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Hospital and Hospice Partnerships


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Post admission of hospice patients CaringNurse8 2 02/09/2012
I have questions regarding admission of patients onto hospice services....Can an home hospice patient be admitted in the hospital prior to discharge and be "tucked in" after arriving home post discharge and what is an "tuck in" visit/ is it not required t ...
Post GIP admission to hospital, how much assessments? susanfolkrn 1 02/01/2012
Hi all, Our hospital says that an initial nursing assessment must be completed, How many are assessing a Braden Scale? VTE prophylaxis, For hospice GIP direct admits to a local hospital? Thanks Susan Folk, RN
Post Continuity of Care rhpallsw 2 11/03/2011
Our program is looking to improve our continuity of care upon discharge from our consultation service in the hospital. We wanted to see if other programs had standard tools used to help with this? We are thinking about possibly creating a standard tool th ...
Post Critical Access Hospitals MorrisPCMD 2 11/21/2011
Is anyone working with small Critical Access Hospitals to provide palliative care? Since they are not paid on DRG but a "cost plus" system how can palliative care help them financially?
Post Hospital based hospice providing PC consultations Sue 2 10/12/2011
would like information about the process if you are a hospital-based hospice providing Palliative Care consultations: Does the hospital have a policy? Criteria for referral? Staff time billed to hospice or have separate palliative care cost center? Are yo ...
Post transitional care Browha 2 10/12/2011
I am a member of an inpatient palliative care consult team. We have a 16 bed inpatient palliative care unit. We are having difficulties with transitioning patients that we withdraw life support on from the ICU to PCU (palliative care unit) as many are liv ...
Post PC Liaison position JCairns 2 07/11/2011
PC Liaison Position Our program is undergoing some major transition due to the opening of an inpatient hospice facility in our organization. We already have an inpatient palliative care unit. I have proposed to hire a palliative care liaison (hopice provi ...
Post hospice GIP beds and TJC standards EllenMHamann 2 05/20/2011
I need to locate an acute care hospital with contracted Hospice GIP beds to see how you handle initial admission asessments and the frequency of head to toe assessments as it relates to the Joint comission standards.
Post Hospice GIP orderset for hospital use EllenMHamann 2 05/13/2011
we are trying to get an orderset for the hospice MD to use when admitting to a GIP bed in our hospital.Does anyone have an orderset they use that they cold share. Thank you Ellen.
Post staffing ratio for inpatient hospice unit palcare24 2 03/23/2011
Looking for guidance/input on the appropriate RN to patient staffing ratio for an inpatient hospice unit.
Post Hospice Software donkulet 2 01/07/2011
Hi guys, We are a newly certified Hospice Agency in Northridge CA and is currently awaiting for our provider number. I was wondering if you guys can recommend a hospice software that is currently in use by your company. Any feedback would be greatly appre ...
Post EOL discussion tataylor 3 10/24/2010
Does anyone have a outpatient and inpatient process in place that discusses EOL to include comfort care to ensure EOL discussion occurs and therefore proper care is received?
Post Hospital Mortality Stats - Inpatient Hospice CynthiaWagner 3 09/23/2010
We (community hospital) recently have been working with one of our local hospice providers to provide inpatient hospice services to hospitalized patients that meet criteria. They are "discharged" (on the computer) & "readmitted" as an Inpatient Hospice p ...
Post ED to Inpatient Hospice Bed bmolter 2 12/13/2010
The question has been posed: Can you admit directly to an inpatient hospice bed if all criteria are met for hospice? Beverly Molter, M.S. Director of Strategic Business & Quality Development
Post Growing hospice and homecare PallMD 3 06/10/2010
What is the best way to convince the hospital administration that we need more staff and that growing hospice and homecare will be more cost effective in the future. Our hospice/homecare is owned by the hospital
Post Changing hospice inpatients to "Routine Level" yaegerj 3 12/07/2010
I am concerned with what to do with a patient who initially meets criteria to be admitted from the field as a hospice inpatient but then stabilizes but now needs a nursing home bed. Do any programs change to a routine level of care while "waiting for dis ...
Post Hospitalists to act as hospice medical directors DonnaHyatt 2 05/05/2010
Our hospital is in the process of negotiating a contract with a local hospice to provide IPU services to elligible patients who can not be safely transported to another facility. The hospice wants to contract with several hospitalists (hospital employees ...
Post Patient contract for palliative care Laurie_M 2 05/06/2010
We are just getting started with our inpatient palliative care program. We will see the patients in the hospital and then plan to continue to follow patients for palliative care after they leave the hospital. Do patients have to sign a contract with us fo ...
Post Partnerships markangelo 2 03/08/2010
I have a growing Palliative Program at a tertiary care, university hospital. We have inpatient and outpatient services and have had good success in securing referral patterns and initial funding for the program. We have excellent relationships with a num ...
Post Hospice in the ICU LibbyT 4 03/03/2010
Hi - I am new to this forum. We have a well-established palliative care service in a large metropolitian hospital in Houston. We are very active in our ICUs and have a proactive palliative care pilot program to reduce death in the ICU underway. We have in ...
Post Seeking Help HOPE_ACT 2 03/01/2010
We are a 112 bed non-profit hospital (catholic) that is working to build our Palliative Care Team (we have a Director/LCSW-C and a Physician (.25 FTE's), we are working to get Nursing on board. In our hospital, there was a GIP contract signed with a hosp ...
Post Hospice Contract Beds in an Acute Care Hospital LindaCole 2 09/17/2009
I have been charged to investigate how to have contract hospice beds within an acute care hospital setting. If anyone has done this or has suggestions/ideas on how this can be done I would appreciate talking with you. Thanks in advance. Linda Cole
Post transitions between sites of care clevine 2 09/17/2009
The presentations today (9/17) did not go into this aspect of partnerships. What are the best ways to advise families and patients about these changed or changing relationships, which may involve new providers and changes in sites of care? At the United ...
Post Hospital criteria to convert inpatients to GIP MicheleRN 3 05/20/2010
I am a Palliative Care nurse at a 150 bed hospital in a city with no inpatient hospice facility. I have been tasked with writing a hospital policy and list of criteria for inpatient eligibility to convert to GIP. My prior experience as a hospice nurse i ...
Post Hospice &/or Palliative Care referral? KateDronkowski 3 02/24/2009
I am an RN hospice coordinator in a hospital. Our hospice program is a hospital based based program that has both PC and Hospice services. The PC and Hospice physicians are one in the same. Do you require that every inpatient that is a hospice or poten ...
Post Talking to the dying patient and their family ElizabethFracchia 2 02/06/2009
I am looking for some resource guides you may have used as well as literature/bibliography for clincial staff [nurses and MD] with suggestions about how to talk with the dying patient and their family. We are planning on doing a series of 'education sess ...
Post Sample Contract LaurieHansen 2 03/16/2009
We are a Palliative Care consulting team that is contracted with facilities. We are looking to make our program more attractive to the facilities so we can secure more consulting work. What, if any, are the administrative fees facilities are being charged ...
Post Agreement with hospital for sharing NP ChristinaMcClean 2 03/16/2009
I am in need of a sample agreement where in the hospital and Home care based hospice share the salary of a Nurse Practitioner to do Palliative care consults. Thanks in advance
Post Electronic Medical Records questions Diane_RannaNP 2 03/16/2009
Greetings, all, We are developing a partnership with our hospital and hospices to provide IP care for some of our patients. We use electronic medical records to document, get meds, charge, etc. Has anyone experience with the details of incorporating a con ...
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