The Future Leaders Awards program is brought to you in partnership with PointClickCare. 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. To see this year’s future leaders, visit https://futureleaders.agingmedia.com/. Sonya Dolan, co-founder and chief operations officer of Mettle […]
Demand for hospice and palliative care is rising in rural areas as they are for the rest of the country, but patients in those regions often lack access to care. Hospices trying to reach them often contend with lower patient volume and long travel times between home visits. While recent legislative action could make a […]
St. Croix Hospice has extended its footprint in Wisconsin with a de novo in the Oak Creek community in the southeastern portion of the state. St. Croix is a portfolio company of the private equity firm H.IG. Capital, which acquired the hospice provider last year for an undisclosed sum. The company has been aggressive on […]
The Future Leaders Awards program is brought to you in partnership with PointClickCare. 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. To see this year’s future leaders, visit https://futureleaders.agingmedia.com/. Raymond Capella, vice president of Clinical Services has been […]
Zenia Chavez, 45, owner of El Paso, Texas-based Nursemind Home Health, which providers hospice care, has been arrested on fraud and kickback charges. Her nephew and Nursemind employee Raul Alejandro Fuentes, 23, was also arrested in connection with the scheme. According to the U.S. Department of Justice, Chavez and Fuentes enrolled patients into Nursemind’s hospice […]
Support is building in Congress for the establishment of a dedicated community-based palliative care benefit through Medicare. Ten members of the U.S. House of Representatives Ways & Means Committee have written to Chiquita Brooks-LaSure to call for a demonstration to test such a benefit. Brooks-LaSure is administrator of the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid […]
The National Partnership for Hospice Innovation (NPHI) has called on U.S. congressional leaders to pursue legislation that would further extend the moratorium on Medicare sequestration during the COVID-19 public health emergency. The suspension is currently slated to expire Dec. 31. Medicare sequestration was established in 2014 by the Budget Control Act. The practice reduced payments […]
Companies seeking to acquire hospices are keenly attuned to the sellers’ leadership team dynamics when making buying decisions. Amid staffing shortages and heightened regulatory scrutiny, buyers want to work with leaders who have a similar approach to workplace culture, quality and compliance, as well as business operations like marketing and revenue cycle management. The hospice […]
A joint venture between UMC Health System and home health and hospice provider Amedisys (NASDAQ: AMED) has opened a de novo in Lubbock, Texas. UMC owns 50% and Amedisys owns 50% of the new location, branded as UMC Home Health and Hospice, an Amedisys partner, LLC. The new location is located within the UMC Business […]
Davis, Calif.-based Yolo Hospice has become the newest affiliate of the California Hospice Network (CHN). The network is a coalition of nonprofit hospices designed to support the growth of community-based hospice care and leverage their collective scale and resources in value-based payment programs. Though each California Hospice Network member remains a distinct, independent organization, the […]