Regulatory, Financial Hurdles to Engaging Hospice Patients Upstream

Moving hospice further upstream can have beneficial impacts for patients experiencing a range of acute, serious, chronic or terminal illnesses. But reaching patients sooner in their illness trajectories can also come with financial and regulatory risks. One of the largest barriers to building out a broader continuum of services are the regulatory and financial risks […]

3 Ways Hospices Are Managing Rising Costs of Care Delivery

Technology, cost control, and family caregiver support have emerged as cost-saving strategies as headwinds mount for hospice providers. Efficiency has become a watchword in the hospice space. Providers, many of whom are unstaffed, have sought ways to do more with fewer resources and to relieve some of the burden on employees. A range of operators […]

Texas Startup PalliCare Advancing New Business, Care Models

CEO Jonathon Fluhart cut his teeth in the hospice and serious illness space working on the operations side of companies like Intrepid USA and Heritage Home Health & Hospice. He launched the palliative care startup PalliCare earlier this year with nurse practitioner and chief operations officer Tiffany Hughes. The founders shared the goal of improving […]

Hospice, Home Health CEOs: Mission-Driven Culture Key to Staff Retention

As health care providers face staffing shortages in nearly all disciplines, home-based care providers are leveraging their mission of service to help employees remain engaged and fulfilled in their work. In addition to the dearth of clinicians who have hospice or palliative care training, those providers find themselves in tight competition with other care settings […]

Intrepid USA Poised for Growth with New Private Equity Backers

Dallas-based Intrepid USA is gearing up for rapid growth in 2022, fueled in part by an infusion of capital from new private equity investors. The recapitalization is expected to complete in that last quarter of the year or in early 2022, CEO John Kunysz told Hospice News. Intrepid USA provides hospice, home health and personal […]

COVID Driving Tech Innovations in Hospice

Hospices have increasingly leveraged technologies to support their clinical and business operations as they face challenges brought on by the novel coronavirus pandemic. The pandemic may be accelerating a digital shift in operations as providers absorb COVID-19 impacts on technology utilization, with the business of hospice anticipated to run more virtually in coming years. The […]

Hospices Face Ethical Dilemmas During the COVID-19 Pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought on a number of unprecedented ethical questions as hospice and palliative care leaders work to continue providing crucial services to their most vulnerable patients, including the need to limit contact between staff and patients, drawing a line between safety and the traditional hospice care model. Honoring end-of-life goals while caring […]