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End-of-Life Care: Your Patient Has Died, Now What?

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End-of-life care is intimate and unique for every patient. As a nurse, when your patient dies, you might be thinking now what should I do? To make matters worse, I had never performed end-of-life care. (I I was busy doing other tasks like the new nurse I was.). Post-Mortem Care Tips.

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Heart’n Soul Hospice Leaders: Extend Hospice Eligibility to One-Year Terminal Prognosis

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If regulators were to extend the timeframe for eligibility, patients could reap the full benefits of end-of-life care, the two executives said. DocuSign became the most efficient as far as getting consent for services and other documentation completed. Hospitals and nursing homes don’t want to get dinged for readmissions.

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Medicare Claims for Unrelated Services Put Hospices at Risk

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This means hospices can expect to see heightened auditing and scrutiny of what costs are deemed “unrelated” to end-of-life care, according to Judi Lund Person, vice president of regulatory and compliance for the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization. “We Department of Justice.

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Voices: Susan Mills, Senior Program Director for Home Health and Hospice, ACHC

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Equitable access to hospice care is hampered by disparities affecting certain racial, ethnic and socioeconomic groups, posing a challenge that extends to educating patients and families about hospice services, and identifying those with advanced illnesses sooner to maximize the benefits.

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Future Leaders Class of 2022: Shradha Aiyer, Vice President, Axxess

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The program is designed to recognize up-and-coming industry members who are shaping the next decade of senior housing, skilled nursing, home health, and hospice care. Mobile technology is not just used for documentation, but it’s really an integrated workflow for the caregiver at the bedside.

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HSPN ELEVATE: Hospice Clinical Innovation Trends

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Fried: I think end-of-life care truly needs to be reimagined. So really looking at creating a solution that works for the end-user instead of the end-user working for the solution has been our goal. Does the addition of these other business lines propel any kind of innovation? How would you respond to that?

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Future Leaders Class of 2022: Bailey Woodhams, Maxwell Healthcare Associates

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The program is designed to recognize up-and-coming industry members who are shaping the next decade of senior housing, skilled nursing, home health, and hospice care. My heart for post-acute care has grown year after year. My role was more than just teaching clinicians how to document patient visits.

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