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Emergency Documents

Chicago Caregiving

Be prepared for an emergency by compiling these key documents in a safe, easily accessible location. Trusted loved ones also need to have access to financial information so if money is not available for care, they have the necessary documents to apply for state-funded services.

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Hospice Chaplain Documentation Webinar

Hospice Chaplaincy

If you are a hospice chaplain in need of polishing up your visit documentation, this is a webinar for you. Research Dr. Saul Ebema hospice chaplain documentation Hospice chaplaincy Saul Ebema

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Meticulous Documentation a Hospices Best Defense in HIS Audit Appeals

Hospice News

Hospices that are meticulous and vigilant with documentation see the best results when appealing payment cuts associated with Hospice Item Set (HIS) audits. For the best chance at success, providers must ensure their documentation is complete, accurate and timely.

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HOW OFTEN SHOULD YOU UPDATE YOUR ESTATE PLANNING DOCUMENTS?

Elder Care Matters

IS IT TIME TO UPDATE YOUR ESTATE PLANNING DOCUMENTS? Experts recommend updating your estate plan every three to five years—whether changing beneficiary designations or updating estate planning documents—to keep it relevant and legally enforceable.…

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Long-Term Care Nurse Fired for Not Falsifying Documentation

Nurse.com

The RN did the assessment and documented her results. The resident was found deceased on the floor the next day, and the RN was asked to change her documentation of her assessment. The administrator had another RN change the documentation done initially by the RN in question.

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IDG/CARE PLAN documentation Webinar

Hospice Chaplaincy

If you are a hospice chaplain in need of polishing up your IDG/CARE PLAN documentation, this is a webinar for Continue Reading. Research

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What Legal Documents Should Seniors Have?

Always Best Care Senior Services

There are a variety of essential documents that seniors should put in place while they are still of sound mind and able to make decisions for themselves. Make sure that documents are all together in a secure location where a trusted family member or friend can access them if need be.

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Home health and hospice payments depend on quality coding and documentation

HEALTHCARE first

Accurate coding and documentation have always been essential to plans of care and patient outcomes. But in recent years, the home health and hospice industry has undergone major regulatory changes. The patient-driven groupings model (PDGM), complex ICD-10 coding and OASIS-E effective Jan.

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Top Home Health Nurse Documentation Updates for 2022 That Actually Affect Your Paycheck

The Productive Home Health Nurse

What a year for home health nurse documentation and nurses… Our COVID song continues…. PDGM has taken over home health nurse documentation…. Home health nurse documentation timeframes are on speed…. Which documentation does it have to deal with?

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4 ways to improve home care inefficiencies with technology

AlayaCare

Automate documentation and record-keeping: By automating documentation and record-keeping processes, home care agencies can help ensure that patient information is accurate and up to date, reducing the need for manual data entry and reducing the risk of errors.

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Home health and hospice payments depend on quality coding and documentation

HEALTHCARE first

Accurate coding and documentation have always been essential to plans of care and patient outcomes. But in recent years, the home health and hospice industry has undergone major regulatory changes. The patient-driven groupings model (PDGM), complex ICD-10 coding and OASIS-E effective Jan.

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How Do I Make a Will?: End-of-Life Documentation

Seasons Hospice

There’s a swirling cloud of confusion and questions when it comes to end-of-life documentation. ” Keep reading to learn more about different types of end-of-life documents, why they are essential and the process to create them. What Is End-of-Life Documentation?

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Home Infusion Therapy… Without the Paperwork

AlayaCare

Home Infusion Electronic Documentation Documenting client visits electronically has clear benefits for home infusion. Without home infusion electronic documentation, nurses are left filling reports by hand and then faxing, scanning, or even mailing it back to those who need it.

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Key Performance Indicators: The Power of Data in Home Care

AlayaCare

AlayaCare Features Back Office Suite Care Worker Mobile App Clinical DocumentationTo those who are not executives or data analysts, key performance indicators (KPIs) are an out-of-focus business term that is easier to avoid than to understand.

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Value-Based Purchasing and the Role of Home Care Software, Our Ultimate Guide

AlayaCare

With an end-to-end solution spanning clinical documentation, remote patient monitoring, client and family portals, mobile care worker functionality, APIs for system integration, a virtual care module and more, we are uniquely suited to confront the challenges inherent to VBP.

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Value-Based Purchasing and the Role of Home Care Software, Our Ultimate Guide

AlayaCare

With an end-to-end solution spanning clinical documentation, remote patient monitoring, client and family portals, mobile care worker functionality, APIs for system integration, a virtual care module, and more, we are uniquely suited to confront the challenges inherent to VBP.

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How Technology Can Help Eliminate Home Care Employee Churn

AlayaCare

Effective software can also create a complete audit trail of care worker activities, as well as rich-media enabled documentation, enabling the substitute care worker to prepare for the visit and have a complete understanding of the client and their condition before they arrive.

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How Technology Can Help Eliminate Home Care Employee Churn

AlayaCare

Effective software can also create a complete audit trail of care worker activities, as well as rich-media enabled documentation, enabling the substitute care worker to prepare for the visit and have a complete understanding of the client and their condition before they arrive.

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Home Infusion Therapy… Without the Paperwork

AlayaCare

Home Infusion Electronic Documentation. Documenting client visits electronically has clear benefits for home infusion. Without home infusion electronic documentation, nurses are left filling reports by hand and then faxing, scanning or even mailing it back to those who need it.

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Key Performance Indicators: The Power of Data in Home Care

AlayaCare

Back Office Suite Care Worker Mobile App Clinical Documentation AlayaCare FeaturesTo those who are not executives or data analysts, key performance indicators (KPIs) is an out-of-focus business term that is easier to avoid than to understand.

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Deep learning algorithms to identify documentation of serious illness conversations during intensive care unit admissions

SAGE Palliative Medicine & Chronic Care podcast

A key example of this is timely documentation of patient care preferences in critically ill older adults. The algorithms can analyze electronic clinical notes in a tiny fraction of the time needed for manual review, offering a practical option for rapid audit and feedback regarding care preference documentation at the system and clinician level. This episode features Dr Alex Chan (Department of Psychosocial Oncology and Palliative Care, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA).

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‘Saying goodbye’ during the COVID-19 pandemic: A document analysis of online newspapers with implications for end of life care

SAGE Palliative Medicine & Chronic Care podcast

This episode features Dr Lucy Selman (Palliative and End of Life Care Research Group, Population Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK). During COVID-19, infection control measures have prevented many family members from being with seriously ill or dying loved ones, and impacted on after-death mourning practices and bereavement.

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Electronic Palliative Care Co-Ordination Systems (EPaCCS): devising and testing a methodology for evaluating documentation

SAGE Palliative Medicine & Chronic Care podcast

This episode features Professor Matthew Allsop (Leeds Institute of Health Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK) who describes a study that outlined and applied an evaluation framework to examine how and when electronic documentation of advance care planning is occurring in end of life care services. This study reports the first methodology for evaluating how and when electronic palliative care coordination systems documentation is occurring.

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Four vital Psychosocial aspects in communicating with the terminally ill patient and family

Hospice Chaplaincy

Research death and dying hospice chaplain visitation Hospice chaplaincy hospice death Hospice documentation hospice patient terminally ill patient terminally ill teenagers Types of death affecting the terminally ill patient types of death in hospice

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CHRIS Integration: Updates, Referrals, and Patient Records Directly from the Source

AlayaCare

Using eReferral functionality, generally through the Health Partner Gateway (HPG), CHRIS provides LHINs with the following information: Patient assessments, Patient Document Library, and Bed Board Management (BBM). AlayaCare Features Back Office Suite Canada Clinical Documentation

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Introducing the AlayaSphere: AlayaCare’s Third-Party Integration Listing

AlayaCare

AlayaCare Features APIs Back Office Suite Clinical Documentation Virtual CareHome care organizations looking to grow in today’s market require a vision that is unique, defendable, and sustainable.

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4 Things Killing Your OASIS Assessment and How to Fix Them

The Productive Home Health Nurse

Or you’re just plain stuck as it pertains to OASIS assessments and documentation as a whole , you may unknowingly be making one or more of the 4 mistakes that we’re going to cover in today’s blog post. OASIS Documentation Tips OASIS Assessment OASIS Nursing Narrative Note

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The #1 Mistake OASIS Home Health Nurses Make During OASIS Assessments

The Productive Home Health Nurse

Something that will add to your already constantly growing list of start of care documentation? If you’re struggling to complete your OASIS documentation in a timely manner, this post will highlight the one mistake you may be unknowingly making….

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Why Your OASIS Assessment Nursing Note Sucks and How to Write Them Better

The Productive Home Health Nurse

What was supposed to be a normal, easily manipulated part of your OASIS documentation is now sucking the life and time out of your days. I didn’t know what would be or how much of it was going to be enough to get me started off on the correct “effective OASIS documentation” track.

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WHO policy brief on integrating rehabilitation into palliative care services

EAPC (European Association of Palliative Care)

Click here to access the document. The World Health Organisation have published a Policy brief on integrating rehabilitation into palliative care services. The post WHO policy brief on integrating rehabilitation into palliative care services appeared first on EAPC. News-update

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Health Care Orgs Face Liability If End-of-Life Wishes Not Upheld

Hospice News

A clinician may not not have realized they were acting contrary to patients’ wishes due to insufficient training, documentation errors or process breakdowns. . They know the patient’s wishes were documented but chose to ignore them.

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Redundancy Key to Avoiding Hidden Red Flags in Hospice Election Statements

Hospice News

Modeling this documentation after CMS’ guidelines may be a key to avoiding scrutiny, he said. In recent years, the agency collected Medicare claims and associated documentation, finding issues related to beneficiary eligibility.

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Hospice Physicians ‘Incredibly Important’ to Audit Appeals Process, Patient Eligibility

Hospice News

Aside from strong documentation, insight from hospice physicians around patient conditions is a key defense in appealing audits, experts say. Careful attention to documentation is essential to avoiding potential audits by the U.S.

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Now and Always, Nurses Need to be Advocates for Health Equity

Daily Nurse

The leaked Supreme Court documents indicating that the justices are on the precipice of turning over 50 years worth of reproductive health precedent has a lot of people pausing to consider the implications of […].

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UNDERSTANDING CAPACITY REQUIREMENTS FOR ESTATE PLANNING IN TEXAS

Elder Care Matters

In Texas, to create a proper estate plan, you must have the necessary mental capacity to execute a legal document. In general terms, mental capacity is shorthand for a person’s ability to reason, understand and make judgments for themselves.

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Leveraging the Power of Automation in Specialty Pharmacy 

AlayaCare

Automated scheduling and appointment reminders, electronic medical records and automated documentation, inventory management systems, patient engagement tools, and billing and reimbursement systems are just a few of the ways that automation can improve specialty pharmacy and home infusion operations.

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Hospices Welcome Expanded Chaplain Services Codes, Seek Clarity on Applicability

Hospice News

Hospices are seeking greater clarity on updated Medicare rules that allow hospices to document a broader range of chaplain services on claims. The U.S.

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Hospice, Tech Company Partnerships Seek to Improve Length of Stay, Streamline Workflows

Hospice News

We’re not going to take the place obviously of a medical director or a certified hospice nurse, but we are going to give them another tool to question their thinking and make sure that what needs to be documented is being documented.”

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Hospices Could Face Legal Risks When COVID PHE Ends

Hospice News

But careful documentation of the ways they’ve used both telehealth and any federal relief they received can help providers hold their ground against any legal probes on the horizon, according to Bryan Nowicki and Andrew Brenton, hospice attorneys at law firm Husch Blackwell. “As

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5 ways of reducing repetitive tasks through home care software solutions

AlayaCare

Home care agencies can reduce many manual repetitive tasks, like paper documentation, emails, calls, and more, by having the necessary tools at their caregivers’ fingertips. One of the most complained about repetitive tasks by care providers is documentation.

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AACN Statement Addresses Evolving Tele-critical Care Nursing Practice

Daily Nurse

After issuing the first authoritative document to define practice guidelines specifically for the emerging telenursing practice in critical care in 2013, AACN’s update, “AACN Tele-critical Care Nursing Practice: An Expert Consensus […].

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YoloCares Seeks to Expand Revamped Volunteer Program

Hospice News

The post-merger integration had thrown some monkey wrenches into YoloCare’s systems for assigning volunteers to specific patients, as well as scheduling and documenting their hours. California-based hospice provider YoloCares revitalized its volunteer services during the pandemic.

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Care Plans Will Be a Key Issue as CMS Updates Hospice Survey Processes

Hospice News

Ensuring that those are enforced with the patient is a big one, and then also following the plan of care, providing visits as required, or not documenting a missed visit or a change in order is usually the reason.”

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