Hospice News

JANUARY 18, 2024

In 2022, Helios Care served more than 580 hospice patients across four New York counties in addition to 90 palliative care patients and more than 550 bereavement care clients. But we really wanted to put it into a document with an actual work plan.

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CareAcademy Blog

APRIL 30, 2025

To operate as a hospice agency, you must provide four levels of care: Routine home care This type of care is similar to standard home health services, with caregivers visiting patients regularly to monitor health and nutrition, offer physical therapy, manage medications, and document a patients well-being and quality of life.

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1-800-HOSPICE

JUNE 20, 2023

Social workers may also help patients complete advance directives, such as living wills and durable power of attorney documents. Bereavement Support: The support provided by social workers extends beyond the patient’s passing.

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Hospice Nurse Hero

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Fewer hospitalizations and ER visits Better symptom management Additional support/education for the family Bereavement support for the family Decreased pain at the end-of-life. Maintain Proper Documentation. That being said, it’s up to you to accurately document all care and communication that occurs with your hospice patient.

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Seasons Hospice

JUNE 27, 2023

Answer: Advance directives are legal documents that allow individuals to express their treatment preferences and end-of-life wishes in advance. By documenting their preferences, individuals can ensure that their wishes are respected, even when they can no longer communicate or make decisions.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 29, 2023

NYSE: MET) is collaborating with Empathy to offer the bereavement care technology company’s platform to the insurance giant’s employees and beneficiaries. Bereavement care tech startup Empathy launched in 2021 with an app designed to help reduce the burden on grieving families and provide additional layers of emotional support.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

The bereavement care tech platform Empathy is now partnering with the software company Benekiva in an effort to streamline life insurance claims processing and help families access benefits more quickly. The average cost to the bereaved exceeds $12,000.

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Hospice News

MAY 9, 2022

This growing need has spurred the National Partnership for Healthcare and Hospice Innovation (NPHI) to recently develop its Community Counseling Guide to help member providers structure bereavement services, including best practices for billing. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) requirements.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 17, 2024

More than 70% of respondents to a survey by the bereavement care tech platIform Empathy reported at least one mental health symptom for a few weeks after the death of a loved one; 58% indicated that the symptoms lasted for several months. Symptoms included depression and anxiety, among others. Estimates suggest that U.S.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

And then we did interviews with bereavement caregivers and we asked about distress and goal concordant end of life care. I think there was an increase in advanced care planning documentation, but the group that got the intervention had higher rates of potentially burdensome care. And then we enrolled patients and caregivers.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 1, 2024

What strategies can hospices employ to ensure the financial sustainability of new service lines such as palliative care and bereavement support? Whether you are delivering hospice, palliative care, or any other ancillary service, medical necessity and terminal prognosis must be documented.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 2, 2022

The CMS document also proposed solutions related to value-based care, optimizing medical and communication technology, and increasing the collection and use of standardized patient data. Hospices have also aimed to build a more diverse workforce.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

We want to have money for our chaplains program and our bereavement services, and you could easily spend all of the money that we get from Medicare on pharmacy. So it’s not really a useful document. So as a result, patients with kidney disease are most likely to die in the hospital and have the shortest length of stay in hospice.

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Hospice News

JULY 31, 2024

Some hospices may have experienced challenges accessing patient electronic medical records, making clinical documentation, performing back-office administration and patient admission processes, as well as communicating with referral sources. Technology disruptions such as these can impact timely access to hospice care, Harris indicated.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 3, 2023

Hospices can help the family by preparing the necessary documentation bereaved families will need to arrange a natural burial, according to Webster. . “That education aspect is the biggest part of communicating all these different burial and funeral options to families so they have a better understanding.”.

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Hospice News

MAY 20, 2024

If we have a document that can tell us what someone would want, it’s crucially important for the patient and the family.” The bereavement support that hospices provide can help caregivers process grief both prior to a loved one’s death and after, he stated.

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Hospice News

MARCH 12, 2024

The bereavement care tech startup Empathy has secured $47 million in a Series B funding round led by Index Ventures. The Empathy app is designed to help families navigate the logistical aspects of bereavement, including documentation, funeral or memorial arrangements, validating a will and other essentials.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

This was actually a bereaved person, and they said that because their person had planted those tulips it reminded them constantly of them. There’s not even a place in most medical records to document that. What were your impressions of that document? It’s a beautiful document. So I think it all starts there.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

What that looks like, to some degree, by having a conversation, by documenting wishes, we can potentially influence what that looks like and what that experience is for that person who is dying and then also for family members who are left behind. Isn’t anybody listening?” ” Right? I love that. Karen: Yeah.

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High Peaks Hospice

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Ann Merkel and some of the group of original High Peaks Hospice founders gathered to create a video to document the story of High Peaks Hospice’s beginnings. Funeral director Andy Fortune started the bereavement program, supporting families for 13 months following the death. It would cover all medications related to comfort and.

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High Peaks Hospice

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Maintains documentation of social work services in patient’s medical records according to agency policy. ? Knowledge of family and group treatment, community resources and the dynamics of terminal illness, grief, and bereavement. Participates in IDT meetings. ? Hospice experience and/or equivalent education is preferred.

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SAGE Palliative Medicine & Chronic Care podcast

JUNE 11, 2021

During COVID-19, infection control measures have prevented many family members from being with seriously ill or dying loved ones, and impacted on after-death mourning practices and bereavement.

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1-800-HOSPICE

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

In end-of-life care, it’s a common phenomenon that doctors will document telling patients they are approaching end of life while patients say they never had that conversation. Bereaved family member perceptions of hospice referral when their family member was on hospice for seven days or less. Patient Preferences. References.

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Hospice of the North Coast

AUGUST 25, 2023

The team encompasses medical directors, primary physicians, registered nurses (RNs), certified nursing assistants (CNAs), social workers, chaplains or spiritual counselors, bereavement specialists, and volunteers, along with one designated family member. These therapies can provide emotional comfort and relaxation.

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Home Care Pulse

JULY 25, 2023

As a hospice agency, you are required to track your hospice volunteer hours along with all of the other items you are required to document for your paid employees. The hospice philosophy, goals of care, and services provided The specific volunteer job responsibilities Documentation of care provided How to get the help they need.

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Hospice Nurse Hero

FEBRUARY 5, 2022

Document the death Call the coroner, Notify the funeral home Console the family. Expert Hospice Documentation Tips. End-of-Life Care Death Documentation. In addition to post-mortem care, you will need to complete your death visit documentation. Bereavement services offered and the family accepted. TOD 11:38 p.m.

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GeriPal

MARCH 7, 2024

We have to do our assessment, our documentation, all of the things that we need to do from providing good care and then also from a regulatory and to be filling the roles that we’re there providing, and, frankly, what we’re being reimbursed for. It’s a story, and the story likes to be told again and again.

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High Peaks Hospice

JUNE 27, 2023

Maintains documentation of social work services in patients’ medical records according to agency policy. Knowledge of family and group treatment, community resources, and the dynamics of terminal illness, grief, and bereavement. Participates in IDT meetings. Hospice experience and/or equivalent education is preferred.

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Hospice Nurse Hero

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Document at the Bedside. In the rare instances where your patient won’t allow you to document at the bedside, then you should go to your car and complete your charting. My best advice is to document in real-time and use the tools that I have shared with you. Interdisciplinary Team.

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GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

Potential that documenting advance directives without a robust conversation about prognosis might have led to these findings. Jennifer 17:26 Documentation of end of life preferences. And we looked at newly documented end of life preferences. Did it increase documentation? Eric 21:55 And that’s new documentation.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 29, 2022

Another piece of legislation is a bereavement bill. If passed, it provides funding for bereavement programs to expand their services and reach people who might not otherwise have access to grief and support services. That they effectively document that care, and proactively create care plans that support the care.

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