Hospice News

AUGUST 8, 2024

This article is sponsored by OnePoint Patient Care. In this Voices interview, Hospice News sits down with Kenny Judd, Vice President – Client Services, OnePoint Patient Care, to talk about the key pharmacy challenges in today’s hospice environment, and how providers can overcome them.

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Daily Nurse

JUNE 19, 2023

Compassion is more than being kind to patients or checking in regularly with folks with acute illnesses. Genuine compassion requires forward-thinking and careful planning. However, pursuing specialized credentials and further education is an excellent way for healthcare professionals to improve patient care quality.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

“While HOPE contains some original HIS items, HOPE intends to help hospices better understand patient care needs and contribute to the patient’s plan of care at additional timepoints, not just at admission and discharge.” As many as three of these visits may be necessary during a patient’s time in hospice.

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Minority Nurse

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Unfortunately, this approach fails to consider the long-term impact on patient care and the loss of invaluable experience and expertise that seasoned nurses possess, which is critical to the success of novice nurses. Impact on Patient Care The consequences of laying off seasoned nurses can have a negative impact on patient care.

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AlayaCare

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Centralizing home infusion operations Home infusion is an information-intensive industry. And many subcontracting nursing agencies spend hours per day transcribing information between phone calls, emails, and a patchwork of software applications to track critical patient and provider details.

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AlayaCare

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Home infusion is an information-intensive industry. And many subcontracting nursing agencies spend hours per day transcribing information between phone calls, emails and a patchwork of software applications to track critical patient and provider details. Centralizing home infusion operations.

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Hospice News

JUNE 17, 2024

Blue Ridge Hospice Welcomes New VP of IT Virginia-based Blue Ridge Hospice has named Mohamad Hamad as its new vice president of information technology. His IT experience and dedication to leveraging technology to improve patient care and optimizing operations make him an ideal fit for our organization.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Georgia in 2020 passed legislation that requires the state’s health department to provide palliative care consumer and professional information and education programs. Additionally, the regulation requires the health department to include continuing education opportunities for health care providers in these services.

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Daily Nurse

MARCH 24, 2023

With this information, we hope that nurses and institutions will reflect on their biases and educate themselves better to serve themselves, their patients, and their colleagues,” says JEN Editor-in-Chief Anna Valdez, PhD, RN, RN, who also contributed to this study.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

We saw a dire need to quickly collect data, investigate it and identify opportunities to increase efficiency, allowing hospice leaders to ultimately focus their attention on enhancing patient care. For more information on Voices, please contact sales@agingmedia.com. To learn more, visit hospicedynamix.com.

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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.” Nevertheless, the primary focus for surveyors should be on direct patient care, per CMS.

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Hospice News

MARCH 22, 2024

Partners In Care has done that well with home health care. Our home health care census is actually larger than our hospice census at this time. We measure the score at Partners In Care by how well we do with patient care, and we call it a victory when we were rated five-stars by [the U.S.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

When evaluating any predictive analytic tool, Enclara always ensures that a clinical expert makes the final determination when predictive data are involved to help mitigate bias and verify the accuracy of information. There is a myriad of opportunities to positively impact patient care and the nurse experience.

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Hospice News

JUNE 4, 2024

Patient care is at the bedside, and I believe, as a clinician myself, that the more your bedside staff know and understand the ‘why’ — the expectations, metrics, and requirements of their role — the more they can buy in and support the process, which ultimately means providing the best possible care for their patients,” True says.

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Hospice News

JULY 19, 2022

“The unique nature of working from your home — our settings [and] our beloved companion animals — invites similar sharing from the people we care for as they let us into the things that matter most of them [and] that make the most difference.”. Yoda began to show a lot of interest in talking and interacting with patients early on, said Mize.

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Hospice News

MAY 9, 2023

Data collection and analysis are becoming increasingly important to palliative care providers’ clinical and business processes. This trend has led to many new partnerships that have helped companies make better-informed decisions for patients. Recently, Sharon S. he said. Recently, Sharon S.

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AlayaCare

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Using artificial intelligence and robotic process automation (AI and RPA), home care software can streamline processes, automate tedious tasks and save time and money in the long run. Along with process integration, easy data exchange helps to ensure information is accurate and up to date across multiple departments or teams.

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Hospice News

APRIL 23, 2024

“There is a very small, but increasing, number of fellowship trainings that are specialized in neuropalliative care,” Daly said. Also, as more people want to increase their palliative knowledge without formal training, the INPCS is working to be the place for the information.”

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Hospice News

MAY 23, 2024

That means hospice providers listen to what their patients need and want to make them comfortable and give them dignity at the end of life. Compassus uses its clinical assessment not just to capture a patient’s health information but also to inform their goals, hopes and fears. “In To learn more, visit hchb.com.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Other hospices have leveraged remote patient monitoring systems, integrated electronic health records (EHR), and predictive analytics. This type of actionable information also assists hospices in driving top-of-license practice so that we can optimize caregivers when appropriate, which keeps the cost of care down.”.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 27, 2024

Hospices have come under increasing regulatory oversight during a time of prolific workforce shortages , rising demand and technology innovations that are reshaping end-of-life care delivery. The role of clinical executives has morphed to include more business-related decisions alongside those regarding patient care delivery, Martin said.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

As a high-touch, highly human care delivery type, hospice care may seem in a sense removed from the fast-paced, high-tech world of artificial intelligence. Yet in many ways AI is giving rise to exactly what hospice professionals set out to do in the first place: provide patient care.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 8, 2023

In this Voices Interview, Hospice News sits down with Rebecca Christensen, Director of Clinical Services at BetterRX, to talk about the keys to achieving the most efficient patient care. The retail pharmacist informed me that rectal administration was not an option, whereas, in reality, it was.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 25, 2022

The project was birthed from the challenges, disruptions and opportunities that the pandemic brought to palliative and hospice care providers, according to Cullinan and Wasp. Most clinicians either declined coaching, or used coaching one to two times before becoming independent in having SICs with patients, said Wasp and Cullinan.

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Hospice News

APRIL 18, 2023

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is insufficient to support hospice patients’ care needs, a major industry group said. base payment rate increase recently proposed by the U.S. CMS earlier this month released its 2024 hospice proposed rule , which included the 2.8% increase — an estimated total of $720 million.

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Hospice News

MAY 18, 2022

Underlying the company’s strategy is a drive to develop solutions designed to support patient care as consumers navigate their way through the health care system. WellSky counts as clients more than 1 in 3 of the home- and community-based health care providers in the United States.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

As you’re thinking about not only working with referral sources and other providers and facilities, they may start asking you for information about it, even if you’re not participating in it. They want to show how you can articulate the value that you provide to their organization, and how you care for their patients.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 10, 2024

In this Voices interview, Hospice News speaks with Erik Hornyak, CTO of HospiceChoice Rx, about how their ePrescribing platform, NaviScript, is optimizing prescribing workflows to give clinicians more time for patient care. Ensuring seamless integration between clinical and administrative workflows is a major challenge in hospice care.

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Hospice News

MAY 29, 2024

“Through our ongoing work at CVS Health Ventures, we’ve pinpointed a critical need to find organizations who can empower health care providers, without creating abrasion to their existing efforts, while effectively lowering costs and providing high-value patient care,” Reisner said.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 21, 2022

My role was more than just teaching clinicians how to document patient visits. Those feelings can easily bleed into patient care. I want to help them leverage technology to make patient care better. How can we pivot when times get hard so that our patients are not affected? Resilient.

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Hospice News

MAY 20, 2022

As with increased telehealth services for patient care, many providers leaned on technology to make up their difference. For example, when their annual fundraiser was postponed due to sheltering in place, Hospice and Palliative Care of Western Kentucky created an online event website as an alternative.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 19, 2023

These application triggers included the co-location of multiple hospices at single address, a single hospice administrator overseeing multiple hospices, a patient care manager or other hospice leadership staff serving multiple hospices, and a hospice company that “appears to be hidden behind a shell company,” according to the group statement.

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Hospice News

JUNE 30, 2022

This proposed transaction will allow partnership with the CD&R entities to maintain patient care at the Kindred Hospices while optimizing the efficiency of shared operations,” Falcon Holdings indicated in the request. The transaction is not expected to have any impact on the price of or access to health care services within Oregon.

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AlayaCare

JUNE 21, 2022

This can lead to a decrease in the quality of patient care. One of the major scheduling problems for infusion nurses is managing the difference between care time , when infusion nurses are actively treating patients, and on-going time, when they simply monitor patient care.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 25, 2022

This can call into question whether these medical directors were on staff because they were giving the hospice direct lines of patient referrals. It would also signal a potential concern of legitimacy for patient care received if patient revenue grew year over year, along with the size of these medical directors’ staff salary, he continued.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Quality data can help health care leaders across the continuum visualize the return on investment of growing palliative care training initiatives/partnerships, according to Brynn Bowman, CEO of the Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC).

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Hospice News

JANUARY 2, 2023

The California-based hospice has calculated these cost savings by taking the number of patient care hours served by a volunteer and multiplying this amount by average hourly staff rates. Historically, about 10% of the hospice’s volunteers who visit patients are pre-med students.

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