Hospice News

APRIL 4, 2024

Rural-based hospice providers face a range of challenges to improve access among their underserved patient populations. We hear from countless community providers and state association leaders that rural hospices are in financial trouble,” Hoover wrote in a recent letter to the U.S.

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Hospice Nurse Hero

JANUARY 26, 2022

Hospice documentation is tedious and time-consuming. I’ve outlined simple tips to help you master the fundamentals of hospice documentation. Do you spend hours documenting at home? Why Hospice Documentation Matters. First, like all nurses, hospice nurses are required to document ALL patient care.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

We additionally discussed hospice care as an option for care that might follow the trial of rehabilitation. Why do we not have more palliative care access in nursing homes? Many of them aren’t enrolled in hospice before they die. And a lot of them never actually improve their ADLs once they’re sent to SNF.

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Palliate ADLS Palliative care Article 279

GeriPal

JUNE 16, 2022

First, we talk with Christine, a researcher and geriatrician from the University of North Carolina, who recently published a JAGS article titled Overdiagnosis of urinary tract infections by nursing home clinicians versus a clinical guideline. Chrissy: Hospice? Transcript. Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal podcast. Eric: All right.

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ADLS Geriatrics Nursing home Article 240

GeriPal

OCTOBER 27, 2022

ePrognosis started out as just a list of different prognostic indices, so things to predict mortality in hospitalized adults, things to predict mortality in community dwelling adults, things to predict mortality in nursing home residents. And we’ve been slowly building that out. That’s been reported previously.

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