For Hope Hospice, prescribing habits were… fine. Not bad. Not great. An affiliate of Chapters Health System, Hope Hospice, based in Fort Myers, Florida, was looking for ways to optimize their ordering habits — particularly for drugs that could be deprescribed or that have effective lower-cost alternatives. They also wanted data and a process that […]
In this episode of Hospice News Elevate, Senior Reporter Holly Vossel speaks with Chloe Bishop, bereavement and social work supervisor at Frederick Health Hospice. This podcast episode examines the largest trends taking shape in bereavement support in 2025, and the ways that hospices are leveraging their grief programs to improve quality and awareness.
This article is sponsored by Enclara Pharmacia. In this Voices interview, Hospice News sits down with Ryan Krout, PharmD, VP, Clinical Management, Enclara Pharmacia, to talk about the future of predictive analytics in hospice care, and the steps providers can take to get the most out of this evolving technology. He breaks down the different […]
When hospice providers are being investigated not just by CMS but the FBI, the stakes for compliance are higher than ever. In May of 2024, the federal law enforcement agency placed its spotlight on the rising number of complaints about hospice fraud, in which hospices participate in signing up seniors for care without the seniors’ […]
Jacqueline Ralph-Blair wasn’t just looking to the next few quarters when she decided to outsource intake services. She was looking at the next three quarters of a century. “For our 2024 strategic plan, we had to focus on how to be sustainable and have a sustainable foundation to be here for the next 75 years,” […]
When Jennifer Hale thinks of age-friendly care in hospice, her mind goes first to what might seem an unusual place: man’s best friend. As the VP of Clinical Quality and Standards of hospice provider Compassus, Hale views age-friendly care as an approach to care that is “focused specifically on the needs of people as they […]
There’s a story Donnette Threats likes to tell when she thinks about hospice care and the meaning of time. It’s a story about helping clinicians spend more time bedside. As the Director of Product Management – Hospice at Homecare Homebase, Threats thinks often about what drives clinician satisfaction in hospice, and what innovations hospice providers […]
The business of hospice is changing daily. Melynda Lee sees it. As consulting director for tech-enabled post-acute and behavioral health solutions provider SimiTree, Lee saw the industry’s expansion in both the non-profit and for-profit sectors prior to the pandemic, and has seen its regression since. The way out, she says, and the way up, is […]
This article is sponsored by HCP. In this Voices interview, Hospice News sits down with Todd Austin, President of HCP, to learn the strategies that hospice providers can use right now to improve staff engagement, not just with the aim of keeping staff members in their own hospice agencies, but more broadly in the industry […]
When Catherine Sapp took the role as executive director of Avita Home Health & Hospice in September 2019, one of the first areas of improvement that she identified was communication. The Galion, Ohio-based non-profit provider serves eight counties throughout central and northern Ohio, with staff members who are often on the move, working out of […]