Hospice News

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

What kind of conversations do you have? You see what’s going on, and you want to explore that, coming into the patient’s home, introducing yourself, and earning their trust. But I’d love to hear from you, the frontline clinical practitioner, on how this is affecting you and the work that you’re doing?

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

When speaking to peers, whether it’s the C-suite, leadership teams or the board, [it’s doing] it in a way where it’s relatable and they understand not only why it’s important, but also the impact of why we’re readying for this. [If] It’s having compliance be part of the fabric,” Roa said.

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Hospice News

MAY 20, 2024

That’s exactly what PACE aims to do. Some of BoldAge’s leaders, including yourself, have a background in home health and hospice. How do we script the interdisciplinary team meeting to make sure we’re covering everything on a consistent basis, so nothing is ever missed? There are a lot of similarities.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 20, 2024

In fact, you’ll probably encounter hospice at some point in your life, either for yourself or for a loved one. Stakeholders, including patients and families, do need to know about the potential risks that bad actors pose, as do regulators and providers themselves. And, at its best, it is great.”

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

It’s putting yourself in their shoes. How do we address these things with our staff and pick up on the telltale signs of distress? So, it’s how you empower them to not just do their daily routine for patients, but also make them part of their health outcomes through your programs and initiatives.” Louis, Missouri.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

We do it through our partners. Whatever we do, we agree upon it together, and we do it at cost.” Do your partners use a standardized palliative care model across the board, or are there customized models based on your agreements with your provider partner? It currently operates in 35 markets in 15 states.

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Hospice News

MARCH 22, 2024

We measure the score at Partners In Care by how well we do with patient care, and we call it a victory when we were rated five-stars by [the U.S. We do everything we can to maintain that level of service that we have for our patients and their families. Do you anticipate further diversification? Yes, I do anticipate that.

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Hospice News

JUNE 15, 2023

Our volunteers actually go through a really lengthy training program and are willing to do that. We support about 55 patients daily and do a combination of palliative and hospice, which is also lovely. Without being Medicare certified, how do you benchmark yourself for quality? Even the nurses just volunteered their time.

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Hospice News

MAY 31, 2022

We didn’t have a dominant aging and ill population in the United States but we do now. It’s not about our individual legacies or identities, it’s coming around the table, putting down your guard and pushing yourself into something new. It’s even more difficult to do that during COVID when you have so many fires to put out daily.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 25, 2023

We can do a better job of tying actual patient needs to payment, as opposed to relying on subjective judgments of clinical eligibility that are really so fraught with opportunity for bad actors to come in and manipulate the benefit for their own gain. It was this idea of care that is only for people at the very end of life.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 9, 2024

There’s] a specific way that you can differentiate yourself,” Dedes said. “We We were a hospice organization at the beginning, so we do best at end-of-life care services. But at the same time, you don’t want to put yourself narrowly in that box.” What type of program do you have? Who do you market it to?

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Looking ahead to 2025, what do you foresee as being different about the hospice industry? If you could look back to your first day working in the space and give yourself any advice, what would it be and why? I think there’s a lot that’s going to be the same, both good and bad. It’s slow. I’m ever the optimist.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Eric: And Alex, who do we have with us today? Naomi: Yes, I do. Alex: Yes, we do. Eric: We do. We were doing a vital talk thing with fellows, and we were chatting about potential GeriPal podcasts, and you mentioned doing one on suffering. ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

My health care journey really is something that primarily started in health tech, where I was able to do just that work on different areas of growth for different companies, some in their early infancy, like MDLive as a consultant all the way through some of the bigger more recent players like Ro as they launched different verticals.

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Hospice News

MAY 24, 2024

That kind of stimulated my interest in trying to do better at the end of life in our country. The hope would be that as we transition to value-based care, where we’re trying to treat patients to stay healthy, as opposed to just doing a fee-for-service intervention, that we have the opportunity to reimagine what health care looks like.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 11, 2024

To be eligible in Canada patients must have a “ grievous and irremediable ” condition, including disability ; they do not have to have a terminal illness with a prognosis of less than 6 months. Who do we have with us to talk about this topic? Four percent. They could have a prognosis of years, or decades. This is Eric Widera.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 26, 2022

I think health care is a few years behind where we need to be from an interoperability perspective and regulation needs to help us fix that, and in the home health/palliative/hospice space do more to incentivize interoperability. How do you foresee the industry changing as we move into 2023? What drew you to this field?

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Hospice News

MARCH 10, 2023

You’re really selling yourself when you market hospice. How do you cultivate that sense of belief? I think it’s really important from a leadership perspective to provide education and training to your staff on what we can actually do and how we do it. It’s definitely different than selling oranges or cars.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Eric 00:53 And, Alex, who do we have with us today? But before we do, Cara, do you have the song request for Alex? Cara 02:08 I do. Show me your scars.” Scars, really? I’ve been there. You probably have too. On the one hand, I don’t think interprofessional teamwork needs to be scarring. This is Eric Widera.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 30, 2024

What do you foresee as being different about the hospice industry looking ahead to 2025? If you could give advice to yourself looking back to your first day in the industry, what would it be and why? I was drawn to the way that the hospice team addressed multiple aspects of health. What quality must all Future Leaders possess?

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Hospice News

AUGUST 29, 2023

What do you foresee being different about the hospice and palliative care space as you look ahead to 2024? If you could look back to your first day working in hospice and palliative care and give yourself any advice, what would it be and why? So it’s just kind of learning how, in palliative care, we’re paving the road.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 24, 2023

Like a lot of people who work in hospice, I never sought out to do this work. And I think that a lot of us who do this work really feel called to do it. In time, I came to Blue Ridge and was running business development and asking questions like: How do we serve more people? How do we reach hard-to-reach communities?

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Hospice News

MAY 25, 2023

Now I work at Netsmart in a client development role where I work with folks like yourself developing strategies on palliative care and operating it. In the future, there will be multiple groups that we’re working with that are doing these models of care and that are operating palliative care programs in that manner.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Do target trials differ from randomized trials and “ordinary” observational studies, or do they differ?!? Who do we have with us today? But before we do, Susan, I think all the way from Leeds, we have a song request. By doing so, we might prevent the mortality associated with kidney failure. Eric is skeptical.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Doing this work, frankly, is not what most of your organizations were built to do. This is not something that you can do by yourself, you need partners from the community …” Mechanic said. You were built to deliver medical care. You need them because, number one, they have deep roots in the community. New York-based Mt.

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Hospice News

APRIL 7, 2023

In doing so, the agency expected a corresponding increase in utilization that, to date, has not materialized. “It One major contributing factor is that many hospices do not actually provide the three higher acuity levels of care, despite federal requirements to do so, according to CMS. of hospice days and 93.7% As many as 72.2%

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

We will start there, but before we do, I wanted to give each of the panelists a moment to introduce themselves and tell us a little bit about their organization before we get started. How do we create a win-win-win type of scenario within the VBID program or alternate payment models? We’re just in the downstate market.

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Hospice News

APRIL 28, 2023

Don’t wait for the day before it starts to get yourself ready for it,” Dombi told Hospice News. Don’t wait for the day before it starts to get yourself ready for it. When it comes to value-based payment models, home health has a head start on hospice. But starting in 2022, CMS began rolling it out nationwide.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 8, 2024

We heard from him that he was going to do an ACP session on between two earns, including a funeral director or mortician, to talk about it in a play on B etween T wo F erns. But before we get into that, we always do a song request. It’s so hard to do Tom Waits. We have to give credit for who came up with this idea.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Most of the things that have to happen from a technology and interoperability standpoint are well within our bounds and relatively easy to do,” Miller told Hospice News. This really important if you intend to take care of not only yourself or your family, but we as a nation to take care of our population — Medicaid, Medicare, or otherwise.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Eric 00:13 And Alex, who do we have with us today? But before we do, I think somebody has a song request for Alex. Naomi 01:34 I do. How do you talk to them about these terms and these definitions? Well-being committees are popping up at every level of an organization. This is Eric Widera. Alex 00:12 This is Alex Smith.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

They knew what they were doing, were running it and getting it started. Thankfully, they did it before the rule came into effect, but the fact is that there was nothing nefarious about what they were doing. But what are some of the aspects of the rule that people aren’t talking about as much that should be getting more attention?

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

You’ve personally been a caregiver yourself. I had been doing research in this area even before I became a caregiver. How did that experience help form your perspective as a professional in the field? So I had that to inform my caregiving. And then, when I did it personally, it went the other way too.

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GeriPal

MAY 19, 2022

How do you do that? Do you do what I do, pull out a handy-dandy opioid equianalgesic table to give you a guide on how much to convert to? . Oh boy, what should we do? Who do we have with us today? Summary Transcript Summary. which advocates for an updated, wait for it… equianalgesic table! .

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

It’s been so wonderful, hearing from all of the industry leaders, talking about hospice and how we move it forward, how we build it across the continuum, and of course, we can’t do that without interoperability data and technology to tell our story. Maria Warren: I’m really excited to be a part of this discussion today.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

That’s why we do this podcast- to address real world issues in palliative care, geriatrics, and bioethics. Eric: And Alex, who do we have with us today? Ann: I definitely do. Alex: We have done this one before, but we’re going to do it again. Summary Transcript Summary Often podcasts meet clinical reality.

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Minority Nurse

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

Your dedication and compassion have significantly impacted countless lives, and taking a moment for yourself amidst the chaos is essential. Sometimes the most productive thing you can do is relax.” — Mark Black Amid the busyness, remember to take time for yourself. Your work is a reflection of your heart.

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