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Author: NickJauregui
Date: Sep 5, 2007 10:01 am

Dear Swissyolder, I have been doing home visits for many years for patients living with life threatening illness. There are many practical suggestions I can give you to aid in your work. I would need a little more information about your position and the goals and objectives you are trying to achieve. For example, are these follow up visits after leaving the hospital after having been on an inpatient palliative care service? Are you functioning as physician or as an advanced practice nurse? Do you have a medical record system? Are you doing your own billing for services? Hopefully these are not too many questions. I hope I can help. Sincerely, Nick Jauregui MD

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Re:Re:Home palliative care visits (by BretBenallyThompson on 09/22/2007)
Nick, I recently started as Alaska's first Fellow. I am at Providence Alaska Medical Center where I completed my Family Medicine residency. I'm now working with Dr. Ted Heffernan who came to us from San Diego 3 years ago to start the Palliative Care service here at PAMC. The team, which consists of Ted, a nurse practioner, a social worker, and now me for the next year, has been wanting to start seeing patients in the home. I did a few home visits as a resident. They are hoping I will jump-start this program. In answer to the questions you posted to the previous person, most of these would be to people we picked up on our inpatient service who did not transition to hospice. We have a few outpts that we manage over the phone and who occassionally come in to our office. We have a extemely simple paper medical record that we keep on file in our office. We are 95% an inpatient consult service, so we dictate our consults. I believe I would have the option of dictating progress notes in the hospital system. We bill our inpatient services through the hospital. I am assuming we could do the same for outpt home visits, but I'd have to ask. Any advice you can give about starting this up would be very appreciated. Thanks in advance. Bret Benally Thompson

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