospice earlier in order to reap the full benefits, often via Consumer Assessment of Health Care Provider and Systems (CAHPS) surveys, according to the National Hospice & Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO).

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Eden Health Picks Up Community Home Health & Hospice’s Inpatient Services

Hospice News

JANUARY 20, 2023

In 2021 the company added hospice and palliative care services in its eastern Idaho market when it gained Medicare certification and accreditation from the Accreditation Commission for Health Care (ACHC). Established in 1977, CHHH has an average daily census of 600 patients.

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Biden Administration Extends COVID-19 Public Health Emergency

Hospice News

JULY 17, 2022

In addition to telehealth, the PHE allowed for the temporary removal of the requirement that a registered nurse or other skilled professional make an annual, onsite supervisory visit for each aide, as well as an annual assessment of the skills and competence of all individuals furnishing hospice care, and in-service training and education programs.

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Quality Data, Cost of Care Crucial to VBID Payer Negotiations

Hospice News

JULY 20, 2023

Agencies that “do the best job” in the value-based landscape are those that include clinical capacity around patient care and related operational expenses in their cost delivery structures, Calcutt indicated. Two types of data are particularly crucial, the total cost of care and patient outcomes, he added.

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Voices: Tim Smokoff, General Manager, Home Health and Hospice, MatrixCare

Hospice News

APRIL 1, 2024

On a personal note, I’ve witnessed my own family members—parents, grandparents, and in-laws—navigate home health care, manage chronic illnesses and eventually transition through hospice care. How can hospice providers better prepare to navigate labor shortages in 2024 and beyond?

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Going Forward, Hospice CEOs Must Be Well-Versed in Data Analysis

Hospice News

APRIL 12, 2023

The nitty gritty details of data management matter when it comes to ensuring both a healthy bottom line and quality patient care. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), the Hospice Care Index (HCI), the Hospice Item Set, and Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS) surveys.

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NHPCO Comments on MedPAC’s Hospice Deliberations

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JANUARY 12, 2024

“MedPAC’s shift away from its previous recommendations to cut the aggregate payment cap is a win for hospices, patients, and families,” said NHPCO Interim CEO, Ben Marcantonio. In order to serve the American public, Congress should ensure hospice providers are reimbursed to provide the end-of-life care people want and deserve.

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Hospices, MA Plan Leverage Data to Align Contract Incentives

Hospice News

JUNE 27, 2023

The nitty gritty details of data tracking and management matter when it comes to ensuring both a healthy bottom line and quality patient care. For hospices, this includes performance on quality measures required by the U.S.

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2023 NHPCO Facts and Figures Report Now Available

NHPCO

DECEMBER 13, 2023

NHPCO Facts and Figures is the leading resource for hospice providers and others interested in understanding the work of the community. 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.

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Voices: Michael Porpora, President – Hospice Division, OnePoint Patient Care

Awareness, Education Keys to Trauma-Informed Hospice Care

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Reducing the Administrative Burden: A Win-Win for Hospice Care

Hospice Care versus Home Health Care

Opening the Envelope: Understanding the Hospice Care Index Inaugural Report

Is Home Hospice Care A Good Idea?

Voices: Rebecca Christensen, PharmD, Director of Clinical Services

Growing Neuropalliative Care: Overcoming Barriers to Scale

St. Croix Hospices Opens Wisconsin De Novo

Volunteers Are The Heart of Hospice Care

St. Croix Expands Further in Kansas

Hackensack Meridian Health Pilots Predictive Analytics Training Model

Frontpoint Health Acquires High Plains Senior Care Group

Hospices Stepping Up Performance on Visits-in-Last-Days-of-Life Measure

Tidewell Hospice Develops Simulation Lab for Clinical Training

2 Ways New CMS Rules Could Impact Hospice Providers

Why Choose Traditions Health?

Who’s Watching Me? Addressing the Second-Guessing of Hospice Patient Care

How 3 Hospice Companies Are Beating the Workforce Shortage

SCAN CEO Sachin Jain: Health Care ‘Middlemen’ Contribute to System’s Fragmentation

How the 4 Largest Hospice Industry Groups Work Together to Support Program Integrity

VITAS Healthcare Strengthens Executive Team with Key Promotions in Hospice Operations, HME Department

The Bird’s-eye View of a Hospice Volunteer Coordinator

Emerging Services Help Hospice Patients Reduce Anxiety About Pets’ Future

St. Croix Hospice Moves Into Indiana with Adaptive Deal

NHPCO: Proposed 2.8% Hospice Payment Hike Insufficient

Future Leader: Drake Jarman, SVP of Growth, Hospice, Amedisys

Partners In Care Sets Sights on Service Diversificaton, Hospice-Pharmacy Partnership

Blue Monarch CEO: Hospice Startup Seeks to Raise Bar on Quality

Agape Care Names New Palliative Medical Director; Silverado Taps New Sales VP

Sangre de Cristo Taps New CEO, YoloCares Names Palliative Care Director

St. Croix CMO Mayo: Clinical, Medical Onboarding Critical to Hospice Growth

Future Leaders Class of 2022: Lauren O’Dwyer, CFO, Anvoi Hospice and Anvoi Management

The Barriers Creating Pediatric Palliative Care Inequities

Hospice of the Panhandle Taps New CEO; New Strategy Director Appointed at Unity Hospice

What New Allegations that HCA Healthcare Pressured Patients Mean for Hospices

Eden Health Picks Up Community Home Health & Hospice’s Inpatient Services

Biden Administration Extends COVID-19 Public Health Emergency

Quality Data, Cost of Care Crucial to VBID Payer Negotiations

Voices: Tim Smokoff, General Manager, Home Health and Hospice, MatrixCare

Going Forward, Hospice CEOs Must Be Well-Versed in Data Analysis

NHPCO Comments on MedPAC’s Hospice Deliberations

Hospices, MA Plan Leverage Data to Align Contract Incentives

2023 NHPCO Facts and Figures Report Now Available

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