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FEBRUARY 27, 2024

I knew that if we could put a nurse practitioner with a patient earlier in the prognosis, they would move through the continuum of care with that patient and create a report. Our program is staffed by nurse practitioners and social workers, under the oversight of our medical director. million people need palliative care.

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APRIL 8, 2024

HopeHealth partners with the LifeSpan Health System’s Cancer Institute and Accountable Care Organization (ACO), as well as Rhode Island Hospital, The Miriam Hospital, Newport Hospital, Coastal Medical, Brown Medicine, South County Hospital and Sturdy Memorial Hospital. How did HopeHealth’s pediatric palliative and hospice services begin?

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DECEMBER 13, 2023

Contessa’s specialty is high-acuity care in the home, including hospital-at-home and skilled nursing facility-at-home programs. Contessa’s specialty is high-acuity care in the home, including hospital-at-home and skilled nursing facility-at-home programs.

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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

OCTOBER 17, 2023

There can be long hours, higher caseloads, patient/caregiver heightened emotions that lead to higher levels of stress than in other medical care settings.” Trinh, team physician and medical director designee; Mary Grace Holvenstot, senior human resources generalist; and Shelia Robinson, human resources generalist.

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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

JANUARY 10, 2024

Valley Health’s palliative care model includes a full interdisciplinary team, including physicians, advanced practice nurses, social workers, chaplains and volunteers. Valley Health currently offers palliative care in a number of settings, including inpatient, outpatient, subacute medical facilities and the home.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Patients at the Northeast Georgia Medical Center can now take advantage of a new palliative care program that brings the care from the clinic or hospital into the patient’s home. Dr. Leena Dutta, medical director of hospice and in-home palliative care for the center, joined the program in May, 2022 and oversaw the initiative.

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Hospice News

JULY 20, 2022

Looking ahead to greater reliance on value-based payment models, this approach may become even more critical, according to Igal Ladabaum, co-founder and CEO of Hospi Corp, the medical supply company that developed the Macy Catheter for rapid administration of medication and fluids. “As Historically, the U.S.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Cancer patients can benefit from the interdisciplinary support of a palliative care team, but a main barrier to access is that oncology clinicians often lack insight around these services, according to Dr. Julie Gralow, chief medical officer and executive vice president of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO). An estimated 1.9

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Hospice News

APRIL 17, 2023

Smith said Prospero’s global measure of success is providing more days for patients at home, rather than keeping them in hospitals, nursing homes or rehab facilities. As the demand for palliative care continues to grow, so too has the way businesses have bolstered their programs to better serve patients. Enter UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH).

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Its technology platform connects patients and family members to palliative and hospice nurses, social workers, spiritual coordinators and other interdisciplinary staff. Littlefield was previously Riverside Health System’s executive vice president and chief nursing officer.

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Hospice News

JUNE 10, 2022

Few clinicians have the specialized training to provide pediatric palliative care, according to Sara Dado, senior director of clinical programs for Lightways Hospice and Serious Illness Care. Many hit obstacles such as a dwindling workforce, limited access to training and a generally poor understanding of children’s specific needs.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 9, 2023

The value-based oncology provider has a team of nurses and care professionals that support roughly 3,000 patients and families navigating cancer and serious illness. Thyme Care aims to develop innovative, value-based payment arrangements to ensure care for cancer patients who expressed a need and desire for palliation, she indicated.

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Hospice News

APRIL 3, 2024

She is a registered nurse who has also served as a hospice case manager, nursing aide, director of nursing and regional director. In that position, he will support the organization’s Home Visit Physicians and Palliative Medical Partners programs. VNAHSR) has announced the retirement of its CEO Sara King.

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Hospice News

JUNE 15, 2023

Today, she is the executive director of the program, Idaho-based Hospice and Palliative Care of the Wood River Valley, which serves an average of 55 patients daily in a largely rural community. I am the new executive director for Hospice and Palliative Care of the Wood River Valley. Even the nurses just volunteered their time.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

In addition to hospice, VITAS offers palliative care and home medical equipment services. Hospice of the Chesapeake’s Nursing, Clinical Advocacy Director Aims to Improve Access Hospice of the Chesapeake has named Dr. Rachel Sherman as its new director of nursing and clinical advocacy.

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Hospice News

MAY 1, 2023

It does create that alignment of incentives in a way that I think is very positive for the palliative provider.” Tom Cornwell, national medical director of Village Medical at Home in Chicago, indicated. But despite the upswing in profile, insurance coverage and payment for palliative services remain difficult to come by.

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Hospice News

JUNE 28, 2023

Hospice of the Chesapeake Appoints New CMO Maryland-based Hospice of the Chesapeake recently named Dr. Marny Fetzer as its new chief medical officer. Fetzer is currently system medical director for palliative care and hospice services at Illinois-based Ascension Health. He was previously medical director at Compassus since 2017.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 15, 2022

I have done everything from bedside nursing to administration, and my last eight years at the agency level were spent as a quality assurance coordinator. Hospice would likely change from the Medical Director-led IDT team with standard COPS, to a landscape of payer-source-driven rules for each patient.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

This article is based on a Hospice News discussion with Daniel Schwartz, Chief Strategy Officer at Elara Caring, Devin Woodley, VP of Managed Care Contracting and B2B Sales at VNS Health, Gavin Baumgardner, VP and National Medical Director for Complex and Palliative care at Amedisys, and Anthony Spano, Director of Client Development at Netsmart.

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Hospice News

JULY 28, 2023

In addition to The Denver Hospice, its affiliates include Colorado Visiting Nurse Association (CVNA), Pathways, and Pikes Peak Hospice and Palliative Care, among others. The hiring of Lopez as president comes about six months after The Denver Hospice also named a new medical director in Dr. Robert Howe.

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OCTOBER 4, 2023

He went on to become the organization’s medical director. “ He went on to become the organization’s medical director. “ John Mulder, chief consultant for hospice and palliative care medicine for Michigan’s Faith Hospice, was drawn to the field after witnessing his father’s difficult end-of-life experience.

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Hospice News

MAY 31, 2023

If restrictions eased around controlled substances, then hospice providers might be more open to their use, according to Dr. Karl Steinberg, medical director for Hospice by the Sea. He is also CEO of California-based Stone Mountain Medical Associates, Inc. I don’t see a lot of focus on the possible harms.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 30, 2024

With nominations in the categories of Behavioral Health, Home Health & Home Care, Hospice & Palliative Care, Senior Housing & Senior Living, and Skilled Nursing (SNF), the program showcases exemplary character and performance of frontline workers across the care continuum.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

For more than 40 years, Community Hospice has grown from an inspired idea by two registered nurses to a respected and leading provider of vital service for those with serious and life-limiting illness in the Central Valley area. Agape Care Group Appoints M&A VP. Mission Healthcare Make Clinical Leadership Moves.

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Hospice News

MARCH 29, 2024

It would also remove three nursing home items from the survey, revise the existing Hospice Team Communication and Getting Hospice Care Training measures and add a new Care Preferences measure. The RFIs contain further questions about the utilization of higher-cost palliative treatments under the Medicare Hospice Benefit.

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Hospice News

APRIL 12, 2024

Ingrid Berg, palliative medicine physician at CHI Health, an affiliate of Creighton University Medical Center. Additionally, patients with severe enduring anorexia nervosa often have longer inpatient admissions and a history of various medical treatments, the research found.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 27, 2023

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. ’ I think we’re losing a lot of nurses because of this because their family is so unhappy.” NYSE: CHE). “We

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Hospice News

MARCH 22, 2024

He is responsible for strategic direction and oversight of medical services and staff at Treasure Coast Hospice, as well as ensuring regulatory compliance and evaluating patient eligibility for hospice services. He also served as medical director at skilled nursing facility provider Life Care Center of Port St.

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Hospice News

MARCH 25, 2024

The company was established in concert with his wife, Janet Seebert, director of nursing at Stoneridge Hospice, and his niece, Patti Bratzel, a registered nurse who became co-owner, and executive director. My wife was a nurse in emergency medicine for several years, and my niece was a long-time hospice nurse.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 30, 2024

Because if I leave you on that heart medicine, that cost anywhere from $1,000 a month up to $20,000 a month, depending on which brand of medication it is,” a hospice nurse speaking on condition of anonymity told Hospice News. Everything is based on cost. A medicine that will keep that patient alive for probably six months.

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Hospice News

JUNE 2, 2022

This article is based on a Q&A session with Jason Banks, Senior Director of Post Acute Sales at nVoq, during the Hospice News Palliative Care Conference. The Q&A took place on April 27, 2022. The discussion has been edited for length and clarity. Banks: I ran a hospice and palliative care. We had two palliative care clinics.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Jennifer Ritzau, vice president of medical staff services at HopeHealth, a Rhode Island-based hospice, palliative and home care provider. She also serves as medical director of palliative care at the nonprofit organization. “I They’re disconnected socially, physically and distanced from medical support structures. –

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Hospice News

MAY 8, 2023

Mourning Dove Medical Mourning Dove Medical Mourning Dove Medical CEO Dr. Kaishauna Guidry What drew you to the hospice and palliative care field? I actually became interested in end-of-life care in medical school. So that’s how I created Mourning Dove Medical. G’s H.O.S.P.I.C.E G at the Heart of Healthcare.”

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Hospice News

JUNE 29, 2023

As with nursing, the industry-wide labor shortage has impacted bereavement care, which is an underfunded service, according to Dr. Dawn Gross, palliative care physician at University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) Health. Gross is also a medical director at ANX Hospice Care.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Each trainee receives exposure to different interdisciplinary aspects of hospice, including skills labs in end-of-life nursing and social work, communications, EMR systems and ongoing educational courses around the philosophy of hospice care, according to Garcia.

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