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Why Hospices Are Pursuing Home-Based Primary Care

Hospice News

As health care stakeholders work to improve care coordination, more hospices are exploring home-based primary care. Close to 260,000 of those seniors are homebound, with only 26% receiving home-based primary care. million primary care visits in 2016. Patients in the United States received more than 2.2

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Key to the Continuum: Hospice Providers Eye Primary Care Businesses

Hospice News

The gradual move of reimbursement systems to value-based care models is partly fueling a resurgence in home-based primary care, according to a 2018 study in the journal Geriatrics. million home-based primary care visits during 2016, up from less than 1 million in 1996, the study found.

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Research: Patient Assessment Initiatives Boost Palliative Care Referrals in Cancer Centers

Hospice News

If a patient is screened and doesn’t warrant palliative care, but has a change in their condition, nurses can redo the screening.” ID-PALL was piloted in a study among seven internal medicine units at hospitals in Switzerland between January and December 2018.

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Avera at Home Gets Personal with Kore Cares Joint Venture

Hospice News

Its services include nursing care, meal preparation, companionship, housekeeping, transportation, assistance with activities of daily living and companionship, and a senior care coordination program. “By Hospice utilization in the Mount Rushmore State ranked low in nationwide comparisons during 2018, reaching 43.2%

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Frontline Hospice Staff Need to Understand New CMS Survey Methods

Hospice News

The changes in a nutshell CMS in 2021 announced revisions to its survey process to emphasize what the agency considers to be four core Conditions of Participation (COPs) — those most associated with the quality of care and services provided directly to the patient.

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Canyon Home Care & Hospice Acquires Uintah Basin

Hospice News

“The investment in Uintah Basin Home Health and Hospice will allow us to enhance the care coordination with Uintah Basin Medical Center and provide better health outcomes for the patients and clients we serve in the Uintah Basin area.”. in 2018, according to the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization.

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Caring for Medically Complex Children Takes a Village

Nurse.com

In this model, nurses provide not only care but also coordination of care and can develop patient-focused care plans, which is necessary to keep everything running smoothly, according to Whitfield. Another nurse and I were the daytime care coordinators,” Whitfield said. Children’s hospitals in the U.S.