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Hospital and Hospice Partnerships


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Post HOM @Home Support darlaschueth 1 03/20/2013
Great presentation and wonderful powerpoint. Are you admitting patients without insurance? Is your program self-sustaining or do you depend on your hospice for subsidizing any part of program costs including "back office." What percent of @Home Support pa ...
Post HOM @Home Support darlaschueth 2 03/25/2013
Great presentation and wonderful powerpoint. Are you admitting patients without insurance? Is your program self-sustaining or do you depend on your hospice for subsidizing any part of program costs including "back office." What percent of @Home Support pa ...
Post General Inpatient Care for Hospice Patients/AUDITS TerrellVanAkenMD 2 02/08/2013
I am both director of our palliative care service and our affiliated hospice at NorthBay Healthcare. Unfortunately, we do not have a dedicated palliative care unit though we do occasionally transition tough symptom management patients to hospice inpatient ...
Post Medical Director Agreement for Palliative Care mgriffeth 2 01/06/2013
1) Is anyone willing to share a sample Medical Director - Palliative Care agreement? 2)We are a hospital-based homecare and hospice. The Health System is beginning a Palliative Care program and the same Hospice Medical Director wil be the Medical Dire ...
Post What qualifies a patient for Palliative Care DOCKULAH 1 09/14/2012
We have a 9 bed in-patient Hospice and Palliative care facility but most of our patients are referred to hospice. How can we get more referrals for palliative care? Is there a guideline like the 6 month terminal illness guideline?
Post staffing responsibilities bgard 2 08/20/2012
If you have contracted hospice beds in an acute care facility who is responsible for the nursing staff? Does the hospice agency staff with their own nurses or does the hospital supply the staff? How would you see it work if you had a set number of beds in ...
Post Hospice reimbursement, nursing home lisat1173 2 08/27/2012
Hi. When a patient is in the nursing home and receiving Hospice care--who gets paid for that service? Does the nursing home or Hospice get paid? Thanks
Post In-hospital GIP beds eriegel 3 07/17/2012
Hi there, Our institution, a large academic medical center, is looking into contracting with a local hospice agency to creat hospice GIP beds in our facility. One question that has come up is whether there need to be dedicated rooms/beds for these patient ...
Post Discharges to SNF's on Hospice from the Acute TerrellVanAkenMD 2 06/29/2012
I am the medical director of our hospital palliative care program as well as the affiliated hospice program. I work in SNF's so I often follow our patients through to the SNF from the acute under my palliative service but do also start hospice on select ...
Post streamlining GIP admission process for physicians DOVENM 2 04/24/2012
our current GIP admission process on an acute care patient initiating hospice care at the hospital involves a paper discharge and readmission, and all new medication/tx orders. It is burdensome on physician, staff nurse and hospice staff time, and the ...
Post Inpatient hospice pts on the "teaching" service Rob 2 04/24/2012
Our hospital does not yet have a non-teaching/PA run medical service--all patients are admitted to medical teams comprised of hospitalists and housestaff. To your knowledge, are there any regulatory or GME $ flow problems having inpatient hospice patients ...
Post Contract for GIP KMouser 2 03/23/2012
Is there a regulation that requires a hospital to contract with a Hospice for GIP? Is it an option for the hospital to deny a contract? Thank you!
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 2 02/23/2012
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 ...
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