Coalition members are the leaders in the interdisciplinary hospice and palliative care field through demonstrated advocacy, payment, quality, research, and workforce initiatives and other activities.
Our Mission
We improve the care of people with serious or life-limiting illnesses by convening the field, advocating for equitable policies and improved health outcomes, establishing best practices, and sharing resources.
Our Vision
All patients, families and caregivers will have equitable access to quality hospice and palliative care.
Our Coalition members work together to create and shape policy, engage key policymakers and share information and resources. Every member of the Coalition is critical to our collective impact and voice.
⌛ #QMC2024 starts in less than ONE month! Don't miss out on this virtual event November 20-22, 2024. Experience 10 hours of learning over the three days to learn the latest and from national experts on quality improvement in palliative care. Check out our agenda 👉 https://lnkd.in/d6A_TrkM
🎟️ Secure your spot today at the lowest rate and save an extra $10 with the code QI2024: https://lnkd.in/drrgMDiC#HPAC#Interprofessional#PalliativeCare#QualityImprovement
🆕 🎧 In the second episode of the Communication & Education miniseries, host Elyssa Katz is joined by Marian Grant, DNP, ACNP-BC, ACHPN, FPCN, FAAN and Anthony Back, two national leaders in the hospice and palliative care community and co-creators of the Serious Illness Messaging Toolkit (https://lnkd.in/eWq5_hVC).
Check out this Alliance for Home Care podcast Tony Back and Marian Grant did about community education, a critical topic for care-at-home providers and particularly for hospice and palliative care providers who face additional challenges with common stigmas about the care and services they deliver. Listeners will leave with practical, evidence-based principles and accessible resources to assist them in capturing public interest without reinforcing misconceptions.
Listen now on your podcast player of choice or through the following link: https://lnkd.in/dVkKB4vQ
PCQC Virtual Quality Matters Conference 2024
November 20-22, 2024
https://lnkd.in/gR8rjWrh
Identifying Various Perspectives of Quality
The world of quality is continually evolving and becoming further integrated into our clinical, safety, payment, and leadership discussions. We prioritize quality because we know it empowers healthcare organizations with the tools to provide the best quality of care to patients and their loved ones. However, integrating quality into our organizations has been challenging.
While we agree on the need of high-quality care, putting quality into action has come to mean different things for different people. Clinicians, safety specialists, leaders, payor partners, patients and their caregivers often have different lenses by which they view the concept of quality-based care, creating a fractured system in enacting quality-based standards.
The theme for QMC 2024 is Identifying Various Perspectives of Quality. The goal of our conference is to have conversations where we recognize that quality looks different depending on where a person may sit in the health system. Discussion objectives include:
What quality means at each level of an organization
The differences in implementation of quality that exist between these levels
How can we come together to synthesize these perspectives to create unity across quality
New this year, we are excited to offer a two-hour Quality Improvement Fundamentals Workshop as part of registration. During this session, participants will learn fundamental QI skills to improve upon their operational and care processes.
We're excited to host our 3rd Annual virtual Quality Matters Conference on November 20-22, 2024!
The theme is "Identifying Various Perspectives of Quality". New this year, we are excited to offer a two-hour Quality Improvement Basics Workshop as part of registration. We hope you will join us for this interdisciplinary virtual conference.
Learn more and register today: https://lnkd.in/gR8rjWrh
Today, we celebrate Jimmy Carter’s 100th birthday and reflect on the impact of home hospice care. For the past 19 months, President Carter has received care at home, and CBS's "Eye on America" is highlighting how this compassionate care model is evolving to serve America’s growing elderly population.
We’re thrilled to see that the Connecticut Hospice and Barbara Pearce, one of our valued members, is featured in this segment, showcasing the real value that hospice can provide.
#HospiceCare#JimmyCarter100#ConnecticutHospice#HomeHospicehttps://lnkd.in/eneqVRVu
Telehealth Flexibility for the Hospice Face-To-Face Recertification Visit: This flexibility has yielded benefits for patients & providers, allowing hospice providers to focus on direct patient care, reducing unnecessary burdens #hospice#telehealth MORE: https://bit.ly/3ZREzqi
Dear Congressional Leaders:
Thank you for your leadership and support in expanding access to quality healthcare through telehealth. These flexibilities have helped improve patient care delivery across the United States. As organizations representing the full array of hospice and community-based palliative care providers, professionals, and volunteers, we write to you today in strong support of extending the telehealth flexibility for the face-to-face (F2F) encounter required during recertification of hospice eligibility. This flexibility has yielded benefits for patients and providers, allowing hospice providers to focus on direct patient care, reducing unnecessary burdens, and improving patient and family satisfaction and it is critical that this flexibility be maintained going forward.
Hospice is holistic, interdisciplinary care, meaning beneficiaries receive visits and care from the entire interdisciplinary team consisting of a physician, nurse, hospice aide, social worker, chaplain, volunteer, and bereavement specialist. As of January 1, 2024, this may now also include a marriage and family therapist or mental health counselor. Together with the patient and family, this team constructs an individualized plan of care to meet patient and family needs, which reflect their desired outcomes and goals. Hospice services are delivered around the clock based on the patient’s individualized plan of care.
The F2F requirement is a low-touch, administrative component of the recertification process intended to collect clinical information to determine continued eligibility. This process can be conducted as successfully via telehealth as it can in-person. Recent research concluded there were no “statistically significant differences in reauthorization recommendations found between telehealth and in-person visits.” As it is not a care visit, it cannot be billed separately like other hospice physician visits. Extending this telehealth flexibility does not have an associated cost.
💻 BRIEFING: America’s Readiness to Meet the Needs of People with Serious Illness: The 2024 Serious Illness Scorecard
🔗 https://bit.ly/3ZzwmqS
At least 13 million Americans are living with a serious illness like cancer, heart failure, or dementia. While much progress has been made to improve access to palliative care and other key health care supports for this population, significant gaps remain.
Join Brynn Bowman, MPA, and the CAPC Health Care Transformation team as they unveil the 2024 Serious Illness Scorecard: A State-By-State Look at Palliative Care Capacity. Together, they will review each state’s readiness and capacity to meet the needs of people living with a serious illness, and their families and caregivers. This briefing will highlight national trends and provide practical, actionable recommendations for state policymakers, palliative care champions, and advocates to improve care within their own state or organization.
HPNA is excited to announce Palliative Care Basics! Palliative Care Basics, formerly POLARIS, has been renamed, but continues to deliver the same great content providing professionals the education they need as they begin their careers in hospice and palliative care.
Access the Palliative Care Basics modules - https://ow.ly/PvzR50TobZC
