Home Health & Hospice Week

The alliance model is catching on for non-profit hospices.

In Oregon, Care Partners Hospice & Palliative in Hillsboro, Hospice of Redmond in Redmond, Klamath Hospice and Palliative Care in Klamath Falls, and Lumina Hospice and Palliative Care in Corvallis have formed the Oregon Nonprofit Hospice Alliance, the cooperative organization says in a release.

The alliance “will sustain and grow community-based hospice agencies” and aims to “put people above profits,” it says. ONHA member services will include “shared efficiencies and economies of scale,” as well as “development of programs and outcome measures for payer contracting.” Benchmarking and best practices are also part of the network.

“It’s really simple: our members provide more care for every dollar spent,” adds ONHA Board Chair Ilene Kleinsorge in the release. “We don’t have profit targets set by a financial executive in another state. Our boards come from the communities we serve and give our agencies the latitude to do what’s best to support people through the end-of life process.”

ONHA says it patterned its network on Ohio’s Hospice, the nonprofit network in that state that recently announced a joint venture agreement with United Church Homes long-term care facility company (see Eli’s Home Care Week, Vol. XXVIII, No. 4).