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Emergency Department Residents Lack Training in Palliation

Hospice News

Education in palliative care principles for emergency department clinicians could likely improve care for seriously ill patients who present in the ED. Patients with serious illness, even hospice patients, present to the ED in increasing numbers for symptom management.

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Hospices Stepping Up Performance on Visits-in-Last-Days-of-Life Measure

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Hospices, in aggregate, are showing improvement on the quality measure for visits in the last days of life. In Calendar Year 2021, the share of hospice care days with nurse visits in the last seven days of life rose to 63%, up from 62% year over year, according to the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO).

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The Value of Palliative Care Consults in the Hospital Emergency Department

Hospice News

Between 2014 and 2017, these patients accounted for more than 20% of all emergency department (ED) visits in the United States, according to the U.S. ED-palliative partnerships present a quadruple aim opportunity to improve care for seriously ill patients.” Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). ROI,” the authors found.

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Global Partners in Care Program Fosters International Collaboration on Palliative Care

Hospice News

The Indiana-based palliative care provider Center for Hospice Care (CHC) is looking beyond its immediate community and has developed networks that impact palliative care on a global scale. Global Partners in Care became an affiliate of CHC in 2017, but the program’s roots were planted in 1999. hospice leaders. hospice leaders.

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From Access Barriers to Educational Gaps: The Research Trends Impacting Future Palliative Care Delivery

Hospice News

The study points to the ongoing challenge of limited access to palliative and hospice care as demand rises among swelling aging populations. Hospice significantly reduced end-of-life HU. The median time from a palliative consultation to hospice initiation was 12.5 were referred afterward, the study found.

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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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Partners in Care Sues HHS Over Claims Denials

Hospice News

The case has significance for hospice providers nationwide as CMS and its contractors continue to ramp up audits. We were given a mostly favorable decision by the administrative law judge, and CMS appealed that decision to the CMS panel,” Hagfors told Hospice News. “We’ve 1, 2016 and Dec.

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