In addition to caring for terminally ill patients on a daily basis, hospice and palliative care physician Dr. Jay Peitzer of Trustbridge Hospice Care is the chief medical officer on a Disaster Medical Assistance Team (DMAT) for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. DMAT teams have been active nationwide during the COVID-19 pandemic, giving Peitzer […]
Hospice provider Care Dimensions has tapped Dr. Stephanie Patel as its new CEO, upon the retirement of previous top executive Patricia Ahern. Patel has been chief medical officer for the organization since 2006. Care Dimensions is the largest hospice provider in Massachusetts. As CMO, Patel worked to develop specialized patient programs, recruited and mentored clinical […]
To weather continuous changes in the health care space, nonprofit hospices see an increasing need to work together. A trend is growing in which nonprofits form collaboratives in pursuit of greater efficiency and bargaining power with payers. Most recently, a group of five providers in Georgia and South Carolina formed the Southern Care Collaborative. Collaboration […]
Some hospice providers are willing to take on additional regulatory pressure if it successfully roots out “bad actors” in the space, Sarah McSpadden, president and CEO of The Elizabeth Hospice, told Hospice News. Regulatory scrutiny is on the rise for hospices nationwide, but is gaining particular traction in California. For example, a recent report from […]
Katrina Agnew joined UnityPoint Health in December 2021 as vice president of hospice. Though professionally she has cared for terminally ill patients for more than 30 years, her personal experience after her mother’s diagnosis with Stage 4 pancreatic cancer underscored the critical importance of her work. This drives her commitment to expand access to hospice […]
Nurse practitioner Raphael and registered nurse Britt Akobundu, a married couple, launched San Diego-based Blue Monarch Hospice this past March, with the intent of improving the quality of life for not only patients and families, but also health care workers. CEO Raphael Akobundu recently sat down with Hospice News to discuss the couple’s experience of […]
Hospices are hard at work developing new business lines such as palliative care to reach patients further upstream and capitalize on value-based care opportunities. As beneficial as these services can be both to patients and providers, the importance of effective program design cannot be overstated. Florida-based Alivia Care is among a growing pool of hospice […]
Empath Health CEO Rafael Sciullo recently received the prestigious Galen Miller Leadership Award at the National Hospice Foundation’s annual gala in Maryland. Empath Health is the parent company of Tidewell Hospice and Suncoast Hospice, and offers a range of other senior care services. The company merged with Stratum Health in 2020. The National Hospice Foundation, […]
Neonatologist Ricardo Rosenkranz, M.D., is on a mission to bring magic into medicine. As assistant professor in clinical pediatrics at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Rosenkranz has focused on the development of patient-centered, quality-driven health care delivery models for multiple settings. Informing these efforts is a link between performance art and medical practice […]
Change is in the air for Davis, Calif.-based YoloCares, formerly Yolo Hospice, The nonprofit has completed a rebrand to reflect its growing scope of services while also launching a new adult day program. The program is housed in a new adult day center, Galileo Place, following a $1.6 million renovation on Yolo’s existing campus. Last […]
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