Hospice News

MAY 18, 2023

These words were spoken by a fictional, terminally ill patient portrayed in the stage play “Lily,” written by Bryan Harnetiaux on commission from the Hospice Foundation of America (HFA). Hospices get in on the act Accord Hospice is among the providers that are staging Harnetiaux’s plays.

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Hospice News

MARCH 29, 2024

The 2025 proposed hospice rule is raising some questions along with payment rates. 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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Hospice News

MAY 8, 2023

Kaishauna Guidry, a former teacher turned hospice physician, continues to leverage her background in education to help terminally ill patients find the care they need. Few businesses have to work as hard as hospices to dispel myths and misconceptions about their practices. G’s H.O.S.P.I.C.E G at the Heart of Healthcare.”

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Hospice News

JANUARY 19, 2023

Hospice and behavioral health care could increasingly intersect in coming years as demand for specialized care grows. In some respects, the two sectors are already inextricably linked, given the holistic nature of hospice care, including attention to patients’ psychosocial and spiritual needs as well as bereavement support for families.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 15, 2022

In this Voices interview, Hospice News sits down with Deanna Heath, VP of Hospice, KanTime, to talk about the potential impact of the Value-based Insurance Design (VBID) model on today’s hospice landscape. Hospice News: What career experiences do you most draw from, in your role today?

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Hospice leaders have kept their eyes on four key numbers as 2022 progressed: clinical capacity, length of stay, labor costs and utilization. A fifth, the rising number of new hospices in certain states, has emerged as a priority in recent weeks. These metrics are key to understanding what hospices experienced this year.

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AAHPM (American Academy of Hospice and Palliative)

JUNE 27, 2023

Thomson, DO MBA HMDC FACOI FAAHPM As one of AAHPM’s delegates, I had the privilege of representing the field of Hospice and Palliative Medicine at the American Medical Association (AMA) House of Delegates (HOD) 2023 Annual Meeting held in Chicago in mid-June. A few of the arguments presented against the resolution were that: 1.)

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Hospice Nurse Hero

JANUARY 30, 2024

Finding the balance between compassion and the clock is critical for hospice nurses. Hospice is often portrayed as serene and peaceful. For hospice nurses, mastering time management is an essential skill for long-term success. Second, time management also has to do with workflow, and in hospice, you never know what might happen.

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Hospice Nurse Hero

AUGUST 21, 2022

Sometimes hospice patients live longer than six months. When this happens, you’ll want to use these tips to document the hospice recertification with ease. If you’ve worked long enough as a hospice nurse, then there’s a good chance you’ve had to chart a patient’s hospice recertification. How Hospice Benefit Periods Work.

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Home Care Pulse

APRIL 26, 2022

– A Hospice CEO’s First Reactions. A Hospice CEO’s First Reactions. The audit focuses on beneficiary eligibility for hospice services in the absence of a recent hospital encounter. Hospice industry leaders routinely find themselves responding to new or changing regulatory oversight. – Michah’s Story Begins.

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The Bucket-List Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Therefore, most stories are in the present tense. Robert and his family began hospice care three months ago after his stage four cancer diagnosis. That’s what hospice care is about,” she says. Courtney Saylor, Robert’s hospice nurse, attended with her two daughters, EmmieLou and Sophie.

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The Bucket-List Blog

JULY 13, 2023

Therefore, most stories are in the present tense. When Randy was diagnosed with a serious illness over a year ago, he and Sophie called Hospice Care Plus right away. “I I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend hospice. Randy’s hospice chaplain, Sally Iseral, officiated the ceremony. A staff member volunteered to take pictures.

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The Bucket-List Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2022

The Hospice Care Plus staff, both for the home hospice program in Berea and those at the Compassionate Care Center in Richmond, immediately began reaching out to friends and supporters to help pull the wedding together. Our chief medical director, Dr. Hanan Budeiri (known to all of us as Dr. B) donated refreshments for a reception.

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Hospice News

JUNE 1, 2022

In enacted, the recently reintroduced Palliative Care and Hospice Education Training Act (PCHETA) could make a dent in the recruitment barriers that hospices keep hitting. Hospice] has to become a part of the education of medical students, nursing and social workers at large,” Lee told Hospice News.

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Pallimed

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

By 2007, the Washington State Agency Medical Directors Group (AMDG), which included several eventual PROP members (23), published an “Interagency Guideline on Opioid Dosing for Chronic Non-Cancer Pain (26) that introduced the concept of hard dosing thresholds for opioid analgesics, which was later incorporated into the 2016 Guideline (2, 3).

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GeriPal

AUGUST 31, 2023

He spent a long time as hospice medical director and he founded a national model of care that many of our listeners will be familiar with, AIM, which stands for the Advanced Illness Management program, which has influenced CMS policy. Today we talk with deep thinkers about this issue. Alex: Thank you, Bill.

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Pallimed

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Lewis PhD, Beverly Schechtman and Carrie Judy “I'm present. Franklin also served on the Washington State Agency Medical Directors Group (AMDG) via the Washington State Department of Labor and Industries (9). Kollas MD, Terri A. Uh … I do have a conflict.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

But also there’s also, because many more people… Oftentimes, when I’ll be at a meeting, if I’m presenting, I’ll ask for show of hands how many people have had experience with dementia. You cannot be in hospice. We present it to CMMI, to CMS, whoever will listen to us, people on The Hill.

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Hospice of the North Coast

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

He has worked in the medical field for many years, including as a primary care physician, urgent care doctor, hospital doctor, and as a hospice and palliative care doc. I’m Dr. Daniel Miller and one of the medical directors of Hospice of the North Coast. Daniel Miller, M.D., That could be your close friends.

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Hospice of the North Coast

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

He has worked in the medical field for many years, including as a primary care physician, urgent care doctor, hospital doctor, and as a hospice and palliative care doc. I’m Dr. Daniel Miller and one of the medical directors of Hospice of the North Coast. Daniel Miller, M.D., That could be your close friends.

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GeriPal

JULY 14, 2022

Imagine that you are the medical director of a large (>150 bed) nursing home. This was the opening paragraph that I wrote in March of 2020 when introducing a podcast we did with Dr. Jim Wright , the medical director at Canterbury Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center in suburban Richmond. Summary Transcript Summary.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 20, 2023

” How hard would it be for every medical director, every director of nurses, every administrator to know the first and last name of every CNA who works in that building? From a medical director standpoint, how do you think about that? It needs to be presented in a way that they can understand.

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