Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 24, 2022

From a business perspective, patient populations who experienced longer lengths of stay boosted hospice margins by as much as 20% during 2016, according to a report from the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC). Recent research from BerryDunn has found that limiting case manager workloads can positively impact length of stay.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

And while hospices offer social workers and spiritual care, many families continue to have unmet needs that could impede some patients’ access to hospice. An annual observance, National Caregivers Day, has been recognized on the third Friday of each February since 2016.

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Hospice News

JUNE 15, 2023

They have been brilliant in setting up an endowment back in 2016. We have nurses, a social worker and chaplains that donate their time. We have a volunteer board, seven members, and a beautiful group of people. One of them is a retired CEO of St. Luke’s which is our local hospital system.

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Hospice News

APRIL 3, 2024

She joined Vermont-based VNAHSR in 2001 as its CFO, adding responsibilities of chief operating officer in 2016. VNAHSR employs more than 250 certified home health aides, rehabilitation therapists, social workers and visiting nurses. (VNAHSR) has announced the retirement of its CEO Sara King. King ascended to the role in 2021.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

In 2016, NHPCO began looking for a new home for Global Partners in Care. It was launched in 2011 for nurses and social workers in Africa to do formal training and palliative care but has now widened to include applicants such as spiritual care providers, music therapists, clinical officers, doctors and more.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 10, 2024

social worker, chaplain), everyone should be able to ask a question or two about spiritual concerns, social concerns, or physical concerns. Alex 01:39 And C ara Wallace, who is a hospice social worker and endowed chair and professor in the St. In other words, in addition to being a specialist (e.g.

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Hospice News

MARCH 27, 2023

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) introduced SIA in 2016. It allows hospices to bill on an hourly basis for registered nurse and social worker visits during the last seven days of a patient’s life, in addition to the standard per diem reimbursement.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 26, 2022

An earlier version of budget neutrality was phased out in 2016. CMS introduced SIA in 2016 to allow hospices to bill for RHC at the continuous home care rate on an hourly basis for registered nurse and social worker visits during the last seven days of a patient’s life. These reductions occur within each service.

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Hospice News

APRIL 23, 2024

The pilot, which ran from September 2015 through February 2016, had 82 patients enrolled across four counties and palliative care organizations: Collabria Care in Napa, Interim Healthcare in Redding, ResolutionCare in Eureka and YoloCares in Davis. Thus far in 2024, 625 patients have been active in the program; 1,000 were enrolled in 2023.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 5, 2023

Office settings accounted for 61% of all ACP billing between 2016 and 2019, according to OIG. CMS in 2016 began to reimburse physicians and other qualified Medicare health care professionals for face-to-face advance care planning discussions with patients and families. This opened the door for greater advance care planning utilization.

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Hospice News

JULY 14, 2023

McCann-Davis in 2016 joined Seasons Hospice & Palliative Care as its communications manager before becoming its national director of communications and multicultural affairs two years later. Health equity became a large focus for McCann-Davis early on in her career.

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GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

Eric: And that’s similar to the 2016 JAMA paper, right? Eric: And we’re going to get to results, but that’s why I also love that 2016 paper: I think it was the very first palliative care trial that ever looked at individuals getting curative therapy. Did it negate everything from the 2016 trial?Palliative

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GeriPal

MARCH 30, 2023

Our listeners will be familiar with Anne Kelly, who’s a social worker at the San Francisco VA, on the palliative care service, who wrote a JAMA piece of my mind title The Last Visit. As I was cleaning up my office, I found something I’d written in 2016. Eric: Alex, we got a full house today. Anne: Hi, guys.

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GeriPal

JULY 28, 2022

So our outpatient palliative care team does not have psychiatrists or psychologists or frankly, social workers. Areej: I think it was 2016. Eric: 2016. The model is predominantly physicians, advanced practice providers. I loved Areej’s article. What year did it come out? I loved it so much.

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Minority Nurse

JUNE 10, 2024

In 2016, together with my VNS Health colleagues, I was part of the team that launched VNS Health ’ s Gender Affirmation Program (GAP) to address the unique needs of transgender and nonbinary people as they recover from gender affirmation surgery at home. You become inspired to help this remarkable person heal, succeed, and grow.”

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GeriPal

AUGUST 25, 2022

Nurse case management, social worker case management, medications, medical equipment, a home health aid, all that stuff goes away. They only started having to publicly report these in 2016. I just want to highlight some work. Stephanie, I think her name is pronounced Wladkowski, she’s at Michigan.

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Community Home Health Care

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

This may motivate them to stay at home, or refuse to accept offers for participating in family and social activities. Interventions to reduce social isolation and loneliness among older people: an integrative review. Epub 2016 Jul 13. This can be defined as an imbalance between desired and actual interpersonal contact.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 24, 2023

So I think about social workers, pastoral care professionals, like spiritual care clinicians. So when patients express a wish to die, that’s not just something that began in 2016 when legislation came into effect. .” You want to be doing enough of it, so that you gain facility. Eric: Yeah.

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Home Care Pulse

JUNE 27, 2023

Before joining Home Well Care Services in 2016, today, Michelle equips Home Well’s franchise owners with purposeful brand programs and industry leading training to help them differentiate their agencies. Laura Coyle ( 09:01 ): Home health, a lot of times upon discharge, you know, there will be home health in place.

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The Nurse Break

DECEMBER 4, 2022

Not just for the bereaved, Bearing the Unbearable will be required reading for grief counselors, therapists and social workers, clergy of all varieties, educators, academics, and medical professionals. Bearing the Unbearable – Dr. Joanne Cacciatore. Grief Is the Thing with Feathers – Max Porter.

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GeriPal

JULY 25, 2024

God, it must have been like 2015, 2016. And I’m just so grateful that we have our interdisciplinary team, including a social worker and spiritual care provider, to help do a lot of that support for patients and families. Eric 10:09 So you’re reassured on that concern there. Kara 10:12 Yep. And I agree.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

2015, 2016. And then 2016 after CMMI finished the evaluation, it looked good, nothing happened. And these care navigator, they can be community health worker with just 12 years of education. They can be a- Diane: Social worker. Malaz: Social worker, anybody. Malaz: Yeah. That’s one big thing.

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