Hospice News

AUGUST 26, 2022

Kauai Hospice Recruits Retired Emergency Doc as Medical Director. Dr. William “Monty” Downs is stepping into a new role as medical director of Hawaii-based Kaua‘i Hospice after retiring from 50 years in the emergency department at Wilcox Health Medical Centert. Wilcox Health is part of Hawaii Pacific Health.

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JANUARY 15, 2025

Dr. Julia Frydman, senior medical director at Nashville-based Thyme Care, runs its palliative care wing. Private equity transactions represented half of these deals. A total of 30 hospice transactions were completed in 2023, compared to 19 deals as of the end of 2024s third quarter, the report found.

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Hospice News

MARCH 4, 2025

This agreement directly addresses one of health care’s most significant gaps the fact that only 12% of patients who could benefit from palliative care services currently receive them, Dr. Julia Frydman, senior medical director for Thyme Care, told Palliative Care News.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 28, 2024

A federal court has sentenced Dr. John Thropay, a former medical director for several hospice companies, to 37 months in prison for his involvement in a $2.8 The post Former Blue Sky Hospice Medical Director Sentenced to 37 Months in Fraud Case appeared first on Hospice News. million hospice fraud scheme.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 5, 2022

In this Voices interview, Hospice News sits down with Dr. Khai Nguyen , National Medical Director, Geriatrician for CHAP, to talk about the age-friendly care movement. It has also helped me serve our partners in this space as a National Medical Director for CHAP. This article is sponsored by CHAP. The post Voices: ??Dr.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Lowentritt is also senior medical director of Aledade, a network of ACO primary care organizations. The interdisciplinary services that palliative care providers offer may be having substantial impacts on the reduced trends in total cost of care, according to Dr. Josh Lowentritt, primary care physician and nephrologist.

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Hospice News

APRIL 25, 2025

The ability to develop and provide a sustainable model of virtual care for patients and caregivers will require a more permanent regulatory framework around telehealth utilization, Dr. Julia Frydman, senior medical director at Thyme Care, said at the Hospice News ELEVATE conference in Florida.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Today’s hospice leaders need to take a wide view into the range of challenges facing their interdisciplinary care teams, according to Dr. Andrew Mayo, chief medical officer at St. Croix Hospice in 2014 as an associate medical director. Croix Hospice. Mayo joined St.

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Hospice News

APRIL 21, 2025

While most palliative care remains locked in the fee-for-service realm, most value-based organizations like MA plans are moving towards it, according to Dr. Gavin Baumgardner, vice president and national medical director for complex and palliative care at Contessa Health, a subsidiary of Amedisys (Nasdaq: AMED).

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Hospice News

APRIL 4, 2025

Capturing real-time quality data is an important part of effectively managing patients symptoms and needs, according to Dr. Monisha Pujari, medical director of Georgia-based Longleaf Hospice & Palliative Care. Calls are growing louder for a federally established set of standardized palliative guidelines.

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MARCH 7, 2025

Advocacy can play an important role in shaping future palliative payment trends, according to Dr. Kerry Moss, palliative care medical director for Connecticut Children’s.

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APRIL 1, 2025

Having sufficient staff is key to building a palliative care program, according to Dr. Kerry Moss, palliative care medical director for Connecticut Children’s. Opportunities abound for providers with a stronghold on successful payment and retention strategies.

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DECEMBER 5, 2024

For contracted nursing homes, the ISNP must supply a nurse practitioner or physician assistant to come to the facility and assist the medical director and clinical team, O’Connor indicated. Being a special needs plan, the ISNP must file a model of care with CMS that details how they will care for their patient population.

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APRIL 16, 2025

Training interdisciplinary staff to identify and address patients nonmedical needs is a significant component of quality palliative care delivery, according to Dr. Tracy Romanello, medical director at Catholic Hospice and Catholic Palliative Care Services.

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Hospice News

MARCH 4, 2025

Prior to joining Arkansas Hospice, Bell was the post-acute medical director at Spartanburg Regional Healthcare System. She led Arkansas Hospice through tremendous growth and navigated the organization through COVID, regulatory challenges and a changing healthcare environment with tremendous compassion and commitment to our mission.

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APRIL 18, 2025

To Joe’s point, it can’t just be the medical director sitting in their office, Friedman says. In our program, it took the medical director and our regional directors of nursing together to own it and champion it. We discussed it with our doctors.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Heart to Heart Hospice Appoints CMO, National Medical Director Texas-based Heart to Heart Hospice has tapped Dr. Michael Bond as its new chief medical officer and national medical director. Bond is board-certified in family medicine, emergency medicine and hospice and palliative care medicine.

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APRIL 12, 2024

According to language in the proposal, designated physician members of the hospice interdisciplinary team may certify patients for hospice if the medical director is unavailable. Clarification from CMS in these areas will be helpful to hospices, physicians and those reviewing hospice records for compliance.”

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MARCH 12, 2025

Karlin is also palliative care medical director at UCLA Healths Palliative Care Program. Pediatric patients often experience burdensome care transitions as they reach adulthood, according to Dr. Daniel Karlin, associate clinical professor University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) David Geffen School of Medicine.

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Hospice News

JUNE 11, 2025

The Alliance supports a proposal that would allow a physician member of the hospice team to determine admission to care, in addition to the medical director or a designee. CMS and the Alliance agreed that this would establish greater consistency between different components of hospice regulations and policies.

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JANUARY 23, 2025

We have a medical director who flies to see hospice patients. Allowing social workers and chaplains to do check in with telehealth, that would allow for more mid-level association with patients beyond the physicians involved in their care.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 19, 2024

So this means empowering individual medical directors in each of our centers so that they know how to be medical directors, to be able to teach the providers and oversee the providers. What are some of the key skill sets that an effective medical director should have?

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Hospice News

JUNE 21, 2024

Lovell, along with Stephanie Harbour, executive director at Tapestry Hospice, and other hospice management staff Ben Harbour and registered nurse Andrew Nall, allegedly entered into kickback arrangements with medical directors of other health care organizations in exchange for hospice referrals.

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JUNE 12, 2024

Candidates for palliative care position need to have a strong understanding of what the job entails, Dr. Jennifer Blechman, palliative care medical director at the Oregon-based nonprofit Partners in Care said at the Hospice News Virtual Staffing Summit.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 25, 2022

For instance, if a hospice with a $15 million annual revenue has nine medical directors on staff, this should “jump off the page” for a buyer, he said. This can call into question whether these medical directors were on staff because they were giving the hospice direct lines of patient referrals. said Kulik. “Is

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Gavin Baumgardner, national medical director for palliative and complex care for Contessa, told Hospice News. “We’re The joint ventures’ boards have a 50/50 split among members from each partner with oversight by a dedicated medical director. We’re seeing internal growth within those existing programs.”

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Hospice News

JUNE 26, 2024

Big Bend has also promoted its medical director, Dr. Deborah Morris, to chief medical officer of Seven Oaks. Before coming to Big Bend Hospice, she served as medical director at multiple hospice and palliative care organizations in Virginia while also teaching at Eastern Virginia Medical School.

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OCTOBER 1, 2024

The second major force that could mold the industry’s future is the staffing shortage, Leigh Anderson, medical director for Our Hospice of Indiana, said during the NHPCO conference. Examples include the Kidney Care Choices Model, the Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) Model and the Enhancing Oncology Model.

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AUGUST 19, 2022

The provider’s palliative care team includes a physician medical director, social worker and nurse practitioners who now offer in-home palliative care to adult patients 18 and older facing a serious illness. “As Homeland previously provided facility-based palliative services and is now stepping into the home.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

. “When medicine cannot provide a cure, hospice redefines hope in terms of a patient’s quality of life,” said Dr. Michael Bond, chief medical officer and national medical director for Heart to Heart. ” The post Heart to Heart Hospice Expands in Texas appeared first on Hospice News.

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JUNE 25, 2024

The company is also removing medical directors from three local post-acute care facilities. In addition to ending palliative care, Garnet is transferring physicians from its outpatient services business to its infectious disease practice.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Muir also has served as the medical director for the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovations’ (CMMI) high-needs Accountable Care Organization Realizing Equity, Access, and Community Health (ACO REACH) program. 3HC Announces New CEO 3HC Home Health & Hospice Care Inc. has tapped Jennifer Whitley as its new president and CEO.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Additional services include medical equipment assistance, a telehospice program, and music, reiki and pet therapies, among others. Medical Director Takes Reins at Hospice Care of the Low Country Hospice Care of the Lowcountry & Lowcountry Palliative Care has appointed Dr. F. Carl Derrick as medical director.

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AUGUST 23, 2024

“Our intention is not to replace primary care clinicians but to serve as an additional resource, helping patients and their families plan for the future,” said Dr. Joshua Wesley, medical director for Providence Hospice-Community Healthcare of Texas, in a statement.

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Hospice News

APRIL 1, 2025

“National data demonstrates how underutilized hospice benefits are for those at the end of life,” said Dr. Andrew Mayo, medical director for St. Further expansion occurred in Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa and Missouri. Croix Hospice, in a statement.

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JUNE 17, 2024

Kaleidoscope is a community-based palliative care program where we’re seeing patients in the privacy of their own home,” CHC Medical Director Karissa Misner told local news. “We The nonprofit also provides palliative care in a clinic setting at its Center for Palliative Care.

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APRIL 26, 2024

In it, CMS clarified that the requirement applies to hospice medical directors, physician members of the hospice interdisciplinary group and patient-designated attending physicians who certify patients’ terminal condition under the Medicare hospice benefit.

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