Hospice News

JUNE 21, 2023

Years after it was first introduced, hospice leaders are calling on Congress to move forward legislation that would bolster their dwindling workforce. The most significant bill in recent years is the Palliative Care and Hospice Education Training Act (PCHETA), which has come before Congress time and again but has not yet been passed.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 30, 2023

He previously served in the c-suites and boards of a number home health and hospice companies. Compassus is a portfolio company of the private equity firm Towerbrook Capital Partners and the health system Ascension Health. The post Compassus Taps John Cullen as New CFO appeared first on Hospice News.

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Hospice News

APRIL 16, 2024

During the past two years, the insurance giant has completed a slew of acquisitions spanning much of the health care continuum — including hospice, palliative care and home health — as well as health care technology, largely through its subsidiary Optum. This followed its $5.4 billion acquisition of LHC Group, which closed last February.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 26, 2024

Rebranding a hospice company following a merger or acquisition is a more complex process than it may seem at first blush. And although not all acquired companies rebrand, many do in order to create a unified identity or reflect a broader suite of services. Kudner has experienced this process firsthand.

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Hospice News

MARCH 8, 2024

Alivia Care emerged in 2020 when Community Hospice & Palliative Care, now an affiliate, formed a larger company with a wider range of services. Headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida, the nonprofit hospice and palliative care provider has since expanded its geographic reach across the Southeast region to include Georgia.

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Hospice News

APRIL 5, 2023

This has been the case for Nevada-based 1Care Hospice & 1Care Kids, particularly as they contended with the pandemic and widespread workforce shortages, according to COO Eddie Belluomini. A group of hospice and palliative care leaders with nursing experience established 1Care in October 2020. 1Care was their first venture.

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Hospice News

APRIL 1, 2024

Justice Department has sentenced two individuals linked to California hospices on alleged False Claims Act violations, among other charges. Gayk Akhsharumov, manager and owner of San Gabriel Hospice & Palliative Care and Broadway Hospice, received a sentence of one year and one day in prison and was ordered to pay close to $9.2

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

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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Hospice News

APRIL 6, 2023

Two hospice fraud cases are moving forward in California and Arizona, states that some stakeholders consider to be potential hotbeds of malfeasance in the space. False Claims Act violations in California San Gabriel Hospice & Palliative Care submitted roughly $3.67 Karen Sarkisyan, a.k.a.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

While some hospice companies reported hiring and capacity gains in 2023, often driven by bonus programs, the problem persists for many providers. The close of the years also saw some earnings stabilization among publicly traded companies. Only LPNs and LVNs had higher rates, reaching 31.52% turnover and 25.12% for vacancies.

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Hospice News

MAY 12, 2023

Established in 1979, the nonprofit organization provides hospice and palliative care in three counties near the San Francisco area of northern California. The hospice company is accused of violating the California Labor Code that stipulates employers must provide sick leave to workers.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Justice Department has indicted three individuals who are linked to California hospices on alleged False Claims Act violations, among other charges. Karen Sarkisyan, Gayk Akhsharumov, and Babken Chalkadryan, of San Gabriel Hospice & Palliative Care and Broadway Hospice were each charged in the U.S

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 28, 2022

While establishing a company is never easy, doing so during a pandemic came with a series of unique challenges. The company has built a palliative care service and has plans in the works to further expand its continuum of care. “It For a year I held the hands of people who were alone,” Montiel told Hospice News. It was crazy.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 22, 2022

The company’s complex care management program mirrors the interdisciplinary palliative care model, including symptom management, addressing psychosocial needs, advance care planning, and social determinants of health. None of the companies are commenting to the media about a potential sale or bids.

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Hospice News

JULY 3, 2023

A number of companies advertise their licenses on websites designed to connect buyers and sellers across a range of industries, including hospices. On two of these sites combined, close to 200 hospice companies had posted about licenses for sale, with most asking for prices in the vicinity of $300,000 to $350,000.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Some hospice company leaders have signaled the labor market may be showing signs of stabilization. This is of particular significance for hospices that also provide palliative care, home health, or other upstream services.

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Hospice News

JULY 19, 2022

Hospice News spoke with three hospice leaders about the disruption they expect to see in the industry as payers expand their roles as providers, including the CEO of a California nonprofit, the top executive from the largest U.S. hospice company by market share and the leader of a growing for-profit provider based in the Midwest.

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Hospice News

JUNE 16, 2022

In part, the trend of more hospitals and health systems in hospice is a response to growing demand and strain on acute care services. More health systems are looking to expand into community-based hospice and palliative care to complement existing offerings while creating new care delivery channels.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

“If you think about how they’ve taken on strains in their capacity, these post-acute services – home health and hospice – they can get patients out of very expensive settings,” Klementz told Hospice News at the Home Care 100 Conference. They rolled out the program across roughly 75% of its mid-Atlantic facilities.

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Hospice News

MARCH 17, 2023

Established in 1978, Agrace provides hospice and palliative care in southern Wisconsin. The company has established a Net Zero Climate Transition Plan with an aim to achieve net zero greenhouse gas emissions from operations by 2050. The nonprofit’s other services include personal care, adult day services and grief support.

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Hospice News

MARCH 20, 2023

.” – Richard Ashworth, incoming CEO, Amedisys (NASDAQ: AMED) Co-location of services A number of providers that already offer services beyond hospice care — such as home health, palliative care, PACE or personal care, among others — seek to bring their business lines together in the same markets.

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Hospice News

JUNE 22, 2023

billion acquisition of the home health and hospice company LHC Group. I don’t know that there’s enough access to hospice and palliative care services,” Rep. told Hospice News. So, on one hand, patients do benefit from hospice care, and those services do reduce health care costs. This followed Humana Inc.’s

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Hospice News

JULY 21, 2023

Another large-scale hospice transaction came in February with Gentiva’s purchase of ProMedica’s hospice and home-based care services for $710 million. The acquisition included the nonprofit health system’s Heartland Hospice and other assets, swelling Gentiva’s presence in the hospice, palliative care and personal care spaces.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Having a window into priorities such as career development and work-life balance is a significant retention factor for the Dallas-based home health and hospice company, Marion indicated. Craig Dresang, CEO, YoloCares Signs of hospice workforce improvement have begun to emerge. NYSE: EHAB).

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Anvoi Management is a health care consulting firm and managing company of Lousianna-based providers such as Bridge Hospice, LLC, and New Mexico-based TLC Hospice (doing business as Anvoi Palliative & Hospice Care), among others. What drew you to the hospice industry?

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Traditions Health

JANUARY 17, 2024

While taking classes towards a master’s degree in nursing, Bash ended up in a sales role with a local home health and hospice company. About Traditions Health Traditions Health provides home health , hospice , and palliative care services.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Signatories on the joint letter included LeadingAge, the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC), the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO), and the National Partnership for Healthcare and Hospice Innovation (NPHI). This trend is manifesting through several permutations.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 10, 2022

The company reached No. HealthFlex provides home health, hospice, palliative care, social work, and personal care. The company — currently serving more than 10,000 patients across its business lines — has more than quadrupled in size since its founding in 2012. Oakland, California-based Healthflex has made Inc.’s

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Hospices simply did not have enough staff to meet demand, which drove some of them out of business. Executives from almost every publicly traded hospice company raised this issue in earnings calls and presentations throughout the year. The post 5 Numbers that Shaped Hospice in 2022 appeared first on Hospice News.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 10, 2023

My hope is that as we move forward with our hospice future, we can make true, billable programs that are sustainable and economical for all sized companies with palliative care, home health and hospice eligibility guidelines that allow for diagnosis to be eligible for longer than six months.

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Hearts for Hospice & Home Health

JULY 1, 2021

For the third year in a row, Valeo is recognized as the top home health and hospice company in the greater Salt Lake area. Valeo Home Health and Hospice, LLC, was named Best of SLC Home Health and Hospice companies in the third annual Best of SLC awards.

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Hospice News

JULY 12, 2022

More hospice and palliative care providers are pursuing joint ventures with hospitals and health systems. There’s a lot of patients that fall through the cracks because there’s not that longitudinal model of care that’s really in place,” Stein said at the Hospice News Palliative Care Conference. Hospice joint ventures proliferating.

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Hospice News

APRIL 19, 2023

Hospice of the Midwest’s services within the Marshalltown community include assistance with medical equipment and medication order and delivery, developing patient care plans, providing home assessment consultations and a veteran honors program. The hospice provider also offers pet and music therapy, as well as bereavement support services.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 19, 2022

AccentCare started off this year by unifying all of its business lines under the company’s main brand. The move included six subsidiaries as well as Seasons Hospice & Palliative Care, which AccentCare merged with in Dec. 9 The Fastest Growing US Hospice Companies (Oct.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

During the past two years, the insurance giant has completed a slew of acquisitions spanning much of the health care continuum — including hospice, palliative care and home health — as well as health care technology, largely through its subsidiary Optum. The company in Q4 of last year saw a 33.9% This followed its $5.4

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Hospice News

JANUARY 19, 2023

The organizations penned a joint letter to CMS in November urging for increased oversight to help curb hospice frauds, including the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC), National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO), National Partnership for Healthcare and Hospice Innovation (NPHI) and LeadingAge.

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NHPCO

JANUARY 19, 2023

For Immediate Release January 19, 2023 Concerned by Growth of Unscrupulous Operators, Organizations Outline Areas of Focus, Key Steps (Alexandria, VA and Washington, D.C.) – The four national hospice provider organizations: LeadingAge , the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC) , the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (..)

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