Hospice News

JUNE 9, 2022

This article is based on a Palliative Care conference Q&A with Tina Taylor, Vice President of Palliative Care Compassus and Christina Andrews, Director of Professional Services at Axxess. Can you each introduce yourselves from your experience in palliative care, and walk us through what each of your roles are?

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Hospice Nurse Hero

JANUARY 26, 2022

Hospice documentation is tedious and time-consuming. I’ve outlined simple tips to help you master the fundamentals of hospice documentation. Do you spend hours documenting at home? Worse yet, do you find yourself frustrated when “corporate” only seems to care about timely documentation? D on’t judge me! ).

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GeriPal

JUNE 9, 2022

Palliative care, in contrast, saw explosive growth in US hospitals. In contrast to geriatrics, the evidence base for palliative care lagged clinical growth, in part because palliative care has no centralized “home” at the National Institutes of Health. When should people get palliative care? By diagnosis?

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Hospice News

MAY 23, 2024

How hospice providers are building age-friendly care Brentwood, Tennessee-based Compassus delivers hospice care — along with home health, palliative and home infusion — to patients nationwide: nearly 270 locations in 30 states in every part of the country, taking a personalized approach with each patient.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Middlemen in any industry should be adding value, and that value should be measured in health care through the lens of whether it actually improves patient care, full stop.” Jain recently wrote about the influence of health care middleware companies in a column in Forbes. We pay for it all differently.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 25, 2022

The Serious Illness Care Model of Care was developed as a way of expanding primary palliative care skills to a wider clinician group,” Cullinan and Wasp told Hospice News. We have plans to expand the SIC MOC to other medical specialties, like cardiology, nephrology, and pulmonary/critical care medicine.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

California-headquartered Silverado offers hospice and palliative care in Los Angeles, Orange County, San Diego and Temecula. Silverado clinicians are using the systems to identify unmet patient care needs before they reach a crisis point. Documentation time was a huge dissatisfier among clinicians.

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GeriPal

APRIL 4, 2024

Missouri set a very high bar, explicit written documentation that applies to this specific circumstance, which the Cruzan’s eventually cleared. But legislation can change, clinical practice can change, but I think what we’ll talk about today is how we’re now opening the door to conversations rather than legal rules and documents.

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Hospice News

MAY 3, 2024

Andrea Devoti, executive vice president, National Association for Home Care & Hospice Trauma-informed end-of-life care delivery also involves a deep focus on sensitivity training, according to Dr. Ross Cleveland, pediatric palliative care physician at Boston Children’s Hospital.

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Hospice News

MAY 12, 2023

Established in 1979, the nonprofit organization provides hospice and palliative care in three counties near the San Francisco area of northern California. The hospice provided 109, 271 days of patient care that year. Its inpatient facility, the Alexander Cohen Hospice House served 403 patients in 2022.

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Hospice Nurse Hero

MARCH 6, 2024

This article will outline tips and strategies to support better hospice documentation when painting the picture of decline. “Painting the picture” is a phrase often used to describe the process of documenting a hospice patient’s condition. I’ll be honest. So, let’s get into it.

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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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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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SAGE Palliative Medicine & Chronic Care podcast

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

This episode features Dr Alex Chan (Department of Psychosocial Oncology and Palliative Care, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA). A key example of this is timely documentation of patient care preferences in critically ill older adults. s/note vs 402?s/note).

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Certainly SOME of those avoided hospitalizations, CPR, and ICU stays were due to documentation of those orders in the POLST. Alex: And we’re delighted to welcome back Karl Steinberg, he’s a palliative care doc and a geriatrician. Because we haven’t done our job to document the value of what we’re doing.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

This includes systems designed to speed and automate aspects of clinical documentation to allow clinicians to focus on patient care. Whereas maybe a nurse thought their future path could only really get to a director of nursing or director of patient care services, which is a great role,” McGlory said.

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Hospice News

JULY 11, 2023

Increased regulatory and clinical oversight is needed to address common billing and documentation errors related to hospice general inpatient care, according to the U.S. For example, in some cases hospices incorrectly bill for GIP services when patients do not have uncontrolled or unmanaged symptoms, the regulatory agency stated.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 22, 2022

This left employees burdened with more documentation responsibilities that often took time away from patient care and left chaplains in particular spread too thin, said Richardson. The hospice and palliative care provider offers services across three counties in its home state and employs two full-time chaplains.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 12, 2023

That’s really a significant investment that we’ve made and innovation in how we care for staff with personal days, recognition, we have a fleet car program, all the things that we can do to make this the most desirable place to work in our communities. They offer home health, they offer palliative care, and so forth.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 8, 2023

A large contingent of these companies were established with the purpose of selling the license at a profit, with little concern for patient care. The SMRC will notify hospices under review with a statement of reasons, request for documentation as well as informational resources. billion, a rate of 12%, Noridian indicated.

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Hospice News

JULY 11, 2023

Now, as a product manager, I channel these experiences towards improving outcomes during the most critical moments of patients’ lives, an aspect of care often overlooked despite its importance. My commitment extends beyond individual patient care to working with organizations to make a larger impact on improving outcomes.

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High Peaks Hospice

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Position Description: The Hospice Nurse Practitioner works in collaboration with the hospice team to provide hospice care services to patients and families in a variety of patient care settings. The Hospice Nurse Practitioner provides consultation, assessments, and evaluation of the plan of care.

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2022

Alex: And we have returning, Bob Arnold, who is a palliative care doctor at the University of Pittsburgh. Alex: Also returning Rebecca Sudore, who is professor of medicine at the UCSF in the division of geriatrics, and is a geriatric and palliative care doctor. I think Bob also noted documenting it. Susan: Thanks so much, Alex.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

There is a lively debate going on in academic circles about the value of Advance Care Planning (ACP). It’s not a new debate but has gathered steam at least in palliative care circles since Sean Morrisons published a JPM article titled “ Advance Directives/Care Planning: Clear, Simple, and Wrong.” Summary Transcript Summary.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 14, 2023

More recently Sharon Kaufman ‘s book And a Time to Die described the ways in which physicians, nurses, hospital systems, and payment mechanisms influenced the hour and manner of patient’s deaths. Eric and I are joined today on this podcast by Anne Kelly palliative care social worker to discuss these issues with Liz.

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High Peaks Hospice

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Collaborate with caregivers in order to provide the best possible patient care. ? Alert physicians about changes in patients’ condition. ? Help patients and their families with administration and paperwork. ? Communicate all pertinent information and evaluations through clear and concise documentation. ?

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Of that, as we’ve been talking about going across the continuum, moving upstream, only 27% of those beneficiaries had palliative care. Of course, that’s the most important today, to collect the information in the visit, to have it all in one place, to document from a compliance standpoint, billing standpoint.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

Summary Transcript Summary The CDC’s Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain excludes those undergoing cancer treatment, palliative care, and end-of-life care. Jessie Merlin is an addiction and palliative care physician, and professor of medicine at the University of Pittsburgh. Katie, welcome back to GeriPal.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 24, 2023

You’d imagine that as a seasoned palliative care doc, I’d have a pretty good definition by now of what “maintaining dignity” or “loss of dignity” means, but you’d be sadly wrong. Medical Assistance in Dying and Palliative Care: Shared Trajectories Transcript Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal Podcast. This is Eric Widera. Is that…?

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1-800-HOSPICE

MARCH 28, 2023

The Importance of Prognostic Conversations In response to research revealing the importance of prognostic conversations and low patient recall of prognostic conversations, Margaret Isaac, MD and Randall Curtis, MD outlined a systematic approach for this patient communication. 2 Patient recall of prognostic conversations can be poor.

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Pallimed

MARCH 29, 2021

by Drew Rosielle ( @drosielle ) Several years ago I was giving a talk in front of a mostly palliative care audience and asked, " How often do you find yourself, in the care of your patients, saying to yourself something like 'Thank the stars this patient has a healthcare directive (HCD)'?" He founded Pallimed in 2005.

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Pallimed

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Palladian Health described itself as “comprehensive muscular skeletal health care company that integrates physical therapy, chiropractic, health and fitness with patient care advocacy to improve clinical and economic outcomes,” and listed Chou as a member of its Clinical Advisory Board (32). Terri A.

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The Nurse Break

APRIL 3, 2022

Palliative Care Nursing. Patient Perspective. Peter | Paramedic to Palliative Care Nurse Practitioner. I’m a Palliative Care Nurse Practitioner in Aged Care. These just a few things that intensive care nurses do on a daily basis, yes we wipe bottoms, but that’s just one facet of our multifaceted scope of practice.

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