Program Design for Palliative Care Delivered in the Home
What You’ll Learn
- Describe four elements of home-based palliative care delivery
- Understand how the results of a needs assessment influence service features of palliative care programs
- Describe the three components of program development for specialty home-based palliative care
- State how three different payment models impact program design
What You’ll Earn
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Tools & Resources
Home to the National Consensus Project for Quality Palliative Care, the Coalition was founded by the leading hospice and palliative care organizations to coordinate and collaborate on issues and activities of importance to the interdisciplinary hospice and palliative care field.
Practical tools and technical assistance for starting or growing a home-based palliative care program, from needs assessment to business planning, and more.
Hospice benefit definitions and guidelines. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, updated 2018.
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) guidance on the home health benefit and agency regulations.
TimeBanks USA provides materials to help start or maintain a local timebank to build a community support network for palliative care patients and their caregivers.
Course Faculty
Constance Dahlin, MSN, ANP-BC, ACHPN, FPCN, FAAN. Consultant, Center to Advance Palliative Care.
Jeanne Sheils Twohig, MPA. Consultant, Center to Advance Palliative Care.
Peer Reviewers
Megan E. Rau, MD. Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.
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Provided by the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.
Defining community-based palliative care: which patients need it, how it is delivered, and how it differs from inpatient palliative care.
Evaluating patient need, service requirements, care settings, and stakeholder priorities for the community-based palliative care program.
Designing and implementing an office-based palliative care program, including clinical model and operational considerations.