Hospice Management Advisor Archives – June 1, 2006
June 1, 2006
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Hospice creates ideal tool kit for staff to use in caregiver education
Hospice staff must provide spend a significant amount of time educating patients and caregivers, but the dilemma is how to do it efficiently and effectively. -
Significant symptom relief when cancer patients engage in art therapy
New research shows that cancer patients who engage in one hour of art therapy show immediate improvement in eight of nine symptoms, with the greatest improvement noted in anxiety and tiredness. -
Rural hospices develop new strategies for surviving in a competitive world
One of the biggest problems for rural hospices is that payments and regulations are calibrated toward urban hospices, and they largely overlook the challenges rural and small hospices face, a rural hospice expert says. -
Patients deserve info on quality-of-care cases
Medicare recipients who have a complaint about their quality of care have a means of reporting their complaints... -
Liability of MCOs for contracted services
Many providers and case managers remain concerned about low rates paid for services by managed care organizations (MCOs) and the effect of these rates on the quality of care rendered by providers. -
Comply with JCAHO's goal to label all medications
The JCAHO's National Patient Safety Goal requiring all medications to be labeled sounds simple enough, but it's proving to be difficult for many organizations. -
Folk remedies popular among older rural residents
Researchers at Wake Forest University School of Medicine in Winston-Salem, NC, have found that alternative medicine is just as popular in rural areas as in urban ones.