Hospice News

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

A dearth of coordination or integration between rehab teams and palliative care teams routinely forces some patients into a cycle between the hospital and the nursing home in their last year of life. These results appeared in a 2019 New England Journal of Medicine study titled “Rehabbed to Death.”

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Hospice Nurse Hero

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Hospice care is delivered anywhere the patient calls home and for many elderly, this includes the nursing home. Learn how you can build better relationships with nursing homes while delivering quality hospice care. As a hospice nurse, it’s likely that you will provide care to nursing home patients.

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Hospice and Nursing Homes Blog

APRIL 3, 2022

At nursing home mealtimes, I served as a hospice volunteer at several Detroit, Michigan nursing homes for many years. Frances Shani Parker, Author "Becoming Dead Right: A Hospice Volunteer in Urban Nursing Homes" [link] Hospice and Nursing Homes Blog [link]. What food?"

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Hospice and Nursing Homes Blog

OCTOBER 2, 2021

I have had many occasions as an educator to implement and consult on intergenerational partnerships between schools and nursing homes. For example, after students learn how to write letters at school, service-learning could include writing letters to nursing home residents who would benefit from receiving them.

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HospiceDiary

AUGUST 23, 2020

A recent visit to a nursing home reminded me … Continue reading → A wise saying: There is nothing new under the sun. Suffering is our human condition; we all have some experience with it. Though it seems of late there is just too much.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Already, some mask mandates are returning in some hospitals and nursing homes. Many nursing homes and hospitals have continued to require masks or reinstated lapsed requirements. There’s been a lot of debate about restrictions both in the nursing home setting and in the hospital setting. Some, like St.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

million Medicare decedents who elected hospice in 2019,, nearly half (49%) received care in private homes, reported the Center for Medicare Advocacy. The other half was provided in nursing homes and at assisted living facilities (21% and 11%, respectively), according to the report. Among the 1.6 Anthony’s Hospice.

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Hospice Advantage Solutions

OCTOBER 31, 2017

CMS has issued new Interpretive Guidelines for nursing homes which will be implemented on November 28th. Regarding the use of anti-psychotic medications, it states "PRN orders for anti-psychotic drugs are limited to 14 days and cannot be renewed unless the attending physician or prescribing practitioner evaluates the resident."

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Hospice News

APRIL 20, 2023

To a degree, the ownership-transparency efforts are tied to the public health emergency (PHE) and multiple negative reports about the performance of for-profit and private equity-backed nursing home operators amid the pandemic.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

increase in home-based care delivery. Critics argue that PE and PTCs could prioritize short-term, above-market returns, which may lead to agencies selectively enrolling and targeting patients who require less complex care and longer hospice stays, such as those with dementia and nursing home residents.”

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Hospice News

JANUARY 11, 2023

Strengthening hospice reporting requirements to align with the requirements for nursing homes and hospitals providing extended care will provide CMS with the information necessary to ensure that hospice care providers are taking appropriate steps within the scope of their authority to protect vulnerable individuals,” GAO indicated in a report.

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Hospice News

MARCH 27, 2024

For hospice and palliative care providers, many were unable to reach patients in facilities and at times could not provide care in some homes, Baker Rogers indicated. Referrals to hospice were frequently delayed, and respite care was also impossible in some instances due to nursing home restrictions.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

PACE programs offer a comprehensive approach to care for participants who meet certain eligibility criteria, mainly to seniors who have significant medical and non-medical needs to help them age in place and avoid the hospital or nursing homes.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Some hospice patients rely on these plans for other health needs, such as nursing home costs. If somebody was institutionalized in a skilled nursing facility or a nursing home for custodial, non-medical care, Medicaid will continue to pay for that particular coverage that is not covered by Medicare.”.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 26, 2024

More than half (59%) spent the last three years of life in the home. About 27% were in skilled nursing home care with “heavy use” of home health and hospice. The remaining 14% of Medicare decedents spent these years in institutional settings, particularly in nursing facility-based care and inpatient care.

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Hospice News

MARCH 29, 2024

NYC Health + Hospitals has upwards of 70 locations across New York City’s five boroughs, including primary, specialty and post-acute care centers, nursing homes, trauma centers and a home care agency.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 11, 2024

The program will serve chronically ill seniors aged 55 and older who are certified by the state of Florida to need a nursing home level of care and are able to live safely in the home and community. “Me Empath Health Empath Health Empath LIFE cuts the ribbon on its new Tampa PACE center.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

They enrolled patients with long-term incurable diseases such as Alzheimers and dementia as well as patients with limited mental capacity who lived at group homes, nursing homes and in housing projects.” Justice Department indicated in a statement.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 3, 2023

When a hospice provider must contract for general inpatient care with a hospital or nursing home, expertise and collaboration often fall short, which is far from ideal,” she said.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 5, 2022

CommCare’s purchase of Notre Dame’s home health and hospice operations marks the transaction of this divestiture Its nursing home services are next in line as part of a separate deal set to close in 2023. For us, home health is a new business that we believe has great future potential.”.

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Hospice News

APRIL 27, 2022

drop in admissions to 16,530 in Q1, with referrals from senior housing and nursing homes staying below pre-pandemic levels for the time being. Nursing home patients in particular represented 15.9% The company saw an 8.9% Likewise, VITAS’s average daily census declined 4.1% of the company’s ADC during 2021.

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AJN Off the Charts

APRIL 7, 2023

Aggressive care common in nursing homes at end of life. The other recent JAMA study ran in February: Incidence of Aggressive End-of-Life Care Among Older Adults With Metastatic Cancer Living in Nursing Homes and Community Settings. million persons in nursing homes have received or will receive a diagnosis of cancer.

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Hospice News

JUNE 23, 2022

“As Wall Street firms take over more nursing homes, quality in those homes has gone down and costs have gone up. Medicare is going to set higher standards for nursing homes and make sure your loved ones get the care they deserve and expect.”. That ends on my watch,” Biden said. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.),

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to modify rules for the four levels of hospice care, foster greater interoperability, examine nursing home relationships and other changes. “We In addition to concurrent care, LeadingAge urged Congress and the U.S.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 19, 2023

For a trial to have value, it should not exclude patients over age 80, or those with dementia, or patients residing in nursing homes. Additional links mentioned in the podcast: Recent JGIM article on POLST in California nursing homes, hospitalization, and nursing home care Karl’s GeriPal post on appropriate use of POLST Enjoy!

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Hospice News

MARCH 29, 2023

Researchers from the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in Ohio analyzed data for cancer patients between 2013 to 2017, finding that aggressive care in the last 30 days of life was more common among nursing home residents than community-dwelling older adults, at 64% versus 58%, respectively.

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Hospice News

MARCH 15, 2024

You’re going little by little to communities where the community partners are, and giving education to hospitals, nursing homes, physician offices and practices. “Having access to it is one thing, but getting the information is another,” Keith said at the Palliative Care Conference. Utilization is a totally different ball of wax.

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GeriPal

JULY 14, 2022

Imagine that you are the medical director of a large (>150 bed) nursing home. Two-thirds of the patients in the home now have COVID-19. The other physicians who previously saw patients in the nursing home are no longer coming to your facility because you have COVID positive patients. Summary Transcript Summary.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 2, 2022

The example I give is, if you’ve ever walked into a nursing home, or where there’s an activity happening for a group of people with dementia, that is a little depressing to me. A lot of times family members or staff in nursing homes say that, “I’m burnt out, so I don’t have the energy.”

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Hospice News

APRIL 11, 2024

To qualify for PACE, residents must be 55 and older, in need of nursing home-level care and able to safely receive community-based services in a home-based setting. The nonprofit hospice provider’s subsidiary — Care Guide Partners – provides services at the center.

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GeriPal

JUNE 8, 2023

When I’m on nursing home call, the most common page I receive is for a blood sugar value. And we invited Tamryn Gray from the Dana Farber joins us to ask insightful questions, including: What blood sugar range should we target for patients in the nursing home or hospice? Summary Transcript Summary Diabetes is common.

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Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

JANUARY 18, 2024

What knowledge can skilled nursing teams take from these lessons? Education and training programs Implement comprehensive education and training programs for nursing home staff, including both healthcare professionals and support staff.

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Hospice News

MARCH 29, 2024

It would also remove three nursing home items from the survey, revise the existing Hospice Team Communication and Getting Hospice Care Training measures and add a new Care Preferences measure. This includes the addition of an email invitation to a web survey, with follow-up by mail to non-responders.

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Hospice News

JUNE 1, 2023

“Closing the inpatient facility will allow Hospice Ministries to put more focus on providing end of life care to patients in their ‘homes,’ whether it be their personal residence, a nursing home, or an assisted living facility.” The hospice provides home- and facility-based end-of-life care.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Private equity is probably one of the top things that I’m worried about with the future of our field in Palliative care and that because private equity is buying up… And Geriatrics, buying up assisted livings, nursing homes, hospices at an extraordinary rate. And what is their motivation, Eric? Why are they doing this?

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Hospice News

JUNE 2, 2023

“A lot of times you find that they don’t have an option to stay at home, because they can’t afford to bring in support systems or pay for private sitters, and they end up going to a nursing home.” Also, in December of last year, the organization cut the ribbon on a $1.7

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Hospice News

MARCH 21, 2024

I will tell you, just as we were in our discussion about hospice care, or nursing home care, home health care, which is a growing industry as well, this is something that we’re trying to monitor more closely,” Becerra said. “We We are constantly doing program integrity work in this field as well.”

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