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. Through the predictive analytics data, hospice patients at St.
NHPCO
DECEMBER 13, 2023
The findings in this report reflect patients who received care in Calendar Year (CY) 2021, or Fiscal Year (FY) 2021, provided by hospices certified by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and reimbursed under the Medicare Hospice Benefit. However, this year started to see the return to pre COVID-19 levels in some areas.
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Hospice News
MAY 8, 2024
When the system overlooks caregiver contributions, it also overlooks the support they need to enable better patient care. Caregivers often feel overwhelmed, lost, and burnt out, which can lead to increased ER visits, higher readmission rates, and an overall decline in patient outcomes.”
Hospice News
JULY 28, 2022
(NYSE: CHEM), recently launched a targeted hiring and retention wellness initiative designed to ease workforce strains and increase capacity for patient care, paving the way for sustainable long-term growth. million in CARES Act dollars the company has recieved, according to David Williams, executive vice president and CFO at Chemed.
NHPCO
DECEMBER 20, 2022
Alexandria, VA) Congress has released the text of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023, an omnibus funding package that will fund the government through Fiscal Year 2023. There is no requirement for hospices to use MFTs or MHCs and a social worker is still required if needed under a patient’s plan of care.
Hospice News
NOVEMBER 30, 2022
As VBID now, we’re approaching the end of 2022 and then emerging into 2023, we’re going to be in 15 plans, 119 plan benefit packages, and across 806 counties. One of the things that you want to think about is tapping into your interdisciplinary care team, and have everybody profile a patient and sit there, and close their eyes.
Nurse.com
AUGUST 17, 2023
Castillo said The Gray Dot program will be implemented systemwide at UCLA Health by the end of 2023. Wisehart, who’s co-founder and manager of the program, said SPARK creates opportunities for nursing students by allowing them to work as paid senior patient care technicians at Community Health Network. “We
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