Hospice News

MARCH 29, 2024

The 2025 proposed hospice rule is raising some questions along with payment rates. In a proposed rule released yesterday, the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) proposed a 2.6% increase in hospice per diems for 2025. The agency also proposed two new quality measures and 2025 implementation of the Hospice Outcome and Patient Evaluation (HOPE) assessment tool to replace the Hospice Item Set.

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Palliverse

MARCH 29, 2024

Photo by Wesley Tingey on Unsplash This was a question that came to mind after a past colleague theorised about changing a patient’s prognosis to more than six months left to live to stop them from accessing the assisted dying service. I was shocked that they would consider doing something like that. In plain English, it would be telling a lie. Lying to a patient and not giving them your true medical opinion.

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Hospice News

MARCH 29, 2024

New York City-based NYC Health + Hospitals/Bellevue recently launched a new palliative care unit. Dubbed the Palliative Care Serenity Unit, the project has been years in the making as the hospital system saw more patients dying in the hospital due to a lack of serious illness support, according to Dr. Susan Cohen, palliative care program director at NYC Health + Hospitals/Bellevue.

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Caregiver Support Services

MARCH 29, 2024

Having a loved one hospitalized can be an emotionally challenging time for families. Understanding ways nurses reassure families when someone is hospitalized can provide comfort and build trust during these difficult periods. Read on to explore some strategies nurses use to ease the worries of families. Providing Honest, Factual Answers One of the primary ways nurses reassure families is by providing honest, factual answers.

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Hospice News

MARCH 29, 2024

Data are key to understanding how value-based care has helped highlight quality benefits of hospice. The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is sunsetting the hospice component of the value-based insurance design (VBID) as of Dec. 31. Commonly called the hospice carve-in, the program in 2021 began testing the coverage of hospice through Medicare Advantage, as well as palliative care and transitional care.

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Minority Nurse

MARCH 29, 2024

The stigma around mental illness is slowly ebbing, but it is by no means gone. Days like World Bipolar Day , held annually on March 30, offer excellent opportunities to spread awareness about this condition including symptoms, treatment, medications, and resources. World Bipolar Day opens the door for people to share their stories and for others to learn how they can get help for themselves or for a loved one.

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