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

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Parents and guardians frequently experience feelings of stress, anxiety and becoming overwhelmed, issues that pediatric palliative care providers can do better in alleviating, according to Eddie Belluomini, COO of 1Care Hospice & 1Care Kids based in Nevada. Expanding that education and awareness is a pivotal starting point, he added.

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Hospice News

MARCH 15, 2024

Documentation errors and a fragmented health system pose the greatest risks for adverse drug events among hospices. McPherson also serves on the board of the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (AAHPM). They also need to know which side effects are more concerning and should prompt a call to the hospice.”

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Illinois-headquartered Unity Hospice & Palliative Care has expanded to Houston, Texas, following its acquisition of an existing license in that market. This expansion coincides with Unity’s 30 th anniversary as a premier hospice and palliative care organization,” Unity owner Michael Klein told Hospice News in an email. “As

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NHPCO

DECEMBER 19, 2023

The HAN Angel Awards were created to recognize select members of Congress on both sides of the aisle for their ongoing efforts to amplify the voices of patients, families, providers, and those advocating for the vital mission of hospice and palliative care in supporting patients and their families facing serious or life-limiting illness.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 26, 2023

End-of-life doulas (EOLDs) and community health workers can add an additional layer of support that can help hospices improve connections and outcomes among patients and families. The human-based doula support is best positioned as part of value-based, at-risk entities or hospice per diems.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Hospice services right now really can’t be provided concurrent with SNF care, which means if a person is approaching the end of their life, if they’re really doing poorly, many times the easiest route is back to the hospital,” the study’s lead author, Dr. Lynn Flint, told Palliative Care News.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 8, 2023

The legislation authorizes licensed, Medicaid-approved home health and hospice agencies to provide palliative care in patients’ homes. Too often when an older person is facing an illness, they get swept up in the health care system without being presented the option of noninvasive care.

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Hospice News

MAY 24, 2023

Five states — Minnesota, North Carolina, North Dakota, Washington and Virginia — define palliative care eligibility within their Medicaid hospice programs. The channels for palliative care payment may be widening as more state legislators recognize growing demand for these services and start to weave them into Medicaid reimbursement.

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Hospice News

APRIL 10, 2024

The Medicare Hospice Benefit could use an “upgrade” to ensure greater flexibility that may be necessary to fully support patients’ needs. million hospice recipients were diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease, 6.8% This is according to a recent editorial in Health Affairs by Cara L. Wallace, the Dorothy A. In Fiscal Year 2022, 7.5%

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

The foundation is an independent, nonprofit hospice and palliative care research and advocacy organization. It will serve as a hospice and palliative care “education and training hub” for patients, families, providers, and other stakeholders, according to the HAP Foundation. The HAP Foundation has officially begun operations.

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Hospice News

MARCH 25, 2024

Arizona-based Stoneridge Hospice launched services in 2020 with an aim to address a swelling aging population’s growing need for end-of-life care. Stoneridge Hospice provides home-based hospice and also contracts with other providers to offer facility-based services. Stoneridge Hospice launched in 2020.

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Hospice News

MAY 3, 2024

Traumatized and abused hospice patients and providers often experience an array of lingering physical, emotional and psychological effects that can fall into a silent abyss of unmet needs. Hospices must also take into account that the prevalence of violence, abuse and trauma may be similar among their workforce, Fisher added.

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Hospice News

MAY 12, 2023

Patients with ovarian cancer who have received palliative care had fewer hospital readmissions compared to others, according to a recent study presented at the 2023 Annual Meeting on Women’s Cancer from the Society of Gynecologic Oncology (SGO) in Tampa, Florida. The results help to demonstrate palliative care’s value proposition.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 24, 2023

ED-palliative partnerships present a quadruple aim opportunity to improve care for seriously ill patients.” In addition, 17% received hospice referrals, and 21% were referred to a palliative care outpatient clinic. The post The Value of Palliative Care Consults in the Hospital Emergency Department appeared first on Hospice News.

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Hospice News

MARCH 8, 2024

Variations in hospice certificate of need (CON) state laws are raising program integrity concerns. What ends up happening in states without CON is actually lower hospice utilization with way too many hospices in one service area, and often fragmented care without all four levels of hospice offered,” Ponder-Stansel told Hospice News.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

The Indiana-based palliative care provider Center for Hospice Care (CHC) is looking beyond its immediate community and has developed networks that impact palliative care on a global scale. hospice leaders. hospice leaders. hospice leaders went on this trip, saw the need and felt like more could be done to help the situation.”

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Hospice News

JANUARY 26, 2024

The study points to the ongoing challenge of limited access to palliative and hospice care as demand rises among swelling aging populations. Hospice significantly reduced end-of-life HU. The median time from a palliative consultation to hospice initiation was 12.5 were referred afterward, the study found.

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Hospice News

MARCH 14, 2024

Hospices, in aggregate, are showing improvement on the quality measure for visits in the last days of life. In Calendar Year 2021, the share of hospice care days with nurse visits in the last seven days of life rose to 63%, up from 62% year over year, according to the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO).

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Hospice News

MAY 26, 2023

Three important considerations can help hospices recruit and retain social workers — a respectful workplace culture, reasonable workloads and continuing education opportunities. The respect that they get from their colleagues on a team helps them tremendously to feel valued in their work and heard,” Leff told Hospice News.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 15, 2022

In this Voices interview, Hospice News sits down with Deanna Heath, VP of Hospice, KanTime, to talk about the potential impact of the Value-based Insurance Design (VBID) model on today’s hospice landscape. Hospice News: What career experiences do you most draw from, in your role today?

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Hospice News

AUGUST 7, 2023

As it is not end-of-life care, patients can continue to receive life-prolonging or curative treatments, which they cannot receive if choosing hospice for most conditions. As it is not end-of-life care, patients can continue to receive life-prolonging or curative treatments, which they cannot receive if choosing hospice for most conditions.

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Hospice News

MARCH 12, 2024

Program integrity and an onslaught of audits are top of mind for many hospice providers in 2024. The organizations earlier this year presented their findings , published today, to members of Congress and the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). The impetus for the audit was primarily related to billing errors.

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Hospice News

APRIL 4, 2024

Rural-based hospice providers face a range of challenges to improve access among their underserved patient populations. We hear from countless community providers and state association leaders that rural hospices are in financial trouble,” Hoover wrote in a recent letter to the U.S.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 10, 2023

A powerful theme to emerge from these conversations has been Black community members in particular underscoring the importance of having an advocate present in family meetings, Wu said. Now we’re trying to understand how to integrate that into our training and in our workflow so that we’re thinking about that,” he said. “Now

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AAHPM (American Academy of Hospice and Palliative)

APRIL 23, 2024

The AAHPM Next Gen Scholars for Equity in Hospice and Palliative Medicine Program is a fantastic opportunity for early-career individuals who are passionate about advancing hospice and palliative medicine. Apply today and be a part of the Next Gen of hospice and palliative care leaders! Who Should Apply?

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Life & Death Matters

MAY 15, 2024

Last week was Nurses Week and Hospice Palliative Care Week. It was the week that the Canadian Palliative Care Nursing Association presented their award at the annual guest lecture open to everyone. And this was the week that I was asked to present the CPCNA Leadership Award to Terry Downing.

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Hospice News

APRIL 12, 2024

Hospice providers navigate various challenges when addressing unmet needs and goals of care among patients with severe enduring anorexia nervosa. Hospice providers also navigate a number of challenges when it comes to the varying laws and ethical considerations involved with patient admission, goals of care and decision making, she indicated.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

The findings were presented at the annual American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Quality Care Symposium in Boston. They determined accessibility by comparing these records with data on the locations of Medicare-certified physicians who specialize in hospice and palliative care. Health outcomes are unequal. The post U.S.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 4, 2023

North Carolina-based hospice provider Four Seasons has launched a new mobile palliative care unit to reach patients in remote and rural areas. The hospice and palliative care provider financed the mobile clinic through charitable donations from the F the James H. The mobile clinic will deliver care through six North Carolina counties.

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Hospice News

APRIL 23, 2024

We were able to fund 13 junior investigators to come to Denver to present research into neuropalliative care.” it’s important for hospice and palliative care providers to build relationships with neurologists. A huge need exists for neuropalliative care, Dr. Claire J. To increase the number of specialists in the field, Daly said.

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GeriPal

APRIL 26, 2024

Hospice visits? I feel like there are similar features of how it presents for both patients and providers when they’re dealing with this issue and that they can’t even put a label on too. Doing home care? In the ICU at the bedside? ELNEC (End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium) celebrates it’s 25th anniversary in 2025.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Patients who underwent palliative care and were hospitalized did not see significant differences in lengths of stay than others, but did see substantial cost savings, according to research presented at the American Society of Hematology Annual Meeting and Exposition. Of those 5,464 had received palliative care.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 16, 2023

They found a 95% increase in hospice or palliative utilization among veterans served by VA providers participating in the agency’s Social Work Patient Aligned Care Team (PACT). They included VA hospice encounters in the outcome but not enrollment in a home hospice program, nursing home hospice center or Medicare-paid hospice.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

We additionally discussed hospice care as an option for care that might follow the trial of rehabilitation. Summary Transcript Summary Often podcasts meet clinical reality. That’s why we do this podcast- to address real world issues in palliative care, geriatrics, and bioethics. Ann, welcome to the GeriPal podcast. Ann: Thank you.

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Hospice News

MARCH 18, 2024

Care coordination and quality data will be engines for hospice referral growth. Hospices saw census volumes drop during the COVID-19 public health emergency as facilities nationwide restricted access to patients amid mandated state closures. Now it’s part of our mantra that good care is directly linked to good communication.”

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 27, 2023

With burnout as a major cause of turnover, hospices are applying technology to take some of the pressure off of staff in hopes of boosting retention. Hospice nurses pointed to this issue as their number-one concern about their jobs in a recent survey by The Amity Group. Nurses are saying, ‘I love being a hospice nurse.

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