by aht | Sep 24, 2020 | Patient Care
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) scrutiny of hospice care continues. Spending, discharge trends, emergency room (ER) visits, and the frequency of skilled visits that hospice patients received in the last days of their care are the focus of recent Medicare...
by aht | Apr 20, 2020 | Hospice Administration, Hospice Nursing, Patient Care
Google “hospice weekend shifts” and you’ll see pages and pages of hospice care providers looking for extra help. The challenge hospice providers face is to find professional staff who can provide professional support, patient and family education, determine the...
by aht | Mar 16, 2020 | Hospice Administration, Industry News, Patient Care
As hospice professionals, we have seen firsthand how difficult it is for family members who struggle to make decisions about critical or end-of-life-care for their loved ones—especially when they are unsure what their loved one would have wanted. And, unfortunately,...
by aht | Mar 7, 2020 | Hospice Administration, Hospice Nursing, Industry News, Patient Care
Since 2000, the hospice industry has experienced unprecedented growth. So where are we, in 2015, as an industry? We’ve reviewed the latest statistics from the National Hospice & Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO), Medicare, and a study of team attitudes and...
by aht | Mar 6, 2020 | Hospice Administration, Hospice Nursing, Industry News, Patient Care
The Annual NHPCO Management and Leadership Conference is only three weeks away – and we are looking forward to one of the best opportunities of the year to meet the leading professionals in the home health and hospice industry. About the 2015 NHPCO MLC NHPCO...
by aht | Mar 5, 2020 | Patient Care
In a NY Times opinion piece last month, Dr. VJ Periyakoil, a nationally recognized leader in geriatrics and palliative care at Stanford University Medical School, unveiled a new campaign to encourage patients to take a more active role in end of life care. Her team at...
