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Medicaid Health Plans Failing to Pay Hospices for Nursing Home Room and Board

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Stymied Medicaid reimbursement for nursing home room and board could threaten access to care for hospice patients in California and possibly other states. The issue centers around patients in nursing homes who are dually eligible for Medicare and Medicaid. We need to get this fixed.

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The Roots of Palliative Care: Michael Kearney, Sue Britton, and Justin Sanders

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Sue Britton was the first nurse hired on that palliative care unit. Summary Transcript CME Summary As far as weve come in the 50 years since Balfour Mount and Sue Britton opened the first palliative care at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Quebec, have we lost something along the way? by Kearney. I promise its short. Canadians are welcoming.

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‘NEXT STEPs’ Program Focuses on Enhancing Nursing Homes Services, Including Palliative Care

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This is particularly true for people living in the nation’s 15,000-plus nursing homes. The grant, spread out over a five-year period, will be put toward the team’s creation of a national network structure that seeks to include more nursing home residents in clinical trials. As the U.S. Dr. Kathleen T.

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How Palliative Care Could Help Break the SNF-to-Hospital Cycle

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A dearth of coordination or integration between rehab teams and palliative care teams routinely forces some patients into a cycle between the hospital and the nursing home in their last year of life. These results appeared in a 2019 New England Journal of Medicine study titled “Rehabbed to Death.”

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Palliative Care Widely Underutilized in Nursing Homes

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Palliative care is grossly underutilized in nursing home settings, but providers can develop new tools that could bring those services to more residents, a recent study has found. It’s inherent in the nature of the people we serve in the nursing home setting.

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Hospice Savannah Fuels Expansion of CAPABLE Program to Enable Aging in Place

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More importantly, in a nation that is absolutely aging, CAPABLE addresses the needs and issues with functional impairment that allow people to stay in their home and age well. Hospice Savannah was recently awarded a grant in the funding category of Older Adults Home Modification Programs.

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Palliative Care’s Evolving Role in Medicaid

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You’re going little by little to communities where the community partners are, and giving education to hospitals, nursing homes, physician offices and practices. The number of states introducing palliative care Medicaid reimbursement channels has been climbing in recent years. Utilization is a totally different ball of wax.

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