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Article: Why Hospice Care Belongs in Nursing Homes, Part 2.
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- Nursing Homes
- Article date:
- May 1, 2001
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Hospice care can benefit both residents and the facility--but only if the staffs know how to work together
This article focuses on the operational aspects of delivering hospice care in a long-term care facility, including the specifics of Medicare's hospice benefit, contracting between the hospice care provider and the facility, and ways to develop and deliver coordinated care. It proceeds on the assumption that facilities recognize the benefits of such a collaboration, as described in "Why Hospice Care Belongs in Nursing Homes, Part 1," April 2001 Nursing Homes/Long Term Care Management, p. 46.
It is important to understand that much of the care ...