When marketing his hospice business, Transitions Care CEO Jim Palazzo makes it personal. Palazzo established Illinois-based Transitions Care in 2007 as a portfolio company of the Transitions Group — which also holds skilled nursing, home health, medical equipment and therapy assets. Since then, the company has expanded its footprint to cover four additional states: Indiana, […]
As lawmakers wrestle with necessary improvements to hospice program integrity, they should seek input from the professionals who provide that care, Dr. Holly Yang, incoming board president of the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (AAHPM) told Hospice News. Yang, who is board-certified in internal medicine and hospice and palliative medicine, will soon succeed […]
If you were to write a book about hospice in 2023, what would you call it? To help answer that question, Hospice News asked the CEOs of nine providers how they would title a book about the state of the field today. The consistent themes could be summed up as change, challenges and mission. Leaders […]
Hospice leaders would like to see some changes in the space this year, particularly around staffing, payer relationships and regulation. Hospice executives in December 2022 shared their predictions for what would happen in the space during 2023. To follow up, a range of CEOs discussed with Hospice News what they would like to see happen […]
After more than two decades in the hospital space, David Meyer has stepped into the ring of post-acute as chief growth and innovation officer for Alivia Care. Alivia Care came into existence in 2020 when Community Hospice & Palliative Care, now an affiliate, formed a larger company with a wider range of services. The Florida-based […]
Forging partnerships with health systems and physician groups has become a cornerstone of AccentCare’s growth strategy as it seeks to expand the breadth of its post-acute care services. Collaborations and joint ventures are becoming more common in the hospice space as providers try to reach patients further upstream, diversify services and mitigate staffing shortages by […]
For Chapters Health System President and CEO Andrew Molosky, the hospice model can lay a foundation for care delivery throughout the continuum with its emphasis on quality of life and person-centered interdisciplinary services. The Florida-based nonprofit is applying this approach to a wider range of services across a growing footprint. The organization has secured three […]
Opportunities exist within risk-based payment models to improve coordination among providers and transitions of care between settings, according to Dr. Joseph Shega, executive vice president and chief medical officer for VITAS Healthcare, a subsidiary of Chemed Corp. (NYSE: CHEM). While the Medicare benefit covers the vast majority of hospice care in the United States, other […]
Hospice leaders can benefit and improve by staying engaged with bedside care. This is one of the most important lessons that Empath Health CEO Rafael Sciullo has learned during his 40-year career in health care. This week Sciullo will retire, with Empath President Jonathan Fleece standing ready to take the helm. Fleece is the former […]
Hospice News spoke with a group of industry leaders — from publicly traded companies, private firms and nonprofit organizations — about the major trends and most pressing concerns on their radar as the new year approaches. Common threads among their remarks show that leaders in the hospice community continue to have their eyes on pervasive […]
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