Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Virtual care delivery processes are playing a key role in hospices’ ability to support both patients and staff as end-of-life care expands further upstream. End-of-life care truly needs to be reimagined,” Hamilton Fried told Hospice News at the ELEVATE conference in Chicago. “We

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Hospice News

JULY 8, 2024

Increased technology utilization in end-of-life care has come with innovative care delivery opportunities alongside cybersecurity risks. Hospices have faced increased risk of cybersecurity threats that have included incidents of exposed private health information belonging to patients.

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Hospice News

APRIL 17, 2024

Since then, the company has grown in terms of census, grown more sophisticated in its approach to end-of-life care and expanded into other business lines. The lawsuit contends that the claims denials denied Partners in Care its right to procedural due process. 1, 2016 and Dec.

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Hospice News

JULY 12, 2024

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to use documentation in a patient’s medical record as supporting material. The documentation would include the reasons that an attending physician certified a patient for hospice and establish a six-month terminal prognosis.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

I refer to whether a clinician feels they have the time to provide the care that is most important to achieve quality end-of-life care,” Threats says. “Do To provide effective care planning to the patient and family? That’s what makes documentation more efficient.

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Hospice News

MAY 22, 2023

The survey’s findings show that while Asian Americans may think about end-of-life matters, they aren’t discussing or documenting these plans with health care professionals. Additionally, only 14% of survey respondents indicated a preference to hold advance care planning conversations with a health care professional.

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Hospice News

JUNE 14, 2024

But the majority of hospices are striving to provide quality end-of-life experiences to terminally ill patients and their families, Harrison said at the Hospice News Elevate conference in Washington D.C. Program integrity continues to be tragically a problem with hospice,” Harrison told Hospice News. “It’s

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

The results also highlighted the need for more communication between patients and providers about individuals’ end-of-life goals and wishes. Though 89% of those surveyed indicated that they felt comfortable talking about death, 81% said that they had never had a conversation about end-of-life care with a health care provider.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Though greater transparency in hospice program integrity has opened the door to more patients in need of end-of-life care, she said. Additional documentation processes can be a stressor on clinical staff retention in particular, she stated. Hospice News photo.)

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Expanding services not only draws clients to the practice, but also improves patient care by ensuring patients are in the right setting, at the right time, with the right caregivers who understand the fluidity of end-of-life care. To train someone effectively, the agency must first understand these intricacies themselves.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

While many in the hospice space agree that evolution is needed to help ensure quality end-of-life care outcomes, conflicting views swirl around how regulatory requirements and associated processes could get us there. Regulators and hospice providers share a common goal of ensuring quality end-of-life care experiences.

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Hospice News

MAY 9, 2022

Advance care planning by necessity occurs upstream of hospice, but those providers nevertheless have a role to play in helping patients and families understand the importance of making their end-of-life wishes known. If there was a way for hospice and palliative care to connect with people, that would be a big step forward.”.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

“The Terry Schaivo story is not ours to tell, but many of those components affect end-of-life care every day. Families are not always in agreement with what’s the best plan of care. It’s showing how far so much of society has evolved and advanced in those 20 years, including hospice and end-of-life care.”

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 24, 2024

But concerns have mounted around sustainable growth strategies that will keep pace with rising demand amid myriad challenges in end-of-life care delivery. We’re seeing a fair bit of variability in how different agencies approach documentation audits. Once that consistency is achieved, it will better inform their roles.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Advance directives (AD) and other goals-of-care documentation often lack information related to cultural, religious and spiritual affiliations, as well as personal health values, the 2016 research indicated. Fewer than 24% of Black participants had completed an advance directive, compared to 44% of caucasians who had.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 10, 2024

During his tenure, he has helped to develop and oversee the launch of the NPHI Innovation Lab, which focuses on designing systematic approaches to improve advanced illness care by examining trends in population health, claims analytics and practice optimization. Her passion to provide excellence in home health care and hospice is evident.”

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Hospice News

MAY 24, 2024

If more patients were to document their end-of-life wishes, it could effectively transform aspects of the nation’s health care system, generating cost savings and better outcomes, according to Minnesota-based physician Dr. Michael Madison. He is also the founder of the advance care planning platform Thanacare.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Onboarding processes have an important role in preparing hospice clinicians for the nuances of providing end-of-life care. For example, some clinicians may lack the communication skills needed to discuss goals of care at the end of life, she said. There’s no one special sauce in what we’re doing.

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Hospice News

APRIL 17, 2023

Anvoi, for instance, purchased iPads for all of its employees to make charting and documentation more efficient, as well as for “face-to-face” telehealth visits. In tandem, the company had to deploy capital to cover the costs of training staff to use these systems while remaining compliant with law and regulation.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 17, 2024

Hospice providers, industry groups and other stakeholders recently penned a letter urging Congress to improve payment infrastructures that would increase access to end-of-life care among rural populations. So, for access to rural care, we’re going to have to depend on smaller rural programs.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

More than half (59.6%) of seriously ill Hispanic patients in the intervention group completed some form of advanced directive documentation, compared to 26.9% However, the intervention did increase ACP engagement, [advance directive (AD)] documentation and hospice utilization in Hispanic persons with serious medical illness.”

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Hospice News

JANUARY 5, 2023

What we heard from many providers was that CMS was not clear about the requirements and what [providers] needed to document to support these billing claims. That needs to be fixed so that goals of care can be addressed.”. OIG recommended that CMS improve education for providers on documentation and time requirements for ACP billing.

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Hospice News

APRIL 29, 2024

Many factors play a role in recruitment and retention, but having a firm grasp of the competing priorities of different interdisciplinary team members is a significant part of sustainable care delivery, according to Tanya Marion, chief human resources officer, Enhabit Inc. NYSE: EHAB).

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Hospice News

APRIL 11, 2023

Machine-learning technology can give hospice providers expanded visibility into patient conditions and overall experiences as they reach the most critical stages at the end of life, she said. It marries the science pieces of predictive analytics, machine learning and AI with the art and science of delivering end-of-life health care.

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Hospice News

MAY 5, 2023

If regulators were to extend the timeframe for eligibility, patients could reap the full benefits of end-of-life care, the two executives said. DocuSign became the most efficient as far as getting consent for services and other documentation completed. But it’s the burden of documentation that we always have.

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Hospice News

MARCH 15, 2024

Documentation errors and a fragmented health system pose the greatest risks for adverse drug events among hospices.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 17, 2022

This means hospices can expect to see heightened auditing and scrutiny of what costs are deemed “unrelated” to end-of-life care, according to Judi Lund Person, vice president of regulatory and compliance for the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization. “We Department of Justice.

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Hospice News

MAY 3, 2024

Breaking down the barriers to stronger trauma-informed end-of-life care requires heightened awareness, legislative action and improved care delivery approaches. Counterpoints and legalities Hospices have taken greater steps toward improved trauma-informed end-of-life care.

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Seasons Hospice

JUNE 27, 2023

Dignity Is Everything In end-of-life care, maintaining dignity is of utmost importance. It involves honoring individuals’ inherent worth and value, even during their final stages of life. In end-of-life care, preserving dignity is incredibly important.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 2, 2022

territories have also reported health care practitioner shortages, which, combined with remote island geographies, can require individuals to travel long distances to receive health care services that are not available.”.

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Elder Care Matters

MARCH 24, 2025

These legal documents help eliminate confusion and stress for family members during critical medical situations, offering clear guidance on life-sustaining treatments and decision-making. Learn why these documents are crucial and how to create them in this informative article.

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Hospice Nurse Hero

FEBRUARY 5, 2022

End-of-life care is intimate and unique for every patient. To make matters worse, I had never performed end-of-life care. (I Regardless of where your patient dies, these nursing tips can help you provide the best care to your patients and their families. Pronouncement During End-of-Life Care.

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Hospice News

MAY 17, 2023

It requires careful communication designed to identify what is most important to patients. While advance care planning is associated with end-of-life care, the process is also a frequent component of palliative care programs, which are oriented around patients’ own goals and wishes at any stage of their illnesses.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Research around hospice care has come a long way. But data gaps exist when it comes to expanding understanding of some aspects of end-of-life care delivery. Some of the blindspots in the current sphere of hospice research hover around staffing trends and patient needs.

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Seasons Hospice

OCTOBER 26, 2022

If You or Your Loved One Is In Hospice Care, Be Proactive. If you have been diagnosed with a terminal illness and are receiving hospice care, you may want to consider creating a living will. This document can specify your end-of-life wishes in the event that you become unable to make decisions for yourself.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 1, 2024

This means information about end-of-life care options can literally be lost in translation due to the various languages and dialects spoken among AANHPI communities, he indicated. Health care providers, whether working digitally or in person, should also be more robustly trained on culturally-competent care.”

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 26, 2022

The program is designed to recognize up-and-coming industry members who are shaping the next decade of senior housing, skilled nursing, home health, and hospice care. Mobile technology is not just used for documentation, but it’s really an integrated workflow for the caregiver at the bedside. What drew you to this field?

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