Pay Transparency: What Managers Need to Know
As a manager in hospice care, your role goes beyond overseeing patient care and managing staff. It includes ensuring that your team feels valued and fairly compensated. Pay transparency is becoming a hot topic, and understanding its implications can help you...
Elevate Your Hiring with Powerful Demographic Insights
Creating and using benchmarks to compare your company's hiring demographics against those used by government agencies like the EEOC (Equal Employment Opportunity Commission) is crucial. Benchmarking helps ensure that your company’s hiring practices are fair and...
Informative Podcasts from BRG
These interesting and informative podcasts from Berkeley Research Group, LLC were developed for nurse executives. Nurse Executive Podcast The podcasts cover a wide range of interesting and timely topics such as leadership, workplace violence, revenue capture, AI, use...
Root Cause Analysis for Transforming Delivery of Hospice Care
Root Cause Analysis (RCA) is a systematic and structured process used to identify the root causes that results in an undesirable outcome or adverse event and to develop corrective actions. The goal of RCA is not just to treat the symptoms of a problem but to delve...
How Artificial Intelligence is Transforming the Workforce
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming the workplace. It offers immense potential for employers to enhance efficiency, decision-making, and overall performance. However, as AI is increasingly integrated into hiring decisions and other HR functions, employers...
End-of-Life Pain Management
People with terminal illness experience pain at the end of life and for many, this pain goes untreated. One of the key elements of hospice care is effectively managing the patient’s pain. Untreated or undertreated pain results in needless suffering – due to physical...
What is the Hospice Special Focus Program?
The hospice Special Focus Program (SFP) is conducted by the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). The objective of this program is to identify poor performing hospice agencies, based upon quality indicators, that place hospice beneficiaries at risk. These...
What are the three key financial statements?
Financial statements record an agency’s financial activities and convey the agency’s financial health. Financial statements are often audited by accountants to ensure their accuracy and are prepared in accordance with a specific set of accounting rules called...
Hospice Length of stay – active or discharged patients?
Patient length of stay is monitored to detect instances of inappropriate use of the hospice benefit or other deficiencies in the services delivered by the hospice provider. Length of stay is monitored for both very short length of stay as well as for length of stay...
Average length of stay versus median length of stay
Patients are eligible for hospice if they have a terminal diagnosis and a prognosis of six or fewer months to live if their disease runs its natural course. A patient who lives longer than six months can still get hospice care if the medical director or other hospice...