Sisters Alice Foster and Pruella “Pru” Nixon have worked at Carolina Caring’s Catawba Valley Hospice House for 15 years in environmental services. Recently, they began using LightStrike, a disinfection robot proven to destroy SARS-CoV-2, to sanitize patient rooms.

Theresa Forster is vice president for hospice policy & programs at the National Association for Home Care and Hospice (NAHC)...

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...

The Senate Finance Committee launched a probe into the private equity ownership of hospice provider Kindred at Home on Friday...

Medicare Advantage beneficiaries in the last year of life transition to fee-for-service coverage at least twice as often as those who are expected to live longer...

Providers are grasping for a foothold around recently proposed changes to the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) hospice survey process. Hospices are working through the intricacies of the evolving requirements to ensure they can remain in compliance...

A year and half into the novel coronavirus pandemic, hospices are growing increasingly concerned that emerging variants of the virus will severely impact their operations, workforce and finances..

Four U.S. senators have introduced bipartisan legislation that would direct the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) to develop a demonstration of a community-based palliative care payment and delivery model...

New federal data draws one of the starkest illustrations to date of how the coronavirus pandemic has disproportionately affected Hispanic and Black Americans, showing that they suffered a far steeper drop in life expectancy in 2020 than white Americans...