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Emergency department patients waited an average of 30 minutes to see a physician in 2004, eight minutes longer than in 1997, according to a study of U.S. ED visits published on-line recently by Health Affairs.
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has granted a request from the American Hospital Association (AHA) to allow critical access hospitals to submit and publicly report outpatient quality data along with other hospitals.
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(Editor's note: This month we begin a two-month look at partnerships between hospice agencies and long-term care providers. This issue contains stories related to key issues to address in developing and maintaining relationships between hospice agencies and long-term care facilities, including potential legal risks as well as tips to strengthen relationships. Next month, we look at a hospice agency that has developed an inpatient hospice unit within a long-term care facility.)
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Any contract with another organization requires careful attention to details, regulations, and legal issues, but hospice agencies need to pay special attention when contracting with a long-term care facility to provide services, says Meg S.L. Pekarske, JD, an attorney with Reinhart Boerner in Madison, WI.
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The following guidelines are recommended by the Drug and Food Administration (FDA) for disposal of medications.
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has issued a revision to Transmittal 1304 (Change Request 5567) which was titled "Reporting of Additional Data to Describe Services on Hospice Claims."
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Four years of a program focused on partnerships with long-term care facilities and contracts with 88 different facilities has taught the staff at Hospice Care in Madison, WI, a few tricks on how best to manage multiple relationships in different areas.
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"I don't want to go to no stupid funeral." These words uttered by a key character in a puppet show convinced Penne Williams, LCSW, an instructor at University of South Florida at Lakeland, that the puppet show used by LifePath Hospice and Palliative Care in Tampa, FL, is exactly what is needed to help many children handle their grief.
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Although patient care is the No. 1 priority for hospice managers and staff members, a growing number of health care employees are recognizing that their workday activities can affect more than a patient's health — they can affect the environment.
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A nurse in Philadelphia has admitted that he removed body parts from 244 corpses and then helped forge the paperwork that would allow those parts to be transplanted.
