by aht | Sep 26, 2020 | Industry News
After-hours telephone triage has become an important resource for hospices facing staffing shortages or who are concerned about nursing staff burnout. But there are a lot of myths out there about the role of after-hours telephone triage, particularly as it relates to...
by aht | Aug 28, 2020 | Industry News
In August, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) held its 2015 CAHPS for Accountable Care Organizations (ACO) participating in Medicare initiatives survey vendor training. Generating objective data collected with these surveys will give hospice...
by aht | Aug 24, 2020 | Industry News
October 10, 2015 was World Hospice and Palliative Care Day celebrating and supporting hospice and palliative care delivered all around the world. Understanding the different cultural perspectives on death and dying can give hospice care providers valuable insight into...
by aht | Jun 4, 2020 | Industry News
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced their final rule on the FY2016 Hospice Wage Index at the end of July. It included some major changes in the way hospice providers are going to be reimbursed. The new payment system was originally...
by aht | May 21, 2020 | Industry News
Ellen Goodman described the painful experience and difficult decisions she had to make when dealing with the death of her mother in a recent New York Times opinion piece, “How to Talk About Dying.” She said she felt unprepared to make the decisions she was asked to...
by aht | Apr 3, 2020 | Hospice Nursing, Industry News
The growing population of elderly patients in need of home health, hospice or palliative care, combined with the government healthcare mandate for employers, is a one-two punch that is forcing hospice care providers to do more with less. The good news is that home...
