Hospice Management Advisor Archives – January 1, 2007
January 1, 2007
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Improve hospice referrals by holding an expert family goal-setting meeting
The initial meeting with families and patients can lay the groundwork for an end-of-life experience that is rewarding to all involved, or it can build obstacles to a hospice referral and obstruct true understanding between the family, physician, and hospice staff. -
Hurricanes Katrina and Rita taught painful lessons
New Orleans-area hospices continue to struggle more than a year after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita devastated the Gulf Coast area. -
Wound care helps to restore patient's self-esteem
When staff at the Hospice of Chattanooga in Tennessee, provide wound care, they work to help the patient recover a sense of wholeness. -
Knowledge of group effort results in beneficial contracts
California has always been a state with high managed care penetration, but home health agencies throughout the country are seeing the need to understand how to negotiate managed care contracts as managed care organizations become more predominant. -
Common pitfalls for managed care contracts
Although contract negotiations differ from agency to agency and from one managed care organization to another, there are some very common "gotchas" for which agency managers need to look. -
Independent contractors: What are you liable for?
Historically, courts generally have concluded that providers are liable for the actions of their employees but not for the actions of independent contractors. -
Pulling supplemental oxygen creates struggle
The right of competent, informed patients to reject lifesaving therapies has been affirmed by courts at every level, but a group of ethicists at the University of Pennsylvania wondered whether the line is as clear when it comes to supplemental oxygen.