The federal government allocated too much vaccine to elder-care facilities, and many states are now redistributing hundreds of thousands of the unused doses to others — a move expected to expand vaccinations to more people, more quickly, according to officials involved in the effort...

COVID-19 vaccinations and diversity initiatives will be among the top priorities for hospice providers during 2021, according to an Axxess survey of home-based care providers. About 22% of the thousands of respondents were hospices...

The impact of end-of-life experiences is a key focus of a new Netflix series, “Surviving Death.” The fifth episode of this docuseries highlights the work of Dr. Christopher Kerr and his research team, who have studied the effects of ELEs on people with serious illness and their caregivers...

Chicago, IL—Hospice News, an Aging Media Network publication, is pleased to announce the results of its annual outlook survey on the state of the hospice industry. Conducted in collaboration with Dallas-based Homecare Homebase, the survey gathers the opinions of more
than 160 industry professionals including owners, executive leadership, managers and staff, polled about their hospice care industry outlook for 2021...

The hospice, home health and home care sector saw a significant uptick in merger and acquisition transactions during the fourth quarter of 2020. About 51 deals took place in Q4 among those industries, according to a quarterly report by M&A advisory firm Mertz Taggart...

After hitting some financial setbacks due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Cleveland, Ohio-based Hospice of the Western Reserve plans to leverage joint ventures and collaborative partnerships to fuel growth...

Differences in end-of-life care can be stark among nursing homes with different proportions of racial and ethnic minorities, according to a new study. The findings highlight a need for cultural competency training for facility staff, suggest researchers from the Columbia University School of Nursing, New York, NY...

The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MEDPAC) has voted unanimously to eliminate the update to the Fiscal Year 2021 Medicare base payment rates for hospice for Fiscal Year 2022 and to cut by 20% the hospice aggregate cap...

Vaccine distribution to hospice and other health care providers has been lacking and stakeholders must take action to address supply chain problems, according to Tom Koutsoumpas, CEO of Capital Caring Health and the National Partnership for Hospice Innovation...