Hospice News

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Staffing shortages are also playing a role in the quality of care received, according to Dr. Andrew Esch, palliative care physician and senior education advisor at the Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC). “The The element of collaboration is so important to link them up to community resources, clinicians and other support services.

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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. Our program is staffed by nurse practitioners and social workers, under the oversight of our medical director.

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Hospice News

APRIL 24, 2024

Health systems are increasingly growing their hospice and palliative care service lines, with philanthropy among the key ways to fuel these programs’ sustainability. The pandemic has only exacerbated issues such as rising wages and staffing shortages, while also contending with falling philanthropic support during tough financial times.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 9, 2024

Nurses at PeaceHealth’s Sacred Heart Home Care Services have voted to authorize a strike, citing low wages and staffing strains. For many years, the nurses at Sacred Heart Home Care Services were there to pick up the slack,” Turner said in an ONA announcement.

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JANUARY 25, 2023

Hospices have also forged partnerships with pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) to maintain sufficient supplies of medication and manage costs. The AI-powered applicant tracking system is designed to help the hospice grow as its staffing needs increase, Wilson previously told Hospice News.

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Hospice News

APRIL 8, 2024

HopeHealth has been growing its pediatric hospice and supportive care service lines in recent years to address a range of unmet needs among seriously ill children and their families. HopeHealth provides home care, hospice, palliative and dementia care, as well as caregiver and grief support services.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 9, 2023

Individuals in prison environments often have limited access to palliative care services, making these patients among the hardest to reach for providers. Labor pressures amid growing demand represent the largest barriers in terms of both limited staffing volumes and high workforce costs. They didn’t have a specific nurse for them.

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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. UTMB Health’s service region includes 10 cities in Texas. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). currently, reported the U.S.

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Hospice News

MARCH 8, 2024

Arizona-based Phoenix Children’s Hospital has developed a pediatric hospice and palliative care fellowship program that is positively impacting access to these services. it’s not always something taught in medical school.” Phoenix Children’s offers primary, palliative and hospice pediatric care.

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Hospice News

MAY 11, 2023

Staffing and reimbursement headwinds remain sticking points for Aveanna Healthcare Holdings Inc. The company provides hospice, home health and private duty services. Aveanna also provides medical solutions and durable medical equipment, among other adult and pediatric health care services. in Q1 from 48.7%

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Hospice News

MARCH 6, 2024

In addition to hospice and palliative care, the nonprofit provider offers grief support, dementia patient and caregiver services and an advanced lung care program. We can validate the data in their electronic medical records and the PPS is also based on the clinician making an assessment every time they see the patient.”

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Hospice News

JANUARY 29, 2024

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. Staffing, reimbursement headwinds Increasingly, palliative care is a service that everyone wants to do, but no one wants to pay for.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 16, 2023

This cohort study found significant increases in use of palliative care for recently hospitalized veterans whose primary care team had additional social work staffing,” the authors wrote in the story. For instance, the VA allows patients to receive hospice care concurrently with other medical treatments.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 4, 2023

Alaska-based Bartlett Regional Hospital recently received approval from legislators to relaunch hospice and home health services nearly a year after a local provider shut down. HHCJ received Medicare certification in 2006 and was operated by Catholic Community Services prior to its closure.

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Hospice News

JULY 22, 2022

These services operate under the brand Trinity Health at Home. Nationwide, health systems are experiencing broad shifts in patient volumes, staffing challenges, including high-cost agency contracts, and increasing supply and pharmacy costs,” Mark McPherson, president and CEO of Trinity Health At Home, told a local news outlet.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Having a window of transparency built into staffing processes will play a large role in ensuring compliance, she stated. “We Additional services include palliative care, a veterans program and care coordination. Their recommendation is that it would include the administrator and medical director of hospice agencies.”

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Beginning in 2018, WellSpan began to test that theory by examining financial metrics associated with its palliative care services, with a focus on cost savings. However, the resulting ROI depends on a number of variables, such as the timeframe for initiating palliative care, the program’s scale and staffing levels. “We

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Hospices nationwide are taking varied approaches around how they fuel staffing investments with sustainable growth in mind. State of hospice workforce Though hospices are seeing an improved workforce outlook in 2024 compared to previous years, staffing pressures remain a top concern for many organizations.

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Hospice News

APRIL 25, 2024

An effective electronic medical record (EMR) system is a necessary foundation. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)],” Wes Little, chief analytics officer and general manager for WellSky, told Hospice News. “We’re looking at certain technologies from the standpoint of the payer in value-based care.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 31, 2024

Palliative care, pediatric end-of-life care and end-of-life doula (EOLD) services are top of mind for hospices that are diversifying their services in 2024. But the aim of their service diversification efforts may indicate future trends. But the aim of their service diversification efforts may indicate future trends.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 18, 2024

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) unveiled in July 2023. Where GUIDE fits in The model will provides up to $2,500 in annual reimbursement for caregiver respite services, designed to help dementia patients live out their days at home to the fullest extent possible, according to CMS. It’s quite different.”

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Ohio’s Hospice Lifecare has partnered with a local college to grow its workforce through an emergency medical technician (EMT) internship program. But this is yet another staffing area where hospices lack the ranks needed to support patient demand.

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Hospice News

JUNE 29, 2023

Hospices often lack the financial and staffing resources needed to fully support bereaved families. 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.

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MARCH 26, 2024

Hospitalist-led services (HS) referred 11.8% of patients referred from traditional, oncologist-led services (TS) during the same time period, according to the study’s findings, published in the American Cancer Society Journals. Horn Prsic is a medical oncologist and palliative care physician. 31, 2022, a recent study found.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Aveanna’s home health and hospice segment has had mixed results thus far this year, but saw recent improvement, along with its other service lines, last quarter. Aveanna also provides medical solutions and durable medical equipment, among other adult and pediatric health care services. million in the third quarter, a 7.9%

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

VITAS Healthcare, one of the largest providers of hospice and palliative care services in the U.S., Broadly, the staffing changes reflect the provider’s commitment to creating career ladders and enhancing operational effectiveness within the organization. HME is a critical but often overlooked aspect of hospice services.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Two hospices have lost the battle against workforce shortages, with one halting some of its service lines and another shutting down altogether. Alaska-based Hospice and Home Care of Juneau (HHCJ) recently announced its closure, citing high staffing costs and lack of clinicians. Hospice and Home Care of Juneau shutters.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Since then, the hospice has seen improved quality outcomes and views EOLDs as an “augmented” level of its supportive care and staffing model, Klint said. “We We were recognizing what the needs of people at the end of life were and the gaps between the medical model and non-medical care pieces,” Klint told Hospice News. “We

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Hospice News

MARCH 29, 2024

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) proposed a 2.6% However, stakeholders in the hospice space contend that the increase is insufficient in light of continued inflation, interest rates, staffing shortages and wage hikes. The 2025 proposed hospice rule is raising some questions along with payment rates.

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Hospice News

MAY 23, 2022

With hospice providers reporting fewer staff in quarantine, many hope to reduce their utilization of temp nursing services — as well as the higher labor costs that come with them. Even now, medical, nursing and social work students receive very little exposure to hospice or palliative care during their training.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 12, 2023

A lack of awareness among families as to the nature and full scope of hospice and palliative care can cause many to turn to costly emergency services during times of health crises, he said. What types of health care services are you rolling out across with your recent expansion across seven markets in Texas?

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Hospice News

JANUARY 9, 2024

Vincent Medical Center in Oregon have voted to unionize, reflecting a growing trend. We call upon Providence to listen, address our concerns, and work collaboratively with physicians for the betterment of patient care and the overall health of our medical community.” Medical staff from other St. Also in Oregon, nurses at St.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 7, 2023

“I think what we are realizing is that the majority of Americans with chronic illness actually are not dying, and they’re living in our communities,” Dr. Jane Schell, section chief of palliative care and medical ethics in, division of Nephrology at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC), told Palliative Care New.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 25, 2022

In the midst of a worsening industry-wide staffing shortage, Templeton was charged with retaining nurse leaders and preparing the pipeline of talent to fill those roles in the future. As COO Templeton will lead the company’s operations across all of its service lines. Carolina Caring appoints new chief medical officer.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The private equity involvement in hospice has impacted how others may view our industry and services. Demonstrating both quality outcomes and reduced health care costs will be an important part of hospices’ competitive edge – regardless of a provider’s size, geographic reach, patient census and staffing volumes, Westfall said.

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Hospice News

JUNE 10, 2022

Though a rising number of hospices and other providers have taken steps to better scale pediatric services, most seriously ill children lack sufficient access to palliative care. Many of these children experience frequent hospitalizations, and very few receive services in a timely manner, or in the home setting, AAP indicated.

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Hospice News

JULY 11, 2023

It includes provisions for additional training for medical school faculty and other health care educators, as well as provider resources for workforce development and nurse retention projects. Beyond the staffing issue itself, PCHETA would also create new avenues for raising public awareness of hospice and palliative care. .

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