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Top News Stories Of The Month, July 2024

Mission Moment Hospice Top News Stories Mark Cohen Chris Comeaux Hospice and Palliative Care Today Healthcare Delivery

In this week’s podcast, Mark Cohen joins me once more for the Top News Stories for the prior month. This is a new format as Mark has retired from publishing the Hospice News Today as he has transitioned it to Cordt Kassner and the daily publication has been rebranded as Hospice and Palliative Care Today. You can subscribe for free here: https://www.hospicepalliativecaretoday.com/

With this new format Mark and Chris highlight the top news stories you should not have missed each from their different perspectives Mark as an editor, news aggregator, and longtime marketing Executive focusing on the quantitative data provided by Cordt’s team regarding the most clicked on and read stories, and Chris as a C-Suite leader of Hospice and Palliative Care.

The conversation covers various topics including private equity in healthcare, the increasing scrutiny of for-profit hospitals, fraud in hospice care, and the importance of trust in the hospice sector. The principal themes include the playbook of private equity playbook, the challenges faced by for-profit hospitals and their potential the impact on the Hospice sector, and the erosion of trust due to fraud.

Other themes discussed include mission moments, reimbursement challenges, competition, workforce challenges, patient demographics and trends, regulatory and political issues, technology and innovation, and the human factor. Finally, Mark Cohen provides a masterclass on the importance of effective newsletter marketing in the healthcare industry.

>> Podcast Summary Notes - July