Hospice News

APRIL 5, 2024

This program honors the people focused on providing innovative cognitive care delivery across the behavioral health, home health and home care, hospice and palliative care, senior housing and senior living, and skilled nursing industries.

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Hospice News

MARCH 14, 2024

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has developed a financial incentive to foster better performance on the measure, the service-intensity add-on. However, though predictive analytics can help, these systems are not a cure-all, according to Patrick Harrison, senior director of regulatory and compliance for NHPCO.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

California-based Legacy Health Endowment recently launched a program to improve care coordinations and seniors’ awareness around their community-based health care options, including hospice. Legacy’s Person-Centered Care program aims to help rural-dwelling seniors to age in place.

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Hospice News

JUNE 30, 2023

Radiant Health is an organization recently established by Metta Healthcare and the senior living operator United Church Homes. Through its partnership with CareSource, Radiant comes under the auspices of a Medicare Advantage payer, gaining access to its resources while retaining the partners’ status as an independent company.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) allowed palliative care providers to perform patient care visits virtually. It would also permit health centers, rural health clinics and eligible health care professionals to provide telehealth services. During the pandemic, the U.S.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Lin has overseen the organization’s Chinatown Community Centers since the first such facility launched in Manhattan roughly 24 years ago. VNS Health recently opened an additional center in Queens and one in Brooklyn last December. VNS Health recently rolled out a hospice education campaign across the centers this summer.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

The senior care company agilon health (NYSE: AGL) will more than double the size of its palliative care program this year, with plans to leverage its robust suite of data to optimize care. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) Accountable Care Organization Realizing Equity, Access and Community Health (ACO REACH) model.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

The inpatient center will allow for smoother transitions to hospice care among eligible hospitalized and emergency patients, as well as home- and community-based referrals, according to Gayle Mattson, president and CEO of Hospice of Cincinnati/HOC Navigators. The hospital is located in Mt.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 13, 2023

VITAS Healthcare Expands Hospital-Based Inpatient Hospice Center Chemed Corp. NYSE: CHE) VITAS Healthcare recently expanded its inpatient hospice care unit at the Florida-based Broward Health Medical Center. VITAS expects to serve roughly 550 patients annually at the center. Photo courtesy of VITAS Healthcare.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Palliative care providers may be uniquely positioned to develop partnerships that support patients through the new Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) Model recently unveiled by the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation. Banach has previously served as deputy director and senior leader at the U.S.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Since joining the company in 2012, Templeton has served as senior vice president and chief of clinical operations. Cook comes to AccentCare with nearly three decades of human resource experience behind him, including 15 years of senior leadership in health care. Berliner has more than 25 years in human resource leadership.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

million seniors experienced Alzheimer’s or dementia-related diseases in 2023, a number projected to triple by 2060, reported the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). It’s really about taking care of our communities and being that resource they can rely on when people are writing their final chapters in their lives.”

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Acadian Health recently expanded in Austin, Beaumont, Dallas, Fort Worth, Houston and San Antonio, Texas, regions with senior populations that are diverse and growing. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). Seniors 65 and older represent 13.4% of the Lone Star State’s overall population, according to the U.S.

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Hospice News

JULY 31, 2023

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has unveiled a new payment model demonstration geared toward dementia-related illnesses, which are becoming more prevalent among hospice patients. The GUIDE Model will provide new resources and greater access to specialty dementia care in underserved populations and communities.”

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Hospice News

APRIL 8, 2024

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) 2025 proposed hospice rule contained requests for information (RFIs) that could signal changes in the agency’s thinking on key issues. Through RFIs, CMS tries to take the pulse of providers’ positions on certain questions that could impact the Medicare Hospice Benefit.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 23, 2023

Texas-based Midland Health recently opened a new inpatient palliative care center aimed at improving access and quality outcomes among seriously ill patients and their families. Dubbed the Center for Serious Illness and Supportive Care, the facility will be based at the health system’s Midland Memorial Hospital.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

population, and hospices are developing more programs and resources to address their unique needs. Clinical and volunteer teams work “hand-in-hand” to ensure the right resources are available, she added. . Florida-based Empath Health opened an adult day center for veterans in November.

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Hospice News

JULY 7, 2022

The depletion of a family’s financial resources is a greater predictor of aggressive treatment at the end of life than patient preferences or demographic factors, a 2016 study concluded. Nationally, seniors are spending more to keep a roof over their heads. a higher incidence of aggressive treatments in their final days. As many as 6.4

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 26, 2023

This can impact access to end-of-life care – particularly among underserved populations, she said at a recent conference by the Coalition to Transform Advanced Care (C-TAC) and the Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC). Having the resources for end-of-life care [support] depends on the state or county that we’re working in.

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Hospice News

JULY 18, 2023

Hospice & Community Care also has two office locations in the state, along with a 24-bed inpatient center, a residential center and a bereavement facility, the Pathways Center for Grief & Loss. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). currently, the U.S. Census Bureau reported.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

The United States Census Bureau projects that seniors 65 and older will represent nearly a quarter (21%) of the nation’s population by 2030. At the same time, the ratio of potential caregivers to seriously ill seniors is expected to shrink to 4-to-1 by 2023, a “sharp decline” from 7-to-1 in 2010, AARP reported.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

It can be hard to put together the right resources, and that’s [partly] with systematic failures in public policy,” Broyles said at the C-TAC–Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC) Leadership Summit. But to sufficiently scale palliative care services, providers will need a more robust reimbursement system, Esch said.

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Hospice News

MARCH 4, 2023

Integrating the two systems will help connect grieving employees with much needed resources, according to Empathy CEO Ron Gura. “A Through this partnership, employees will be able to access Empathy’s bereavement support services through ShareCare’s home home-oriented product, CareLinx.

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Hospice News

MAY 31, 2023

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to reconsider the proposed 2.8% The senior care advocacy group LeadingAge voiced similar concerns and called on CMS to institute a 3.8% The resources and flexibilities from the government over the past three years have been immensely helpful,” Barnett wrote.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Lawmakers have introduced a series of bipartisan bills designed to relieve workforce pressures and improve quality, according to Megan Thompson, senior policy advisor for Senator Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.). In a fractious political environment, hospice and palliative care policy is one area in which members of both parties find common ground.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 2, 2023

Their loved ones are welcome on the unit and are offered appropriate resources and emotional support as well.” The palliative facility is open to patients of both the UHS Binghamton General Hospice and the UHS Wilson Medical Center. Seniors 65 and older represent 16% of the city’s overall population, according to the U.S.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Like so many Americans who have cared for loved ones, I know the importance of ensuring that our seniors have access to the care and support services they need to live their day-to-day lives,” Rosen said in a statement. Senate Takes Up Supporting Our Seniors Act appeared first on Hospice News. The post U.S.

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Hospice News

APRIL 22, 2024

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ (CMS) proposed rule designed to strengthen oversight of those institutions. The accreditor provides publications, electronic products and consulting services through its subsidiary Joint Commission Resources. Some accreditation organizations (AOs) have balked at the U.S.

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Hospice News

JULY 1, 2022

New hospice facilities and grief centers are cropping up across the country, while a California inpatient facility is reopening following a temporary closure due to the pandemic. . Chapters Health establishes third Florida youth grieving center. The first center began providing grief support services in 1991 following her death.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 31, 2024

Among the significant challenges that hospices face when launching new service lines is ensuring they have the expertise and staffing resources necessary, Sheehan said. These services can also bring opportunities to reduce expensive health care utilization among seniors, particularly those with serious and terminal illnesses, Black indicated.

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Hospice News

JULY 11, 2022

The providers are participating in the Illinois House Care Project, an initiative by the Home Centered Care Institute (HCCI). million seniors who reside in Illinois are 85 or older, and 40% of Medicare beneficiaries in the state have four or more chronic conditions, according to HCCI. About 12% of the 2.1 Starting in 2023, the U.S.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 7, 2022

In addition to public advocacy and education, NASHP operates the Family Caregiver Resource Center established through the 2018 legislation. . Helping support caregivers or connecting them with additional resources can help ensure that patients can continue to receive goal-concordant care in their homes. The role of the states.

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Hospice News

MAY 31, 2022

ACOs are among the many health care stakeholders that are grappling with the question of how to best serve the burgeoning population of chronically or seriously ill seniors. Because palliative care resources are so limited, this idea of a time-limited episodic support seems to have some value and should be explored more,” Silvers said.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Changes in hospice regulation have been long overdue, but the ways providers and regulators try to strike a balance between quality and oversight have room for improvement, according to Mollie Gurian, vice president of home-based and HCBS policy at LeadingAge, a senior advocacy group.

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Chicago Caregiving

DECEMBER 6, 2023

They can turn to the many resources and programs available, such as those offered by Chicago Commons, to help aging individuals and people with disabilities. Chicago Commons has been helping families care for elderly family members since 1980 as one of Chicago’s largest providers of senior services.

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Chicago Caregiving

DECEMBER 6, 2023

They can turn to the many resources and programs available, such as those offered by Chicago Commons, to help aging individuals and people with disabilities. Chicago Commons has been helping families care for elderly family members since 1980 as one of Chicago’s largest providers of senior services.

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Hospice News

JULY 18, 2023

a WTWH Media Company, (“Aging Media”) is pleased to announce the Future Leaders Class of 2023, showcasing the most promising talent in the behavioral health, home health and home care, hospice and palliative care, senior housing, and skilled nursing industries. Aging Media Network, Inc.,

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