A report by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General (OIG) finds that hospices did not always comply with the portion of the “hospice aide and homemaker services” ...
When my mother was dying, a private, for-profit hospice agency failed her — the assigned nurse was late for the first visit because of a staffing shortage. My mother suffered in misery without pain ...
According to the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization, in 2022, 1.72 million Medicare recipients were enrolled in hospice for at least one day. Hospice does not hasten death but rather ...
Home health and hospice visits to skilled nursing and senior living facilities remained steady during the pandemic while family visitations plummeted, according to new data from Accushield. The ...
Managing conflict during home hospice nursing visits: Communication between nurses, cancer patients, and spouse caregivers. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2017 Palliative and Supportive ...
There also was variation by hospice program characteristics with smaller hospice programs (90 deaths or less) and hospice programs based in nursing homes less likely to provide visits in the last two ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Grace Lopez, left, with her daughter Debbie Lopez, just before she was discharged from a hospital to hospice in January 2019.