A Staffing Crisis In 2016, a Midwest hospice provider serving 11 counties over a tristate area found a solution to a staffing crisis that would lead to unexpected benefits. After losing two afterhours nurses, the leadership’s top priority was finding an afterhours...
In the home health and hospice industry, our services are incomplete without a compassionate human touch. But the human touch can also lead to human error: 1) inefficient protocols, 2) nurse fatigue and turnover, and 3) inaccessible over-the-phone support. These three...
ThedaCare at Home, a hospice and home-health provider located in Appleton, Wisconsin, was facing unprecedented staffing concern. “There were four people positioned for retirement,” Bobbie Thompson, Manager of Clinical Office Operations at ThedaCare at Home recalls,...
The surveys established as a result of the IMPACT Act are coming and before your hospice can pass with flying colors, it will help hospice administrators to know where others have failed. Key to understanding the pitfalls is the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS)...
The latest statistics from the National Hospice & Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO), Medicare, and a study of team attitudes and relationships in hospice care (the STAR study) pinpoint the Keys to Caring for hospice nurses today.
Caring for terminal patients and their families isn’t an easy job. Hospice nurses are experts, of course, but nurses who are not skilled in hospice or palliative care may feel uncomfortable or unfamiliar with managing a patient who is dying. For those who find...
