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Rush Medical Center’s Caring for Caregivers Program

Hospice News

Increasing Caregiver Duties Family caregivers are also required to perform increasingly more complicated medical tasks, such as administering medications via IV, feeding by a tube and managing pain. Some of these skills include transferring patients from bed to wheelchair, using catheters, and giving injections.

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Key Palliative Care Trends to Watch in 2024

Hospice News

Today, many palliative programs are supported by philanthropic donations or treated as a loss leader that can feed referrals to other services like hospice care. Fee-for-service Medicare, for example, only covers physician and licensed independent practitioner services and does not cover the full range of interdisciplinary palliative care.

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Payers to CMMI: We Need a Standardized Definition for Palliative Care

Hospice News

The common thread across health plans, [accountable care organizations (ACOs)] and across state Medicaid and Medicare agencies is really that the core team includes a physician, a nurse, a social worker and a spiritual care professional, and that pharmacists play a key role in medication management.

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AAHPM Board President-Elect Holly Yang: Hospice Regulators Need to Consider Perspectives of Bedside Staff

Hospice News

Our clinicians, especially our social workers and nurses that work in care management, try very hard to connect people to the services that they need because it is overwhelming as a family member to understand the different pieces of care and how they are financed. People want to do the care, but it’s just really hard.

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HSPN Palliative Care: Fireside Chat with Contessa and Netsmart

Hospice News

You’re in a value-based model, you have to manage your resources and your workforce in that manner.

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Social Workers as Leaders on Palliative Care Teams: A Podcast with Barbara Jones

GeriPal

In day-to-day practice, It’s hard to imagine providing excellent hospice or palliative care services without access to a team social worker. But are we really taking full advantage of ALL social workers have to offer our field? I don’t know if this person was a social worker or not. Barbara: Yay.

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Home Health Care vs. Home Care: What’s the Difference

Traditions Health

This type of care is beneficial for patients: In need of help while recovering from an illness, injury, or surgery Recently discharged from a hospital, nursing home or rehabilitation facility Who require ongoing medical treatments at home With a disability or chronic condition like dementia, diabetes, and heart disease Your home health care team can (..)