Hospice News

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Muir also has served as the medical director for the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovations’ (CMMI) high-needs Accountable Care Organization Realizing Equity, Access, and Community Health (ACO REACH) program. 3HC Announces New CEO 3HC Home Health & Hospice Care Inc. has tapped Jennifer Whitley as its new president and CEO.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Honing attention on how hospices can integrate technology to better support clinical documentation and patient admission processes may be a key to thriving, Melton indicated. “We More efficient tools can reduce the amount of time spent on administrative tasks and clinical documentation “down to minutes, rather than hours,” she said.

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Hospice News

MAY 22, 2023

Understanding these perspectives can drive conversations about management of these symptoms, according to VITAS Medical Director Robert Nguyen, who worked on the study. Nearly half (41%) of Asian Americans surveyed indicated that they knew the type of end-of-life care they wished to receive, but only 7% had documented these goals.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Their recommendation is that it would include the administrator and medical director of hospice agencies.” We’ve heard the importance of documentation numerous times, but it’s following up with how to identify that something is a problem so you can make corrections.”

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Hospice News

JULY 13, 2022

Ensure contracts with physicians or health care systems are carefully documented and that you’re keeping good records to support services rendered. Any communications that suggest a physician is being offered a compensated medical director position for referrals risks an exposure scenario.”.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Others may lack the technical skills needed to ensure clinical documentation is sound in electronic medical record systems, Garcia added. For example, some clinicians may lack the communication skills needed to discuss goals of care at the end of life, she said.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Hospice would likely change from the Medical Director-led IDT team with standard COPS, to a landscape of payer-source-driven rules for each patient. KanTime can capture affiliated providers, documents and palliative care-to-hospice transitions seamlessly by overlaying medical records for easy reference.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Effective processes to measure and track quality are crucial for hospices when it comes to proving their value proposition to payers, according to Dr. Alena Baquet-Simpson, chief executive medical director of insurance giant Aetna, a CVS Health company (NYSE: CVS). “It

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Hospice News

MAY 17, 2022

With regulatory scrutiny on the rise in the industry, hospices are zeroing in on trained and qualified jobseekers who can prevent billing and documentation errors, which are often red flags that bring surveyors or auditors to their doorstep. Staff who can manage the intricacies of hospice billing are also in demand.

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GeriPal

MARCH 20, 2025

Should these patients qualify for medical aid in dying medications? Hope is a palliative care doc and hospice medical director at Evergreen Health up near Seattle, Washington. And so I think of it as more like the patient who’s on document dialysis, who. Hope Wechkin brought this topic to us.

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Hospice News

MARCH 24, 2023

We’re not going to take the place obviously of a medical director or a certified hospice nurse, but we are going to give them another tool to question their thinking and make sure that what needs to be documented is being documented.” What other programs can we help you find for them?

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GeriPal

JANUARY 16, 2025

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. Yael 21:05 Sometimes I think it’s helpful, like in whatever paperwork you have, but just to sit down and say, this is actually what it means. Because if you.

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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. Dr. Merkel engaged with his partner Dr. Robert Kasulke to spear head the medical care. Dr. David Merkel served as Medical Director of Hospice until his death in 2012.

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Home Care Pulse

APRIL 26, 2022

– Preparing Together for Increased Oversight of Eligibility Documentation. Preparing Together for Increased Oversight of Eligibility Documentation. The intake team will be instructed to gather data from other medical providers and present it to the hospice medical director for her review prior to scheduling an admission.

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Pallimed

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

The CDC’s reply was unusual in that it provided no responsive documents, but cited Chou’s public disclosure of his conflict of interest from the July 2021 Meeting of the CDC BSC-NCIPC and recusal from those proceedings (13). He can be reached by e-mail at chad.kollas@orlandohealth.com or via Twitter at @ChadKollasMD.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 12, 2023

This article is based on a Hospice News discussion with Faith Protsman, regional medical director at VITAS Healthcare, Raianne Melton, senior clinical manager of professional service at Axxess, and Cheryl Hamilton Fried, president & CEO at Blue Ridge Hospice. This article is sponsored by Axxess. For me, that’s a huge win.

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Hospice Nurse Hero

AUGUST 21, 2022

When this happens, you’ll want to use these tips to document the hospice recertification with ease. However, did you know that only the hospice medical director can recertify your patient’s eligibility ? The first two benefit periods don’t require an in-person or face-to-face visit from the hospice medical director.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 15, 2024

We discuss: What is considered a hate incident, how is it tracked, what do we know about changes over time The wider impact of Anti-Asian hate on older Asians, who are afraid to go out, leading to anxiety, social isolation, loneliness, decreased exercise, missed appointments and medications.

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Hospice Nurse Hero

JANUARY 30, 2024

Other ways to get ready for your shift include: Important Phone Numbers to keep handy Hospice Medical Directors + NPI numbers Co-workers/ IDG Hospitals Ambulance Companies Medical Equipment Provider Hospice Pharmacy Benefit Manager (PMB) Local Pharmacies Hospice Nurse Tools Hospice Scales and Measures (PPS, FAST, NYHA, KPS, etc.)

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GeriPal

AUGUST 31, 2023

He spent a long time as hospice medical director and he founded a national model of care that many of our listeners will be familiar with, AIM, which stands for the Advanced Illness Management program, which has influenced CMS policy. ” So we did these focus groups. Bill: Thank you.

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Pallimed

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Franklin also served on the Washington State Agency Medical Directors Group (AMDG) via the Washington State Department of Labor and Industries (9). However, PNN received 1,500 pages of documents “so heavily redacted they were completely blank (52, 53; See Figure 2 Below). See [link] 12. Mai J, Franklin G, Tauben D. Lawhern R.

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Minority Nurse

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

In this role, I was half of the MD/RN dyad, working with the Medical Director of OB, and I provided the following: Real-time support for nurses and physicians on L&D. I work to make nursing care in the hospital safer, more efficient, and lower risk by improving policies, workflow, and documentation practices.

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Hospice Nurse Hero

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Call the day/night before your visit to confirm your patients’ appointment Sync your tablet/visits if you have an electronic medical record system (do this several times a day) Know your travel route and which patients you will see first and last Restock your trunk supplies. Document at the Bedside. Interdisciplinary Team.

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Pallimed

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

By 2007, the Washington State Agency Medical Directors Group (AMDG), which included several eventual PROP members (23), published an “Interagency Guideline on Opioid Dosing for Chronic Non-Cancer Pain (26) that introduced the concept of hard dosing thresholds for opioid analgesics, which was later incorporated into the 2016 Guideline (2, 3).

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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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Hospice News

JANUARY 3, 2025

Systems like AI can help hospices allocate the appropriate resources for patients changing needs as well as reduce redundancies in tasks like clinical documentation. Hospices are also leveraging AI to detect potential errors in documentation or medication reconciliation to improve compliance and patient safety.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

So there are some clinics where you can talk to the medical director and they may give people like a take home dose for the afternoon. We try to document that it’s for cravings or withdrawal symptoms or Sach. There are, you know, some methadone, like methadone clinics have a large variation in terms of how they practice.

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Hospice Nurse Hero

MAY 11, 2022

One of the most common frustrations hospice nurses have is related to how long it takes to complete hospice documentation. Next, medical records are requested by the intake team. Then, documents from the referral source (i.e. doctor, hospital, nursing home) are added to the electronic medical record. Conclusion.

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