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Gather for a warm welcome from the Hospice News team, as they set the stage for the high-impact sessions, networking opportunities and industry insights set to unfold.

This conversation lays out the essential governance, interoperability, privacy, and clinical oversight standards hospices must establish to safely leverage emerging technologies—ensuring AI and connected systems enhance, rather than compromise, trust, compliance, and long-term organizational growth.

Join us as executive leaders within the hospice space share their thoughts on the current state of the industry, its key trends and outlook for the future.

Take a breather between sessions to mingle with fellow attendees, exchange ideas, and build relationships with professionals shaping the future of compassionate care.

In this session, speakers from across the hospice and palliative care industry, including HealthView Hospice & Palliative Care, will share operational lessons from California’s highly regulated and innovative care environment. The discussion will examine how policy, payment models, and regulatory oversight influence care delivery and organizational strategy, and highlight practical insights that leaders can apply as their own markets continue to evolve.

HOPE is raising the bar on quality and oversight. In this session, hear how Hospice of the Chesapeake (HOC) turned HOPE compliance from a challenge into an operational advantage with Dart Health AI. They went from from auditing 2% to 100% of charts, while reallocating 13 auditors.

You’ll learn what HOC vetted, how they think about successful AI deployments, and where they are expanding AI across their organization.

In this session, a panel of industry leaders and experts will discuss the major regulatory initiatives happening during 2026, from top compliance issues to efforts to root our fraud.

A session that will explore how palliative care providers see opportunities and partnerships taking shape in the future, as well as the market trends that are impacting industry outlook, growth and sustainability.

Refuel and recharge with hospice and palliative care leaders by enjoying lunch, where meaningful introductions and collaborative conversations are always on the menu.

Hospice and palliative care organizations are being squeezed by fixed reimbursement, rising costs, and mounting regulatory and workforce pressure. This session shows how leading organizations are fighting back with operational transformation and real‑time insights to drive faster decisions, stronger accountability, and sustainable margins without compromising mission.

This panel explores the critical distinction between insight and intervention, and why licensed, nurse-led decision-making remains essential even as analytics and AI advance. Panelists will examine how data can flag risk with insights on rising call volumes, escalation rates, staffing strain, and the importance of human intervention in closing the care loop. The discussion will focus on centralized triage models that support earlier action, reduce operational variability, and create financial and workforce stability in environments where providers often lack the staff to triage at scale.

This session will present strategies for recruiting and managing volunteers to aid in compliance with the 5% volunterrism requirement.

Speed, compassion and compliance are paramount in hospice admissions processes. In this session, hospice industry leaders will discuss strategies for ensuring that the referral-to-bedside process is both fast and effective.

Take a breather between sessions to mingle with fellow attendees, exchange ideas, and build relationships with professionals shaping the future of compassionate care.

Hospice teams are drowning in documentation. Between rising audits, shifting compliance rules, and heavy charting demands, clinicians are spending more time defending their care than delivering it. In addition, with burnout and staffing shortages at an all-time high, the status quo isn’t sustainable.

This 30-minute panel shares the real story of how one hospice agency broke that cycle. Without hiring more staff or asking clinicians to work longer hours, they simplified documentation, reduced rework, and strengthened audit readiness, while giving their teams time back for patient care.

The discussion will focus on what changed, what worked, and what required adjustment, including how newer technologies, such as AI, supported those improvements. You will leave with a clear, practical plan you can pressure-test in your own organization, red flags to watch for, concrete steps to clean it up, and a way to protect both compliance and your team’s energy without burning out the people you can’t afford to lose.

This session will explore what it takes to establish and sustain an effective, high-quality pediatric hospice or palliative care program in today's economic and clinical environment.

Without family caregivers, it would be virtually impossible to provide hospice care in the home. Yet many caregivers stuggle under crushing burdens. In this session, hospice experts will discuss strategies for improving caregiver support.

Unwind after a day of sessions by reconnecting with peers and continuing conversations with executives, advisors, and innovators driving growth and excellence in hospice and palliative care.

In this "Fireside Chat," Hospice News will explore the rise of the "payvider" organization, payers that also provide the care.

Take a breather between sessions to mingle with fellow attendees, exchange ideas, and build relationships with professionals shaping the future of compassionate care.

Most hospice agencies are already using AI. Voice documentation tools, automated QA layers. The results are real. But point solutions hit a ceiling, and that ceiling is your EMR.

This session introduces the AI-Native Agency — operations rebuilt from the ground up around replacing your EMR with an AI Operating System. We'll cover the back office staffing assumptions AI breaks, what AI-native clinical operations look like in practice, and what operating in a post-EMR era looks like.oice documentation tools, automated QA layers. The results are real. But point solutions hit a ceiling, and that ceiling is your EMR.

Hospices that complete acquisitions and affiliations must then do the hard work of integrating their new assets into their existing operations. This session will examine key integration strategies to ensure a smooth transition after a transaction closes.

Palliative care models are proliferating throughout health care, among hospices, primary care providers, health systems, oncology practices and others. This session will look at how these models are taking place across different health care settings.