A proliferating number of startups are developing tech solutions and services to support bereaved families, employing a range of business models — including partnerships with hospices. This budding industry includes a number of rapidly expanding companies of varying size and scale. Some, such as the tech firms Empathy and Betterleave, have secured millions in investor […]
Empath Health appoints chief medical executives Florida-based Empath Health recently appointed two new chief medical executives. Dr. Carol Li serves as its chief mission medical administrative officer, and Dr. Neville Sarkari as its chief mission medical affairs officer. In these roles, both will be crucial to the company’s clinical staff retention capabilities, according to Empath […]
As hospices continue to duke it out in the labor market, more providers are contending with competitors poaching their employees. A number of hospice leaders have told Hospice News that poaching is becoming a greater source of tension in the industry’s recruitment and retention ground war. This often comes with promises of higher wages, more […]
As hospices sweat over recruitment and retention, many say that competition on wages and benefits is the leading barrier, as well as widespread misperceptions of their services. Their employees, however, also cite burnout and the lack of flexibility of a career path as reasons they may leave the field. A majority of hospices who responded […]
LGBTQ+ communities have been historically underserved by hospice, often due to mistrust of the health care system as well as discrimination. Nearly 1 in 3 transgender adults reported that they had to teach their health care provider about transgender issues in order to receive appropriate care, according to a Center for American Progress 2020 survey. […]
Amedisys subsidiary (NASDAQ: AMED) Contessa Health has partnered with Texas-based health system Baylor Scott & White Health to develop a model for continuous care in the home, which includes palliative care components. The move is aimed at providing new alternative care models to extend comprehensive, coordinated care to patients’ homes, including hospital-level care, palliative and […]
A contingent of health care providers across the country are making new investments in pediatric palliative care, but building these programs is no easy feat. Many hit obstacles such as a dwindling workforce, limited access to training and a generally poor understanding of children’s specific needs. Though a rising number of hospices and other providers […]
Hospices are leveraging expanded telehealth options to maximize access for hard-to-reach rural patients despite lingering regulatory uncertainties. Case in point, the Providence Institute for Human Caring last year launched a tele-palliative care program aimed at addressing rural patients’ unmet needs. Thus far, the initiative has yielded positive results, but the process hasn’t always been easy, […]
Brent Guerisoli effective Aug. 1 will become CEO of The Pennant Group Inc. (NASDAQ: PNTG). Current CEO Daniel Walker will retire from the position but remain board chairman. Guerisoli joined Pennant in 2012 and, until August, served as the company’s president and COO. In that role, he has been involved heavily in leadership recruitment and […]
Physician burnout costs hospices — both literally and figuratively — whether it occurs among their own medical staff or with their referral partners. One of the most damaging effects is higher turnover. Burnout causes a sizable contingent of physicians to leave their jobs, and it has only grown more prevalent during the pandemic. This not […]
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