Center to Advance Palliative Care

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 patient. It is a scattered bed apporach (not a Hospice Unit) & the hospital nurses care for the patient, with daily visits by various memebers of the hospice team. The patients actaully "sign onto" the Hospice benefit.

If these patietns die while in the hospital bed, I was under the impression that it did not 'count" toward the hospital mortality stats. I have recently been told by hospital admin that yes these deaths DO count as part of our overall mortality stats.

Can someone please clarify?

And if indeed these deaths (on Inpatient Hospice status) do not "count" toward hospital mortality....I need some references please so I can share with hospital admin.

Thank you!