Hospice Management Advisor Archives – April 1, 2003
April 1, 2003
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Combined palliative care and medical care in hospice’s future?
For the past 20 years, hospices have operated under the Hospice Medicare Benefit model people get sick and exhaust their curative options, and a hospice is there waiting to take care of them. The future of hospice is shaping up to be quite different from a static point on a line that patients travel while moving from one provider type to the next. -
Concurrent care makes good business sense
Twenty years ago, hospices broke into the Medicare market with the Hospice Medicare benefit, a bold move by many hospices to elect a per diem payment for care of a patient whose cost of care could exceed the total of per diem payments. Today hospice must consider another risky proposition. -
Hospice Trends: ‘Simultaneous care’ may be in hospice’s future
A report issued late last year by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundations Promoting Excellence national program office in Missoula, MT, highlights some provocative new directions for end-of-life care policy and financing. One of its most provocative themes is a concept called simultaneous care. -
Guest Column: Be aware of family limitations
This is the final installment of a series on understanding the family dynamic and addressing its challenges. -
Seminar takes sensitivity into homes of clients
A culturally insensitive remark to the grandchild of a patient not only resulted in the home care nurse being thrown out of the home, but also resulted in a major change in the way the home care and hospice program of Catholic Health Service (CHS) of Long Island addressed cultural differences between patients and employees.