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As people throughout the nation struggle to recover from tornadoes, floods, and other weather-related emergencies, the National Hospice Foundation (NHF) is making funds available to support state organizations as they respond to recovery efforts of providers at the local level.
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Involving family members in ICU rounds improved satisfaction in some areas, such as physician communication and decision-making support, but failed to improve overall family satisfaction.
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Volunteers are an important part of any hospice program and efforts to build the number of volunteers is an ongoing effort.
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This observational study noted that critically ill patients provided with clinical psychological support during their ICU stay had less anxiety, depression, and post traumatic stress disorder at 1 year post-discharge compared to historical controls.
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This study of outcomes among more than 50,000 elderly Medicare beneficiaries found that activities of daily living and mobility had deteriorated substantially more among those who had been hospitalized the previous year, and that only 27% of those who had received mechanical ventilation were alive 1 year after hospitalization.
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The only fact known about the quality reporting requirements described in the Proposed Wage Index Rule for FY2012 is that everything is proposed and might change before the final rule is published, according to Liz Silva, vice president of hospice for Deyta, a quality improvement and satisfaction measurement company based in Louisville, KY.
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This is the first of a two-part series that looks at quality improvement programs in hospice.
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After two district courts struck down the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' (CMS) regulations for calculating hospice caps, CMS issued an unprecedented rule that allowed all hospices with appropriately filed hospice cap repayment demand appeals to avoid going to court.
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Americans' differences in income, race/ethnicity, gender, and other social attributes make a difference in how likely they are to be healthy, sick, or die prematurely, according to a news release issued on a report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
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Caregivers of the chronically critically ill report restrictions on personal and social aspects of their lives, they continue to be distressed by problematic patient behaviors, and they are most distressed by their loved ones' continued reports of pain and discomfort up to 6 months post-ICU discharge.
