Hospice Nurse Hero

JANUARY 26, 2022

Hospice documentation is tedious and time-consuming. I’ve outlined simple tips to help you master the fundamentals of hospice documentation. Why Hospice Documentation Matters. First, like all nurses, hospice nurses are required to document ALL patient care. Common Barriers to Hospice Documentation.

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Seasons Hospice

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Hospice Care For Everyone Hospice care is a specialized form of healthcare that focuses on providing support and comfort to individuals facing life-limiting illnesses. In this article, we will delve into the various services that hospice care offers to patients and their families.

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Traditions Health

JANUARY 10, 2022

It is also important to discuss the possibility of hospice care if one of your parents has Alzheimer’s disease or another terminal illness. Get The Care Your Parents Need for Activities of Daily Living (ADLs). As parents age, their ability to carry out what are known as activities of daily living (also called ADLs) declines.

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Hospice Nurse Hero

MARCH 6, 2024

This article will outline tips and strategies to support better hospice documentation when painting the picture of decline. “Painting the picture” is a phrase often used to describe the process of documenting a hospice patient’s condition. I didn’t always understand how to chart for hospice. Denies pain.

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Seasons Hospice

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Occupational therapists work closely with interdisciplinary teams, including hospice and palliative care providers, to ensure that seniors receive comprehensive, compassionate care that aligns with their preferences and values during this challenging phase of life.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

However, Schramm said that few freestanding hospices or palliative providers have succeeded in becoming members of ACOs. Most [Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP)] ACOs are owned by health systems or physician groups, and they’ve shown minimal interest in bringing hospices into their ACOs.

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Hospice News

MARCH 6, 2024

Coastal Hospice & Palliative Care recently began exploring ways to improve clinical outcomes during the last days of life, an important quality measure in end-of-life care. Established in 1980, Maryland-based Coastal Hospice serves four counties in its home state. The HVLDL is part of the U.S.

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GeriPal

JUNE 16, 2022

We also discuss Scott’s recently published paper in JAGS that showed that older men with lower urinary tract symptoms have increased risk of developing mobility and activities of daily living (ADL) limitations, perhaps due to greater frailty phenotype. . Chrissy: Hospice? Transcript. Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal podcast. Eric: Yeah.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

We additionally discussed hospice care as an option for care that might follow the trial of rehabilitation. Many of them aren’t enrolled in hospice before they die. And a lot of them never actually improve their ADLs once they’re sent to SNF. That’s the problem. What are other options? Eric: Yeah.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 31, 2024

Palliative care, pediatric end-of-life care and end-of-life doula (EOLD) services are top of mind for hospices that are diversifying their services in 2024. There’s going to be so much change around value-based care coming in some way, shape or form for hospices,” Kudner told Hospice News. But it goes both ways.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 24, 2023

ProMedica Shutters Two Home Health Locations ProMedica is shuttering two home health and hospice programs in Ohio and Michigan. ProMedica began divesting its home health and hospice services earlier this year with the sale of Heartland Hospice and other assets to Gentiva. The closures will take effect in November.

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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 of the North Coast

AUGUST 2, 2024

We are honored to share that Hospice of the North Coast has been featured in a article by Katherine I. Having seen another family member go through surgery, chemo, and radiation for the same type of tumor, Lisa opted for palliative care and hospice rather than possible futile and debilitating treatment. A wise decision.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

We have a pediatric specialty, and on the flip side, we have many, many of our patients are in the older adult population and we don’t really take into account some of the complexities of that care in the same way, and I really wanted to learn about hospice and palliative care and how to best guide patients.

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Hearts for Hospice & Home Health

JANUARY 6, 2021

Jean, FNP Due to its busy nature, providers in the Emergency Room (ER) may not immediately identify patients for hospice care. Approaching patients or family members about hospice can also be challenging-especially if they have specific questions. What is hospice? Hospice is for patients who are at the end of life.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 27, 2022

So we have a list of various interventions like hospice referral, like more intensive treatment for blood pressure, more intensive treatment for diabetes, for dysglycemia, hyperglycemia, statins, bisphosphonates. Eric: And we’ll get to both of those, but can you describe the time to benefit page? So it predicts actually three outcomes.

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AT Home Care & Hospice

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

As Mills said, “Evidence shows that age, frailty, chronic disease load, and ADL dependency are predictive of mortality, hospitalization, and total cost.” An understanding of how people express growing frailty and/or difficulty handling ADLs and IALDs. Addressing frailty is essential on many fronts.

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Home Care Pulse

JUNE 27, 2023

I mean, whether you’re, you have a background in inpatient rehab or skilled nursing facilities or home health or hospice, or even physicians and physician groups. Is this a, a safe home environment or this client to live in, you know, a thorough fall risk, but really a good look around the home and, you know, how can they do their ADLs?

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GeriPal

JULY 25, 2024

Eric 04:39 Yeah, I see it used on inpatient, side on consult clinics in hospices. It is appropriate for all patient populations, and it is developed specifically for the palliative care and hospice populations. Alex 05:48 I guess we didn’t do hospice specifically. Alex 04:51 Most used prognostic index on e prognosis.

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Hospice Nurse Hero

JANUARY 19, 2024

As a hospice nurse, you understand the importance of accurate, detailed documentation. However, composing hospice narrative notes can be challenging and leave you feeling frustrated. Last year, I was challenged to deliver a 20-minute training session to help hospice nurses compose narrative notes in a way they could implement quickly.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Maybe it wasn’t a slip of the tongue there, a lot of thread of hospice in there. And the treatments are different than what hospice might provide in the home setting. Home health aide at 25 to 50 bucks an hour is, actually, a very inexpensive, and well-worth input for people who need help with ADLs and the like.

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