Hospices are increasingly eying palliative care as a promising growth opportunity, prioritizing expansion in that field over other health care service lines. More than half (56%) of hospice care professionals indicated that they planned to launch palliative care programs during 2023 in this year’s Hospice News Industry Outlook Survey, prepared in collaboration with Homecare Homebase. […]
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VitalCaring Group CEO April Anthony has a track record of building home-based care powerhouses, making her newest venture a company to watch as its emerging brand comes together. The gestation of Texas-based VitalCaring has been years in the works, but it built its clinical foundation around July 2021, when its three principal owners — Anthony […]
Hospice providers have increasingly turned to technology to connect with hard-to-reach patients, streamline back-office functions and stay ahead of the curve on worsening health conditions. Many operators have likewise leveraged tech to better engage employees in hopes of stronger recruitment and retention. The year ahead is likely to bring significantly more technology investment as well, […]
Seeds of optimism are taking root among hospice providers that industry-wide labor pressures may improve this year. Though staffing remains the greatest challenge in 2023, conditions are improving, reported more than half (54%) of hospice and palliative care professionals in this year’s Hospice News Industry Outlook Survey, prepared in collaboration with Homecare Homebase. Last year, […]
A new multi-state home health and hospice player, VitalCaring Group, has emerged under the leadership of health care entrepreneur and executive April Anthony. Most recently, Anthony was CEO of home health and hospice for Encompass Health (NYSE: EHC). She stepped down from that role in spring 2021. This came just months before Encompass began its […]
Aveanna Healthcare Holdings, Inc.’s (NASDAQ: AVAH) hospice and home health segments saw small jumps in the third quarter, but these lagged behind the company’s growth targets. The end of this year’s Q1 marked Aveanna’s first year as a publicly traded organization. Founded in 2017, the company launched a $458.8 million initial public offering (IPO) last […]
For the exhausted health care labor force — many of whom have left the industry — money talks. Aveanna Healthcare Holdings (NASDAQ: AVAH) recently conducted an analysis of workforce trends that suggested that higher compensation may be the most important consideration for prospective employees, particularly in light of rising inflation. “We’ve just finished a pretty […]
More than 67% of the 203 hospice care professionals surveyed indicated that staffing was their greatest non-COVID related challenge in 2022, according to the 2022 Hospice News Outlook Survey and Report. This is a rise from 33% the prior year. Staffing shortages have long been a thorn in the side of the hospice industry and […]
The pandemic continues to ruffle feathers for hospices nationwide, most recently due to uncertainties about the future of federal vaccine mandates recently halted by the courts. Regardless of how the scales tip on those emergency regulations, hospices remain troubled about ensuring their access to patients, according to legal advisors in the health care sector. Hospices […]
This article is sponsored by Homecare Homebase. It is based on an interview that took place during a live Q&A session with Amanda Overmyer, CEO of Overmyer Healthcare Consulting, and Jon Higginbotham, VP of Business Development for Homecare Homebase at the HSPN ELEVATE conference in Chicago held on October 21, 2021. The discussion has been […]
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