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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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What New Allegations that HCA Healthcare Pressured Patients Mean for Hospices

Hospice News

Moreover, families frequently give feedback that they wished their loved ones had entered hospice earlier in order to reap the full benefits, often via Consumer Assessment of Health Care Provider and Systems (CAHPS) surveys, according to the National Hospice & Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO).

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

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And you had higher rates of hospice discharges, higher rates of DNR orders. So a lot of results coming in when you think about, do these default orders for palliative care… What kind of impact should we be seeing from them?