The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) is prioritizing hospice as the agency cracks down on health care fraud. Increased reimbursement oversight could be on t
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The roles of hospice volunteers have morphed during the pandemic in ways that could have lasting impacts on how providers mold care delivery models – including increasing clinical capacity.
Volunteer recruitment and retention has been a challenge d
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COVID-19 Public Health Emergency Expires in May 2023
The Biden administration will end the COVID-19 Public Health Emerge
Read more…We recently published a new Community Outreach Program in Education (COPE) Series on Substack. We are going to share one a week with you here on the Hospice Community Forum.
Click Here to access the first issue. It discusses its value to the genera
Read more…"Death is ordinary, terrifying and beautiful all at once. It cracks our hearts open in a way that nothing else can...Nature is a web, innumerable networks in constantly shifting yin/yang balance. Death is an essential element in that balance. Embrac
Read more…Study: Family Caregivers Need Help, Too
Elderly Americans’ well-being is at risk unless the U.S. does much more to help millions of family caregiv
Read more…Important New Evidence That It’s Better for Terminally Ill People to Die at Home
Some excerpts from this article...
No one likes to talk about terminal illness, but the stigma surrounding this subject is being punctured a bit by a gr
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Debbie Ziegler holds a photo of her late daughter,
Brittany Maynard, after the California State Assembly
approved a right-to-die measure on Sept 9. Maynard
died on Nov. 1, 2014. Photo by Rich Pedroncelli/AP
Photo by Rich Pedroncelli/AP
NPR Reports
Read more…Caregiver Communication: communicating with one another is important when someone in your family is told they have cancer.
This guide is based on four main ideas:
Late Monday, Aug. 3, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a final rule ( CMS-1629-F ) to update the Medicare hospice payment rates and wage index for fiscal
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By Atul Gawande
[Excerpt from Article in New Yorker Magazine] The researchers called it “low-value care.” But, really, it was
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Quotes below from Salon
THURSDAY, SEP 15, 2011 08:01 AM PDT
HVA will be writing more in the coming months abo
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"Everyone succumbs to finitude. I suspect I am not the only one who reaches this pluperfect state. Most ambitions are either achieved or abandoned; either way, they belong to the past. The future, instead of the ladder toward the goals of life, flatt
The PBS Frontline documentary on Dr. Atul Gawande's book Being Mortal is now available. This is a touching and compassionate discussion about life and death. It stresses the importance of not waiting too long to make certain important decisions abou
NOTE: I chose to place this article under Ethics because I believe, as this article illustrates, that modern medicine is ethically violating their oath to cause no harm with their choices in treatment of many at the end of life. ~Greg Schneider, Foun
Read more…NOTE: I chose to place this article under Ethics because I believe, as this article illustrates, that modern medicine is ethically violating their oath to cause no harm with their choices in treatment of many at the end of life. ~Greg Schneider, Foun
Read more…October 22, 2014
A Conversation with a Cancer Patient About Palliative Care
Palliative ca
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Ezra Klein, journalist, reflects on his intense fear of death: "When I was a kid, I had an overwhelming fear of death. It was the kind of terror that you can't be talked down from, the kind of terror you can only hope to eventually learn to ignore. I
Source: Foley & Lardner LLP
President Obama signed the “Improving Medicare Post-Acute Care Transformation Act of 2014” or the IMPACT Act of 2014
