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Home Health to Hospice

Home Healthcare Nurse: The Journal for the Home Care and Hospice Professional, 2008
Changes in regulations and reimbursement are a continual challenge for home health and for hospice clinicians and administrators. Home health agencies are keenly aware of quality measures and related reimbursement effects. This article explores opportunities for home health and hospice to develop a provider relationship that benefits both patients and ...
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Hospice and Nonhospice Nursing Home Residents

Journal of Palliative Medicine, 2003
To compare hospice residents in nursing homes with residents who are noted as end-stage, but not in hospice programs.Descriptive comparison of the outcomes reported on Minimum Data Set (MDS) for all residents admitted to Missouri nursing homes in 1999.Nursing homes.Residents of nursing homes designated as either hospice or end-stage on admission MDS ...
Debra, Parker-Oliver, Davina, Porock, Steven, Zweig, Marilyn, Rantz, Gregory F, Petroski   +4 more
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Home care and hospice home care

2015
This chapter discusses home care as an environment that provides unique opportunities to promote palliative care for patients and families throughout their illnesses. The chapter gives background information on what home care is, its historical roots, the types of providers available to give services, the regulatory policies controlling its use ...
Paula Milone-Nuzzo, Elizabeth Ercolano, Ruth McCorkle   +2 more
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Hospice and palliative care in nursing homes

Clinics in Geriatric Medicine, 2004
This article reviews the challenges inherent in providing high-quality palliative care to dying nursing home residents and summarizes the efforts to address these challenges. It is suggested that a stronger physician presence and oversight of physicians knowledgeable in palliative care in nursing homes are needed to improve the quality of end-of-life ...
Susan C, Miller, Joan M, Teno, Vincent, Mor   +2 more
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Hospice Experience and Perceptions in Nursing Homes

Journal of Palliative Medicine, 2002
The purpose of this study was to describe the experiences and perceptions of hospice nurses caring for residents in long-term care facilities. The study used a fax-back survey to gather data from 69 hospice nursing and nurse managers in 24 hospices across one Midwestern state.
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The "STATE" of home care & hospice.

Caring : National Association for Home Care magazine, 2006
This issue of CARING is focusing on the new dimensions in home care technology. As a group, the home care industry's trade associations have been in the vanguard, promoting technological advancements to their provider members. Many of our home care and hospice associations, including the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC), have made ...
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Practical aspects of hospice care at home

Best Practice & Research Clinical Obstetrics & Gynaecology, 2001
While much of hospice care, from a medical professional viewpoint, is concentrated on the physiology and pharmacology of maximal symptom management in hospital or at home, families and those caring for the day-to-day aspects of dying face different barriers to care.
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Hospital, Hospice or Home?

2002
Abstract You may have a strong feeling from the outset about where you would like to be cared for, particularly towards the end. Or you may never have thought about it, or realized that you might have a choice. At the beginning of a terminal illness most patients say that they would prefer to die at home rather than in hospital.
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Hospice Philosophy in Nursing Homes

The American Journal of Nursing, 1986
VIVIAN HAMILTON-WORD, SHIRLEY C. PURCELL
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Hospice Home Birth

Section on Hospice and Palliative Medicine Program, 2021
Grace Knowles, Teresa M. Vente, Jessica T. Fry   +2 more
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