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Finding a way to serve hospice patients who are spread over a 10,000 square mile area is challenging, especially when some staff members are driving as much as 60 miles one way to reach a patient's home.
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President Obama's administration reversed its decision to revise a Medicare regulation to include paying physicians to discuss good advance care planning with patients. This decision is a setback from an ethical and health care perspective, according to advocates for end-of-life planning.
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The Hospice Foundation of America (HFA) recently released "Veterans and End-of-Life Care," a free online webinar written by Deborah Grassman, ARNP, of the Bay Pines Veterans Affairs Medical Center.
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1. About 25% of all Americans who are dying are veterans men and women who have served our country as members of the Armed Forces. Yet only 4% of dying veterans die within the Veterans Affairs (VA) Healthcare Network; the majority of veterans are cared for by hospice and Health care professionals in the community.
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Hospital ethics committees could clarify and improve the way they handle issues involving life support in the intensive care unit (ICU) if they brought more nuance to any definition of the word "futile," an expert says.
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The Hospice Foundation of America (HFA) offers a new, free online webinar that examines the important role that volunteers play in hospice, and explores creative ways that hospices can recruit and retain volunteers.
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Hospitals accredited by Joint Commission can now seek Advanced Certification in Palliative Care with the introduction of a new program. The certification program launches Sept. 1, 2011 and the standards will be available July 1, 2011.
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Clinicians rely upon family members or other surrogates to make health decisions, such as entering hospice care, when an adult patient is incapacitated. A study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine evaluates the effect of this practice on the surrogates.
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In a report produced by The Moran Company for the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization in Alexandria, VA, data from the Hospice Cost reports and the Medicare Claims data were used to evaluate the impact of Medicare reimbursement cuts on the hospice industry.
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Cherry picking" was the term used in an Associated Press headline for an article that described the results of a Journal of the American Medical Association article comparing diagnoses, length of stay, and patient care between not-for-profit and for-profit hospices.
