The Intersections Between Hospice and Palliative Care

Hospice care and palliative care services have similar, but diverging, threads across the care continuum.  An area of increasing overlap centers around patient consultations discussing symptom management and goals of care. Supportive care for patients and families is a common thread in both hospice and palliative care, with providers touching different points along a patients’ […]

Future Leader: Melissa Heiss, Vice President of Hospice, Jet Health

The Future Leaders Awards program is brought to you in partnership with Homecare Homebase. The program is designed to recognize up-and-coming industry members who are shaping the next decade of home health, hospice care, senior housing, skilled nursing, and behavioral health. To see this year’s Future Leaders, visit https://futureleaders.agingmedia.com/. Melissa Heiss, vice president of hospice, […]

Innovations Shaping Hospice Clinician Satisfaction 

There’s a story Donnette Threats likes to tell when she thinks about hospice care and the meaning of time. It’s a story about helping clinicians spend more time bedside. As the Director of Product Management – Hospice at Homecare Homebase, Threats thinks often about what drives clinician satisfaction in hospice, and what innovations hospice providers […]

Palliative Care’s Biggest Growing Pains

Strains on reimbursement, referrals and staffing represent the biggest obstacles to palliative care providers’ viability and growth. It takes time to build up the payment, referral and workforce resources needed to support a sustainable palliative care program, according to Dr. Stephen Goldfine, chief medical officer at Samaritan Healthcare & Hospice. The New Jersey-based nonprofit offers […]

Voices: Brandy Sparkman-Beierle, Chief Clinical Officer, Homecare Homebase

This article is sponsored by Homecare Homebase. In this Voices Interview, Hospice News sits down with Brandy Sparkman-Beierle, Chief Clinical Officer, Homecare Homebase, to talk about why clinicians are pitted against their technology resources, driven by a desire to spend their time helping people, not documenting. Brandy Sparkman-Beierle shares important strategies for leveraging technology to […]

Hospice, Palliative Providers Strategize to Reach Underserved Communities

Providers are seeking to better understand the scope of health care disparities to find where the greatest areas of needs exist among underserved populations. But defining the range of communities that specifically lack access to hospice and palliative care can be a moving target. Every community in the nation has pockets of underserved communities, and […]

Palliative Care’s Momentum Growing Among Hospice Providers

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. […]

Why Hospice Providers Are Ready to Spend Big on Technology

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, […]