Hospice Management Advisor articles from June 2006

Hospice Management Advisor archives from June 2006

Hospice creates ideal tool kit for staff to use in caregiver education.
June 1, 2006... Hospice creates ideal tool kit for staff to use in caregiver education Focus on clients' needs and building rapport Hospice staff must provide spend a significant amount of time educating patients and caregivers, but the dilemma is how...

Significant symptom relief when cancer patients engage in art therapy.
June 1, 2006... Significant symptom relief when cancer patients engage in art therapy Anxiety, fatigue showed greatest improvement New research shows that cancer patients who engage in one hour of art therapy show immediate improvement in eight of...

Rural hospices develop new strategies for surviving in a competitive world.
June 1, 2006... Rural hospices develop new strategies for surviving in a competitive world The key is collaboration, flexibility One of the biggest problems for rural hospices is that payments and regulations are calibrated toward urban hospices, and...

Patients deserve info on quality-of-care cases.
June 1, 2006... Patients deserve info on quality-of-care cases Regulations prohibit sharing of details Medicare recipients who have a complaint about their quality of care have a means of reporting their complaints—but it's unlikely they will...

Liability of MCOs for contracted services.(Managed care organizations)
June 1, 2006... Liability of MCOs for contracted services By Elizabeth E. Hogue, Esq., Burtonsville, MD. Elizabeth is an editorial board member for Hospital Home Health. Many providers and case managers remain concerned about low rates paid for...

Comply with JCAHO's goal to label all medications.
June 1, 2006... Comply with JCAHO's goal to label all medications Many organizations are not in compliance The JCAHO's National Patient Safety Goal requiring all medications to be labeled sounds simple enough, but it's proving to be difficult for many...

Folk remedies popular among older rural residents.(Brief article)
June 1, 2006... Folk remedies popular among older rural residents Researchers at Wake Forest University School of Medicine in Winston-Salem, NC, have found that alternative medicine is just as popular in rural areas as in urban ones.1 The difference...