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How 3 Hospice Companies Are Beating the Workforce Shortage

Hospice News

“About a year ago, we did a kind of a deep dive into some of our challenges, and we realized that we needed to do a new staffing model, one that would attract dedicated, experienced hospice nurses,” Kalvaitis said at the Hospice News ELEVATE conference in Chicago. “So We were able to hire nurses.

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4 Key Trends for Hospices to Watch in 2024

Hospice News

Referral rejection rates among hospices reached a record high of 41% in 2022, according to data from CarePort, a WellSky company. Nurses also accounted for 16.97% of vacancies. Hospice aides and CNAs also represented a large percentage of job vacancies and saw high turnover rates, 19.05% and 29.84%, respectively.

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SCAN Group Invests in Guaranteed’s ‘Inclusive’ Hospice Technology Services

Hospice News

The move comes nearly a year after California-based Guaranteed launched in August 2022, when founder and CEO Jessica McGlory began her own provider company two years after her father passed away. SCAN Group, parent company of SCAN Health Plan, is the latest investor in the hospice company.

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Enhabit Mum on Potential Sale

Hospice News

(NYSE: EHAB) is continuing to mull over a potential sale, with executives providing few details as the company determines its next steps. The Dallas-based home health and hospice company has been digging into a strategic review process since August that could result in a possible sale or merger of some or all of its assets. “As

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Episode 24: How Do I Get Off this Emotional Roller-coaster?

Living With Hospice

Transcript: Hello, come on in and welcome to another episode of Living With Hospice. I'm not a nurse. In my experience, hospice visitors, whether it's the nurse, the therapists, the aides, even the musician, like me, will say to the family, How are y'all doing? His wife wrote a heartfelt note to our hospice company.

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