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Hospital and Hospice Partnerships


Number of threads on this Forum: 23
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Post ED to Inpatient Hospice Bed bmolter 1 08/24/2010
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 2 05/20/2010
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 ...
Post Inpatient Hospice balstada 3 02/02/2009
We are a hospital-based Hospice program and are struggling with the process of switching an inpatient admission to an inpatient hospice admission. The need to switch these patients to hospice inpatient status has been occuring more frequently lately. Wou ...
Post Hospital Palliative Care and Hospice Contract sussmanm 2 06/23/2008
We have been using a standard contract between our hospital, a 10 bed palliative care unit and several local hospices for about 10 years. We are in the process of updating it and would like to see any copies of recent contracts so we can incorportate any ...
Post Please forward to Gretchen Brown LoriB 3 02/24/2008
In PCLC audio conference this afternoon Gretchen offered an excellent definition of the differences between hospice and palliative care. We were unable to ask her to restate that for our further consideration. Could this be provided? Thank you
Post Place of death of patient kgrigsby 3 02/12/2008
When I attended CAPC training, I remember something being said in regard to the advantage to a hospital to not have a patient die in the hospital. Our hospitals don't seem to be motivated to lower their mortality rate. However, one of the hospitals wi ...
Post Hospice house Dominic 2 12/09/2007
My hospice is associated with a hospital, what kind of information do I need to give them regarding a freestanding hospice house? We are non-profit.
Post Talking About Palliative Care vs. Hospice TNYC 3 10/05/2007
How do you define the advantages and differences between palliative care and hospice programs?
Post Welcome Message PCaines 1 06/13/2007
Welcome to the CAPC Palliative Care Discussion Forum! Use this area to share information, exchange ideas and get advice on the topic of Hospital and Hospice Partnerships. Please come back often to get up-to-the-minute feedback from your peers and CAPC f ...
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