Home Care and Hospice Essential Webinar Network

Do you know the top 10 misunderstood hospice regulations?  This webinar will enhance your understanding, ensure compliance, optimize your hospice operations, and improve the quality of care provided to your patients.

1. Plan of Care and Contents: What is required and moving beyond cookie-cutter plans.
2. Attending Physician: The importance of understanding CMS intentions and addressing low participation rates.  Why is high participation a good thing?
3. Patient and Family Assessment: Discover best practices for admissions and assessments, including the role of medical records, history, talking with patients and families, physical examinations, and admissions.  Who can make a referral and/or request hospice services?
4. Eligibility: Learn about enhancing admission nurses' assessment skills, presentation of hospice eligibility to physicians, and the inherent pitfalls.
5. Eligibility Variability: This section will address variability among hospice physicians.  What should be done when you have deemed a patient not eligible, and another hospice immediately admits the patient and says are they eligible?
6. Eligibility Education: There is a lack of education and training within hospices about what makes a patient legally eligible for hospice. Utilization of change of terminal diagnosis, discharge, and revocation will be covered.
7. Information: What is really required for hospice informational consent, and election of benefits?  How do families feel about the admission process?  Why do most hospices give out too much information?
8. Initial Assessment: Clarifying best practices and common misunderstandings.
9. Comprehensive Assessment: Who does what, when, and by what deadlines.  Explore how to improve thoroughness and accuracy.
10. Survey Awareness: Best practices for CAHPS survey awareness, including misconceptions and how to increase participation.

Bonus: How to handle a transfer and how long you should wait on the other hospice.

Please CLICK HERE to learn more/register for this webinar. 

ATTN: If this is your first time registering for one of the Alliance's webinars being held in partnership with the Home Care and Hospice Essential Webinar Network, you will need to "create an account" (on the webinar registration page) to register through the 3rd party platform.  

Questions? Please contact Alexa Tintori at alexa@frontlineco.com.