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Hospice News
APRIL 10, 2024
The Medicare Hospice Benefit could use an “upgrade” to ensure greater flexibility that may be necessary to fully support patients’ needs. Wladkowski, the Larry and Patty Benz Professor and an associate professor of social work at Bowling Green State University. Wallace, the Dorothy A. Among the changes that the U.S.
Hospice News
JANUARY 16, 2023
They found a 95% increase in hospice or palliative utilization among veterans served by VA providers participating in the agency’s Social Work Patient Aligned Care Team (PACT). These findings suggest that social workers may increase access to and/or use of palliative care.”.
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Hospice News
SEPTEMBER 24, 2022
Careful management of hospice care manager workloads correlates with longer lengths of stay. For many patients length of stay is a week or less, which is too short for them to receive the full benefit of hospice care. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).
Hospice News
APRIL 24, 2023
As the hospice landscape shifts and hospice care is delivered more widely, another care type has made entry into the conversation: palliative care. We knew that what they had at their disposal from a hospice perspective wasn’t enough for palliative care.
Hospice News
SEPTEMBER 8, 2023
The health care system, in both private and public settings, that is engaged with financing, managing, and providing palliative and hospice care must directly address the issue of racism, discrimination, and disparities, particularly among marginalized underserved non-Hispanic Blacks,” authors stated in the study.
Hospice News
FEBRUARY 17, 2023
Though operators often feel siloed within the Medicare Hospice Benefit, they are not shielded from the shifting currents in the health care system at large. Concurrently, chronic illness management is another area in which hospices see both a need they can help address and an opportunity to expand their businesses.
Hospice News
FEBRUARY 16, 2024
“What we found with this tool is that we could transition patients in need quicker, identify declines faster and get the appropriate team members there to be with them in a timely fashion, especially during those last and important days of care.” Croix Hospice cares for more than 4,400 patients daily across its 10-state service region.
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