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…
Read moreWhether 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…
Read moreThe 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…
Read moreThe education edition of valuable insights by our in-house hospice & palliative professionals covers the following CAHPS survey question: While your family member was in hospice care, did the patient get as much help with pain as needed? The potential answers for this question are: Never Sometimes Usually Always The answer you want your agency…
Read moreEvery hospice agency does things a bit different. As hospice professionals we know what we know, but we don’t necessarily know what you know or how you do things a bit differently. Before launching Hospice Tools outside of our beta we researched the needs of hospice agencies. We met with a number of hospice pros…
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