Hospice News

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Nearly 80% of states nationwide have passed at least one or more types of palliative care legislation since 2014, according to Yale University’s Palliative Care Law and Policy GPS data tracker. Prison health care staff can include various clinical disciplines, but often lack palliative-specific professionals such as nurses.

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Minority Nurse

MAY 14, 2024

To get you all caught up and ready for her guest appearance, this story is a repost of her interview with Minority Nurse from 2018. Last issue’s health policy column highlighted nursing’s increased engagement in the public policy arena. And that’s not why I went into nursing or why I did this work. Affordability.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 18, 2022

The organization provides services at its three inpatient hospice centers, in patient homes, and in facilities like assisted living, skilled nursing and other residential community care centers. of Medicare decedents elected hospice during 2018, according to the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization. independent of the JV.

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Nurse.com

JUNE 3, 2022

The rate of nurses leaving the profession is rapidly increasing. Hospital IQ surveyed 200 nurses and found that 90% are considering leaving the profession — 71% of those nurses reported at least 15 years of experience. Home Healthcare Benefits for Nurses. Home Healthcare Benefits for Patients.

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1-800-HOSPICE

MARCH 21, 2023

2 Researchers analyzed Medicare records for 18,777 patients who died with indolent non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL), aggressive NHL, or mantle cell lymphoma. Compared to all Medicare beneficiaries who died with cancer, patients with lymphoma proved 23% less likely to receive hospice, and they tended to have fewer days in hospice.

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AlayaCare

DECEMBER 18, 2019

offering a full range of in-home services, from home care, to skilled nursing services, to highly-specialized care for chronic diseases. Home care is seeing greater participation in Medicare Advantage Plans and Transitional Care programs for healthcare systems and skilled nursing facilities, which are also important programs for Lifematters.

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Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

JULY 21, 2022

Last week we as an industry saw RTI International release a report titled: CMS Report to Congress: Unified Payment for Medicare-Covered Post-Acute Care Analysis and Development of the Prototype Unified PAC Prospective Payment System Called for in the IMPACT Act. But onward to post-acute care and what we see coming in the future. .

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1-800-HOSPICE

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Hospice sends nurses, aides, and other caregivers to the homes of patients with advanced, terminal illnesses. Medicare Policies. Medicare and most other insurances require that people not receive cure-oriented care while in hospice. 2014; doi 10.1007/s00520-014-2397-7. 2014; 28(7): 959-964. Doctors and Facilities.

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Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

DECEMBER 9, 2021

An excerpt from that blog here: The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has consulted with Acumen in an effort to establish a comprehensive approach to Medicare Part A PPS SNF payment reform. Assess the impact of the payment alternative on SNF residents, SNF providers, and the overall Medicare system. Well, great news!

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The World According to Dr. El

JANUARY 11, 2022

Late last week, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced that they will begin to post staff turnover data on the Medicare.gov Care Compare website. . Attending to turnover has the potential to improve quality, reduce certain expenditures, and rehabilitate the public’s image of nursing homes.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 25, 2022

Alex: We’re delighted to welcome back Lauren Hunt, who is a Hospice and Palliative Care Nurse Researcher, an Assistant Professor of Nursing at UCSF. I think in that way, what we see with more than half of Medicare beneficiaries dying under the care of a hospice, that expansion was potentially a good thing. Lauren: Hi.

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Home Care Pulse

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Linda Leekley ( 00:49 ): Yeah, Wendy has, uh, I’ll speak for her and then she can add anything that she wants to, but she, uh, she, uh, uh, started her nursing career in, uh, acute care as, as many nurses did, Uh, did some time in the er and, and then moved to post-acute care. Don’t panic at Medicare.

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Pallimed

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

This unexpectedly and undesirably increased health insurers’ medication costs, including Medicare and Medicaid (22). We described above how changes in opioid policy aimed at reducing Washington State’s Medicaid and Workers Compensation costs contributed to an increase in methadone deaths between 2003 and late 2014 (23-25). Twillman B.

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