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Designing a Program


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Post supply/demand examples dduncan 5 02/01/2012
I am looking for examples/templates of how physicians are scheduled for consults and models used to determine when it is necessary to hire a new MD. In addition to monitor productitivty. Thank you!
Post Reducing Readmissions Weissman 4 01/11/2012
The Institute for HealthCare Improvement is seeking: seeking experience and ideas from organizations that have successfully reduced readmissions for people with advanced illness. When people are at advanced stages of their illness and leave the hospital, ...
Post Designs of routine palliative consults @cancer Ctr PalliativeHeart 2 01/19/2012
I currently serve as the palliative voice in a Florida hospital tumor board and committee to create a cancer center that is a respected academic and community program not currently existing. I have been asked to describe current operating programs that s ...
Post Family Conferences MA_Christensen 2 01/08/2012
I am looking for a "quick and dirty" documentation tool for patient & family conferences that includes MD, NP, and MSW content. Any ideas?
Post DRG's to show need for palliative program crledez 4 12/28/2011
I am currently trying to design a business plan to show a need for palliative care at my institution. The quality department is assisting me with collecting data. I was told to come up with a list of 10-20 DRG's that could be associated with patients in n ...
Post Palliative Care Educational Program ahmedof11 2 01/03/2012
Dear my seniors As a geriatrician in one of the DHA acute hospitals in Dubai, that admit all adult age groups medical, surgical and trauma. As a geriatrician with multidisciplinary approach experience, I was able to detect easily the need for palliative c ...
Post Generating ED consultation on admission Heff 2 01/19/2012
I am currently looking into generating a palliative care consultation on all patients over a certain age who present to the ED with subsequent need for admission who would benefit from an end of life care discussion including POLST discussion and any pall ...
Post program structure jluce 3 12/12/2011
hello all - does anyone know of programs that have administrativley housed both pain and PC under one department? I would like to talk to them about how that worked/didn't work
Post MD, NP, PA roles tjacobsnp 2 12/09/2011
We are in the process of putting a team together to provide palliative care and pain management for a large, urban healthcare system. I would appreciate information on programs that utilize advanced practice providers (APP). Our program will have 2 MD,s; ...
Post Centralized triage for workload management Chirag 2 11/28/2011
Hello all. Just wanted to see if anyone out there had a centralized triage system to handle staff deployments throughout the day? We currently provide palliative care service to 4 local hospitals via a hospice supported program. We are expanding, and ar ...
Post home health and palliative care joellenmilling 2 10/20/2011
Are there any guidelines/published material on starting a Palliative care program under the home health benefit of Medicare? We would like to start a Palliative Program.
Post Palliative Care Physician areed 1 10/13/2011
Hello, I am currently heading a team developing a palliative care program at a 250 bed hospital. We have begun seeing inpatient referrals through the oncology service under the oncology director's supervision. The hospital is now looking at recruiting a ...
Post Setting up a Palliative care forum SuaveGombwa 2 09/22/2011
Is there anyone who can help me to set up a palliative care web based forum in my country, and volunteer or organization ready to fund the projcet? any links available? My country is Malawi, in the Sub-Sahara region of Africa
Post Designing a Physician Run Palliative Group Reed 2 09/16/2011
Does anyone know of successful models for physician run palliative care groups providing consultation and management services in acute care and outpatient settings for a mostly urban (some rural) community of ~300K. Looking to speak with group leaders. ...
Post Palliative Care Committee suzannenk 2 09/13/2011
We are interested in setting up a Palliative Care Committee to support a new Palliative Care Consulting Service. Does anyone have an established committee? If so, can you share your committee's mission statement and composition?
Post iphone apps polive 2 09/13/2011
Does anyone know of apps that list specific cultural differences to be aware of r/t hospice nursing? Thanks in advance, Phyllis
Post DNR Mulvey1 2 09/08/2011
We have an NP led inpatient consultation program with the collaborating physician on the periphery. My question is that as a result of the goals of care discussion and patient/family chose to be a DNR 1.How do the NP's write that order in the chart? 2.Do ...
Post PC and acute psych Eva 3 09/10/2011
I am wondering if anyone has guidelines (formal or informal) for consultations for patients who are admitted to an acute psychiatric unit. I have recently had a request to see a patient with Stage IV breast cancer (local recurrence and solitary brain met ...
Post National Palliative Care Registry MikeBostian 2 08/16/2011
What are the requirements to be registered in the National Palliative Care Registry? We are in the design phase and have not yet launched our palliative care service. Are we eligible to be in the registry?
Post Outpatient Palliative Care Lisa_LeBlanc 2 08/08/2011
Hello, I am an NP coordinating an inpatient program at a community hospital. We are looking to grow the program to encompass the outpatient population (both in nursing facilities as well as outpatients in our area). I am very interested to learn how to ...
Post Palliative Education Online deannamiller 3 08/04/2011
I manage a small ICU and I am currently in the developmental phase of creating a Palliative referral program. I would love to obtain as much education as I can for myself and also for my staff. Could someone please tell me if there are any programs or cla ...
Post Developing a combined Pain and Pall Care Program kiki100 2 07/24/2011
Hi. We are a 200 bed community hospital with a fairly well established Palliative Care team (3 years old, seeing 400-600 consults per year) as well as a less well organized Pain management branch. Because of the way our program grew (first a pain mgt nu ...
Post Seminar Abstracts Weissman 1 07/18/2011
Share your new work with your peers at the CAPC Annual Seminar in San Diego, November 10-12. We want to hear about what you are doing to advance your program. This year we are accepting a few oral presentations along with posters. Go to: http://www.c ...
Post New Start Up Program (Home Based) KimAdamsTrotter 2 07/16/2011
I am currently searching for tools to help our hospice agency start up a new palliative care (home based) program in the North Georgia Mountains. I need everthing from A-Z!
Post palliative care physician order set jj100857 2 06/29/2011
I would also greatly appreciate examples of order sets. My email address is: jennifer.j.johnson@aurora.org
Post Multi hospital system KelleyWoggon 2 06/27/2011
My hospital system has 4 adult hospitals. We currently have a consult service in only one but are looking to expand. Are there other systems out there with a program that serves several hospitals? How are you organized within the system? Kelley Woggon, ...
Post Palliative Care Physician Order Set suzannenk 3 08/31/2011
I am looking for a template of an initial physician palliative care order set which is general and may include end of life orders but is not focused on it. Suzanne Nicoletti-Krase The Brooklyn Hospital Center
Post GIP and physicians visits. Lakeside 2 06/10/2011
Is there somewhere it is stated when visits are to occur with a pt is admitted under GIP. Thanks in advance.
Post starting a palliative care program in a SNF hfalton 2 05/20/2011
We are interested in starting a palliative care program in our skilled nursing facilities because we are unable to have our own hospice due to no CON available. I have been reading some of the other forums about reimbursement, and start ups. I saw CPT c ...
Post Inpatient Hospital Palliative Care Unit JenRN 2 05/20/2011
I am the program manager for an inpatient Palliative Care Consultation team-have a new Physical champion and are looking into starting an inpatient palliative unit. Need input from hospitals with existing inpatient units. Please contact me if you have an ...
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