Hospice News

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Improved patient and staff satisfaction are among the most significant returns on investment for hospices that are pouring greater resources into trauma-informed training. Trauma-informed education should be a normalized part of hospice’s interdisciplinary training to help staff recognize and respond to a range of experiences, Ash indicated.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Demographic trends were among the key factors that drove the program forward, said Monica Escalante, chief strategy and information officer at Hospice of the Chesapeake. The new program provides patients and their caregivers with direct support from Hospice of the Chesapeake’s interdisciplinary care team. “The

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Patient, Staff Satisfaction Biggest ROIs of Trauma-Informed Hospice Care Investing in trauma-informed training can come with improved hospice patient and staff satisfaction. Hospices that have invested in trauma-informed training have seen improved retention and organizational reputation.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

And if you go online and start looking for information, you’re going to find a lot of stuff, but how are you going to know that it’s the right stuff?,” Marian Grant, NPHI’s innovation lab clinical advisor, told Hospice News. “We Dementia and neurological illnesses make up the remaining 25%.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 16, 2024

After collecting personal identifying information from prospective patients that were not dying, Abrams sent the information to Nita Palma so she could bill Medicare for purported hospice care. The post 2 Convicted in $3.2M Hospice Fraud, Kickback Scheme appeared first on Hospice News.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

These data can help inform hospices efforts to improve length of stay, according to Ware. Its] trying to get additional information on what it would take to move patients from that shorter length stage to a little longer, Ware said. Medicare hospice spending reached roughly $25.7 This compared to about 2.7%

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Hospice News

MARCH 4, 2025

Care coordination between providers: Thyme Care coordinates with a members oncologist, primary care physician and other specialists to ensure everyone has the right information at the right time to make informed care decisions. Thyme Cares comprehensive approach to cancer care is particularly important for palliative care needs.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Fortunately, with our new EMR, we were able to build out a [key performance indicator (KPI)] dashboard that identified the gaps where we were missing information for the teams to go get them Bolen told Hospice News. To get our return rate up, the first thing we had to do was assess the current state.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Medicare beneficiaries and their families deserve clear, accurate information to make informed choices,” said Dr. Steve Landers, CEO for the National Alliance for Care at Home, in a statement. Stakeholders in the hospice space have spoken out in support of the bill.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 29, 2025

Its twofold as to how weve reached out and sought getting access and information into the community not just to the residents, but also to the service providers, Rhiannon told Hospice News. Its about having that support and framework to recognize an issue and point to a resource.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 31, 2024

The collaborative provides a shared pool of services such as accounting, payroll, revenue cycle and treasury management, information technology (IT), human resources, compliance, education, and marketing and communications.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Since unveiling the toolkit, CMS has been working to create additional, more specific social media campaign materials to improve public awareness of potential fraud schemes, including developing brochures for a national publication, Pryor said. The agency anticipates more communication efforts to unfold on the horizon, he indicated.

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Hospice News

MARCH 3, 2025

California hospices have banded together to help address the issue and ensure health plans are better informed. For some providers, the lack of room-and-board reimbursement could make care in that setting unsustainable, Love said.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

The most important thing that can be done at the bedside is to make sure the patient and family are not extremely distressed when providing information,” Hotchkiss said. It’s that caregiver conference with the family that allows hospices to clear up unrealistic expectations and confusions about how they’re going to help manage symptoms.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

We dont always have information about someone before they enter hospice. Some payment value-based demonstration projects have already given us that information. Maybe paying for performance and quality results makes sense, but data will be a large key in the hospice world.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

CMS said that reviewing certain documents and information that identify key managers, services and locations is “essential.” According to the memo, surveyors should also be cognizant of potential unapproved changes in ownership or location, which are often associated with fraud.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Furthermore, our study findings can serve as a valuable resource for health care providers, enabling them to make informed decisions regarding the implementation of palliative care.” The post The Link Between Palliative and Mental Health Care appeared first on Hospice News.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Fichidzhyan, Juan Carlos Esparza and Karpis Srapyan allegedly owned and operated a series of hospice companies that they falsely claimed were owned by foreign nationals, according to the U.S. Justice Department.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 15, 2025

How can we make sure that people living with serious illnesses are given the information they need about their disease that prevents surprises in their disease trajectories that increase psychological and physical suffering? Seen in that light, the support Frydman has seen for palliative care programs makes sense. Dr. Frydman said.

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Hospice News

MARCH 21, 2025

How will your past experiences help inform your future policy and advocacy efforts in the home-based landscape? It was also activating the team from a grassroots perspective when it was time to take action, making sure that leaders were paying attention and providing the right information.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 12, 2024

The proposed methodology places too much emphasis on data from the Hospice Care Index (HCI) and the Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS) surveys data, because large numbers of hospices do not report that information.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

They interact with the various caregivers and clinicians in those settings to get information and be able to respond to those needs. Regardless of where the patient is in the continuum, the provider follows that patient. The post Inside The Pennant Group’s Palliative Care Philosophy and Practice appeared first on Hospice News.

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Hospice News

MARCH 10, 2025

What we recognized very quickly was that there’s such camaraderie and collaboration among leaders of community-based programs, and we suddenly had this venue for exchanging information, exchanging ideas. Given my role here in Washington, I could sort of see what was happening from the [U.S.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 31, 2025

Todays hospice leaders need a firm understanding of the varying and rapidly changing advances in technology that can impact their business lines and ability to support patients and staff, said Bivek Pathek, chief information officer at Empath Health.

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Hospice News

MARCH 11, 2025

Patients have greater access to information about their condition, for example. That training is critical, as an increasing number of patients are demanding integrative therapy as part of their treatment plans. Brazzale said she believes several reasons are behind the advancing call for integrative therapy.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 31, 2024

The fraud charges have led to difficulties in patients’ access to care, according to Shaarawy, who strived to “vigorously challenge the dispute” based on merits and information gained through CMS’ appeals and administrative reconsideration processes.

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Hospice News

MARCH 24, 2025

The model uses information gathered from a patients genome to plan for care, treatment and services, and to some extent, predict a likely health trajectory, according to the National Human Genome Research Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health. However, more stakeholders are applying the term to hospice and palliative care.

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Hospice News

MARCH 13, 2025

McFadden tried to help by informing them of available care options, including hospice, and what they could expect going forward. Her jump into social media-based education came almost on a whim, she said. The seed was planted a few years ago when the parents of two of her close friends were nearing the end of life.

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Hospice News

JUNE 20, 2023

Hospices are also facing the growing risk of cybersecurity threats that have included incidents of exposed private health information belonging to patients. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has established HIPAA rules aimed at protecting sensitive health information.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 16, 2025

So it defines unrepresented as someone who lacks decisional capacity to provide informed consent to a particular medical treatment. And that can really inform what your own institutional policy is. This is Eric Widera. Alex 01:24 This is Alex Smith. But we always talk about capacity being decision specific. Eric 20:31 Yeah.

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AJN Off the Charts

MARCH 10, 2025

Maintain copies of childrens vaccination records and ensure information in state immunization information systems (immunization registries) is current and accurate. Be prepared to address misinformation and share accurate information to others in the community. This will be important if preparing for international travel.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

However, auditors have increasingly requested more information to support the physician narrative explanation in addition to the regulatory requirements, according to Nowicki. The COPs stipulate that the explanation is a brief statement and confirms the physicians documented narrative based on the patients medical record and assessment.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Its] thinking of how the next generation of employees, family caregivers and volunteers receive and process information. How do we need to change what were doing now to make sure were reaching them in a way that they can digest information?

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Hospice News

JUNE 21, 2024

. “Since we don’t see an improved survival benefit, oncologists should revisit their goals-of-care conversations with patients, and this information in the study should be explained to patients,” Canavan said in the release.

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Daily Nurse

DECEMBER 2, 2024

I remember one occasion when a doctor, frustrated by our inability to get medical registry data in a timely manner, said, “I could have made changes if I had that information sooner. Registries are far more than a database of clinical information ; they can help save lives. I began my career as a bedside nurse in the 1990s.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

The new draft guidance manual is designed to inform providers on how to implement aspects of the tool and the associated data collection processes. The document contains introductory material. As many as three of these visits may be necessary during a patient’s time in hospice.

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