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Hospice and other health care providers were not given much notice when the New York Department of Health adopted an emergency regulation in mid-August requiring all health care providers who have direct patient contact to receive a flu vaccination by Nov. 30.
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Multiple pulmonary and critical care professional societies recently have recommended that physicians should routinely provide recommendations to surrogate decision makers about whether to limit life support. However, there is a lack of empirical data on the perspective of surrogates.
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Too many Americans with HIV infection continue to be tested late in their disease, despite decades of HIV awareness, prevention, and testing campaigns and efforts.
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Patients with advanced cancer who received a palliative care intervention... reported improved quality of life and mood but did not experience a significant change in the number of days in the hospital or the severity of their symptoms compared to patients who received usual care, according to a study in The Journal of the American Medical Association.
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There are at least 100 ways to say, "It hurts!" And that is the problem.
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The Joint Commission has published corrected service applicability grids for home care services on its website. Incorrect service applicability grids were included in the 2009 Update 1 for the Comprehensive Accreditation Manual for Home Care (CAMHC), published in June.
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Pay close attention to New York as health care organizations there put processes in place to meet the new state regulation that mandates flu vaccinations for all patient-contact employees. The reason? Mandated flu vaccinations might be coming to your state next.
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This is the second of a two-part series that looks at different ways to reach and involve the community to increase awareness of hospice care.
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Except for Six, the ambitious film project under-taken by the Hospice of Michigan Foundation Board, tells the stories of three hospice patients, their families, and their hospice providers. Although produced by the hospice, it is not a promotional film for the agency but is a documentary that shows the value of hospice care to audiences that have not experienced hospice care.
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The American Medical Association's (AMA's) policy in Opinion 2.035 on Futile Care clearly states: "Physicians are not ethically obligated to deliver care that, in their best professional judgment, will not have a reasonable chance of benefiting their patients. Patients should not be given treatments simply because they demand them... ."
