Hospice Management Advisor Archives – March 1, 2004
March 1, 2004
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Nonprofit hospices can learn valuable lessons from for-profits
Any perception of how hospices are faring these days depends on whom you ask. Someone who works at a small hospice may say his or her hospice is having a tougher time than a large hospice is. Staffers at rural hospices may say theyre hoeing a tougher row than their metropolitan counterparts. But there is one segment of the hospice population that seems more optimistic than the rest of the industry: for-profit hospices. -
Hospice trends: Controlling costs without violating hospice tenets
Hospices must take as much care in managing their costs as they do in caring for their patients. Cost and quality are not mutually exclusive. -
Leadership Centers aim to boost palliative care
The Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC) in New York City has launched a Palliative Care Leadership Center (PCLC) initiative to help health care organizations create programs to more effectively manage advanced chronic illness. -
End-of-life caregivers often don’t get support
In teaching health care providers how to care for patients at the end of life, many institutions forget to teach providers that they need to care for themselves as well. -
Guest column: The ethics of discontinuing home health services
Over time, patients who initially are appropriate for home health services may no longer meet the agencys care criteria. Consider autonomy, justice, beneficence. -
Fear of investigation can hinder treatment
Despite all of its successes in improving care for patients facing the end of life, Oregon still has not made headway in treating pain and suffering, according to researchers at the Center for Ethics in Healthcare at Oregon Health Sciences University in Portland. -
Many home health sentinel events are fires in the home
Your nurses teach patients how to administer their medications, check their blood sugars, use their oxygen, care for their wounds, and, in general, take care of themselves as they deal with their illness or condition. Your nurses also review the safety of the home environment; but how well are they protecting your patients from the risks of fire? -
News from the End of Life
JCAHO modifies patient safety goals; MedPAC: No payment update for home health.