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Key takeaways Hospices must offer bereavement support to families for up to one year after a patient's death. Most programs run 13 months so the first anniversary is covered. It is free to the family. Bereavement is a core hospice service under the...
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Key Takeaways Medicare-certified hospices must ensure volunteers provide at least 5% of total patient care hours delivered by paid hospice employees...
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Key takeaways CMS has opened its first major review of the hospice Conditions of Participation in nearly two decades. Three public listening sessions...
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Key takeaways A QAPI program is directly tied to reimbursement. Under Value-Based Purchasing, better quality scores mean better payment. A well-run...
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Key Takeaways Surveyors cite the record, not the training. If you can't produce proof, it counts as not done. Proof lives in three places: the...
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Key Takeaways Aides need at least 12 hours of in-service training every 12-month period, plus a competency re-evaluation at least every 12 months,...
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Most agencies read "licensing moratorium" and move on. If you're not opening a new agency, it doesn't apply to you. Right? Not this time. CDPH issued...
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Surveyors don't call ahead, and neither does a regulatory deadline. Two operational changes are landing on California hospice providers right now....
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To keep policies updated across multiple locations, agencies need one central source of truth, clear ownership for every policy, version control that...
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Most agencies aren't asking whether they should use AI anymore. It's already in the marketplace and already in post-acute workflows. The real...