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Payers to CMMI: We Need a Standardized Definition for Palliative Care

Hospice News

A group of health plans, policymakers, and insurance companies recently told the Center for Medicare & Medicare Innovation (CMMI) that they needed a standardized definition for palliative care in order to improve access. The definition of palliative care that is out there is something that’s an intangible.

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New EAPC Publication: Consensus definition of advance care planning in dementia: A 33-country Delphi study

EAPC (European Association of Palliative Care)

It is open access and available to read at: [link] The post New EAPC Publication: Consensus definition of advance care planning in dementia: A 33-country Delphi study appeared first on EAPC. The EAPC Task Force on Advance Care Planning and Dementia have recently had their paper published in Alzheimer’s & Dementia.

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Taking Action on Customer Satisfaction: The Definitive Guide to Leveraging Your Net Promoter Score (NPS)

Home Care Pulse

This definitive guide explains it all. To help you, we’ve created this definitive guide that will answer the following questions: What is a Net Promoter Score (NPS) and how do you calculate it? What are Net Promoter Scores? Who are Promoters, Passives, and Detractors? Why should you track your NPS?

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How the Right Investments Can Help Hospices Reduce Turnover

Hospice News

Turnover remains a big risk Health care workers have increasingly dropped out of the workforce in the past few years, according to a report from Definitive Healthcare (NASDAQ: DH). Of the 2% of hospice clinicians that left the field, roughly 26 of them were nurse practitioners, he stated.

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Idiopathic Sudden Sensorineural Hearing Loss – Is it time to challenge definitions of hearing recovery?

Evidence-Based Nursing - BMJ blogs

Different hearing recovery criteria are used in practice resulted in confusion over definitions and how hearing recovery is identified5. The post Idiopathic Sudden Sensorineural Hearing Loss – Is it time to challenge definitions of hearing recovery? However, management of steroid drug, dose, and regimes vary (2,3,4). & Hutton, B.

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Future Leader: Hayley Powell, Clinical Operations Manager, PalliCare

Hospice News

It would definitely be how people view hospice and palliative care. I definitely hope that we can get into a benefit period of palliative care, that would be the most amazing thing that Congress could give us. That’s the biggest hurdle that we’ve come across in the past two and a half years since we’ve been a company.

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C-TAC Urges CMS to Better Address Caregiver Support, Social Determinants in Proposed 2024 Physician Fee Schedule

Hospice News

The organization is urging CMS to expand both the definition of a “caregiver” and consider additional payment avenues that would support their training. The agency’s current definition includes more than family members, friends or neighbors, but some of the terms can be restrictive, according to C-TAC.

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