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Staff Training Key to Improving Hospice Quality Among LGBTQ+ Patients

Hospice News

Case in point, a 2018 AARP study found that 60% of the LGBTQ+ community is concerned about a lack of sensitivity to their needs among health care providers. But a growing need exists for hospices to ensure that staff are prepared to engage with a wider base of LGBTQ+ patients with varying gender identities and sexual orientations, Fried said.

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Culture, Compensation, Education Are Keys to Hospice Chaplain Turnover

Hospice News

“When someone is overwhelmed, it is impossible for them to provide quality care.”. On average, the tenures of more than a third of hospice chaplains in the United States lasted only one to two years between 2010 and 2019, according to research from Zippia. A shrinking labor pool. Limited opportunities for training.

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Ep.17: How Home Care Agencies Can Reduce Hospital Readmissions

Home Care Pulse

Michelle Cone ( 03:28 ): So, you know, at its most basic level, it really allows home care agencies to monitor and promote the quality of care that they provide to their clients with actual quantitative data. Gone are the days of looking at patient care through a vacuum, only focusing on what we can do within our scope of practice.

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Ep.13: How Becoming an Accredited Organization will Help you Build More Partnerships and Increase Referrals

Home Care Pulse

So before we became accredited by, with the Joint Commission in their home care program, we were already receiving referrals from local physicians, nurses, social workers, discharge planners, at a number of different healthcare systems in the area. You know, we improve the quality of patient care by, by following that patient.

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Stepped Palliative Care: A Podcast with Jennifer Temel, Chris Jones, and Pallavi Kumar

GeriPal

So, basically, with a stepped care model, the goal is to tailor care delivery to the patient’s needs while at the same time utilizing less clinician resources. How it works is that all patients will have access or encounters with the specialty trained clinician, a psychologist, a social worker, a palliative care clinician.