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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. Because those models could definitely look different.

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Palliative Care Needs a Defined Scope to Expand Access, Reimbursement

Hospice News

A primary barrier for patient and family access to palliative care is a lack of standardized definition and payment mechanism. Many providers, payers and stakeholders agree that some form of a consistent definition for palliative care should exist.

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How ‘Responsiveness’ Became a Watchword for Prospero’s Growing Palliative Care Business

Hospice News

No standardized or statutory definition exists for palliative care, and different providers and payers have applied the term to a variety of care models. Prospero Health has leveraged education and responsiveness to grow its palliative care business.

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Nursing Tip of the Day! - Fundamentals

Nurse Nacole

Category: Fundamentals When the duration of AF is definitively known to be less than 48 hours, a prolonged period of anticoagulation is not necessary before electrical or pharmacological cardioversion because the risk of thromboembolism is deemed low.

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Transitions Care CEO: Hospice Marketing Doesn’t Work in a Vacuum

Hospice News

It’s definitely different than selling oranges or cars. There are definitely differentiators among hospices. The hospice landscape has definitely changed. It’s not definitely not something that you can do in a vacuum; everything’s fluid.

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Watch for These Signs That Could Point to Mobility Issues in Seniors

Responsive Home Care

Benjamin Franklin was definitely right: An ounce of prevention is really worth a pound of cure. When it comes to detecting and addressing mobility issues in seniors, prevention is a must.

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The Caregiver Curmudgeon: I Can See Clearly Now

Today's Caregiver

According to the American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, there are two definitions for the word curmudgeon. The first one being: An ill-tempered person full of resentment and stubborn notions

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Prospero Health to Merge with Landmark within UnitedHealth Group’s Optum

Hospice News

It was definitely a big, big priority for [UnitedHealth Group] to have better solutions to help their members, and so they made a decision,” Smith told Hospice News.

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Nursing Tip of the Day! - Fundamentals

Nurse Nacole

By definition, angina is associated with reversible ischemia, so it does not result in permanent myocardial damage. Category: Fundamentals Angina is a syndrome that results from myocardial oxygen demand being greater than the oxygen supply (myocardial ischemia).

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Palliative Care in India: M.R. Rajagopal

GeriPal

How definitions bind us, for example the division between chronic pain and palliative pain in much of the US. Somehow we were not very limited by definitions. Definitions can be shackles. We create definitions. So, shackled by definitions.

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Does Hospice Mean You Are Dying

Hospice Valley

336 total views, 2 views today Last Updated on November 7, 2021 by Frank Davis That depends on who you ask and what their definition of “dying” is.

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Queen City Hospice Expands in Rural Ohio with New Office

Hospice News

If we can’t change the outcome, we can definitely change the journey. Ohio-based Queen City Hospice, an Addus Homecare (NASDAQ: ADUS) company, recently opened a new location in its home state.

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Writing for the Lay Public: Rosanne Leipzig and Louise Aronson

GeriPal

Louise: No, so I definitely don’t outline, because if I know what’s going to happen, I’m already bored. And it aligns with the world health definition of health, which isn’t the absence of disease. Rosanne: I definitely am a morning writer.

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Discrimination Fears Deter LGBTQ+ Patients From Advance Care Planning

Hospice News

It’s definitely not defined as ‘cultural competence,’ because as soon as we think we know everything, then we’re toast. Members of LGBTQ+ communities are foregoing advance care planning conversations due to fears of discrimination, recent research has found.

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Is Hospice Losing Its Way: A Podcast with Ira Byock and Joseph Shega

GeriPal

Lauren: Yeah, I think I can definitely see Joe’s point of view. Yes, my hair is definitely on fire.

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Health Care Leaders ‘Losing Touch’ with Frontline Staff

Hospice News

Nearly 334,000 health care workers in the United States left the industry last year, according to recent Definitive Healthcare data. Clinical turnover has been on the rise since the pandemic’s onset, leading hospices to raise the bar on their recruitment and retention efforts.

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Government Funding Bill Extends Telehealth Flexibilities, Averts Cap Cut

NHPCO

Expanded definition of the IDT: The legislation will allow hospices, starting in 2024, to use marriage and family therapists (MFTs) and mental health counselors (MHCs) as part of the hospice interdisciplinary team. For Immediate Release. December 20, 2022 .

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Nonprofit Hospices See Rebound in Thrift Store, Resale Revenue

Hospice News

We’re definitely seeing an increase in resale shop sales,” Hospice & Community Care CEO Jennifer Graham told Hospice News. After taking hits during the pandemic, nonprofit hospices are seeing supplemental revenue from resale thrift stores rebound.

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Comics and Humor in Palliative Care: A Podcast with Nathan Gray

GeriPal

If you look back to some of my cartoons from late in residency, they showed just how dehumanized I felt and definitely give windows into how dehumanized I imagined my patients to be. ” Definitely puts you in palliative care jail. Definitely puts you in palliative care jail.

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Gabapentinoids – Gabapentin and Pregabalin: Tasce Bongiovanni, Donovan Maust and Nisha Iyer

GeriPal

But definitely gabapentin is one of those drugs that just has all of these off-label uses associated with it. But it’s pretty clear that there are definitely some evidence-based, non-pharmacological treatments, also including dementia behaviors, that are definitely out there and work.

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Psyence, Newcourt Deal Would Create New Palliative Care Psychedelics Company

Hospice News

has signed a definitive business combination agreement with Newcourt Acquisition Corp. A new, publicly traded company devoted to exploring the use of psychedelics in palliative care is in development. Psyence Biomed, a subsidiary of the Canadian biotech company Psyence Group Inc.,

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How April Anthony, Investors Built New Home Health and Hospice Company VitalCaring

Hospice News

We’ll definitely see expansion. VitalCaring Group CEO April Anthony has a track record of building home-based care powerhouses, making her newest venture a company to watch as its emerging brand comes together.

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Founders, Leaders and Futurists in Palliative Care: David Clark, PhD, FAcSS, OBE

Palliative Care Chat Podcast

He wrote a definitive biography on Dame Cecily Saunders. He wrote a definitive biography on Dame Cecily Saunders. Educated as a sociologist, Dr. Clark has been in the center of hospice and palliative care throughout his career. He is a social scientist and historian. He is now emeritus as University of Glasgow. Educated as a sociologist, Dr. Clark has been in the center of hospice and palliative care throughout his career. He is a social scientist and historian.

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Grief Care Platform Betterleave Expanding Via New Hospice-Partnership Model

Hospice News

We’re definitely going to continue to focus on a national presence, to continue to grow and to continue to scale and to be able to support folks across the U.S.

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3 Games to Make HIPAA Training More Fun

Caregiver Support Services

This memory-like game will challenge your team to match the standard cards with their definition. Write down the definition of each standard on separate cards. Label the back of each card “Definition.”. Each player turns over one standard card and one definition card.

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Prescription Drug Misuse: Ways to Avoid Misuse among the Elderly

Community Home Health Care

This is a definite red flag. Prescription Drug Misuse: Ways to Avoid Misuse among the Elderly When people talk about addiction, the elderly age group is the last thing to come to mind.

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The Angry Patient: A podcast with Dani Chammas and Keri Brenner

GeriPal

Keri: We definitely have a case. Keri: Definitely, yes. Definitely a deviation. Summary Transcript Summary Think about the last time a patient yelled at you in anger. How did you react?

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How Hospices Can Support Families Seeking ‘Green’ Burials

Hospice News

I’ve definitely seen a growing trend of natural burials really appealing to a lot of people who are on hospice,” Webster told Hospice News. “A

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High Turnover in Hospices Correlates to Lower Margins

Hospice News

BerryDunn’s findings showed that a lack of formal, strategic leadership succession planning can “definitely lead to increased employee turnover” as a result of poor transitioning, she said. Elevated turnover rates are nibbling at hospices’ profit margins.

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Future Leaders Class of 2022: Hayden Jordan, Palliative Care Director, PruittHealth Home

Hospice News

I would recognize palliative care as being a definitive benefit in the eyes of Medicare, and I think we’re going to get there sooner rather than later. Medicare identifies hospice as a definitive benefit that is covered, but palliative care not so much.

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Behavioral Health, Chronic Disease Among Top Health Care Macro-Trends Impacting Hospices

Hospice News

There are lots of developments that began to elevate behavioral health, but COVID jumpstarted that because more money was coming in, and the need for services was definitely going to go up.”

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The Negative Health Effects of Loneliness Among The Elderly

HomeTouch

"Human beings are social creatures" - this sentence is probably one of the most common definitions describing people. As such, we often take the presence of others for granted. However, loneliness is a serious issue among people regardless of their age, gender, and ethnicity.

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On Racism & Ageism: Ramona Rhodes, Sharon Brangman, Tim Farrell, and Nancy Lundebjerg

GeriPal

I was very excited about the opportunity, and very excited about everything that’s going on at AGS, so when she asked me, I said, “Yes, definitely.” Well, can we start off with just doing some basic definitions for me, starting off with structural racism, Ramona?

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Palliative Care Providers Get Creative to Boost Utilization

Hospice News

In my local community, I have definitely had more requests for information about our services since I started sharing Yoda videos on social media,” said Mize. “I While a critical service for patients with serious illnesses, palliative care is vastly underutilized nationwide.

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How AccentCare Used Telehealth to Reduce Hospitalization

Hospice News

I think we’re still looking to determine the optimal use of telehealth, but we definitely know that our on-call evening and weekend team can often solve a patient’s problem without having to send out the local team.” .

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How Avita Home Health & Hospice Eased Communication and Scheduling for Hospice Staff

Hospice News

Home-based care is delivered, by definition, outside of the office, so using common consumer messaging apps means staff members and agency owners are constantly skirting HIPAA violations. If we can take some of that stress away, then that is definitely a worthwhile investment for us.”. When Catherine Sapp took the role as executive director of Avita Home Health & Hospice in September 2019, one of the first areas of improvement that she identified was communication.

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Should We Shift from Advance Care Planning to Serious Illness Communication?

GeriPal

Most of the debate seems rather wonky, as honestly it feels like we are getting stuck in the weeds of semantics and definitions, like what counts as ACP versus in the moment decisions. Rachelle: One of the things, they are definitely ordered steps, right? Summary Transcript Summary.

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Updates in ID and Nephrology: Lona Mody, Rasheeda Hall, Devika Nair, Sonali Advani

GeriPal

In this case I would say never use orals for staff, but in other bacteremias we are definitely seeing a movement towards oral therapies and there is a shift, but if we had money for more studies, this shift would move faster. Summary Transcript Summary.

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Hospices Climbing ‘Steeper Stairs’ as UPIC, TPE Audits Spike

Hospice News

The volume has definitely been there. Hospice program integrity has been in the spotlight for at least the past two years, often with high financial stakes for providers.

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Hospices that Excel During COVID More Attractive to Buyers

Hospice News

Deal volume is definitely down this year over the past few record-setting years. There was definitely a perfect storm the past couple years with hospice. Hospice acquisition volumes and price tags have hit record highs for several years running.

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Trinity Health Completes MercyOne Health Acquisition

Hospice News

Trinity Health in April signed a definitive agreement with CommonSpirit Health to acquire MercyOne. Trinity Health has completed its acquisition of MercyOne Health, expanding its hospice footprint in Iowa. Financial terms of the deal were undisclosed.

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Hospices Likely to Ramp Up Behavioral Health Investments

Hospice News

There are lots of developments that began to elevate behavioral health, but COVID jumpstarted that because more money was coming in, and the need for services was definitely going to go up.”.

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Researchers Test New Model for Enhancing Health Equity in Palliative Care

Hospice News

I would definitely say that there are structural issues that influence or that result in some of those disparities that we’re seeing, including the availability of palliative care services,” Kutner said.