Hospice News February 28, 2022
Home-based primary care combined with hospice has led to greater family satisfaction among dying veterans covered by the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) in recent years. These results signal potential opportunities for hospice providers looking to engage patients further upstream as they increasingly diversify services in a value-based world.
The VA’s home-based primary care (HBPC) program provides coordinated, interdisciplinary care to seriously ill and disabled veterans who wish to age in place at home. Receipt of hospice services while enrolled in the HBPC program was associated with higher satisfaction of end-of-life care, according to recent VA research published in the Journal of American Geriatrics Society.
A little more than half, or 52.6%, of nearly 4,000 veteran families surveyed reported...
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