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APRIL 1, 2025

Further expansion occurred in Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa and Missouri. All told, the company operates 83 locations across Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, South Dakota and Wisconsin. Croix Hospice has opened 10 new branches so far during 2025. Croix launched five new locations.

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JUNE 28, 2024

Dallas-based senior care provider Elara Caring has acquired Caregivers Home Health, expanding its footprint in Kansas and Iowa. We are excited to welcome our new caregivers and patients in Kansas and Iowa,” said Scott Powers, CEO and chairman of Elara Caring, in a statement. “Our

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APRIL 21, 2023

Croix Hospice launched two de novos this week, one in Newton, Iowa, and a second in Green Bay, Wisconsin. The new Iowa location will serve a predominantly rural population, which historically have been underserved. Croix Hospice statewide executive director for Iowa said in a statement. of the state’s population.

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JULY 5, 2022

Iowa-based Hospice of Washington County is rebuilding and relocating its administrative offices, which also houses the provider’s palliative care clinic. The hospice received a $60,464 grant from the Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship to fund the rebuild, part of a statewide water quality improvement project.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Trinity Health has completed its acquisition of MercyOne Health, expanding its hospice footprint in Iowa. Trinity Health has served communities in Iowa for roughly 25 years, according to Slubowski. Earlier this year Trinity Health acquired Iowa-based Above & Beyond Home Health Care and Hospice for an undisclosed sum.

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Daily Nurse

JANUARY 31, 2024

Communities across the midwest feel the impact of recent snowfall and below-zero temperatures, but that weather didn’t stop Iowa hospice nurse Tiffany McArdle. The post Iowa Hospice Nurse Tiffany McArdle Walks Through Blizzard to Reach Patient first appeared on Daily Nurse. McArdle, a hospice nurse for St.

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MAY 26, 2022

Trinity Health at Home recently acquired Iowa-based Above & Beyond Home Health Care and Hospice for an undisclosed sum. Above & Beyond has provided home health and hospice care across eastern Iowa since 2004. Hospice utilization runs high in Iowa compared to other states.

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JUNE 1, 2023

MercyOne Shutters Hospice House in Iowa MercyOne has closed its Iowa-based hospice center due to economic headwinds. MercyOne will continue to provide in-home hospice care through its Des Moines, Iowa location. The facility at MercyOne North Iowa Medical Center closed on April 17.

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JANUARY 22, 2025

We have plans to extend our service model into western and northern Wisconsin and into our neighboring states of Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota and Michigan in 2025 and beyond, Kirkland said. The hospice provider is also seeking to expand across other Midwestern states through a combination of organic growth and strategic partnerships, he added.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

It also included a full-time ambulatory clinic as well as long term care facilities in several northern Iowa counties. The health system’s model included an inpatient program that captured nearly 40% of all patients that came to the hospital in a town of 40,000 people, Ihrig said. Clinicians also did home visits with nurses on call 24/7.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Mitchell House Relaunches Plans to Open Mitchell House, a nonprofit in Sioux City, Iowa, is opening the citys first boarding house for hospice patients in coming months. The nonprofit hospice provider also offers palliative care, grief support and advance care planning services. AMOREM also has an advanced cardiac care program.

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OCTOBER 23, 2023

The company has opened four devo locations so far this year in Kansas, Iowa and Wisconsin. The company services as many as 4,000 patients daily across its ten-state footprint, which is concentrated in the Midwest. It has been growing in 2023. This is in addition to six that launched in 2022. “The Wound Care Specialty Program sets St.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2023

The company has opened four devo locations so far this year in Kansas, Iowa and Wisconsin. The Minnesota-headquartered hospice provider is a portfolio company of the private equity firm H.I.G. The company has been on a growth trajectory in 2023. This is in addition to six that launched in 2022. In October 2022, St.

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MARCH 20, 2024

Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and 59 bipartisan co-sponsors reintroduced legislation that would extend Medicare coverage of telehealth and make the flexibilities permanent. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) must make them permanent, arguing that telehealth has become an indispensable tool. Last summer, U.S.

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AUGUST 29, 2023

The rebranding will begin this fall at 38 locations in Arizona, California, Iowa, Nevada, North Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia and Washington, D.C. As Carelon Health, we will continue to ensure our patients receive the right care at the right time – in our care centers, virtually or at home – during the moments that matter most.”

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JUNE 21, 2023

Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and 59 bipartisan co-sponsors have reintroduced legislation that would expand Medicare coverage of telehealth and make permanent flexibilities implemented during the COVID-19 public health emergency.

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APRIL 26, 2023

Within the past 10 days, the Minnesota-based company christened a new office in Newton, Iowa, and a second in Green Bay, Wisconsin. Croix Hospice is continuing its meteoric expansion in the Midwest with a new location in Manhattan, Kansas. This marks the company’s third de novo in as many weeks. As part of its growth strategy, St.

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AUGUST 1, 2022

The company’s 1,300 employees care for more than 3,500 patients through close to 60 locations in Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Wisconsin, and South Dakota. We’re not an organization that is hopping around from coast to coast. We’re very focused on the Midwest.”.

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AUGUST 12, 2022

Capital, delivers hospice care in Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, South Dakota, Wisconsin and in its home state of Minnesota. By employing clinicians from the local community, staff can reach patients more efficiently, according to Bartness. Croix, a portfolio company of the private equity firm H.I.G.

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AUGUST 10, 2022

Since then, Sanford and Good Samaritan has expanded the program to 40 locations throughout South Dakota, Minnesota, and Iowa. . The clinic launched in 2020, initially serving 14 locations. The mobile clinic does not offer hospice care, but its clinical staff does continue to collaborate with those providers after a patient elects the benefit.

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JULY 23, 2024

Michaela Vandersee, executive director of Cedar Valley Hospice in Waterloo, Iowa, shared that 33 percent of the individuals her organization serves have dementia as either their primary or coexisting diagnosis.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Avera@Home is part of the Avera Health system, which serves South Dakota and surrounding areas of Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska and North Dakota through six regional locations. Following the deal’s close, Hoing will transition to CEO of the joint venture.

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JULY 22, 2022

An Iowa provider, simply called Hospice, closed its inpatient house as of Dec. Despite rising demand for care, these factors have caused a number of hospices in the United States to shut down, sell their businesses or downsize. The legislature of Oswego County in New York state recently voted to close its hospice agency within a year.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

His previous employers include Aveanna Healthcare (NASDAQ: AVAH), Nextaff, Saint Jude Hospice & Spirit Homecare, Iowa Hospice and Bon Secours Health System, among others. Moreland joining the company is the next step in a decades-long career in hospice.

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JULY 15, 2022

An Iowa provider, simply called Hospice, closed its inpatient house as of Dec. This action is among the latest that signal the toll that the workforce shortage is having on nearly every hospice provider in the nation, as well as the larger health care sector. 31, 2021, also citing staffing concerns.

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OCTOBER 5, 2022

Croix also has a presence in Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, South Dakota, Wisconsin, and its home state of Minnesota. Adaptive operates three locations in Indianapolis, Jeffersonville, and Newburgh, Indiana, bringing the total number of St. Croix Hospice branches to 60.

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OCTOBER 26, 2022

The provider is part of the UnityPoint Health system, which serves Illinois, Iowa and Wisconsin. Other keys to long-term sustainability include offering educational incentives and promising career paths, according to Linscheid. UnityPoint at Home offers hospice, palliative and other community-based services.

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AUGUST 15, 2024

His previous employers include Aveanna Healthcare (NASDAQ: AVAH), Nextaff, Saint Jude Hospice & Spirit Homecare, Iowa Hospice and Bon Secours Health System, among others. Moreland joined the company last month, the next step in a decades-long career in hospice.

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JUNE 28, 2022

A similar residency exists at UnityPoint Health, an integrated health system with sites in Iowa, Illinois, and Wisconsin. The nonprofit offers hospice and other community-based services through its UnityPoint at Home segment, which serves both metropolitan and rural communities.

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OCTOBER 25, 2024

Nurses who are new to the hospice space often face a learning curve, according to Briana Hilmer, an Iowa-based admissions nurse for St. A key barrier to building that workforce is that, with some exceptions, most clinicians receive little to no exposure to those types of care during their training. Croix Hospice. “If

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APRIL 19, 2023

Hospice of the Midwest expands with de novo Hospice of the Midwest recently opened a de novo in Marshalltown, Iowa, adding a fifth location to its footprint in the state. The facility at MercyOne North Iowa Medical Center was shuttered on April 17. Meanwhile, labor strains cause others to temporarily shutter their inpatient programs.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2022

A lacking workforce to provide care caused an Iowa hospice hospice to close last year. The senior housing community offers 10 one-bedroom apartments, and it is owned and operated by Cathedral Square. Its residents are typically low-income patients.

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JULY 12, 2024

The revenue growth was largely driven by its acquisitions of both Iowa-based MercyOne and North Ottawa Community Health System in 2022, followed by the purchase of Genesis Health System the following year. Trinity Health’s overall operating operating revenue is expected to reach $17.8 billion in the third quarter of 2024, an 11.4%

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Daily Nurse

JANUARY 8, 2025

Meet Sarah Wellsandt, MSN, RN, an exceptional assistant nurse manager at the University of Iowa Health Care campus’s Burn Treatment Center. She has recently been honored with the prestigious DAISY Nurse Educator Award for her unwavering commitment to empowering her team through education and collaboration.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and 59 bipartisan co-sponsors reintroduced legislation that would extend Medicare coverage of telehealth and make permanent flexibilities implemented during the PHE. Long-term policies in limbo Recent legislative moves have pushed for more expansive telehealth coverage. In June U.S.

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MARCH 30, 2023

The lack of a sufficient clinical workforce caused an Iowa hospice facility to close in 2021. The hospice cited high operational costs and staffing shortages as reasons for the shut down, which coincided with other cost-cutting measures until the hospice was able to rebuild its ranks and reopen.

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Daily Nurse

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Natalie Aunan, BSN, RN, works in the Surgical and Neuroscience Intensive Care Unit (SNICU) at UI Health Care and treats her patients like family members. A patient’s daughter says Aunan cares for her patients’ broken bodies, but she loves their souls. The praise of Aunan’s excellent care led to her being honored with a DAISY […]

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