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Palliative Care Increasingly Important in Value-Based Landscape

Hospice News

However, this model is not designed to fully support an interdisciplinary approach involving physicians, nurses, social workers, chaplains and other professionals, making sustainability a challenge.

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UnityPoint VP Agnew: Educate Patients, Clinicians to Expand Hospice

Hospice News

When you talk about an interdisciplinary team coming into your home — nurses, a social worker, chaplain, having access to the physician, volunteers — people are automatically going to think that there’s a cost associated with that. In addition to that I think there’s misconceptions about the costs.

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Hospice News ELEVATE : Fireside Chat with Netsmart

Hospice News

That’s what they said in home health, but we know they get different flavors and do a little bit different variety of care and what they provide. They always say they’re going to operate like Medicare, follow Medicare guidelines. What if the MA plans made access to care a little bit easier?

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HSPN ELEVATE: Can It Be Done? Strategies to Reduce Documentation Burden while Increasing Audit and Survey Readiness

Hospice News

Just because I’ve been in home health longer than I’ve been in hospice, we learned that in home health a long time ago that garbage in and garbage out. Nurses want to come to work, they want to be able to do their job and go home. Same thing with aides, social workers, chaplains.

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HSPN ELEVATE: The Common Thread Linking Documentation, Satisfaction, and Revenue Protection

Hospice News

We had a lot of this in home health, and now it’s hospice’s turn to be scrutinized. We’re getting comments from nurses, some social workers, from chaplains saying, “I get comments back from the family saying, thank you. This seems to go in waves.

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