Eli's Hospice Insider

The HHS Office of Inspector General and other authorities are scrutinizing general inpatient (GIP) care. But that isn’t stopping hospices from building more facilities.

In New York: New York City now has its first freestanding hospice house facility, says Addeo Hospice Residence in Staten Island. The residence is operated by University Hospice, which is affiliated with Staten Island University Hospital.

And Niagara Hospice in Niagara Falls will open a second nursing home-based hospice unit this fall through a new partnership with Niagara Falls Memorial Medical Center, reports Buffalo Business First. The 14-bed unit will be in the hospital’s Schoellkopf Health Center on the campus. Last year the agency partnered with the McGuire Group to open Hospice at Jeanne’s House, a 22-bed unit at Northgate Health Care Facility in North Tonawanda.

Other local hospice groups are following suit, the newspaper adds. For example, Hospice Buffalo opened three sites with partners in Erie County this year.

In Georgia: Hospice Savannah has opened its new Center for Living. In addition to an inpatient facility, the center includes training and education resources and bereavement programming, the hospice says in a release.

In Ohio: Continuing care retirement community Maple Knoll Village in Cincinnati has opened The Richard Neubauer, M.D. and John Hughes Hospice Center, reports the Cincinnati Enquirer. The Center has 10 rooms.

In Maine: Pen Bay Medical Center in Rockport plans to build a seven-room hospice unit, reports the Bangor Daily News.