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Palliative Care in Long Term Care Settings
Number of threads on this Forum: 25
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mrezin | 2 | 05/20/2010 |
| Does anyone have a copy of a contract between a palliative care program, (not hospice) that utilizes a team that uses apnp to do the consults and visits and a nursing home? | |||
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SBrayhall | 2 | 04/21/2010 |
| Is there a CMS regulation requiring 2 RNs at all times in order for a PCA to run? Often a PCA infusion is the right treatment for hospice patients in LTC facilities. It is easier to get PCAs at home than in a facility. | |||
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phough | 2 | 03/30/2010 |
| On slide 19 of today's presentation, you presented this statistic regarding the disposition of your palliative care patients: "72% enrolled in HOspice Medicare Benefit in LTC facility." Could you please clarify if those patients required qualifying hospi ... | |||
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akinderman | 2 | 03/18/2010 |
| I am an MD in California and have been told by our hospital/system SNF that the SNF would need to be specially licensed as a hospice in order to allow an outside hospice agency to provide care. This does not seem correct, based on past experience. Can ... | |||
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mskelton | 2 | 05/11/2010 |
| I am very interested in some guidance in developing a palliative care program in the LTC. I would love to share more information with those who may be so kind to offer some assistance. Thanks in advance!! mindy S - LTC provider in AZ | |||
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Care | 2 | 03/07/2010 |
| Geriatric Palliative Care covers a broad spectrum of issues characterizing care near the end of life for older adults. Beginning with the social and cultural context of old age and frailty, our website deals with specific aspects of finding palliative car ... | |||
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apgandhy | 2 | 04/06/2010 |
| Can you code prolonged services in SNF like you are able to in hospital? | |||
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jdescher | 3 | 02/05/2010 |
| I am in need of Chaplain and Social Services for some of my nursing home patients currently recieving palliative care. I am a one man gang (NP)and adding these services is not in the budget at this time. Our hospice Chaplains and MSWs have interest in pro ... | |||
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PCaines | 2 | 02/16/2010 |
| For your use, see the following citations: PALLIATIVE CARE & END-OF-LIFE: Haiden A. Huskamp, David G. Stevenson, Michael E. Chernew, and Joseph P. Newhouse A New Medicare End-Of-Life Benefit For Nursing Home Residents Health Affairs, January/February 201 ... | |||
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vickiruns | 4 | 02/16/2010 |
| I am an NP in a LTC facility. We are just beginning a palliative program and are looking for resources/videos/DVDs that would be helpful to family members who are struggling with making decisions r/t advance directives (i.e should we OK IV fluids, feeding ... | |||
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Tara | 1 | 11/25/2009 |
| I am working on article on how nursing homes respond when a resident die in a nursing home. Such as is it common to have memorial services, what do different nursing homes do, are residents that are able provided transportation to attend funerals, how ar ... | |||
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jdescher | 2 | 10/29/2009 |
| I am a NP, and started a nursing home based palliative care program( not hospice). Things are going very well, but a physician approached me and expressed concern that I was seeing my more stable patients too often. He stated that if they aren't showing a ... | |||
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SarahEUr | 2 | 08/17/2009 |
| Hello.... I work for a home care and hospice agency and we are looking into starting a pallitive care consulting service to help educate some of the facilities. Can anyone connect me to reimbursement, or guidelines with this. Thank you | |||
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LWilliams | 2 | 05/29/2009 |
| I am interested in learning more about others who have started palliative care programs in nursing homes. I will be starting from ground zero. The company has nursing homes, home health, and hospice. I am aware of palliative care programs that have bee ... | |||
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adurkin | 9 | 03/01/2010 |
| I am the director of a palliative care program at Potomac Valley Nursing and Wellness Center, in Rockville, Maryland. We are a long-term care and rehab center, and our palliative care program has been operational for over 2 years. We recently received t ... | |||
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sduross | 2 | 09/22/2008 |
| I am the director of an inpatient scatter bed Palliative Care program, and we are interested in implementing the use of a form to communicate our assessment, interventions, and care plan changes to the nursing home and the primary doctor when a patient is ... | |||
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TJSingleton | 2 | 08/13/2008 |
| We are looking at expanding our hospital based program to a community program starting in some of our long term care facilities? How many of you have a similar program--not hospice but just palliative care? | |||
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frecka | 2 | 06/16/2008 |
| Regarding setting up GIP beds in a nursing facility, who is considered the "medical director" for those beds--the facility's or hospice's? I would assume that the hospice supplies and pays the medical director, no? | |||
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ashelton | 3 | 06/03/2008 |
| Approximately eight years ago the state of Georgia had a bright pink, heavy paper, form that was the "POLST" form. It was put out on a trial bases. I do not recall what the acronym stood for, but I did put this into use in our facility with the physicia ... | |||
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maryanncapocaccia | 2 | 05/13/2008 |
| A nursing home needs an introductory Palliative Care film to use during new employee orientation. Most new employees are certified nursing assistants and LPNs. Additional education will be offered after orientation. Thanks for your help. | |||
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michael | 2 | 12/09/2007 |
| there are several hospices contracted with the nursing home where i work as administrator. i don't think we have a coordinated appraoch to palliative care. what is an initial step that I could take? | |||
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eliMD | 2 | 09/22/2008 |
| It makes sense that in order to provide quality care in nursing homes the physical design of the facility as well as the programming/philosophies of care can help enhance the provision of such care i.e palliative care/best friends approach in dementia pat ... | |||
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dbz | 3 | 10/05/2007 |
| Does anyone know of an article in support of a cognitively impaired patient being able to appoint a H.C.P?, and making other health care decisions. Thank you | |||
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Lucy | 7 | 06/10/2008 |
| I'm interested in hearing from anyone who has a program up and running | |||
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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 Palliative Care in Nursing Homes. Please come back often to get up-to-the-minute feedback from your peers and CAPC fa ... | |||
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