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HOSPICE
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New Report
Managing
Hospice Quality Improvement Through Best Practices, Benchmarks,
Measures and Compliance
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DESCRIPTION:
Success, growth, improved
performance, patient care, and even
healthcare reform, all demand quality reporting measures to take place
in hospices and palliative care programs nationwide.
But the challenge of such a seemingly simple request lies in basic but
daunting elements such as: What to measure, How to measure it, Who are
we evaluating, and When is a good time to start?
The answer to that last question is as soon as possible. It is never
too early (or late) to begin evaluating your hospice’s
performance.
Once this practice has become routine, your hospice program will have
the advantage of being able to compare and contrast data from previous
years.
There is no better advice than from the hospice professionals and
experts in the field who are out there putting these performances
evaluations and best practices to the test when it comes to determining
what aspects should be covered in an evaluation, and what methods of
measurement may be best.
This new special report gathers and connects the insight and experience
of hospice leaders and programs that have garnered attention and made
notable dents in the benchmarking and compliance arenas of their own
institutions, and for the industry.
View
the Table of Contents
For instance, you’ll get insight from the president of a
performance improvement company that collects data on the hospice
industry to provide detailed comparisons of benchmarks and a goal of
identifying best practices. For example, “When looking for
best practices, pick out trends that really matter.” Get
recommendations from graphs and measuring tools that play crucial roles
in developing benchmark strategies.
Among other expert opinions, survey results and statistics, in this
58-pages report, you will learn:
- Why “Behavioral
health is more important now than ever”
- How to compare old and new
data, and what a balances set of indicators includes
- Why one hospice professional
believes making access and the admissions a process a target for
performance improvement can contribute to a hospice’s growth
- How measuring fall rates can
make an excellent QAPI project
- The process for identifying
‘quality’ projects
- The benefits of sharing
performance results with staff
- Why an interdisciplinary
group is so important and how to create one
- What an End-of-Life Nursing
Education Consortium does and how it is changing the face of
end-of-life care
- About the impact of
admissions, discharges, LOS and other hot button compliance issues
- Ways to measure
patient/family/caregiver satisfaction
“Marketing a best practice is really illustrating the
effectiveness of your hospice with data,” an expert said, in
the report.
You’ll get hot button compliance issues; insight into the
Carolina’s hospice benchmarking project, how to shift
behaviors to from the top down, the training activities to successfully
begin your program and the documentation.
This special report has been researched, gathered, reviewed and edited
by the hospice
letter editorial team Published monthly and trusted by
hospice professionals since 1979, hospice
letter is celebrating its
32nd Anniversary.
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