Palliative Care Providers Get Creative to Boost Utilization

While a critical service for patients with serious illnesses, palliative care is vastly underutilized nationwide. Providers have gotten creative in their efforts to improve utilization, with some incorporating pets into nursing visits with patients. Lacking public awareness and patient misconceptions are among the leading causes for lagging palliative care utilization. Many patients and families don’t […]

COVID-19 Public Emergency to Continue, Hospices in the Dark on Regulatory Future

Set to expire later this month, the public health emergency (PHE) is likely to continue, along with regulatory waivers that expanded telehealth utilization and streamlined other health care processes. As they await word, providers are growing increasingly concerned about the future of those flexibilities, and the potential financial and operational impacts if they go away […]

Rural Providers Weigh Telehealth Investment Against Regulatory Uncertainty

Hospices are leveraging expanded telehealth options to maximize access for hard-to-reach rural patients despite lingering regulatory uncertainties. Case in point, the Providence Institute for Human Caring last year launched a tele-palliative care program aimed at addressing rural patients’ unmet needs. Thus far, the initiative has yielded positive results, but the process hasn’t always been easy, […]

Vynca Execs: $30 Million Investment to Fuel Multistate Expansion

California-based Vynca Health Care recently landed $30 million in growth capital to build out its palliative care platform. Hospice News connected with Vynca executives about the keys that are unlocking doors to investors for palliative care providers and associated industries. Questa Capital led the charge on Vynca’s most recent funding round, with participation from existing […]

Hospices Turn to Telehealth to Reach Patients During COVID-19 Outbreak

As the COVID-19 outbreak continues to take shape, hospices are increasingly using telehealth services to limit physical contact with patients and practice social distancing. Strategies to implement this method of support to patients and their families are evolving during the worldwide health emergency. Hospices around the country are working to reduce risk of exposure to […]