After seeing our March Madness college basketball brackets deploy before our eyes this week, we carried on to bring you the latest happenings in home health and home care. We let you in on Kindred Healthcare Inc.’s (NYSE: KND) plan to hold off on home health acquisitions and the latest from an ongoing lawsuit against […]
American Hospice Management Holdings has filed for bankruptcy protection amid “severe financial stress,” leaving the hospice care provider six weeks to sell its business. Already, Hospice Partners of America made a “stalking horse” bid to acquire American Hospice’s operations in Virginia and Texas, leaving operations in Arizona, Florida, Georgia, New Jersey and Oklahoma up for […]
Palliative care appears to be near a tipping point, both due to increasing demand and the ways in which home health agencies and other health care providers are figuring out how to offer and pay for it. While access to palliative care has spread in recent years, awareness and availability of these services is still considered […]
National home health and hospice provider LHC Group Inc. (NASDAQ: LHCG) has expanded its reach by acquiring a southern hospice care provider with four locations. Lafayette, Louisiana-based LHC Group already has a strong position in the south and operates in 25 states. It acquired Heartlite Hospice, a subsidiary of Hospice of America Inc., which has […]
Home health and hospice care providers in the United States now have a resource to turn to in the event of a public health emergency, courtesy of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The Long-Term, Home Health, and Hospice Care Planning Guide for Public Health Emergencies, published March 1, was developed by the […]
More and more home care organizations are recognizing that there’s a true need for palliative care in the United States, and that adding those services can make their organization stand out from the competition. Beginning this summer, home care organizations that already offer palliative care will have an opportunity to distinguish themselves even further. The […]
The largest health insurer in Massachusetts has announced it will soon provide some of the most comprehensive end-of-life benefits in the country, with expanded hospice and home care as a likely outcome. And the insurer’s CEO had personal reasons for doing so. Starting Jan. 1, 2016, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts will cover more […]
The productivity of licensed practical nurses (LPNs), registered nurses (RNs) and home care aides (HCAs) in hospice saw a boost in 2015, as measured in actual patient visits per day. That’s according to the Hospital & Healthcare Compensation Service (HCS), which published the findings in a report created in collaboration with the National Association for […]
Community-based hospice company Compassus has acquired Hospice Advantage, an operator focused on end-of-life care, in a deal that allows the company to enter markets in three new states. The transaction, announced last week, expands Compassus’ footprint to 150 locations in 28 states to serve more than 30,000 patients and their families each year, according to […]
People’s homes became a less common setting for end-of-life hospice care last year, while the amount of hospice services provided in acute care hospitals and other facilities increased, according to a recently released report from the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization. Overall, about 59% of hospice patients in 2014 were in their place of […]
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