Book your demo & find out more about the CHAP Verified Hospice EMR built  for teams like yours! Check Out More Hospice Tools Insights!   Book Your Hospice Tools Demo Today! Get to the Top with Hospice Tools! Get My Free Trial! The post Hospice Tools Connects Newsletter Feb. 2024 first appeared on Hospice Tools. The post Hospice Tools Connects Newsletter Feb. 2024 appeared first on Hospice Tools ..read more

The CAHPS Hospice Survey is a national survey of family members or friends who cared for a patient who died while under hospice care. The Hospice survey includes measurements such as: Communication with family Getting timely help Treating patient with respect Emotional and spiritual support Help for pain and symptoms Training family to care for patient Rating of this hospice Willing to recommend this hospice Survey results are open to the public and published as part of Care Compare on the www.Medicare.gov website (CAHPS® Hospice Survey | CMS, 2020). CAHPS Obstacle: Perception The CAHPS meas ..read more

CHAP: COMMUNITY HEALTH ACCREDITATION PARTNER AWARDS HOSPICE TOOLS EMR “CHAP VERIFIED” STATUS. Skokie, IL., September 08, 2022 – CHAP is pleased to announce that Hospice Tools EMR has achieved CHAP Verified status, granted to tools and resources used by community-based care providers that, through rigorous inspection, show no roadblocks to executing the CHAP Standards of Excellence, and innovate to improve the delivery of high quality care. CHAP conducted a thorough product survey to verify that Hospice Tools EMR allows organizations to meet the intent of CHAP’s applicable standards. The CHAP s ..read more

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 hospice agencies don’t always have the same resources to quickly hire experienced people or reshuffle staff. Getting supplies in a timely fashion, admissions that turned into very short stays on hospice, marketers not able to meet partners, and clinica ..read more

Book your demo & find out more about the Hospice EMR built from the ground up for teams like yours! Check Out More Hospice Tools Insights!   Book Your Hospice Tools Demo Today! Get to the Top with Hospice Tools! Hospice Tools is the EMR built from the ground up for hospice & palliative agencies to help teams do more with pro features such as: Super-fast IDG Smart care plans Robust Reports built for team sharing! Customizable forms Bulk eSign docs – even from the mobile app! Hospice billing with built-in Medicaid Room & Board and Appeals tracking Unparalleled ..read more

From our deep experience in hospice – from both the provider side and now on the side of delivering hospice software and services to local independent agencies across America, hospice agencies are built by people who are professional, altruistic, caring, and compassionate. When we talk about diversity and inclusion, especially in hospice, it’s easy for people to think ‘this doesn’t apply to me or my agency – we treat every patient equally and we deliver com passionate and individualized care regardless of race, color, creed, and gender’ It’s true that your team delivers awesome care to every p ..read more

“Money! Are you freaking kidding me?!? All hospice is is a greedy money making killing machine! Nice tools you have here to streamline the death of loved ones! Not once did I read where you acknowledge that you are putting souls into eternity! God help us!” While many people are scared of hospice and don’t understand hospice, in all the years I worked in hospice and since then, in health-tech for local hospice agencies, I can count on one hand the number of people who have been as negative towards hospice as this was letter we recently received. The majority of people providing hospice care, b ..read more

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 eDocs (electronic documents). To select an eDoc and start charting you can scroll alphabetically or start typing the form name. You can also sort the forms library by chart section: assessments, certifications ..read more

The Hospice Tools Teams Wishes You A Happy & Safe 4th of July Our Top 10 4th of July Quotes “Independence Day: freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed – else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die.” – Dwight D. Eisenhower “It will be celebrated with pomp and parade, bonfires and illuminations from one end of this continent to the other.” – John Adams “America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.”— Presi ..read more

The Hospice CHAPS Education edition of valuable insights by our own hospice & palliative professionals covers the following CAHPS survey question: Discharge from Hospice Q: What are the three reasons a hospice may discharge a patient? 1. The patient moves out of the hospices service area or transfers to another hospice. Examples of moving out of the service area include: When a hospice patient moves to another part of the country When a hospice patient leaves for a vacation. When a hospice patient receives treatment for a condition unrelated to the terminal illness or related conditions i ..read more