REDLANDS - While the Redlands Community Hospital generally concentrates on saving lives, its Home Health and Hospice Services department focuses on the other side of things - making sure that people are comfortable at the end of life. On a regular visit to check on their Hospice patients, Hospice case manager Angella Waller and Hospice and Home Health director Gerry Smith paid a visit to a Hospice care facility in Redlands on Wednesday afternoon.
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) proposes to amend its regulation and internal policy documents concerning the billing methodology for non-VA providers of home health services and hospice care. The proposed rulemaking would include home health services and hospice care under the VA regulation governing payment for other non-VA health care providers. Because the newly applicable methodology cannot supersede rates for which VA has specifically contracted, this rulemaking will only affect providers who do not have existing negotiated contracts with VA. The proposed rule would also rescind internal guidance documents that could be interpreted as conflicting with the proposed rule.
UPLAND -- November is National Hospice Month, yet despite the national recognition, many individuals are confused about what exactly hospice care is and isn't. The Visiting Nurses Association & Hospice of Southern California is here to help. It has operated for decades throughout the Inland Valley, helping individuals and families deal with devastating illnesses and end-of-life issues.
Hospice services can be provided to a terminally ill person wherever they live. This means a patient living in a nursing facility or long-term care facility can receive specialized visits from hospice nurses, home health aides, chaplains, social workers and volunteers, in addition to other care and services provided by the nursing facility. The hospice and the nursing home will have a written agreement in place in order for the hospice to serve residents of the facility. A growing number of hospice programs have their own hospice facilities or have arrangements with freestanding hospice houses, hospitals or inpatient residential centers to care for patients who cannot stay where they usually live. However, care in these settings is not covered under the Medicare or Medicaid Hospice Bene...
There have been several letters in recent weeks regarding proposed changes to the state's hospice regulations. The two issues are the need for more hospice hospitals and retention of the same standard of care that is in place at Connecticut Hospice in Branford. Our family needed hospice care on three occasions. The first was for my father, who went to Connecticut Hospice in 1994. His care was exemplary and instilled in me a desire to volunteer there. In 2006, my sister-in-law, who lived in Illinois, was diagnosed with cancer. She passed away in a hospital with hospice care. Her twin sister was diagnosed with lung cancer in 2009. My husband and I brought her to Connecticut. She received hospice home care, then went to Connecticut Hospice, where she died.
Century Hospice of Lakewood is looking for compassionate, reliable volunteers to participate in its hospice care program. The program seeks participants who want to make a difference in the lives of the terminally ill and their families.
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