Hospice News October 24, 2019
As hospices seek new ways to engage patients further upstream, a rising number are diversifying their services to include home-based primary care, along with palliative care and other care models. Evidence indicates that these primary care programs carry substantial benefits for patients and families and can have a significant positive impact on a hospice’s bottom line.
These programs have been shown to reduce costs, reduce unwanted high-acuity care at the end of life and enable patients to enter hospice earlier in the course of their terminal illness.
When it comes to length of stay in hospice, providers’ missions dovetail with their financial interests. As of 2017, nearly 28% of hospice patients died within seven days of admission, according to the...
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