When an employee brings forward a compliance concern, they’re engaging in what the law defines as protected activity. This might involve reporting a potential violation of hospice regulations,...
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Did Your Risk of Future CAP Overage Letters Increase?
Reopening of prior year CAP calculations is always difficult to manage and is one of the dreaded letters that you may receive any year. It's difficult enough to manage CAP during a given CAP year,...
Dame Cicely Saunders: Pioneering Palliative Care and the Evolution of Hospice Services
Abstract Dame Cicely Saunders was a pioneer in palliative care and the founder of the modern hospice movement. Her visionary work, particularly in establishing St. Christopher’s Hospice in 1967,...
Disparities in Palliative and Hospice Care and Completion of Advance Care Planning and Directives Among Non-Hispanic Blacks: A Scoping Review of Recent Literature
Abstract Objectives: Published research in disparities in advance care planning, palliative, and end-of-life care is limited. However, available data points to significant barriers to palliative and...
MIT Study Shows Hospice Care Saves Medicare Money and Improves End-of-Life Quality for Dementia Patients
Abstract The Medicare hospice program is intended to provide palliative care to terminal patients, butpatients with long stays in hospice are highly profitable, motivating concerns about...
Caregiver-Reported Quality in Hospices Owned by Private Equity Firms and Publicly Traded Companies
Abstract The US hospice industry has shifted from not-for-profit to for-profit ownership models,1,2 producing concerns about care quality. For-profit hospices may have higher rates of live...
Improving Advanced Care Planning Discussions at an Internal Medicine Clinic
Abstract Objective: The project aimed to standardize advanced care planning (ACP) at an internal medicine clinic by initiating physician-patient communication regarding the patient’s knowledge,...
Home Healthcare Workers and Violence in the Workplace
The world of hospice care is deeply personal and profoundly compassionate. As a hospice clinician, your primary focus is providing compassionate care to your patients and their families during their...
What is a Hospice IDG Meeting and Who Should Attend
The hospice interdisciplinary group (IDG) creates a patient’s plan of care and provides holistic care to the patient, caregiver, and family. Hospice Conditions of Participation require the IDG to...