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CMS 2025 Proposed Rule Signals Changes to Quality Measurement, Omits Program Integrity Actions

Hospice News

The 2025 proposed hospice rule is raising some questions along with payment rates. increase in hospice per diems for 2025. The agency also proposed two new quality measures and 2025 implementation of the Hospice Outcome and Patient Evaluation (HOPE) assessment tool to replace the Hospice Item Set.

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VITAS Opens New Hospice House in California

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“There has been a strong community need to offer patients access to an inpatient level of care in which the hospice provider is not dependent on a hospital or skilled nursing facility when accepting patients,” Jennifer Melad, VITAS senior general manager, told Hospice News. By 2025, their numbers will nearly double, according to the U.S. “The

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To Build the Workforce, We Need More Nurse Educators

Nurse.com

The current need for nurse faculty has left nursing students, instructors, and schools stretched thin. So, now more than ever, it’s crucial to create and implement strategies to grow this vital part of the nursing profession. The American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) echoed that language. Persistent.

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Palliative Care Nursing: Podcast with Betty Ferrell about ELNEC

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Summary Transcript Summary As Betty Ferrell says on our podcast today, nurses play an essential role in care of people with serious illness. ELNEC (End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium) celebrates it’s 25th anniversary in 2025. Who spends the most time with the patient in the infusion center? Doing home care?

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Safety Concern: Unsafe Nursing Ratios

Nurse.com

Solutions such as newly required nurse-led staffing committees aim to end unsafe nursing ratios that compromise patient safety. . At a recent conference, a group of nurse leaders came up with this catch phrase, “You cannot fix it with a pizza day.”. Nurses want a manageable workload with adequate staffing, among other things.

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Understanding Nursing Shortages in the U.S. for 2023

Daily Nurse

Nurses are essential to healthcare, yet nursing shortages have persisted for decades. The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated these shortages to crisis levels, with demand for nurses outpacing supply in nearly every region. What’s Causing Nursing Shortages? million below 18.

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Voices: Deanna Heath, VP of Hospice and Palliative Care Services, KanTime

Hospice News

I have done everything from bedside nursing to administration, and my last eight years at the agency level were spent as a quality assurance coordinator. The ability to present customer satisfaction scores, attention to HQRP measures and a means for providing quality hospice services in a cost-effective manner directly impacts those plans.