Hospice News

MARCH 14, 2024

The number of registered nurse and social worker visits during a patient’s final week is one of the seven quality measures that CMS uses to evaluate providers. Social worker visits in the last days of life also rose to 9% in 2021, up from 7% in 2020. In 2019, for example, the percentage was 66%.

Social worker 278

Social worker Hospice Registered Nurse 2017 278

Hospice Nurse Hero

MARCH 2, 2022

This form of hospice reporting was part of a mandate in the Affordable Care Act (ACA ) and became active in 2017. PRO-TIP : If your patient is in the nursing home, call the family and invite them to be present during your visit! To be honest, the insight of the chaplains and social workers was always impressive.

Hospice 52

Hospice Chaplain Hospice nursing Medicare 52

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

How do we include the people that you care about in these conversations? And so the definition of advance care planning really switched in, I think, 2017, 2018, there was kind of a United States definition and then an international consensus definition. What are your goals? What are your values? Get the hospice referral.

Document 222

Document Feeding Definition Palliative care 222