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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GeriPal

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Judy Long, MDiv, BCC , palliative care chaplain and educator at UCSF and caregiver. We’re delighted to welcome Judy Long, who’s a palliative care chaplain at UCSF and a caregiver. Eric: Don’t even have to document. They could just – Ab: No, no, the other person will document. Judy: Thank you.

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Seasons Hospice

JUNE 27, 2023

This may involve facilitating discussions with chaplains and religious leaders or providing access to sacred texts and rituals. Answer: Advance directives are legal documents that allow individuals to express their treatment preferences and end-of-life wishes in advance.

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The Chaplain's Report

JULY 25, 2023

I have been a certified Clinical Chaplain and Pastoral Counselor since 2016. To summarize, the College of Pastoral Supervision and Psychotherapy is not able to follow its own system of governance, the By-Laws, and its spiritual foundational document, the Covenant. It is not a healthy, functioning organization.

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GeriPal

MAY 8, 2025

We had an interdisciplinary team of physicians, nurses, social workers, and chaplains supporting patients through their psychedelic journey. Then, really importantly, the chaplain served a really important role in this trial. The chaplain was the person in the room during dosing. Eric 11:31 And they were getting psilocybin.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Hospice News: Today we will talk about threads of clinical documentation and satisfaction and also revenue protection. Here’s an area that you missed from a documentation perspective where you could get dinged by CMS for not documenting it, either this element or this way.” One example is a CTI. They love doing it.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 15, 2024

What I would say is make sure that whatever you’re doing for your clinicians as far as here, document this because we need it for such and such regulation. If you want to form a committee around what is the best way to improve that documentation again. Be very transparent with that. They will have a better home-life balance.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Jason Hotchkiss, author, chaplain and psychologist, has unveiled new research on the ways online reviews can help drive hospice quality and staff morale. He is currently a chaplain and behavioral health specialist at the Center for Elders’ Independence and a professor of psychology at Cornerstone University in Michigan.

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GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

On the other hand, all of our guests agree that chaplains are often the most vulnerable to being cut from hospital and health system budgets. We welcome all professions, including but not limited to physicians, chaplains, social workers, nurses, nurse practitioners, case managers, administrators, and pharmacists. Karen: Thank you.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 6, 2023

When their last documented goals of care were evaluated, 69% of these patients chose care that focused on palliation, the study found. Researchers reviewed electronic medical record data for nearly 2,000 adolescents and young adults who died between 2003 and 2019.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 16, 2025

And then you mentioned a whole string of other people, chaplains, et cetera. But like, if you look at a surrogate document, it walks you through step by step, the hierarchy of decision makers, but also, like, how that surrogate should be making decisions. Because if you. Like, I’m again, like, using New York state as an example.

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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

DECEMBER 9, 2024

” If that control is lost because the CNA or the nurse or the chaplain is late, then we’re taking that control away from the family member and they already have very, very little. That CNA, that nurse, that social worker, that chaplain feels supported in the field by this robust tool. That is my vision for the future.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

We’re both in my mind, and I’m biased, great team players, the palliative care team, the chaplain is a great, everybody’s super. They’re really great, the palliative care social worker and chaplain. I mean, our chaplain is fantastic, man. We’re super over here, but we are just not connecting.

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GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

What we did was ask clinicians earlier in the ICU stay for very sick patients to document prognosis, and for those who they thought would survive, to document six-month functional prognosis. And that helped them focus on that instead of, say, the blood pressure, the vasopressors or the ventilator settings that day. Eric: 3,500 people.

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Hospice Nurse Hero

JUNE 11, 2024

Documentation Challenges & Compliance for Hospice Nurses: Have you ever felt like the only thing your agency cares about is how fast you can get your admission entered? Sometimes, the demands of documentation can feel overwhelming. For instance, some states allow chaplains and social workers to attend a death.

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Hospice Advantage Solutions

APRIL 4, 2015

As a consultant, I have the privilege of being invited into agencies throughout Texas to review their documentation and practices. Here are a few of the lesser-known or overlooked details that lead to claim denials: The agency must document why social work or chaplain services were needed and what was accomplished during continuous home care.

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Hope Hospice

OCTOBER 28, 2019

The Five Wishes document is a way for you to communicate your desires for how you want to be treated—medically, physically, and spiritually—if you get seriously ill and/or death is near. Five Wishes is a legal document for persons age 18 and older in California and 41 other states. How to obtain a Five Wishes document.

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Home Care Pulse

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Be a part of the 2023 Survey for the HCP Benchmarking Report Get the data you need to make informed decisions from the most comprehensive report in the industry Learn More Organizational best practices to consider: Document the communication preferences and frequencies for key stakeholders , such as insurers, referral sources, and care providers.

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Home Care Pulse

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

The patient is asked about their pain level and the clinician documents the current pain level. I acknowledged Eva’s pain and offered to arrange for a chaplain to visit. Eva refused the chaplain, saying “this is something only a married woman like you could understand.”. I’d like to share a story to illustrate this concept.

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Hospice of the North Coast

AUGUST 25, 2023

The hospice care team comprises medical experts, social workers, chaplains, and volunteers who collectively address the needs of patients and their families. Counselors, social workers, and chaplains offer emotional and spiritual guidance to help individuals find peace and meaning during this time.

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High Peaks Hospice

MARCH 1, 2022

These experiences led him to take a 1-year course in Clinical Pastoral Education – a course that certifies ministers to work in hospitals as chaplains. This church member who participated in the board meetings, events, and more was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and shortly after, passed.

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The Nurse Break

DECEMBER 23, 2022

It has been well documented that during a disaster the bulk (and often, the most critically injured) of patients will arrive by their own means and not by ambulance, and that is exactly what happened. I guess the only positive thing you can say about an incident like this is that it brings out the best in people.

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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. Reminding family members of how to reach out to the chaplain or social worker is a good example. Decrease in unmet needs. To whom do they report?

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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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