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Compassionate Care: 4 Ways Nurses Can Improve Patient Care

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Genuine compassion requires forward-thinking and careful planning. Nurses who want to improve the quality of their compassionate patient care should take advantage of on-the-job training opportunities to bolster their knowledge and enhance the quality of their service.

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Earlier Palliative Care Yields Higher ROI

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The system includes 220 patient care locations, eight hospitals, a regional behavioral health organization and a regional home-based care agency.

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Hospices Stepping Up Performance on Visits-in-Last-Days-of-Life Measure

Hospice News

The number of registered nurse and social worker visits during a patient’s final week is one of the seven quality measures that CMS uses to evaluate providers. Additional touchpoints with patients via telehealth is another factor contributing to improvements on the measure, Harrison said. CMS introduced SIA in 2016.

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4 Hospices Tap New Executive, Clinical Leaders 

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Through compassion, medication, education, listening, and just being present, we can alleviate suffering and preserve one’s dignity in their last earthly days.” She holds a Master’s degree in nursing and a certificate in executive leadership from Perdue University Global.

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Hospices Leverage Technology to Improve Patient, Employee Satisfaction, Reduce Turnover 

Hospice News

Though complete and accurate documentation is essential to regulatory compliance, patient safety and securing payment, the sheer amount of it is taxing for staff. Hospice nurses pointed to this issue as their number-one concern about their jobs in a recent survey by The Amity Group. Nurses are saying, ‘I love being a hospice nurse.

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3 Strategies for Hospice GIP Compliance

Hospice News

The inpatient cap limits the number of days of inpatient care for which Medicare will pay to 20% of a hospice’s total Medicare patient care days, according to OIG. Operators may not provide that level of care in a home, hospice residential facility, assisted living or a long term care nursing home, she said.

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How Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center Built an Award-Winning Palliative Program

Hospice News

According to Wu, the hospital sees about 1,000 patients a year across the spectrum of serious illnesses; some of the most common diagnoses include sepsis, heart failure, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, cancer and dementia.

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