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Palliative Care Out-Patient Services


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Post Justifying the existence and growth of outpt PC evenewhart 2 05/09/2013
This may have been covered previously, but has anyone had to financially "justify" the existence and growth/staffing of your outpatient program, in order to get funding? If so, what literature sources or metrics did you utilize? Thank you!
Post Community-based Palliative Care- Networking Group dgloede 1 04/23/2013
Hi everyone! My name is Denise Gloede and I am part of the team at Agrace in Madison, WI. We recently rolled out a community-based palliative care consult service. The service is primarily delivered by nurse practitioners and provided in the home or LT ...
Post Palliative Care in Transplant Program hstuch 1 03/01/2013
We have been asked to see all patients being referred for a cardiac transplant or VAD. Does anyone know of a standardized assessment tool or approach in this patient population? This will likely occur toward the end of their evaluation for eligibility.
Post Outpatient Palliative Care Program Questionnaire JRaiten 1 01/15/2013
Outpatient Palliative Care Program Questionnaire at: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/IPALOP The IPAL-OP National Advisory Board is seeking information from palliative care programs that provide outpatient services. We are interested in gathering inf ...
Post Sign Off Criteria for Outpatients? kfazzalaro 2 01/19/2013
Does anyone have criteria for signing off of patients in a telephonic home monitoring program? We currently follow community patients by phone on a monthly basis and are finding the volume is too high to maintain. Any suggestions are greatly appreciated. ...
Post IPAL Needs Your Resources Weissman 1 12/17/2012
IPAL-OP is looking for resources that you have found helpful in your outpatient practice and are willing to share with others through posting on IPAL-OP: a) operational tools: patient assessment forms, billing sheets, data collection tools, etc. b) patie ...
Post Treatment given by palliative care consultant MariaRoesler 1 12/14/2012
In the home setting would it be likely if a patient needed a pain injection could the consultant deliver the treatment and then could they bill specifically for that treatment?
Post Spiritual Care in Out Patient staffing thartd3 2 01/03/2013
In the “staffing ranges of current practice,” where does spiritual care service find a place?
Post The Medical Home UTMCKPallCare 1 11/06/2012
We have a mature, and very busy, consult service at our 580 bed academic medical center. Our next steps in expansion will include an in-patient unit and, possibly, an out-patient program. With changes in national health care on the horizon, our facility ...
Post Advice on Development of Outpatient Program kdearing 2 10/23/2012
Hello, I am a DNP student working on my dissertation along with being put in charge of directing and designing an outpatient palliative program within an ACO hospital organization. This group already has an inpatient palliative care program but is looking ...
Post development and initiation of program RPS 1 09/10/2012
APN recently hired to develop an outpatient palliative care program in the community. Looking to network and shadow existing program in the midwest area. Will welcome any advice and ideas. What has worked? What are things to avoid? Looking forward to you ...
Post palliative care at home akostaroff 1 09/06/2012
I have been asked to develop an at-home palliative care program for a company that owns both a HHC service and a Hospice agency. We're deciding whether to run it under home health care or hospice. HHC care is willing to provide SW and spiritual care. B ...
Post palliative care at home akostaroff 1 09/06/2012
I have been asked to develop an at-home palliative care program for a company that owns both a HHC service and a Hospice agency. We're deciding whether to run it under home health care or hospice. HHC care is willing to provide SW and spiritual care. B ...
Post chronic pain management Mary_Hubert 2 08/05/2012
Hello, I direct a supportive care clinic in an academic cancer center. We have been established for a year now. We have become busier and busier, and now struggle to get new patients in in a timely fashion (1-2 weeks). I find that we have a fair num ...
Post Financial Impact of Outpatient Palliative Care nancyo 3 04/17/2013
I'm a graduate student finishing up my Master of Health Administration. I'm currently working with a team of colleagues on a culminating project--to design an outpatient palliative care program that functions within an existing oncology clinic at a local ...
Post Consults/outreach to nursing homes/MD offices Eva 2 05/21/2012
We are a nurse-led hospital-based palliative care program looking to increase collaboration with our local nursing facilities and physician practices. We envision reaching out to these entities to offer consultations to patients/families and also educatio ...
Post Palliative Care Services in Cancer Centers jj100857 2 04/11/2012
We are looking to develop a more comprehensive palliative care service for our cancer centers. We need a resource that can list cancer centers that have a palliative care service so we can begin benchmarking.
Post Muscular Dystrophy MichaelChristensen 2 02/29/2012
I'm working in a rural setting with a cohort of children and adults with muscular dystrophy. I am looking for a good reference for pain management (opiate and non-opiate) for this population. Any ideas? Thanks.
Post Community Outpatient Program Wanted Weissman 3 06/27/2012
I am looking for community outpatient palliative care clinics to interview for a CAPC project. The clinic should be mature/robust, seeing a wide breadth of patients and/or a focused population (e.g. CHF). Please send your contact info to my email David ...
Post Oncology PC Interface Weissman 2 02/08/2012
I am looking for community settings (not a major academic center) that has a robust and mature oncology/palliative care co-management outpatient clinic. Please forward your name and contact info to my email. Thanks David Weissman, MD CAPC Consultant dwe ...
Post Eventually mandatory in cancer centers? LisaLeah 3 12/12/2011
A co-worker stated that she read that there is news that Medicare is going to make it necessary for cancer centers to offer palliative care? I could not find any news on this. I did read in the news releases on CAPC about the NY legislation but this i ...
Post HF acute care NP seekin board cert in H+PC carsNP 3 11/18/2011
I work in a HF/EP clinic- both inpt and op. Realizing the palliative care needs of my pt population are huge- and starting to incorporate OP PC consults for end stage HF pts. Seeing the need to expand PC services to earlier in disease mgmt, and follow alo ...
Post Outpatient Palliative Care Lisa_LeBlanc 2 08/17/2011
Hello! I am an NP currently coordinating the inpatient program at a community hospital. We are strategizing regarding growing the program to the outpatient arena (specifically nursing facilities and outpatients of MDs within our health system). I am ve ...
Post length of visits in outpatient clinic vab4h1 2 07/30/2011
We have a very busy Palliative Care Clinic where we currently allow 30 minutes for follow-up visits and 60 minutes for new visits as we feel that the complexity of our patient population warrants this amount of time to adequately address their needs. Our ...
Post Quadriplegia hospice criteria? amydavisdo 2 07/28/2011
I've had several patients with trauma-induced quadriplegia with rapid onset advancing decubiti, rapidly decreasing albumin due to anorexia, and general clinical decline, and whose goals of care are consistent with an exclusively comfort-focused careplan. ...
Post Home Dobutamine Infusions TerrellVanAkenMD 2 07/05/2011
I run an inpatient consultative palliative care service and have had some recent very challenging patients with the most recent case being a 35 year old patient with end stage cardiomyopathy who has been evaluated at a local tertiary facility and felt not ...
Post Developing an Outpatient Clinic JCairns 3 05/19/2011
Our hospital based palliative care program is considering the development of an outpatient clinic. I am looking for some facilities to benchmark and possibly visit in order to gain some insight into a successful model. Does anyone have any suggestions?
Post Outpatient PC linked to PCMH magorman 2 08/09/2011
Is anyone aware of PC providers working with physician practices, specifically those who are developing or have in place a "patient centered medical home model"?
Post community palliative care program jelnadry 2 04/21/2011
I would like to start a community palliative care program through our nonprofit hospice, to serve (at least initially) primarily homebound elders and disabled members in the community, and hopefully to eventually to expand to nursing homes. Has anyone de ...
Post Nurse run Community based Palliative Care Program afontana 2 05/02/2011
We are small non-profit Hospice adding a Community Palliative Care Program. It will be nurse run and I am looking for any other programs that are nurse run. Thanks.
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