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Clinicians in the Field, Part-Time Doctors, & Your Hospice

When Covid hit, and throughout this long ordeal, hospice agencies struggled with many of the same operational issues that just about everyone faced. Agencies dealt with staff members getting ill and unlike other illnesses – Covid could plow through an agency and infect numerous people who were out for extended periods of time. Local independent…

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Hospice Forms Library & Charting Checklists

Hospice Tools flex-forms library has virtually all the hospice charting documentation forms your agency needs – from admission orders through your final bereavement discharge summary. The forms flow automatically to your timesheets, HIS, show trend histories within documents, and are customizable to match your workflows. Paper forms, such as benefit elections, are easily transformed into…

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Get Hospice Referrals: How Hospice Helps SNF Admins

We talk a lot in hospice about how hospice helps patients. Whether it’s the in-service presentations for facilities, marketing materials and messaging for your referral sources, and articles and social media posts across the digital universe, the focus of hospice benefits is primarily, how hospice helps patients. Speaking with a marketer at one of the…

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Hospice Tools Checklists by Discipline

Whether your hospice agency is a startup or a nationwide enterprise, your team members will appreciate having checklists by discipline to help keep them on track. Check back regularly as we add more checklists for additional hospice & palliative team members or hop over to our help page @ https://www.hospicetools.com/hospice-tools-help-guide/ Click on a checklist to…

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Hospice Deficiency: Care Plans

The hospice plan of care is consistently flagged as a CMS top deficiency for hospice agencies.  According to CMS in 2019 nearly 60% of hospices got flagged for a deficiency relating to plan of care and hospice aide services Click here for the full OIG 2019 report: https://www.hospicetools.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Hospice-Deficiencies-Pose-Risks-to-Medicare-Beneficiaries-OIG-Report.pdf 1. What is a Hospice Plan of…

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