Hospice News

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The needs of today’s seriously ill patients necessitates the development of new, longitudinal care models that integrate the patient-centered principles of hospice and palliative care, Dr. Darren Schulte, CEO of VyncaCare, told Hospice News. After my residency, I went to work for my first health care technology company.

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Hospice News

APRIL 5, 2024

New ways to measure quality While hospice organizations have expressed support for the new tool, contingent upon effective implementation, it could also bring some challenges as providers adapt to a new quality reporting system, according to Katy Barnett, director of home care and hospice operations for LeadingAge.

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Hospice News

JUNE 13, 2022

The long-standing hospice and palliative care workforce shortage has worsened substantially during the pandemic, threatening not only profit margins but access to care for patients and families. Organizations responded via online survey software, online polling, verbal interviews, and submitted paper survey responses.

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Hospice News

MAY 13, 2022

Bluegrass Care Navigators names clinical services COO. based hospice provider Bluegrass Care Navigators has named Stephanie Greene as its new chief operating officer of clinical services. Stephanie embraces the mission of Bluegrass Care Navigators to deliver comforting care at the right time to the seriously ill.”.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 21, 2022

The program is designed to recognize up-and-coming industry members who are shaping the next decade of senior housing, skilled nursing, home health, and hospice care. My heart for post-acute care has grown year after year. Bringing on a brand new EMR software is a very scary and hard change. What drew you to this industry?

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

The bereavement care tech platform Empathy is now partnering with the software company Benekiva in an effort to streamline life insurance claims processing and help families access benefits more quickly. The company’s clients include a number of Fortune 100 companies.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 22, 2022

Hospice chaplains are being asked to do more with less time and resources available, which can adversely affect the quality of spiritual care, according to Saul Ebema, president of Illinois-based Hospice Chaplaincy. When someone is overwhelmed, it is impossible for them to provide quality care.”. A shrinking labor pool.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

AccentCare recently tapped Steward Health Care COO Laura Tortorella as its new CEO. Experience with value-based care Value-based reimbursement is a rising tide, particularly for AccentCare’s diverse business lines. million full-risk beneficiaries through its managed care and health insurance services. Moreover, the U.S.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Summary Transcript Summary In our podcast with palliative care pioneer Susan Block , she identified the psychological/psychiatric aspects of palliative care as the biggest are of need for improvement. Des delivered a plenary at this year’s National Palliative Care Research Center’s Foley retreat.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 15, 2022

The 2022 awards program is sponsored exclusively by PointClickCare Technologies , the leading cloud-based software platform for the senior care market today. This year’s Future Leaders Awards honorees are as follows: Hospice & Palliative Care. Home Health & Home Care. Senior Housing & Senior Living.

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Hospice News

MAY 18, 2022

Underlying the company’s strategy is a drive to develop solutions designed to support patient care as consumers navigate their way through the health care system. WellSky counts as clients more than 1 in 3 of the home- and community-based health care providers in the United States.

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Hospice News

JULY 8, 2022

Timely initiation of care is an important metric for hospices to measure and monitor, according to recent research from BerryDunn. For many patients length of stay is a week or less, which is too short for them to receive the full benefit of hospice care. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).

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High Peaks Hospice

DECEMBER 28, 2023

High Peaks Hospice is seeking a Nurse Practitioner to deliver and support clinical care for our patients. Position Description: The Hospice Nurse Practitioner works in collaboration with the hospice team to provide hospice care services to patients and families in a variety of patient care settings.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary We’ve talked a lot about comprehensive dementia care on the GeriPal podcast but while the evidence is clear that these programs work, the uptake has been limited largely because there hasn’t been a strong financial case for it. Eric: What got you interested in memory care, dementia, and put you on this path?

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GeriPal

JUNE 15, 2023

We talk on this podcast about potential uses of AI in geriatrics and palliative care with natural language processing guru Charlotta Lindvall from DFCI, bioethicists and internist Matt DeCamp from University of Colorado, and prognosis wizard Sei Lee from UCSF. Alex, who is in between us right now? Alex: Okay. So Sei Lee is here.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 10, 2022

She explains how CareXM is supporting this initiative with technology solutions like Care Triage to improve the care experience for patients, families and caregivers, and she provides an outlook on the transformation of care delivery in the next 5-10 years. I loved taking care of active dying patients.

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Solace

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Brubaker has modeled it on hospice care, palliative care and human-centered design, guided by the idea that the “whole human” should be considered. In addition to his academic work, Brubaker has studied death doula and end-of-life care. They hope to hold “clinics” to help guide people in planning their tech afterlives.

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Hospice Nurse Hero

JANUARY 26, 2022

Worse yet, do you find yourself frustrated when “corporate” only seems to care about timely documentation? First, like all nurses, hospice nurses are required to document ALL patient care. Your documentation is the foundation for the care your patient needs from you and the interdisciplinary team. D on’t judge me! ).

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Pallimed

MARCH 21, 2022

Probably small enough not to matter for patient care, but enough to make for more challenging math, but that is a small quibble). I’m sure I’m not the only greying palliative clinician who’s realized the last several years that a large number of the fellows and residents I work with don’t actually know how to use an EAT.

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Home Care Pulse

AUGUST 8, 2023

19: Keeping Your Care Staff: Simple Strategies to Retain Care Staff for 5+ Years At Synergy Home Care of Carlisle, PA, franchise owner Michelle Lisk’s very first employee is still working alongside her to provide care to their community. Come prepared with your retention questions for this exciting interactive session.

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