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Hospices Stepping Up Performance on Visits-in-Last-Days-of-Life Measure

Hospice News

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. In 2019, for example, the percentage was 66%.

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Breaking Down Costs, ROIs of Hospice-Death Doula Partnerships

Hospice News

Goodwin Hospice formed a collaboration with end-of-life doula provider Present for You LLC roughly three years ago. Costs involved in a hospice-doula partnership Goodwin Hospice has a service agreement with Present for You that includes “on demand access” to EOLDs when a patient and family need arises, Klint explained.

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How Hospice, Behavioral Health May Cross Paths

Hospice News

In some respects, the two sectors are already inextricably linked, given the holistic nature of hospice care, including attention to patients’ psychosocial and spiritual needs as well as bereavement support for families. Basically, there are gaps in need, and that both presents an opportunity for entrepreneurship and social entrepreneurship.

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Counseling Awareness Month

AT Home Care & Hospice

A multidisciplinary team can include your doctor, spiritual counselor, social worker, and bereavement counselor to name a few. These are settings that reside outside of the hospital and can include skilled nursing facilities (SNFs), long-term care hospitals (LTCHs), inpatient rehabilitation centers and home care agencies.

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End-of-Life Doulas: A Podcast with Jane Euler, Beth Klint, and John Loughnane

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In addition to being a palliative and hospice RN, she is the Executive Director for Goodwin Hospice , a large non-profit hospice that added end-of-life doula care to their services in collaboration with Jane and John’s doula organization, Present for You. I was alone with her in the end of a long hallway at a nursing home health center.

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Palliative Researcher Oliver: Family Caregivers Are Also Patients

Hospice News

This was actually a bereaved person, and they said that because their person had planted those tulips it reminded them constantly of them. And if we don’t make that happen, those patients end up in the hospital or they end up in nursing homes. Maybe by dealing with that with a social worker, you’re lowering anxiety.

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The Roles of Medical Professionals in Hospice Care

Shining Light Hospice

Hospice teams typically include primary healthcare physicians, specialists such as pain management doctors, nurses, home health aides (if applicable), social workers, counselors, chaplains/spiritual advisors, therapists, and volunteers. Create space for dialogue and topics that will be pertinent throughout the journey ahead.