Hospice News

MARCH 26, 2025

Nursing homes have had this, home health has had it as well, but maybe it didnt all have the same name. The second thing is as basic as can be: If youre not documenting things correctly, it will be understood incorrectly. This was not thrust upon the community. Its devoting resources to going after bad performers.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 17, 2022

Services and items provided to patients in nursing homes are a particular area of risk for hospices, she said. Case in point, the skilled nursing and long-term care service provider American Senior Communities recently settled an FCA case for upwards of $5.5 Department of Justice.

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Hospice News

MARCH 29, 2023

Nevertheless, longer stays continue to trigger regulatory audits and additional documentation requests. One area with room for improvement involves patients who are referred to hospice from nursing home settings where median lengths of stay have yet to recover from pre-pandemic levels, according to Allison.

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Hospice News

MAY 5, 2023

DocuSign became the most efficient as far as getting consent for services and other documentation completed. Hospitals and nursing homes don’t want to get dinged for readmissions. But it’s the burden of documentation that we always have. But you lose a bit of the personal touch. Turner: Data plays an important part.

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GeriPal

APRIL 4, 2024

Missouri set a very high bar, explicit written documentation that applies to this specific circumstance, which the Cruzan’s eventually cleared. But legislation can change, clinical practice can change, but I think what we’ll talk about today is how we’re now opening the door to conversations rather than legal rules and documents.

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Hospice News

MAY 30, 2023

The positive outcomes of palliative care are well-documented, but it is true that person-centered, high-quality palliative care is a resource-intensive service. This is particularly true in community settings (patient homes, nursing homes, clinics) and in telehealth palliative care models, where we see an enormous amount of innovation.

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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.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

There’s not even a place in most medical records to document that. That assumes that you have somebody at home who’s willing and able to take care of you. And if we don’t make that happen, those patients end up in the hospital or they end up in nursing homes. What were your impressions of that document?

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Hospice Nurse Hero

JANUARY 26, 2022

Hospice documentation is tedious and time-consuming. I’ve outlined simple tips to help you master the fundamentals of hospice documentation. Do you spend hours documenting at home? Worse yet, do you find yourself frustrated when “corporate” only seems to care about timely documentation? D on’t judge me! ).

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 2, 2022

The example I give is, if you’ve ever walked into a nursing home, or where there’s an activity happening for a group of people with dementia, that is a little depressing to me. A lot of times family members or staff in nursing homes say that, “I’m burnt out, so I don’t have the energy.”

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Hospice Nurse Hero

JANUARY 4, 2024

In this guide, we’ll explore tips and strategies, suitable for both seasoned and new nurses, to enhance your hospice documentation process. The Struggle is Real: Many hospice nurses, even experienced ones , may feel overwhelmed with charting responsibilities. Document at the Bedside You knew this was coming!

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Healthcare Law Insights blog

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Many long-term care residents live in Missouri nursing homes for years. In certain cases, nursing homes may discharge or transfer a resident even if the resident does not consent to the discharge or transfer – this is known as an “involuntary discharge” or an “involuntary transfer.” 19 CSR 30-82.050(2)(A)-(F).

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 21, 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. My role was more than just teaching clinicians how to document patient visits. Fast forward to years later, I have found my calling. Change is inevitable.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

There’s more to it that you should be documenting than DNR DNI, which seems like. Another reason why maybe documenting in the chart and not having, you know, like our advance directives are usually hidden away. The intention was to place it in the beds in nursing homes. We need more. We can make this better.

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Hospice Advantage Solutions

OCTOBER 31, 2017

CMS has issued new Interpretive Guidelines for nursing homes which will be implemented on November 28th. Please visit this link to read the entire document. The required evaluation before writing a new PRN order entails a DIRECT examination. The required evaluation before writing a new PRN order entails a DIRECT examination.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Oftentimes it’s either combination of home visits and telephonic services. Sometimes they might be doing consultations either inpatient or in the nursing home or in assisted living. How’s it being documented? It usually isn’t. So sometimes you have that sort of model. Who is aware of it?

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Hospice Nurse Hero

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Hospice care is delivered anywhere the patient calls home and for many elderly, this includes the nursing home. Learn how you can build better relationships with nursing homes while delivering quality hospice care. As a hospice nurse, it’s likely that you will provide care to nursing home patients.

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Nurse.com

APRIL 18, 2023

According to the American Nurses Association (ANA), clear and accurate documentation is essential for safe, quality, evidence-based nursing practice. This applies across settings, for registered and advanced practice nurses alike, according to ANA’s Principles for Nursing Documentation Guidance for Registered Nurses.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

RCFEs, boarding cares, nursing homes. Eric: And how is assisted living community different than a nursing home? One is they’re not licensed as a nursing home, and they’re not federally regulated. Biggest differences, not licensed as a nursing home, don’t have to have nurses.

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GeriPal

MARCH 2, 2023

valproic acid and gabapentin), in nursing homes, particularly patients with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias. JAMA Surgery 2018 Gabapentin and mood stabilizers in the Nursing Home Setting: Antiepileptic prescribing to persons living with dementia residing in nursing homes: A tale of two indications.

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2022

And yet, I think for everyone who’s elderly, which is anyone who’s my age or older, I would say it’s very important and ought to be part of an annual exam that we ought to be asking that, and documenting it in the chart. I think Bob also noted documenting it. Eric: Anybody else’s thoughts on that?

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AlayaCare

JUNE 28, 2022

Based on this discussion, we’ve developed a free tip sheet to help your home care organizations and healthcare providers work through improving your care plans. Let’s dive into how to make and improve a health care plan and how it can improve your home care agency, nursing home, or business.

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AlayaCare

JUNE 29, 2022

Based on this discussion, we’ve developed a to help your home care organizations and healthcare providers work through improving your care plans. Let’s dive into how to make and improve a health care plan and how it can improve your home care agency, nursing home, or business. A care workflow.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Achieving smooth coordination between hospice care and other health care settings, such as hospitals and nursing homes, is critical yet complex due to the need for seamless care transitions and clear communication. Most compliance challenges typically revolve around documentation and adherence to orders.

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Diversity Nursing

AUGUST 3, 2023

Pay Attention to Financial Indicators: You might be in a situation where you are caring for someone in their home or a nursing home. Take their concerns seriously and document their statements appropriately. Document Thoroughly: When you suspect elder abuse, document your observations and conversations carefully.

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AlayaCare

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

The mood in the nation’s home health community is a worry that we could be in for another rough time. Alarm bells are now sounding in long-term care facilities and nursing homes, where clients may be vaccinated ( U.S. data shows 81 percent of nursing home residents are fully vaccinated) but staff may not be.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Researchers pooled a group of nurses, home health aides, social workers and chaplains during a three-month period to examine ties between employee well-being and turnover. Alarming levels of burnout and low levels of well-being have been documented in health professionals across care settings.

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AlayaCare

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

The mood in the nation’s home health community is a worry that we could be in for another rough time. Alarm bells are now sounding in long-term care facilities and nursing homes, where clients may be vaccinated ( U.S. data shows 81 percent of nursing home residents are fully vaccinated) but staff may not be.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 8, 2022

As Thor notes, capturing patient stories has face validity as positively impacting the patients who share their stories and have them documented, and for the clinicians who get to truely and deeply know their patients in far greater depth than “what brought you to the hospital?” So it’s this tension that I constantly think about.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

And so I became more interested in what are the outcomes of patients with cancer when they do go to a nursing facility? Why do we not have more palliative care access in nursing homes? And about half of the people, there were about, I think 4,000, 5,000 claim beneficiaries, and only half of them had ADL scores documented.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 12, 2023

What we have seen over the years, because I can tell you, starting out 30 years ago or somewhere around there, as even going out to calling on physicians and nursing homes and saying, “Please give us early referrals, please give us early referrals,” just hasn’t happened in 30 years. For me, that’s a huge win.

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Nurse.com

AUGUST 3, 2022

A home healthcare infusion nurse is concerned about one of her RN colleagues. This colleague documented that she infused a medication for a home care patient in contradiction to the directions on the infusion bag from the home infusion pharmacy. Carefully monitor a patient who is receiving infusion therapy.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 15, 2022

And these are a little bit more palliative care centric than things we might use with a general population of hospitalized old adults or people in the nursing home or in the outpatient setting because there’s that feeling of life closure and legacy in some of these questions.

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Daily Nurse

JANUARY 18, 2024

Her revolutionary biostatistical practices are credited with saving the lives of numerous soldiers as she uncovered and documented preventable causes of death that were all too common in hospitals during the Crimean War. Nurse change agents can work anywhere, be any nurse, and bring about change in countless ways.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

Eric: Who manages, once a day, methadone once they’re admitted to a nursing home? Katie: Well, I think you’re assuming that they’re accepting them to nursing homes, which is usually the first stop sign. And the nurse can’t dose it, they have to individually dose it. Katie: Yep. Jessie: Yep.

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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. Camillus, director of Uihlein Mercy Nursing Home in Lake Placid, worked to ensure hospice services would be available to nursing home residents.

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GeriPal

JUNE 9, 2022

Whether it’s the consult rate or documentation of a conversation, hospice referrals, those kinds of things, and then patient outcomes, quality of life, symptom burden. Alex: So the proven trial was that the video in the nursing homes? Kate: Yeah, the nursing homes. If many folks didn’t get it.

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