Addus HomeCare Corporation (NASDAQ: ADUS) announced Wednesday that it has named a new EVP and chief development officer in Cliff Blessing, who had previously served as the EVP of corporate development for Encompass Health’s (NYSE: EHC) home health and hospice business. The move appears to reflect an aggressive M&A strategy for Addus, which was highlighted […]
Category: Staffing
Paradigm Health CEO and founder retires After nearly a decade at the helm of Paradigm Living Concepts LLC (Paradigm Health), President and CEO Jeff Jarecki is stepping into retirement. Michelle Pickering will take the reins of the Indiana-based hospice and palliative care provider. Jarecki founded Indiana-based Paradigm Health in 2013. The company cares for more […]
A lack of nursing and medical education in hospice and palliative care creates an additional obstacle for providers trying to push back against industry-wide labor shortages. Not only are hospices competing with other health care sectors for new hires, but the vast majority of clinicians entering the workforce are unprepared to provide those services. Most […]
Hospices have applied a variety of tactics to curb workforce shortages during the last two years, finding some success as well as lessons learned. Alfonso Montiel, CEO of Texas-based Silverstone Hospice, spoke with Hospice News during its recent Staffing Summit to discuss how they responded to labor challenges that worsened when COVID-19 struck. None of […]
Hospice providers now compete for new hires as fiercely as they do for market share. And with that competition heating up this year, the largest home health and hospice companies are streamlining their recruitment and onboarding processes to enable more clinicians to hit the ground running. In tandem with those initiatives, hospice employers are enhancing […]
Partners In Care Taps Hagfors as CEO Partners In Care, a hospice provider located in Central Oregon, has appointed Greg Hagfors as its new CEO. Founded in 1979 as an all-volunteer hospice known as Friends of Hospice, Partners In Care serves a 10,000-square-foot market in the Beaver State. The nonprofit operates six business lines, from […]
Hospice providers, like much of the health care community, have turned to contract staffing services to supplement their workforce during the pandemic. Hospices have stated intentions to reduce that trend as infection rates fall, but evidence suggests that contract labor utilization is unlikely to return to pre-pandemic levels. Hospices may continue to find themselves competing […]
Reps. Peter Welch (D-Vt.) and Morgan Griffith (R-Va.) this week led a bipartisan coalition of more than 200 members of Congress urging the Biden administration to investigate alleged price gouging by nurse staffing agencies. Demand for contract nurses has risen sharply during the past two years due to the pandemic. The legislators penned a letter […]
Amedisys Inc. (Nasdaq: AMED) Chairman and CEO Paul Kusserow will officially pass the CEO baton to colleague Chris Gerard on April 15. But the in-home care visionary who helped turn around a struggling company while simultaneously leading a major hospice expansion will remain plenty involved, as needed, he told Hospice News during an interview discussing […]
The workforce shortage plaguing the health care sector is continuing to interfere with hospices’ ability to grow. Most recently, North Carolina-based provider Amorem has temporarily consolidated its inpatient care services to a single facility, temporarily closing its two other units. Amorem was born through the merger of Burke Hospice & Palliative Care and Caldwell Hospice […]