Hospice News

AUGUST 16, 2023

As a nurse, Templeton has leveraged her clinical experiences to help navigate challenges that prevent patients from accessing care. Tennessee-based Compassus provides home health, home infusion, hospice and palliative care across 200 locations in 30 states. I’m a nurse by background.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 24, 2024

Recruiting and retaining palliative care professionals can be a difficult feat for organizations, in part because not enough medical and nursing students are exposed to palliative care during their education. Communication and peer support elements are among the key training elements for palliative workforce sustainability and growth.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 22, 2024

Bruera has been instrumental in establishing numerous palliative care programs in Latin America, India, and Europe, and has held leadership roles with the World Health Organization and the Multinational Association of Support Care in Cancer. Eduardo Bruera is a true pioneer in the field of palliative care.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

AccentCare recently tapped Steward Health Care COO Laura Tortorella as its new CEO. The Dallas-based home health and hospice provider announced on Sept. million full-risk beneficiaries through its managed care and health insurance services. 14 that Tortorella would succeed former CEO Stephan Rodgers as he steps down.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

The senior care company agilon health (NYSE: AGL) will more than double the size of its palliative care program this year, with plans to leverage its robust suite of data to optimize care. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) Accountable Care Organization Realizing Equity, Access and Community Health (ACO REACH) model.

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Hospice News

JUNE 28, 2022

As hospice providers contend with industry-wide nursing shortages, some are taking matters into their own hands with in-house residency programs. Few nursing students receive exposure to hospice or palliative care during their education, and most do not feel prepared to provide end-of-life care to patients and families, a 2018 study found.

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Hospice News

JULY 7, 2023

The public and health care providers alike often conflate palliative care with hospice, according to Robin Stawasz, program development executive, Acclivity Health. The public and health care providers alike often conflate palliative care with hospice, according to Robin Stawasz, program development executive, Acclivity Health.

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Hospice News

APRIL 17, 2023

Prospero Health Memphis, Tennessee-based Prospero Health has grown tremendously during the past three years. The health care startup currently provides interdisciplinary services in 28 states to 30,000 seniors who suffer from chronic health conditions and social determinants issues. Enter UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH).

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Nikki Davis, vice president, palliative care programs, Contessa Health, an Amedisys (NASDAQ: AMED) company We’re growing pretty significantly. Nikki Davis, vice president, palliative care programs, Contessa Health, an Amedisys (NASDAQ: AMED) company We’re growing pretty significantly. This marks a climb from 52% last year.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

David Bekelman conducted a RCT of a nurse and social worker telephone intervention (ADAPT intervention) for people with heart failure and lung disease (COPD or ILD). He also found gaps, including very few studies of patients with lung disease, and little impact of trials on quality of life.

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Hospice News

JUNE 30, 2023

But to attract donors, operators must be prepared to communicate their value proposition, according to Steve Cone, chief communications officer at Capital Caring Health. When we provide palliative care in the home especially, patients don’t necessarily need to be rushed to the hospital when they’re too medically fragile to move.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

A few examples include the Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) Model, Accountable Care Organization Realizing Equity, Access and Community Health (ACO REACH) and the hospice component of the Medicare Advantage Value-Based Insurance Design (VBID) demonstration, which the U.S. Hospice care reduces Medicare expenditures by about $3.5

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Before joining Guaranteed, Malone served as vice president of sales and partnerships at mental health provider Thriveworks since 2021. Guaranteed Health is redefining the end-of-life-care experience by building a-first-of-its-kind technology and AI-enabled platform that supports patients, caregivers, providers and payers.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 22, 2023

The New-Jersey based hospital is part of the RWJBarnabas Health system and serves roughly 200,000 pediatric palliative care patients across its service region. In addition to adult and pediatric palliative care, the health system also offers hospice, among other services. We recognized that there was a lot of power in the numbers.

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Hospice News

JUNE 28, 2023

When deployed at scale, palliative care can help achieve many of the health care systems current goals, including reduced costs, improved patient satisfaction and quality of life. It’s really important to give providers and other entities that are testing these models tools to be successful.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Whether it is redoing some policies and procedures, looking at our code of ethics or how we respond to audits … it’s all these things that can be esoteric to us [leaders]. Established in 1983, The nonprofit hospice is part of a multi-facility health care system and a member of the Mayo Clinic Care Network.

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AlayaCare

MARCH 3, 2023

Increasing continuity of care in home care is an important step in providing quality service to your clients. It is one of the 3 ways to improve care management in home care that we covered in our blog recently. A stronger relationship between caregivers and clients: resulting in more successful treatment plans.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 26, 2022

More millennials are enter the health care workforce as more baby boomers retire. That mentality is playing out in relation to nurse residency programs and the clinicians that we’re hiring,” Brennan told Hospice News during the Palliative Care Executive Webinar Series. In many companies, a changing of the guard is underway.s

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Hospice News

JUNE 12, 2023

In New Jersey, a partnership between a health services company and a nursing home is offering a new approach to long-term illness, tailoring palliative care treatment plans to individual patients. Samaritan Health Services Partners, a not-for-profit complex illnesses company, and Laurel Brook Rehab, a 220-bed facility in Mt.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 15, 2022

Barbara Jacobsmeyer as of July 1 became the first CEO of Enhabit Home Health and Hospice (NYSE: EHAB) as an independent, standalone company. Enhabit emerged from the spinoff of Encompass Health’s (NYSE: EHC) home health and hospice segment, which completed in July. The new company expects to earn nearly $1.08

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The insight started when Carmen, an orthopedic surgeon-researcher, and Katie, a physical therapist- researcher participated in ride-alongs with EMS providers to patient’s homes. Going into patient’s homes was eye opening. A takeaway from those podcasts is that fresh innovative thinking in the falls prevention space is welcome.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 16, 2022

Although in previous roles, I’ve always considered myself a servant-leader, I think today as president of HCP, I want to enable others to be successful in their roles. Part of our mission is providing agencies training insights and tools they need to meaningfully improve care in the home.

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AlayaCare

JANUARY 31, 2023

She successfully achieved rapid growth as the pandemic hit and changed the healthcare and home care industry. Aya Healthcare specializes in finding work for nurses and other caregivers in the healthcare industry (including home care). Within all that chaos, how did they manage to achieve such rapid growth?

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Minority Nurse

APRIL 3, 2024

Kendra Coles, DNP, RNC-OB, C-EFM, NEA-BC, is a seasoned nursing leader with over 20 years of experience in the field. Coles is responsible for strategic planning, equity, diversity, and inclusion initiatives and developing nurse leaders. Talk about your role in nursing. How long have you worked in the nursing field?

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Hospice News

JUNE 23, 2022

About 30% to 50% of home health and hospice transactions in 2021 involved private equity, according to the M&A advisory firm The Braff Group. About 30% to 50% of home health and hospice transactions in 2021 involved private equity, according to the M&A advisory firm The Braff Group.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 10, 2022

In this Voices interview, Hospice News sits down with Kristy Fisher, Director of Nursing and Clinical Operations at CareXM, to learn how hospice providers are doing more with less in an effort to add time back into nurses’ days so they can focus on patients. Kristy Fisher: My background is in nursing.

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Hospice News

JUNE 13, 2022

LGBTQ+ communities have been historically underserved by hospice, often due to mistrust of the health care system as well as discrimination. Additionally, 15% indicated that health care staff asked invasive or unnecessary questions unrelated to the services they were providing. Hospice care would be unbiased and equal.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

It had been twinned with the Palliative Care Association of Uganda, and quickly became a very successful and engaged partnership. 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.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Debbie Jonhston is a registered nurse who founded Viriginia-based Serenity First Hospice in 2021, inspired by the care her father recieved as he reached the end of his life. With the launch of Serenity First, Johnston transitioned from her career in home health and personal care. So I think that’s part of our success.

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Hospice News

MAY 2, 2022

Katrina Agnew joined UnityPoint Health in December of 2021 as vice president of hospice. UnityPoint is an integrated health system with sites in Iowa, Illinois and Wisconsin. The nonprofit offers hospice and other community-based services through its UnityPoint at Home segment, which serves both metropolitan and rural communities.

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GeriPal

APRIL 26, 2024

Summary Transcript Summary As Betty Ferrell says on our podcast today, nurses play an essential role in care of people with serious illness. Doing home care? ELNEC (End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium) celebrates it’s 25th anniversary in 2025. Who spends the most time with the patient in the infusion center?

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

We’ll cover why the GUIDE model is important (hint – it all comes down to funding), how it was developed, what components will it include, and how it will be evaluated. This is Eric Widera. Alex: This is Alex Smith. Eric: And Alex, who do we have with us today? Eric: And Alex, who do we have with us today?

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Hospice News

AUGUST 29, 2022

Hospice News recently sat down with Ben Marcantonio, chief operating officer and interim president and CEO of the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO), to discuss how hospice providers are navigating a sea of challenges. While the hunt is on for a new top executive, COO Marcantonio has stepped in on an interim basis.

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Hospice News

MARCH 20, 2023

So as we look across our portfolio, we look for places where we need to add to those.” – Stacie Bratcher, CEO, Jet Health “We’re going to constantly be looking for what I call other ancillary services to bring into the home. How can we be more of an intermediary or a trusted guide around some of the services?

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Hospice News

JULY 1, 2022

Chapters Health establishes third Florida youth grieving center. Chapters Health establishes third Florida youth grieving center. Chapters Health System is moving forward on plans to open the Good Shepherd Hospice Bethany Center for Grieving Children in Lakeland, Florida. Hosparus Health opens new grief support facility.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

Lastly, we discuss Katie’s paper on substance use disorder in an aging population and how one can incorporate the 5 Ms (ie, matters most, medications, mind, mobility, and multicomplexity) into a framework for age-friendly care for older adults with substance use disorder. AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) ™.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Recent federal advance care planning legislation could give health care providers and policymakers a greater girth of goal-concordant care at the end of life, but may face opposition due to potential costs. Yet, societal factors and poor coordination among health care providers can limit its effectiveness and utilization. Warner (D-Va.)

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