Rising demand and prolific workforce shortages have strained timely access to hospice among dying patients nationwide. Hospices moving the needle toward improvement have leveraged multifaceted approaches that blend interdisciplinary care support with technology integration. Hospices have limited windows of opportunity and time to reach patients upstream in today’s current health care climate, according to Dr. […]
Strong staff education and reimbursement are among the keys to successfully integrating social determinants of health within a palliative care program. Screening tools developed by the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) include five areas of social determinants of health: food and housing insecurity, transportation needs, utility difficulties and interpersonal safety. Supplemental domains […]
A range of new hospice executives have been recently tapped to lead organizations nationwide. AAHPM Announces New President-Elect Dr. Arif Kamal recently became the new president-elect of the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (AAHPM). Kamal became director-at-large at the academy in 2018. He is also the inaugural chief patient officer at the American […]
Florida’s state government have green lit the expansion of hospice programs in seven counties. The Florida Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA) indicated earlier this year that it would approve four hospice certificates of need in 2021, but ultimately decided to issue twice as many. Hospice utilization runs high in Florida, reaching a rate of […]
