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Expanding The Volunteer Role To Include Advance Care Planning Knowledge, Andrea C. Leomo
Expanding The Volunteer Role To Include Advance Care Planning Knowledge, Andrea C. Leomo
Master's Projects and Capstones
Problem: Transition patients at the end-of-life are those patients who are not mentally ready or physically eligible for hospice thus not enrolled in a Palliative or Hospice Program. Only one-third of the Transition patient census had completed and filed advance care plans. Healthcare providers are obligated to perform life-saving measures unless documented otherwise. A lack of advance care planning can create complicated scenarios and cause discordant care incidents.
Context: End-of-life care is a delicate subject to navigate conversations with patients. With holistic care being a large component of hospice and palliative care, it is important to have updated and accurate …
Creation Of A Covid-19 Community Testing Team For Home Health And Hospice, Lilah Raja
Creation Of A Covid-19 Community Testing Team For Home Health And Hospice, Lilah Raja
Master's Projects and Capstones
The novel SARS-CoV-2 strain (COVID-19) was identified in Wuhan, China in December 2019 (Eddy et. al, 2020). The resulting US outbreak has affected the Kaiser Permanente (KP) Oakland health care system. With the threat of COVID-19 highest among immunosuppressed and elderly clients, KP Oakland home health and hospice (HH/HO) department is rapidly mobilizing to provide community and in-home testing for eligible clients. A project was created to build a COVID-19 testing team workflow to provide diagnostic and preventative testing. This project focuses on team-based interventions that will change the pre-existing practice of requiring HH/HO clients to travel to remote testing …
Prospectus For Improving Measure Ii Scores Of Hospice Visits When Death Is Imminent In The Hospice Item Set, David Ainsworth
Prospectus For Improving Measure Ii Scores Of Hospice Visits When Death Is Imminent In The Hospice Item Set, David Ainsworth
Master's Projects and Capstones
Abstract
Problem: Center for Medicare Services (CMS) created a new quality measure pair to collect data on hospice visit patterns by a registered nurse in the last three days of life (Measure I), and at least two visits by a social worker, home health aide, licensed vocational nurse or spiritual counselor in the last seven days of life (Measure II). A hospital-based hospice organization created a quality improvement project to address this problem and improve both parts of the measure pair, but special emphasis was placed on improving Measure II, as initial data revealed the …