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VITAS, Gentiva, Home Health & Hospice Care Expand Inpatient Services; Banner Health Shutters Hospice Programs in Phoenix

Hospice News

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. Miami-based VITAS has provided community- and facility-based hospice care in the Broward County area since 1980.

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

Hospice News

Hospices, in aggregate, are showing improvement on the quality measure for visits in the last days of life. 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. In 2019, for example, the percentage was 66%.

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Nick Farinella Shares Valuable Insight into Helping Patients Come to Terms with Needing Hospice Care

Hospice Promise

How do people come to terms with deciding it’s time for hospice care? Nick Farinella, Social Worker at Hospice Promise, offers valuable insight into helping patients enter a new stage of life.

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Hospice Care for Veterans

Traditions Health

If you are caring for a veteran who is terminally ill or nearing the end of life, hospice care can be a smart choice. Corresponding with remedial care, hospice care focuses on facilitating a patient’s quality of life rather than extending its length. rather than merely managing their physical symptoms.

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Senators Baldwin and Capito Reintroduce PCHETA

Hospice News

If enacted, PCHETA would support hospice and palliative care training programs for physicians, nurses, pharmacists, social workers and chaplains. The bill would also expand continuing education and career development programs and incentives in these fields.

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Bill Would Create New State-Level Pediatric Hospice, Palliative Care Program

Hospice News

Other stakeholders will include hospice and palliative care providers, as well as hospital-based practitioners, along with various other subject matter experts in the field, Wodatch stated. It’s a much different skill set than caring for a terminally-ill adult with adult children.”

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How California Began Expanding Palliative Care Via Medicaid

Hospice News

Over the course of the six-month pilot, providers received a 95% patient satisfaction rate, while saving $3 in hospital bills for every $1 spent toward palliative care. Cotter has been a board certified physician in family medicine since 1981 and worked as a hospice medical director from 1988 to 1989.