Hospice News

JUNE 21, 2022

He is also an ambassador for the hospital’s CalvaryCare program, designed to educate the health care community and the public about palliative care and hospice. Calvay is the only acute care hospital in the United States that is focused almost exclusively on hospice and palliative care. Hospice has grown steadily.

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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

MAY 23, 2022

With hospice providers reporting fewer staff in quarantine, many hope to reduce their utilization of temp nursing services — as well as the higher labor costs that come with them. Hospice providers experienced some degree of relief as the Omicron variant surge began to subside earlier this year. This is a double whammy for hospices.

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Hope Hospice

JULY 12, 2022

Why should someone start hospice sooner than later? Making the decision to start hospice care for your loved one is overwhelming. Hope’s hospice program also provides: Social workers to assist with medical paperwork and resources. Registered dietitians for counsel on needs of the hospice patient. Grief support.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Children are among the most underserved seriously ill populations in hospice and palliative care throughout the world. The needs of these children and their families are changing,” Dale-Harris told Hospice News. Payers historically are not paying for children’s palliative,” Roland told Hospice News.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

In many instances, hospices will not be able to provide care if patients lack the support of a family caregiver. Her work is informed not only by her career of more than 20 years as a hospice professional but also by her experience as a caregiver for her husband. You’ve personally been a caregiver yourself.

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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. Yep, you heard me right.

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Seasons Hospice

JULY 15, 2022

Every Level Of Hospice Care Is Important. Hospice care is a type of health care that focuses on providing comfort and support to people who are terminally ill. Hospices typically offer a wide range of services, including pain management, emotional support, and spiritual counseling. What Is The Goal Of Hospice Care.

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GeriPal

MARCH 7, 2024

We also invited Beth Klint to speak about the doula’s role within a traditional hospice organization. Alex: We’re delighted to welcome Beth Klint who is executive director of Goodwin Hospice and is joining us from the DC, Northern Virginia area along with Jane. Hospice volunteers do lots of things. Why Beth?

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AT Home Care & Hospice

APRIL 25, 2023

These are settings that reside outside of the hospital and can include skilled nursing facilities (SNFs), long-term care hospitals (LTCHs), inpatient rehabilitation centers and home care agencies. In all of these settings, the availability of such resources, especially counseling, is critical to the long-term health and wellness of residents.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

In day-to-day practice, It’s hard to imagine providing excellent hospice or palliative care services without access to a team social worker. Whether in direct practice or in research and academia, we should work together to help Hospice and Palliative Care Social Work meet its full potential. . Transcript.

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Seasons Hospice

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

This can be an invaluable factor in terms of peace of mind for the patient and their loved ones, as it allows them to be more actively involved in the decision-making process. In addition to providing medical services, palliative care can also involve spiritual guidance, emotional support, nutrition counseling, and social work assistance.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

As to what phrase to use, because it’s knowing that family is not the right term for everything. Anne Rohlfing: I’ll just say I think Emily, in your paper you used the phrase trusted persons. I think we struggled with that. Emily: Yeah, we do. Anne Rohlfing: Yeah. So I really like that phrase, Emily, just to say.

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Hospice News

MARCH 2, 2023

As lawmakers wrestle with necessary improvements to hospice program integrity, they should seek input from the professionals who provide that care, Dr. Holly Yang, incoming board president of the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (AAHPM) told Hospice News.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Behavioral health care is a rising star in health care in terms of growth and demand, and the trend is leading some hospices to invest in the space. For one, addressing the psychosocial and emotional aspects of dying and bereavement has been an intergral part of the hospice mission since the beginning.

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Hospice News

MARCH 11, 2024

However, the needs of these patients become even more complex when they are uninsured, unhoused, disconnected from family or otherwise lacking a support system according to Terry Altilio, a palliative care educator and retired social work coordinator formerly with the Division of Palliative Care at New York City’s Mt.

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GeriPal

MAY 25, 2023

I think it would be helpful to have a person level report, which maybe we’re getting closer to in terms of heard and understood that someone has had a chance to think through what matters to them and do the preparation that is the amount that they want to do at that time and that it has been communicated. Hillary: Oh, goodness.

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Hospice News

MAY 25, 2022

Stakeholders in the hospice space are optimistic that Congress will pass the recently reintroduced Palliative Care and Hospice Education Training Act (PCHETA). But the intention is that when things do move slowly, it’s to ensure that we do them right,” Hoover told Hospice News.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Though operators often feel siloed within the Medicare Hospice Benefit, they are not shielded from the shifting currents in the health care system at large. Their growing prominence is leading more hospices to see innovative partnerships with upstream providers as well as building out their own programs. “I

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Hospice News

JUNE 5, 2023

The conversation took place on April 20, 2023 during the Hospice News Palliative Care Conference. Hospice News: Medicare Advantage comes up a lot in discussions at palliative care but that is not the only avenue for reimbursement. Hospice News: Excellent. I’m actually going to loop it back around to hospice.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 8, 2022

It wasn’t until the end that the best term emerged – storycatching. Journal of Hospice and Palliative Nursing, 22 (5):392-400 / PMID: 32740304. That’s such a great term for it. Eric and I weren’t sure what to call this podcast – storytelling and medicine? Narrative medicine? What’s in a story? Bennett, C.R.,

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 19, 2023

This article is based on a Hospice News discussion with Jason Banks, vice president of post-acute business development at nVoq. This discussion took place on September 7, 2023 during the Hospice News ELEVATE Conference. Let’s just dig into what the problem is with that renewed focus on quality in hospice.

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Hospice News

APRIL 25, 2023

Meanwhile, the CSH Long Term Care Center is renovating its inpatient facility to include 14 patient beds, including an additional hospice bed supported by a local nonprofit, Liam’s Room. In addition to adult and pediatric palliative care, the health system also offers hospice, among other services.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Alex: Today we are delighted to welcome Heather Coats, who’s a palliative care nurse practitioner and scientist and Director of Research at the Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association, or HPNA, an Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado and Schutz College of Nursing. That’s such a great term for it.

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GeriPal

APRIL 13, 2023

Cudjoe’s recent work demonstrating the impact of social isolation on dementia risk , populations at risk , and how our social lives “getting under our skin.” ” Dr. Kotwal’s work showing how social isolation impacts end-of-life health care use , including hospice and acute care.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

I was about to say with our system of long-term care, but we do not have a system of long-term care. If we had a system of long-term care, things would be a lot more organized, but we should not disparage this segment of long-term care just because of the challenges that exist. Eric: Sheryl, can I take a step back?

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

We have Vickie Leff who’s Executive Director of the Advanced Palliative and Hospice Social Work Certification Program and also teaches in the UNC School of Social Work. And then to see her show up in our hospice unit in April of 2020, it just completely broke my heart. She was homeless.

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GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

Asking clinicians whether they had offered the option of withdrawal of life support and comfort-focused care also did not change length of stay, but did increase the discharges to hospice, odds greater than two-fold, whether it was done alone or in combination with the prognostication nudge. I’m going to go to stem cell transplants.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 29, 2022

.” What frustrates me is that so much of our education, either in medical school or nursing school or social work, we’re not taught to handle conflict. You can speak a little bit about what you’ve learned in social work school. Autonomy is the number one thing in social work. Alaine: Yeah.

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GeriPal

JUNE 9, 2022

And palliative care was as a program was just growing at Penn moving from just consult hospice to actually having a team when I was training. Whether it’s the consult rate or documentation of a conversation, hospice referrals, those kinds of things, and then patient outcomes, quality of life, symptom burden. Kate: Yeah.

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GeriPal

MAY 4, 2023

I will say one of the challenges in the field is many hospices don’t know how to take care of children or young people, and so you have these folks in the community who you’re trying to provide services to, and you just can’t connect them to the same types of resources you’re used to using.

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