Running a hospital-at-home program at the agency level may sound out of reach for some.  Summer Napier, President & CEO of Healing Hands Healthcare, talks to Jennifer Kennedy about her program and gives insights they learned while building. 

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Advance Care Planning is a process, not a one-time event that includes an individual and their loved ones.  People’s goals change over time.  As we saw with COVID-19, many patients changed their minds regarding ventilators and life support.

Stephanie Anderson from Respecting Choices says it’s not just enough to educate about advance care planning but about introducing “shared decision-making.”  Learn more about these conversations and what you need to focus on when implementing.

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Starting palliative care in rural New Mexico has its challenges.  Education, billing, adding clinicians from other care settings, and referral source alignment, to name a few.  Jacob Martinez from Mountain Home Health and Hospice talks about their steps to build a thriving program that has improved their quality and gives patients the care they need. 

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Kathleen Kerr from Transforming Care Partners joins Jennifer Kennedy to talk about how Palliative Care providers and payers address the questions/uncertainties regarding what to provide, to whom, by whom, how to assess, and a lot of variation in those elements.

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Jennifer Kennedy talks to Maria Warren, VP of Clinical Consulting Services from McBee about what's involved in optimally managing an episode of care for a patient, episode management in value-based purchasing, and its impact on quality.

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We know that health disparities have existed in various ways, but it took a pandemic to shine a light on a critical topic. How do we increase access to quality care and serve the underserved? Jennifer Kennedy and Nicole M. Davis tackle the newly posted CMS Framework for Health Equity and talk about what this means for providers.   Check out our Health Equity blog for more information.

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In this episode, Jennifer Kennedy talks with Dr. Amy Moss from Amedisys, and Jason Banks from nVoq about what it's like to be a medical director in 2022.  They discuss the ever-evolving role of the physician in hospice, and how to use technology to help your hospice physician deliver on the expectation of documentation while weaving a beautiful patient story and narrative.

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“Contractor Can of Worms”  - the new vaccine mandate has put a new layer of inspection on records kept about contract employees.  Jennifer Kennedy talks with Sharon Litwin about what else to be mindful about when bringing on a staffing agency.

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,Jennifer Kennedy speaks to our National Medical Director, Dr. Khai Nguyen.  Hear answers to important questions like, what does a physician look for in an in-home care provider, how providers can gain or lose a physician's trust, and learn about what he sees is needed today in the geriatric population.

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