Hospice News

MARCH 5, 2024

A wide variety of palliative care services have cropped up nationwide in recent years, but not all have remained viable. The forces driving some community-based palliative programs to shutter are two-pronged, related to financial and operational sustainability, according to Renee McInnes, CEO of NVNA & Hospice.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 8, 2024

An increasingly diverse base of health care providers have taken an interest in the palliative care space, a trend that could be indicative of how strategic growth is taking shape in the field. We’re able to bring a focus on symptom management and care navigation to organizations not traditionally in the palliative care space.”

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Hospice News

MARCH 29, 2024

New York City-based NYC Health + Hospitals/Bellevue recently launched a new palliative care unit. Susan Cohen, palliative care program director at NYC Health + Hospitals/Bellevue. Many of our patients are underinsured or uninsured,” Cohen told Palliative Care News. which has an annual census of more than 1.1

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Hospice News

APRIL 9, 2024

Reimbursement for community-based palliative care is gaining ground in the Medicare Advantage realm. Palliative care is among the wide range of supplemental benefits that exist within the Medicare Advantage payment landscape. This is a rise from 180 MA plans in 2023 offering palliative services and 64 MA plans in 2020.

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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

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Recent research has uncovered some of the leading barriers preventing greater pediatric palliative care utilization across underserved communities. Some states have begun instilling regulations in place requiring private insurance companies to cover palliative and hospice care for eligible children.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 1, 2023

(NASDAQ: PNTG) has inked a deal to acquire Arizona-based Southwestern Palliative Care & Hospice for an undisclosed amount, adding to its existing presence in the state. Southwestern Palliative Care & Hospice provides home-based end-of-life and serious illness care to communities in Yuma, Arizona.

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Hospice News

MARCH 25, 2024

A collaboration between a Dignity Health hospital and Sierra Community Palliative Care promises to be a winning combination with far-reaching results for the larger community. Sierra provides invaluable care for nonterminal patients with serious or chronic conditions. Local primary-care providers also send patients to Sierra.

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Hospice News

MARCH 27, 2024

The University of South Florida (USF) College of Nursing has launched a graduate certificate program in palliative care and hospice. The program is designed to help nurses pass the Certified Hospice and Palliative Nurse (CHPN®) exam. ” Participating nurses will take six courses taken over three semesters.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Palliative care has been one of the largest growing segments of the health care industry in the last decade despite challenges such as staffing shortages, reimbursement headaches and misconceptions regarding this type of care. million people need palliative care.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 14, 2023

Past payment model demonstrations that included community-based palliative care offer a window into how these services could generate cost savings and improved quality. Among those demos is the Medicare Care Choices Model (MCCM), which ran between 2016 and 2021.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 16, 2024

More hospitalized patients can receive earlier palliative care if a provider programs automated orders into the electronic medical record (EMR). By using this process, researchers at Penn Medicine increased palliative care consultation rates in the hospital to 43.9%, up from 16.6%, according to a study published today in JAMA.

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Hospice News

MARCH 4, 2024

In case you missed it, Hospice News has launched a new specialty publication for palliative care professionals. You can subscribe to Palliative Care News here: Subscribe today! Palliative care” is becoming a buzz word in health care, even if many people don’t understand the loosely defined term.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 24, 2024

Palliative care clinical education avenues have expanded in recent years, but providers say the well may not be filling up quickly enough to meet demand. Communication and peer support elements are among the key training elements for palliative workforce sustainability and growth. Nonetheless, we have a long way to go.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Want to read more palliative care-focused content like this? Subscribe to Palliative Care News today ! Amedisys (NASDAQ: AMED) is pushing forward on palliative care growth in 2024 through its innovation arm, Contessa. For now, Amedisys shows no signs of slowing down on palliative care.

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Hospice News

MAY 10, 2023

Hospices are increasingly eying palliative care as a promising growth opportunity, prioritizing expansion in that field over other health care service lines. Survey respondents included nearly 330 hospice and palliative care industry professionals, including owners, executive leaders and managers, among others.

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Hospice News

APRIL 15, 2024

The lion’s share of palliative care physicians dwell in more densely populated communities, creating disparities among the rural seriously ill population. Recent research has found that more than 90% of board certified palliative physicians and nurse practitioners nationwide were located in metropolitan and urban areas in 2022.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Palliative care is becoming an increasingly prevalent component of Programs for All-Inclusive Care of the Elderly (PACE) programs. PACE allows hospices to offer services to address social determinants of health , such as homemaking, transportation, home modification and others.

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Hospice News

MARCH 6, 2024

Want to read more palliative care-focused content like this? Subscribe to Palliative Care News today ! Staffing, public awareness and value-based payment represent the greatest disruptive forces shaping palliative care delivery in 2024 and beyond. There are a lot of specialty areas within medicine.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 13, 2023

As Contessa Health pioneers a growing value-based palliative care-at-home program, they’ve encountered some learning curves when it comes to operating within a new payment system. Contessa is a subsidiary of Amedisys (NASDAQ: AMED), which the home health and hospice provider acquired in 2021 for $250 million.

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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. Heartland Hospice is headquartered in Toledo, Ohio, with locations in 26 states. NYSE: HUM) for $2.8

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Limited pathways to reimbursement and workforce shortages are the largest hurdles for growth among community-based palliative care programs. Sinai looked to expand its palliative care program, the health system opted to pursue partnerships with providers that have a longer history of developing payor contracts for those services.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Given these factors, many of these patients should be receiving some form of palliative care, Dr. Larry Allen, chief of cardiology at the University of Colorado, said in a recent AHA webinar. People living with heart failure continue to have unmet care needs and face uncertainty about their prognosis. So this is a team approach.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 29, 2024

Palliative care is an evolving field. Though long-established as a medical specialty, these health care services have yet to reach their full potential due to reimbursement pressures, poor awareness and staffing headwinds. Rising demand In 2024, demand will continue to rise, driven by a number of factors.

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Hospice News

JUNE 30, 2023

New legislation is leading some hospices to consider what a potential community-based palliative care payment demo would mean for them — as well as what it would look like. To date, lagging reimbursement has been a barrier to home-based serious illness care, he said. “A

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

The earlier a patient receives palliative care, the larger the return on investment, an analysis by the Pennsylvania-based health system WellSpan Health has found. Palliative care is often viewed as a cost center in health care, rather than a revenue generator. There was a 20% lower cost in one of the hospitals.

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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.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Pediatric palliative care providers can sometimes struggle to engage parents and families. Parental engagement can be a difficult hill for pediatric palliative providers to climb. The pediatric hospice and palliative care provider cares for communities in Las Vegas and in Reno, Nevada, as well as in Phoenix, Arizona.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 31, 2024

An intensive care unit (ICU) stay often challenges everyone involved. Integrating palliative care could alleviate some of the suffering through symptom management, improved communication about goals and treatment, and better training and resources for staff. More than 57% of their relatives suffer high symptom distress as well.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 17, 2023

The emotional toll of caring for the seriously ill contributes to high rates of burnout among palliative care workers. For palliative care clinicians, that apathy can lead to the depersonalization of patients, negatively affecting patient care. Nursing is not the same kind of work it used to be.

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Aging Life Care Association

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Johnson, RN, BSN, MHA, CHPN, CCM – Aging Life Care Association® Member Palliative care and hospice care are both specialized healthcare models that focus on palliation, or relief of symptoms, associated with serious, debilitating illnesses.

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Hospice News

MARCH 1, 2024

A growing body of research touts the benefits of palliative care for patients, families, and even providers. Palliative Care News spoke with experts in the field to unpack the reasons behind those results and identify the obstacles that are getting in the way of a more effective approach.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

A dearth of coordination or integration between rehab teams and palliative care teams routinely forces some patients into a cycle between the hospital and the nursing home in their last year of life. These results appeared in a 2019 New England Journal of Medicine study titled “Rehabbed to Death.”

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Progress on growing access to quality palliative care has been challenged by hurdles in policy, payment and common misperceptions among patients and providers. Misconceptions around palliative care often involve health providers and patients and families conflating these services with hospice.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Though relatively few home health agencies provide palliative care, those providers and their patients can benefit from more integration of those services. Currently, the palliative care space is dominated by hospices and health systems. So they end up getting discharged from their services.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 19, 2024

Unity Hospice and Palliative Care of Greater Houston has unveiled a five-year general inpatient (GIP) service agreement with the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) Health. The hospice will provide GIP care across the health system’s four hospitals. That tends to lend toward the GIP level of care.”

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Brightstar Care is partnering with the medical and nursing training organization Adtalem Global Education to help build up their hospice, home health and palliative care workforce. So we have students taking it who end up going to any of these other home cares companies that are participating.

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