Hospice News

APRIL 30, 2024

Given the significance of family caregivers in hospice care, providers can benefit from having tools to assess whether or not they are experiencing burnout. Without assistance or relief, these difficulties can impede access to hospice and other types of home-based care. There’s a very high number of U.S.

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Hospice News

MARCH 22, 2024

A group of seven nonprofit hospices has launched a palliative care organization branded as Integrity Care Partners. The founding organizations are each members of the Texas Nonprofit Hospice Alliance, a regional collaborative of which Integrity Care Partners is an extension.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Low palliative care utilization is associated with higher risk of mental health challenges among patients with pancreatic cancer, recent research found. Researchers dug into patients’ data to examine palliative care utilization and delivery of mental health services and pharmacotherapies between January 1, 2010, and December 31, 2018. Roughly 22.8%

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Hospice News

AUGUST 20, 2024

New York state’s new Center for Hospice and Palliative Care recently launched with an aim to increase utilization and goal-concordant outcomes among swelling aging populations in the Empire State. Kathy Hochul approved a bill designed to expand awareness of advance care planning, hospice and palliative care.

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Hospice News

APRIL 8, 2024

HopeHealth has been growing its pediatric hospice and supportive care service lines in recent years to address a range of unmet needs among seriously ill children and their families. HopeHealth provides home care, hospice, palliative and dementia care, as well as caregiver and grief support services. I’m a pediatrician.

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Hospice News

JUNE 7, 2024

Providing hospice and palliative care to patients in remote regions can come with significant challenges alongside innovative opportunities to improve quality, according to Cathy Stauffer Wozniak, executive director at Hospice & Palliative Care of Martha Vineyards (HPCMV). Back then it was just Hospice of Martha’s Vineyard Inc.

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Hospice News

MAY 1, 2024

The impending demise of the hospice component of U.S. This included the addition of the hospice component in 2021, which was designed to test coverage of those services through Medicare Advantage. CMMI extended the program through 2030, but recently announced that the hospice portion will end on December 31, 2024.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 23, 2024

Providence Hospice-Community Healthcare of Texas has established a new palliative care clinic at Limestone Medical Center in its home state. Joshua Wesley, medical director for Providence Hospice-Community Healthcare of Texas, in a statement. The clinic officially opened on Aug.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

One of the agencies that uses the clinic model is Hospice of Northwest Ohio, which serves both Ohio and Michigan. Creating the clinic-based model was a challenge, according to Richard Russell, president and CEO of Hospice of Northwest Ohio. The program currently works with 180 physicians in its service area.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

The pandemic reinforced positive perception of palliative care and increased participants’ understanding of its scope and respondents indicated a need for more palliative care and advocated for their role in future pandemic,” Vesel said in a presentation at the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization’s Annual Leadership Conference.

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Hospice News

JUNE 17, 2024

The Indiana-based Center for Hospice Care (CHC) has unveiled a new palliative care program, branded as Kaleidoscope. The Center for Hospice Care funded the service through philanthropic donations. The post Center for Hospice Care Launches ‘Kaleidoscope’ Palliative Care Program appeared first on Hospice News.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Palliative care and hospice providers can collaborate with ACOs by becoming members of those organizations themselves, or by contracting with them through a preferred provider network. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently announced that its Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) yielded more than $2.1

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Palliative care providers face a host of legal and regulatory challenges when seeking to expand patients’ access to certain controlled substances. Providing therapeutic- and medically-guided patient experiences involves a deep understanding of compliance with evolving laws and safe utilization.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 28, 2024

You have an earlier conversion to hospice. The researchers, from San Diego-based Scripps Health, also found that palliative consults increased 10x in the ED, contributing to increased hospice and palliative care clinic referrals. When you do really good palliative care, what happens?” she said during the presentation.

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Hospice News

APRIL 11, 2024

Black Americans are frequently denied access to hospice and palliative care due to structural racism, and many of those communities lack sufficient information to make end-of-life care decisions, new research has found. Access to hospice and palliative care is perceived as lacking. I’ll say the obvious, racism. were Hispanic; 1.8%

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Hospice News

JULY 12, 2024

Unity Hospice and Palliative Care has signed an agreement to become part of Illinois-based Northwestern Medicine’s Post-Acute Network (PAN). The agreement establishes the hospice as a preferred provider for referrals from the health system, which is affiliated with Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. “We million, up from 1.9

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 23, 2024

While some palliative care programs mirror the hospice model, more operators are working to tailor their services to patients’ specific needs, with varying intensity. Palliative care is also part of the hospice component of CMMI’s value-based insurance design (VBID) demonstration, which is set to end on Dec.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 14, 2023

Patients that utilized community-based palliative care services were more likely to enroll in hospice further upstream, she indicated. “We There’s about a 20% efficacy rate for the community-based palliative care program on top of hospice, earlier in the home and enrollment in hospice.”

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Kamal also serves as chief patient officer for the American Cancer Society and president-elect of the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (AAHPM). Reaching breast cancer patients with varying needs can be a challenging feat for palliative care providers. Palliative care’s major referral hurdles, key selling points More than 3.97

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Hospice News

JULY 8, 2024

DCPs represent a wide range of health care providers, including large academic medical centers, small group practices, community-based organizations, health systems, hospice agencies, telehealth organizations and other practices,” the agency indicated in a statement. The CMS Innovation Center announced the GUIDE demonstration in July 2023.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Globally, the need for hospice and palliative care has been growing faster than people can access them. This was the impetus behind the World Hospice Palliative Care Alliance (WHPCA), which emerged from an Oct. 8, 2005 meeting of health care leaders in South Korea. Case in point, as many as 71% of the U.S.

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Hospice News

APRIL 24, 2023

As the hospice landscape shifts and hospice care is delivered more widely, another care type has made entry into the conversation: palliative care. Based upon the request of a hospice customer, Axxess began to develop a palliative care-specific technology platform in 2021. But it’s proving outcomes and it’s making waves.”

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Hospice News

APRIL 19, 2024

Sierra is the palliative care arm of California-based Hospice of the Foothills, designed to care for nonterminal patients who have serious or chronic conditions. Sierra’s parent organization, the nonprofit Hospice of the Foothills, had previously collaborated with Mettle on a conference held last year.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Palliative interventions should be integrated into primary care for patients living with symptomatic multiple chronic conditions (MCC), a recent consensus paper indicated. patient population. Primary care providers are already taking care of patients with heart failure, chronic obstructive lung disease, dementia, obesity and diabetes.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

The post New Coalition Launches to Advance Palliative Cancer Care appeared first on Hospice News. A new organization, Together for Supportive Cancer Care, launched Monday with a mission to expand access to palliative care among cancer patients. The term “supportive care” is often used interchangeably with “palliative care.”

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Expanding palliative care relationships and joint venture partnerships is a priority for 2024, the Louisiana-based home health and hospice provider indicated in a filing with the U.S. (NASDAQ: AMED) has made large investments in expanding access to palliative care, particularly through joint ventures with health systems.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Despite obstacles to expanding pediatric hospice care, Community Hospice & Palliative Care, has seen its program’s census and workforce grow. In addition to hospice and palliative care, the pediatric program also helps families with medication management and durable medical equipment (DME).

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Hospice News

AUGUST 19, 2024

If enacted, the Hospice Care Accountability, Reform and Enforcement (Hospice CARE) Act could open up reimbursement pathways for high-acuity palliative services during a time when demand and costs are rising. But things that we didn’t understand were palliative actually are services many hospices are providing to communities.

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Hospice News

JUNE 12, 2024

Among the challenges is a general lack of awareness of palliative care and its distinctions from hospice among the public, clinicians in other settings and payers. Palliative care and hospice is incredibly rewarding, but we sit with incredible suffering. Palliative care is relatively a new field.

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Hospice News

MARCH 19, 2024

Connecticut legislators recently introduced a bill that aims to create a statewide pediatric hospice and palliative program. Connecticut Children’s provides a range of 30 pediatric services, including hospice, and has more than 40 locations in its home state, New York and Massachusetts. The plan would have to be completed by Jan.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 8, 2024

The hospice component of the value-based insurance design model (VBID) will sunset at the end of this year, but opportunities for payment through Medicare Advantage and other models remain. The hospice component is part of the larger VBID program, which will continue through 2030. Some do get home health. I don’t know.

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Hospice News

MAY 18, 2023

But defining the range of communities that specifically lack access to hospice and palliative care can be a moving target. Hospices should apply a wide and varied lens when examining the populations in greatest need of end-of-life care, Garrett indicated. Hospice News photo.) But it’s important to lean towards other communities.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

The hospice, palliative care and personal care provider Gentiva has acquired the hospice, home health and palliative assets of the nonprofit health system ProMedica. Though Gentiva did not disclose the financial terms of the transaction, Bloomberg reported that ProMedica’s Heartland Hospice is valued at $710 million.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Hospice of the Chesapeake has unfurled a new dementia care program aimed at providing improved emotional, educational and practical support for patients and their caregivers as their conditions progress. The new program provides patients and their caregivers with direct support from Hospice of the Chesapeake’s interdisciplinary care team.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Some federal legislators are working to address workforce issues in the hospice space, as well as bolstering support for family caregivers. In a fractious political environment, hospice and palliative care policy is one area in which members of both parties find common ground. Earl Blumenhauer (D-Ore.)

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Hospices’ public outreach efforts have evolved in recent years, with providers finding new strategies to dispel myths that have long impeded access to care. Nearly half, or 49.1%, of all Medicare decedents utilized hospice services in 2022, reported the National Alliance for Care at Home.

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Hospice News

JUNE 3, 2024

Florida-based Community Hospice & Palliative Care recently opened a new location in its home state that will serve as an office for interdisciplinary staff and a community center. Community Hospice & Palliative Care Community Hospice & Palliative Care Community Hospice & Palliative Care: COO Kenny Stevenson; Board Member Sen.

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