Hospice News March 27, 2024
Many hospices may be unprepared to cope with a large-scale disaster or a future pandemic.
Operators need to be prepared to deliver care and support their communities’ responses to catastrophic events. Increasingly, this factors into compliance. In 2017, the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) expanded a Condition of Participation pertaining to disaster preparedness planning. Last year, The Joint Commission implemented similar requirements for hospices.
However, the COVID-19 pandemic exposed gaps in preparedness when it comes to hospice and palliative care. Generally, this has not been treated as a priority by other emergency management entities as well, Dr. Janna Baker Rogers, a board-certified physician in both palliative and emergency medicine with West Virginia University Medical, said at the...
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