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Hospices’ Collaboration with Discharge Planners Key to Effective Care Transitions

Hospice News

Securing timely referrals for eligible patients remains a challenge because many hospice patients receive care for only a few days prior to death. Additionally, careful management of discharges to hospice care is a growing priority as providers and payers seek to reduce hospitalizations, readmissions and emergency department visits.

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RCT of Default Inpatient PC Consults: Kate Courtright & Scott Halpern

GeriPal

You coded deaths as the 99th percentile of longest length of stay, which is interesting because that’s something that hospitals don’t care about. And you had higher rates of hospice discharges, higher rates of DNR orders. In reality, that is a huge cost saving for the hospital.