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How Hospices Are Innovating Clinical Onboarding

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Onboarding processes have an important role in preparing hospice clinicians for the nuances of providing end-of-life care. Hospices have taken varied approaches to clinical onboarding, including a mix of in-person and virtual training models. NYSE: CHE). It’s getting doses of training that are more meaningful.”

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Hospice’s Outlook in Value-Based Care

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Though the hospice carve-in is coming to an end, it could have lasting impacts on how value-based providers across the continuum view end-of-life care, according to Mindy Stewart-Coffee, national vice president of palliative care at Landmark Health, part of the UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UHN) subsidiary Optum Home & Community Care.

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St. Croix Hospice Leverages Predictive Analytics to Boost Quality

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The post-acute data analytics company develops machine learning solutions designed to identify patients in need of home health, hospice or palliative care services as early as possible in the course of their illnesses. visits in the last seven days of life between May and November 2023. Croix Hospice. Established in 2009, St.

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USF Unveils Palliative Care Certificate Program for Nurses

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End-of-life care is a critical part of our practice as nurses,” said Usha Menon, senior associate vice president of USF Health and dean of the College of Nursing, in a statement. “We ” Participating nurses will take six courses taken over three semesters.

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Dementia Patients Less Likely Than Others to Receive Hospice Care

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Patients with dementia are less likely to receive hospice in their last month of life than those who have other diagnoses, 12.5% Accurate prognosis at [end of life] is challenging regardless of illness. compared to 17.3%, a recent study has found. The six-month terminal prognosis requirement is at the crux of the issue.

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‘Upgrading’ the Medicare Hospice Benefit

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A key consideration is that dementia patients have a less predictable course than those with cancer, for whom the hospice benefit was initially designed. This is according to a recent editorial in Health Affairs by Cara L. Wallace, the Dorothy A. Among the changes that the U.S. In Fiscal Year 2022, 7.5% of the nation’s 1.7

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How Hospice Eligibility Criteria Can Adversely Affect Dementia Patients

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A growing number of patients with various dementia-related conditions will need end-of-life care in coming years. They could still benefit from hospice services earlier in their disease course, and for a much longer time.” She co-founded the group roughly five years ago with colleagues in the subspecialty.

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