Hospices as Providers of Community-Based Palliative Care: Exploring the Ins and Outs

Tuesday, May 2, 2017: 2:00 PM-3:00 PM
Lincoln West (Washington Hilton) - Concourse Level
Faculty:
Jeanne S. Twohig, MPA, Center to Advance Palliative Care, Missoula, MT, Richelle Nugent Hooper, MBA, MSN, FNP, ACHPN, Four Seasons CFL, Flat Rock, NC, Jennifer Ritzau, HopeHealth, Providence, RI and Anne Monroe, MHA, Bluegrass Care Navigators, Lexington, KY
This highly interactive session will feature representatives from three hospices who have successfully designed and are operating community-based palliative care programs. Participants will hear from experienced hospice administrators and practitioners on the practical ins and outs of administrative structures, staffing patterns, service differentiation, patient identification and transition, and reimbursement strategies. Participants will have the opportunity to explore with these leaders the benefits, opportunities, and challenges their hospices are experiencing while offering community-based palliative care as part of a hospice organization.

Learning Objectives:
1. Describe why and how hospice organizations provide natural administrative homes for providing quality, cost-effective community-based palliative care services
2. Identify two viable administrative structures that hospice organizations use to differentiate the delivery of hospice services from community-based palliative care services offered by hospice organizations
3. Describe how payment models and reimbursement strategies impact the design of community-based palliative care services


CE/CME: Nurse, Physician and Social Worker