Hospice News

JUNE 28, 2023

The agency’s findings will likely inform the development of future payment models as the U.S. Beneficiaries and caregivers reported that their quality of life improved as a result of better symptom management by the palliative care team,” CMMI indicated in its analysis.

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Hospice News

APRIL 16, 2024

We’re getting people to the table, and they are going to be the ones that inform and develop and give us feedback on the project.” The community advisory board will be made up of cancer patients, caregivers, cancer survivors and community organizations that advocate for cancer patients, Mudumbi said.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Given the critical role of family caregivers in home-based care, hospices have a vested interest in expanding their access to support. The state of caregiving Many of the barriers are financial. The direct costs of caregiving are substantial, and they multiply as lost wages or missed work days get factored in.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 2, 2024

When patients are very ill, obtaining medicines, transportation, durable medical equipment (DME), or home health may not occur because caregivers do not have resources or are overwhelmed. “We Every visit with a patient reveals new information about how a patient’s disease is progressing, said Anderson.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 30, 2023

The Identification of Patients in Need of Palliative Care, or ID-PALL, is a patient screening tool that does not require detailed medical information. The Identification of Patients in Need of Palliative Care, or ID-PALL, is a patient screening tool that does not require detailed medical information.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

This kind of information can provide a blueprint for how clinical education can be more oriented around patient needs, as well as around pain and symptom management, Bowman said at a recent conference held in collaboration with the Coalition to Transform Advanced Care (C-TAC). “The

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Hospice News

JULY 3, 2023

Incentive programs to recruit, train and retain palliative care clinicians; education on primary palliative care for all disciplines; and support for unpaid caregivers crucial to addressing the state’s palliative care workforce shortage. and then realizing we have a lot of work to do,” she told Palliative Care News. Access was a high hurdle.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 25, 2023

A caregiver can see obstacles to a patient’s health journey that might not be obvious during an office visit. A caregiver can see obstacles to a patient’s health journey that might not be obvious during an office visit. We worked with them and put an inpatient palliative care provider in the hospital as well as an RN liaison.

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Hospice News

JULY 13, 2023

But providers can also benefit from considering data that comes from outside their organizations to identify prevailing trends, inform their marketing efforts and guide their decision making. The data will inform continuing discussions of the disconnect between the ways providers perceive hospice lengths of stay and the views of regulators.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Without family caregivers, many hospice patients would be unable to receive care in their homes. To help keep patients at home — the lowest-cost setting of care — the federal government recently unveiled a National Strategy to Support Family Caregivers, which has more than two decade’s worth of advocacy behind it. .

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Hospice News

AUGUST 22, 2023

Patients who receive palliative care in a hospital often have trouble finding a provider to continue those services after they return home. The number of hospitals that offer palliative care has grown exponentially during the past two decades. As of 2020, more than 83% of U.S. As of 2020, more than 83% of U.S.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 16, 2023

Sometimes we have a gap in identifying patient needs appropriately in our health systems, whether it’s palliating symptoms or identifying care support resources they need. As a nurse, Templeton has leveraged her clinical experiences to help navigate challenges that prevent patients from accessing care. I’m a nurse by background.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 27, 2023

Egging has served as president of The Denver Hospice since 2009, where she led health information management, quality and compliance departments. In addition to hospice and palliative care, YoloCares also offers adult day services and operates caregiver and bereavement support centers. This marks her return to the organization.

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Hospice News

APRIL 17, 2023

The key secondary goal is to make the support and care we provide easier for caregivers of patients with serious illnesses,” Smith added. “We As the demand for palliative care continues to grow, so too has the way businesses have bolstered their programs to better serve patients. Enter UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH).

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Hospice News

MAY 14, 2024

Doulas can be an additional bedside presence to dig deeper into the challenges patients and caregivers are facing, Curd stated. End-of-life doulas support patients and their families in a number of broad and diverse ways, according to Erin Collins, program director of The Peaceful Presence Project.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

The CHW will offer education on support and care options available to the seriously ill, advance care planning, cancer disparities among Black communities, grief, and caregiving. The foundation is an independent, nonprofit hospice and palliative care research and advocacy organization.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. As she said, when you think about the hardest patients you’ve cared for, in nearly all cases there was some aspect of psychological illness involved. All hands go up. All hands go down.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. He also found gaps, including very few studies of patients with lung disease, and little impact of trials on quality of life. ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Having more information around successful care delivery models and training processes could impact the ability for hospices to foster growth and improve sustainable clinical capacity. It’s really difficult to focus research on this because you can’t simply pull that information through the claims data.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 19, 2024

Putting the plan together The Collaborative Care program is being rolled out at six Lipson Cancer Institute locations, which will offer services by members of their care team who work closely with caregivers and palliative care colleagues to provide total assistance to patients and their families.

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Hospice News

MARCH 15, 2024

Another really important intervention is making sure patients, families and informal caregivers have sufficient understanding of the medications. There is a role for everyone on the team in supporting patients and caregivers in medication management. Nearly half (45.7%) of these patients had more than one adverse drug event.

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GeriPal

APRIL 27, 2023

Furthermore, direction to external websites is not an endorsement from AAHPM or HPNA, or the Annual Assembly. Palliative Care the Next Generation: How the Service May Grow and Evolve AccentCare , a portfolio company of private equity firm Advent International, is another example. We’ve got a very large palliative care practice,” Rodgers told PCN.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

We serve about 60,000 folks a day, 26,000 caregivers, 17 states at a couple 100 offices. This discussion took place on September 7, 2023 during the Hospice News ELEVATE Conference. Daniel Schwartz: It’s a pleasure to be here representing Elara Caring. We are an in-home care company. From there, members transition to palliative care.

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Hospice News

APRIL 8, 2024

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) 2025 proposed hospice rule contained requests for information (RFIs) that could signal changes in the agency’s thinking on key issues. Through RFIs, CMS tries to take the pulse of providers’ positions on certain questions that could impact the Medicare Hospice Benefit.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Caregivers can be a key to reducing hospice revocations and the associated emergency department costs, according to Benjamin Swig, director of Acadian Health. Acadian Health focuses on trauma-informed, patient-centered care through the lens of quality. Photo courtesy of Acadian Health.

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Minority Nurse

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Hospice and palliative care nurses work in a care giving space that is often difficult and foreign for most families, friends, and other caregivers. Depending on your focus area (pediatrics or adult) and your background (RN or APRN ), nurses may also find information about how to become certified.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Adrian is also part of the Mettle Health team, which provides caregiver and patient support. When their last documented goals of care were evaluated, 69% of these patients chose care that focused on palliation, the study found. And then that just really throws a wrench into the communications.”

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

This bipartisan legislation will create a commission to further examine challenges and needs in long-term care services, as well as provide specific recommendations so that Congress can make informed decisions on behalf of our seniors and others in need of quality, affordable long-term support and care.”.

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Hospice News

MAY 23, 2024

Compassus uses its clinical assessment not just to capture a patient’s health information but also to inform their goals, hopes and fears. “In That means hospice providers listen to what their patients need and want to make them comfortable and give them dignity at the end of life. Educate the patient and family on their medication.

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EAPC (European Association of Palliative Care)

JUNE 26, 2023

Visit The Palliative Hub for more information and updates. Visit The Palliative Hub for more information and updates. The post A Human Rights based approach to Palliative Care: Towards Solutions for Public Health Palliative Care appeared first on EAPC.

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AAHPM (American Academy of Hospice and Palliative)

JULY 18, 2023

We have designed a sleek and modern interface, improving the site’s content and navigation, making it easier for caregivers and families of individuals with serious illnesses to locate the precise palliative care and hospice information and resources they require. What do you think?

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GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

We all, when bombarded with information have to take certain elements of a decision and focus on those; and in the ICU, you can imagine, we’re bombarded with information a lot. Summary Transcript Summary One marker of the distance we’ve traveled in palliative care is the blossoming evidence base for the field. Kate: Thank you.

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Hospice News

MAY 29, 2024

The company’s oncology model allows more payers and providers to participate in value-based arrangements that can help inform future reimbursement models. The costs of uncovered cancer patient and caregiver needs is weighing heavily on families nationwide, according to Kurt Sheline, partner at Echo Health Ventures.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Hospices will need to pivot their community outreach strategies to bridge generational faith gaps and improve reach among caregivers, he said. Historically, when these individuals need support during times of illness, there has been multigenerational participation in caregiving roles. Photo courtesy of AMOREM.

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OCTOBER 16, 2023

Quality Matters Palliative care, a specialized medical approach focused on improving the quality of life for individuals facing serious illnesses, has a long and rich history that spans centuries. The modern palliative care movement has gained significant momentum in recent decades. In 1967, Dame Cicely Saunders opened St.

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NHPCO

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Together with our advocacy partner, the Hospice Action Network (HAN), we serve as the leading voice advancing public policy to improve serious-illness and end-of-life care, while our CaringInfo program provides free resources to educate and empower patients and caregivers.

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Hospice News

MAY 9, 2023

However, there is nothing precluding hospices from using technology to have follow-up communications with the patient, the family or their caregivers – as long as the use of such technology does not replace an in-person visit.” We’re hopeful CMS will collect information on telehealth visits being provided to hospice patients,” she said.

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