Hospice News

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Education in palliative care principles for emergency department clinicians could likely improve care for seriously ill patients who present in the ED. Patients with serious illness, even hospice patients, present to the ED in increasing numbers for symptom management.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Now that the carve-in is not happening as we expected, [hospices] have a greater risk of being shut out from upstream care management,” Schramm said during the presentation. “It’s 31, Schramm said. 31, Schramm said.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

“[The analysis] gave us a very, very good insight in terms of how we effectively utilize palliative care services that are present in our hospitals,” Bhatia said. “If

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 18, 2024

We do have to show them why that investment is so important, and why they can make a difference within our industry,” Harrell said in a presentation at the conference. “I New leaders will transform the future of hospice, Novak indicated during the presentation.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

While they offer an alternative to home-based services, they present their own unique benefits and challenges. First, the clinic-based model presents challenges in its need for physical space and the associated costs. These locations often assist patients by offering a variety of services beyond symptom management.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

This strategy presents a vision, along with recommendations for achieving it. Even when a caregiver is present, that person may be elderly or ill themselves, or unable to be in the home around the clock due to work or other obligations. “At some point in our lives, most of us will either be a family caregiver or need one.

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Hospice News

MAY 7, 2024

It’s not just past, but also present experiences that are still in existence and impact the quality of care that transgender patients receive,” Fried said. Ultimately, the negative impacts include a lack of access and quality of care for seriously ill transgender patients, Fried indicated.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Contessa provides nurse practitioner managers, field staff, virtual care clinicians, data and analytics services, marketing and supplies, Dawn Black, clinical manager for palliative care at home at Contessa Health, said in a presentation at the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization’s Annual Leadership Conference in Denver.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Though participants reported that family and social support structures were present, caregiver stress was reported to “create tension between couples,” the researchers stated.

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Hospice News

MAY 24, 2023

Because of the poverty requirement, Medicaid beneficiaries present with a much more complicated picture of needs,” Silvers said. This means that varied palliative populations needs should have multifaceted avenues of support within Medicaid care models, Silvers added. It’s a lot of complex needs.”

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Hospice News

JULY 2, 2024

It’s unfortunately necessary to assume that trauma and abuse are present until proven otherwise, much like we assume that pain is present with the 0-to-10 scale,” Muir told Hospice News. Trauma screening, assessment and informed care is not an ancillary thing to get trained on.

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Hospice News

JULY 9, 2024

Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston applied an AI algorithm to facilitate timely transitions to hospice for patients presenting in the emergency department. After this effort was initiated in 2021, about 54% of eligible patients elected the hospice benefit, compared to 22% in years prior, a new study in JAMA Network Open indicated.

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Hospice News

APRIL 10, 2024

Live discharges are disruptive to patients and families and could mean that terminally ill individuals do not receive adequate care at the end of life, according to the two authors, who argue that these incidents are critical care transitions that contribute to increased hospitalizations and emergency department visits.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

First is we like CON states or states where there are restrictions on barriers of entry,” Witzeman said during a presentation at the UBS Healthcare Conference. “We are fairly optimistic on a pipeline of potential Covenant-size deals, but there are a few hurdles from an internal perspective that we would certainly want to keep in mind.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

For hospices, behavioral health investments present an opportunity to extend their mission, diversify revenue streams, and capitalize on the swelling demand, according to Ken Albert, CEO if Androscoggin Home Health Care + Hospice. “I I think that’s going to be a continuing area of focus.”.

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Hospice News

MAY 10, 2023

The wide breadth of service variety within the scope of palliative care presents another lever moving hospices’ investments in the space, especially in terms of reaching patients upstream, Farrand indicated during the Palliative Care Conference in Washington D.C.

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Hospice News

APRIL 7, 2023

None of these patients had been diagnosed with a terminal illness, and several are still alive several years later, according to evidence presented at trial. Justice Department, Angel Care enrolled 24 patients in hospice between 2009 through 2017 who did not meet Medicare eligibility requirements. million in improper Medicare payments.

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Hospice News

JULY 8, 2024

That presents the opportunity to figure out prospectively how to keep risks at a minimum. “AI in the health care space is … a bit of a double-edged sword because as amazing as the frontier is that we’re currently in, there is a flip side to that [of] risk,” Rudman said during a recent Husch Blackwell podcast.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 16, 2023

As health system leaders consider where to invest resources, social workers present a patient-centered approach to increase the use of a service that can improve outcomes and decrease readmissions,” the authors wrote. The agency in the early 2000s also launched several initiatives to expand veterans’ access to hospice and palliative care. “As

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Hospice News

APRIL 23, 2024

We were able to fund 13 junior investigators to come to Denver to present research into neuropalliative care.” “We had family care partner representatives who told us their stories and why it’s important to include them in our research. To increase the number of specialists in the field, Daly said.

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Hospice News

MAY 12, 2023

Patients with ovarian cancer who have received palliative care had fewer hospital readmissions compared to others, according to a recent study presented at the 2023 Annual Meeting on Women’s Cancer from the Society of Gynecologic Oncology (SGO) in Tampa, Florida.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

I wanted to find that, because when you go then to a CMO or CEO and say ‘I want another physician in palliative care,’ I can then tell them, this is what you told us.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Salinas made these remarks during a presentation at the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) Annual Leadership Conference. This allows for greater flexibility in providing care to those in need.” Regulators and other stakeholders have been keeping an increasingly close eye on the payment cap.

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Hospice News

MARCH 14, 2024

The greatest barrier to further improvement is the ever-present workforce shortage affecting the health care industry at large and hospices in particular. Additional touchpoints with patients via telehealth is another factor contributing to improvements on the measure, Harrison said.

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Hospice News

MAY 18, 2023

After the play’s conclusion, Turner presents additional information about hospice and advance care planning using the Five Wishes Project framework, as well as taking questions from the audience. When you have a new group [of employees] come in, you can present this because it creates conversation,” she said.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 23, 2022

License transactions are often favorable for smaller organizations that seek to expand, but may struggle to outbid a large strategic buyer or private equity firm.

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Hospice News

MAY 26, 2023

Leff is the co-presenter of a 10-hour intensive social worker training program tailored to the hospice and palliative care fields with Terry Altilio, a social work coordinator at New York City’s Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and editor of the Oxford Textbook of Palliative Social Work, second edition.

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Hospice News

JUNE 7, 2024

Researchers found that early palliative care via telehealth often improves quality of life for patients with advanced non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) at a level equivalent to in-person care, according to a study presented at the 2024 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) annual meeting.

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Hospice News

MAY 2, 2022

Even when a caregiver is present, that person may be elderly or ill themselves, or be unable to be in the home around the clock due to work or other obligations. The nation is in need of a “total overhaul” in terms of how we think about caregiving and its place in the health care system, according to Sonya Dolan and BJ Miller, M.D.,

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Hospice News

APRIL 18, 2023

If designed and implemented properly, NHPCO believes this measure may help identify physicians who are engaging (or potentially engaging in fraudulent or abusive behavior, presenting a risk of harm to Medicare beneficiaries or are otherwise unqualified to certify or recertify beneficiaries for hospice.” The post NHPCO: Proposed 2.8%

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Too often when an older person is facing an illness, they get swept up in the health care system without being presented the option of noninvasive care. “If Medicaid covers palliative care, we can redirect resources from costly care that might not yield the benefits people need or want, and towards person-centered,” Rowe told local news.

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Hospice News

APRIL 17, 2024

For Hagfors, the nonprofit provider lawsuit presents an opportunity not only to recoup funds but to defend its employees against OIG’s allegations. “I It also included statements from hospice physicians and other experts in the field who indicated that the documentation did support eligibility, among other resources.

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Hospice News

MARCH 15, 2024

Adverse drug events (ADEs) present on a spectrum from discomfort to medical emergency, so the impacts can range widely,” Krout told Hospice News in an email. Common pain and symptom management medications used in the hospice space can be particularly “problematic” in terms of overlapping risk factors for adverse effects, he said.

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Hospice News

APRIL 30, 2024

Even when a caregiver is present, that person may be elderly or ill themselves, or unable to be in the home around the clock due to work or other obligations. The expense alone can be a struggle for the 48 million unpaid family caregivers in the United States.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

While 76% of respondents indicated that they thought the aging population presented a problem, only 14% said the country was prepared to address it. Other key findings suggest that many in the United States don’t believe that nation is prepared to care for the aging population or the associated societal impact.

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Hospice News

JULY 30, 2024

In a recent Medscape podcast , Iyer presented a case study involving a 78-year-old male patient with end-stage COPD. The patient experienced four hospitalizations in the prior year, including two intensive care unit stays.

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Hospice News

JULY 29, 2024

Going beyond the college level, the organization gives presentations at high schools and other educational settings to help students and faculty learn about the services they provide.

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