The cost of providing general inpatient care can be steep for hospices. Expenses run the gamut from staff wages and salaries to medications, as well as costs related to establishing and maintaining a physical facility. Medication management is a vital piece of both the clinical and financial puzzle when it comes to general inpatient care. […]
Rosemont, Ill.-based Seasons Hospice & Palliative Care recently began construction on a new inpatient facility in Phoenix aimed at making serious illness and end-of-life care more accessible to patients and families in the area. The 15-bed inpatient center will be located roughly 10 miles from the Seasons’ administrative office in Arizona, located near several Phoenix […]
Seasons Hospice & Palliative Care and health system ChristianaCare have entered into a joint venture designed to expand in-home services throughout the state of Delaware. The JV is branded as Christiana-Care-Seasons Hospice & Palliative Care. The JV is not Seasons’ first collaboration with ChristianaCare. The two companies have worked together on joint initiatives a number […]
AccentCare Inc. has acquired Southeastern Health Care at Home from Chicago-based private equity firm Geneva Glen Capital, expanding its home health and hospice footprint in the Pennsylvania and Virginia markets. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. AccentCare is a portfolio company of the private equity firm Advent International, which purchased the provider from […]
The Seasons Hospice & Palliative Care/AccentCare has appointed Nicole McCann-Davis as associate vice president of health equity and access. In this newly created position, she will oversee the company’s efforts to foster equity, diversity and inclusion among staff and its patient population. Seasons and AccentCare merged in late 2020, but the two segments have retained […]
The coronavirus pandemic has been reshaping the ways hospices provide bereavement care. Many providers have taken these services online as COVID-19 forced the need to socially distance, with hospices working quickly to implement new technology platforms. Given these investments, many of these changes will likely extend into the long term. The U.S. Centers for Medicare […]
New physician relationships are anticipated to be a major opportunity for referral partnership growth in 2021 among hospice providers. Communicating the value of hospice care to physicians will be an important key to developing and sustaining this largely untapped area of referring relationships. Demographics, evolving payment models and shifts in patient accessibility during COVID-19 are […]
Hospice and home health provider AccentCare has installed Chris Dimos as the company’s first chief operations officer. Dimos comes to AccentCare after serving as president of retail solutions at McKesson Pharmaceutical Solutions and Services, a segment of McKesson Corp. (NYSE: MCK), a Fortune 10 company. Dimos began his health care career as a pharmacist and moved […]
The year 2020 brought unprecedented disruption to the hospice space, mostly due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The outbreak strained providers ability to provide care, access patients in homes and facilities and to maintain a healthy bottom line in light of lost revenues and rising costs. Despite these challenges and economic headwinds, hospices adapted, improvised and […]
Post-acute care company AccentCare and Rosemont, Ill.-based Seasons Hospice & Palliative Care have completed their planned merger, having cleared customary regulatory and governance hurdles. The combined company will provide a full continuum of home-based health care services, including hospice, palliative care, home health care and personal care. AccentCare is a portfolio company of the private equity […]
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