Hospice News

MAY 22, 2023

Though older Asian-American adults may be less likely to discuss pain and symptom management needs with their health care professionals, they may be more receptive to the psychosocial support included in hospice and palliative care, according to recent research from VITAS’ Healthcare. They represent 1.8%

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Virtual care delivery processes are playing a key role in hospices’ ability to support both patients and staff as end-of-life care expands further upstream. End-of-life care truly needs to be reimagined,” Hamilton Fried told Hospice News at the ELEVATE conference in Chicago. “We

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SAGE Palliative Medicine & Chronic Care podcast

JANUARY 31, 2022

HammondCare Centre for Learning and Research in Palliative Care, Greenwich Hospital, Greenwich, NSW, Australia). Global demand for palliative care is increasing and the reliance on exclusively specialist hospital-based care is becoming unsustainable. Community preferences also favour home-based deaths.

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Hospice News

MAY 3, 2024

Breaking down the barriers to stronger trauma-informed end-of-life care requires heightened awareness, legislative action and improved care delivery approaches. Counterpoints and legalities Hospices have taken greater steps toward improved trauma-informed end-of-life care.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

A lack of trust and cultural competence are two factors fueling disparities in advance care planning and palliative care among underserved African American communities. Black populations have long-faced a history of racism that has affected the ways they access and receive care, according to a recent study.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Onboarding processes have an important role in preparing hospice clinicians for the nuances of providing end-of-life care. For example, some clinicians may lack the communication skills needed to discuss goals of care at the end of life, she said. There’s no one special sauce in what we’re doing.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Research around hospice care has come a long way. But data gaps exist when it comes to expanding understanding of some aspects of end-of-life care delivery. We can continue to educate our communities and those that are not using our services to pay more attention to why hospice and palliative care are so important.”

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GeriPal

JULY 28, 2022

Jennifer’s study is most widely known for the “kicker” – not only did it improve quality of life, palliative care was associated with a couple months longer survival. . Areej’s study is remarkably novel in that it is, to our knowledge, the first study of palliative care during curative treatment. . hint: coping).

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Hospice News

MAY 22, 2023

Most Americans know how they want their end-of-life care to be handled, but roughly 1 in 3 actually document those plans, a recent study indicates. In 2021, Cigna Health Insurance entered a partnership with Koda Health to provide a platform for advanced care planning on a national scale.

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Hospice News

MAY 9, 2022

Advance care planning by necessity occurs upstream of hospice, but those providers nevertheless have a role to play in helping patients and families understand the importance of making their end-of-life wishes known. I think everybody in hospice and palliative care has to be really vocal about this. That’s hard to do.

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SAGE Palliative Medicine & Chronic Care podcast

JUNE 11, 2021

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).

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

Though 89% of those surveyed indicated that they felt comfortable talking about death, 81% said that they had never had a conversation about end-of-life care with a health care provider. We know that only about 51% Medicare beneficiaries in any given year are utilizing hospice. “We

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Hospice News

APRIL 11, 2023

That helps with the HVLDL metric and the last three days of life, and also impacts our quality scores, because we’re building that relationship with them all throughout their journey and ramping up intensity as we get to those final days for the patient and the family.”

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Seasons Hospice

MARCH 26, 2023

Is There A Length Of Time For Palliative Care? Palliative care is a type of medical care that focuses on providing relief from the symptoms, stress, and pain of serious illnesses. It helps individuals live as comfortably as possible during their illness by managing physical, emotional, spiritual, and practical aspects of care.

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NHPCO

APRIL 15, 2024

For Immediate Release April 15, 2024 (Alexandria, VA) – CaringInfo , a program of the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO), has launched a new consumer blog, Insights , offering timely and practical content on serious-illness care and services from a variety of perspectives in both English and Spanish.

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Hospice News

JULY 11, 2023

In this Voices article, Josie Aquino, Director, Product Management, VNS Health talks about how VNS Health is using data and analytics to improve end-of-life care. Additionally, she discusses VNS’s outcomes-driven approach to end-of-life care, and how they are helping other organizations employ a similar approach.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 26, 2022

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. And as I went through the journey with my master’s, I discovered home health and then hospice and palliative care. What drew you to this field?

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Hospice News

MAY 17, 2023

It requires careful communication designed to identify what is most important to patients. While advance care planning is associated with end-of-life care, the process is also a frequent component of palliative care programs, which are oriented around patients’ own goals and wishes at any stage of their illnesses.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 2, 2022

of all Medicare hospice patients in 2018, according to the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO). Similar to other underserved populations, fear of discrimination and mistrust are the biggest walls between Native Americans and hospice care, according to Craig Dresang, CEO of California-based YoloCares.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 17, 2022

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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Hospice News

MAY 5, 2023

If regulators were to extend the timeframe for eligibility, patients could reap the full benefits of end-of-life care, the two executives said. We can help in making that judgment call over whether a patient is really palliative care ready or if they really are a hospice patient. But you lose a bit of the personal touch.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Similarly Jessica Zitter, an intensivist and palliative care doctor analogized the inevitable clinical momentum toward highly aggressive intensive care in US hospitals as a conveyor belt. At the end we also pay tribute to Randy Curtis, senior author on this paper and mentor to Liz. So Liz, let’s jump into the topic.

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AJN Off the Charts

OCTOBER 21, 2022

This article explores key nursing liability issues associated with the pandemic, including immunity, documentation, crisis standards of care, delegation and assignment, scope of practice, floating, travel nursing, telehealth, and misinformation and social media. Integrating Palliative Care into Nursing Care.

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SAGE Palliative Medicine & Chronic Care podcast

AUGUST 18, 2017

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.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 12, 2023

They offer home health, they offer palliative care, and so forth. Fried: I think end-of-life care truly needs to be reimagined. Melton: I think the one good thing about VBID is it’s requiring palliative care to be involved. HSPN: Of course, most hospices these days provide more than just hospice.

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Hospice News

JUNE 22, 2023

This has prompted payers, providers and policymakers to take a closer look at lower-cost care settings, including the home. “I I don’t know that there’s enough access to hospice and palliative care services,” Rep. So, on one hand, patients do benefit from hospice care, and those services do reduce health care costs.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 21, 2022

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. Change is inevitable.

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High Peaks Hospice

DECEMBER 28, 2023

The Hospice Nurse Practitioner provides consultation, assessments, and evaluation of the plan of care. The Nurse Practitioner can also perform procedures for which he or she is privileged to do and document all assessments, consultations, and care. Documents all patient information and services under HPH policy and procedure.

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Traditions Health

JANUARY 10, 2022

While this can be a difficult conversation for some families, being properly prepared can help make the transition into senior and end-of-life care easier. 8 Tips for Helping Aging Parents Plan for Senior and End-of-Life Care. Have a Discussion About Senior Care and End-of-Life Care.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Some have leveraged technology to streamline their operations and reduce documentation burdens, while others have poured resources into sculpting their organizational culture and developing training and career pathways. The volume of hospice and palliative care workers in the United States has seen a meager 0.8%

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Hospice News

MAY 17, 2022

I anticipate HR taking a front row seat in health care as our nation faces clinical staffing shortages over the next two decades.”. Widespread workforce shortages of hospice and palliative care providers are expected to worsen during the next 25 years. Concern over non-clinical staff is gaining momentum.

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Evidence-Based Nursing - BMJ blogs

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

DT was developed following the construction of the Dignity Conserving Model of Care (Chochinov, 2002). Is Dignity Therapy relevant for young people with life limiting conditions? 2002) Dignity conserving care: a new model for palliative care. Integrative Therapies in Palliative Care, 5(1), doi:10.21926/obm.icm.2001012

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High Peaks Hospice

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Communicate all pertinent information and evaluations through clear and concise documentation. ? Collaborate with the Interdisciplinary Team when developing the patient’s plan of care. ? Document by midnight of the visit. ? Work with other team members to ensure patients are always cared for properly. 454 Glen street.

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Pallimed

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

The CDC’s reply was unusual in that it provided no responsive documents, but cited Chou’s public disclosure of his conflict of interest from the July 2021 Meeting of the CDC BSC-NCIPC and recusal from those proceedings (13). He can be reached by e-mail at chad.kollas@orlandohealth.com or via Twitter at @ChadKollasMD.

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1-800-HOSPICE

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Here we explore this choice and how it affects hospice care. This document is usually for people in their last months of life. A DNI is a very recognizable, straight-forward document like the DNR. It lets medical personnel providing emergent care know the patient’s wishes at a glance. What is a DNR? What is a DNI?

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1-800-HOSPICE

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Hospice is tailored to symptom control, emotional support, and care coordination during end-of-life care. When patients receive too little time in hospice, families are more likely to be dissatisfied with the end-of-life care. Surprise question effective at predicting end of life.

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GeriPal

MARCH 7, 2024

Check out the Pub Crawl GeriPal post for more info, and follow #HPMParty on Twitter to keep us as we crawl! ** In the last several years, I’ve seen more and more articles about end-of-life doulas ( like this NY Times article from 2021 ). So, on today’s podcast, we try to get to the bottom of what exactly is an end-of-life doula.

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