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Calls Grow Louder for Greater Federal Support of Rural Hospices

Hospice News

Rural-based hospice providers face a range of challenges to improve access among their underserved patient populations. We hear from countless community providers and state association leaders that rural hospices are in financial trouble,” Hoover wrote in a recent letter to the U.S.

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Hospice Length of Stay: Balancing Patient Needs Against Regulatory Compliance

Hospice News

Though evidence shows that longer hospice stays reduce costs, providers are still walking a regulatory tightrope. On one hand, longer hospice stays can lead to improved patient and family satisfaction and greater cost saving opportunities. Young told Hospice News. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the U.S.

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How Hospice Supports Families

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However, by 2017, home surpassed hospitals, nursing homes, and every other place as the most common place of death. On the other hand, the trend of more Americans dying at home also presents challenges for families that we may have not seen for a century. Hospice Supports Families as Well as Patients.

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7 Proven Ways to Improve Your Hospice CAHPS Scores

Hospice Nurse Hero

Have you ever wondered why there’s so much hype over hospice CAHPS scores? This form of hospice reporting was part of a mandate in the Affordable Care Act (ACA ) and became active in 2017. As a hospice nurse, you might not always understand how this relates to your work. Include the Hospice IDG.

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Impact of Section GG, ANAs and Social Risk Factors (SRFs) on PAC outcomes

Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has contracted with Acumen LLC and Abt Associates to develop quality and cost measures for use in the IRF, LTCH, SNF, and HH QRPs and the Nursing Home Quality Initiative (NHQI). To resolve this issue, the TEP was presented with multiple options including. of 6) of 1.5″

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Nursing the Nation and the World

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Nurses are everywhere. The ubiquitous nurse is present in the care of children, the elderly, the disabled, and the dying. Nurses don't shy away from responsibility — they embrace it. Nurses run towards the metaphorical fire. All things Nurse Keith can be found at NurseKeith.com. They are legion.

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Aging and the ICU: Podcast with Lauren Ferrante and Julien Cobert

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In a separate study in Chest , Lauren found pre-ICU frailty was associated with post-ICU disability and new nursing home admission. GeriPal podcast with Tom Gill on the Precipitating Events Study, distressing symptoms, disability, and hospice. I want to say like 2017, 2018, something like that. It was amazing. Really sad.