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Click Here for the 2003 Hospice Wage Index Register Today! NHPCO Hill Day The National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization Offers Four Grief and Bereavement Guides. Please download and reproduce these guides: A Guide to Grief When a Co-worker Suffers a Loss When a Co-worker is Ill or Dies Grief: A Guide for Managers Hospice Care in America . . . Comfort and Compassion When It's Needed Most 2002 National Hospice Month Quilt National Hospice Month Planning Guide and Ad Slicks Now Available Online NHPCO Issues Mid-Year Activities Report for 2002 . . . Click to Download> NHPCO Issues HIPAA Regulatory Alert . . . More>

CALL FOR PRESENTATION PROPOSALS Fourth Joint Clinical Conference and Exposition on Hospice and Palliative CareSCALING THE PEAKS OF EXCELLENCE IN HOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE CAREApril 10-12, 2003, Denver, Colorado Adam’s Mark HotelSubmit Proposals by September 14, 2002 MedPAC Calls for Hospice Payment Rate Review as End-of-Life Care Access Concerns Remain In a report to Congress on Americans’ access to end-of-life care, a federal advisory panel is calling upon the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to evaluate the adequacy of Medicare’s payments to hospices for providing end-of-life care to patients and families. But NHPCO is voicing hospice providers' concerns because the report inadequately addresses the complex factors that often prevent patient access to end-of-life care. More>

CMS Chief Urges Physicians to Think More About Hospice Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Tom Scully, in a May 24 letter, urges national medical organizations including -- the American Medical Association, the American College of Physicians, the Gerontological Society of America, and the American Society of Clinical Oncology -- to help CMS in engaging “the physician community, as well as other health care professionals, [to] think more about hospice as they care for terminally ill patients.” More> Read the letter> HBO Family Series Examines Teen Grief The fifth in HBO Family's Parent Handbook series, Love, Josh documents a year in the life of a fifteen year old whose father has died from liver cancer. In conjunction with HBO Family's broadcast of Love, Josh, NHPCO is hosting an online searchable database of more than 250 NHPCO member programs that volunteered to offer youth grief and bereavement counseling services. More> Medicare Program Touts Hospice Benefits The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) are reminding physicians and long-term care providers of the substantial benefits provided by Medicare to patients and families facing the end of life. In a two-page article intended to reach the nation’s doctors, home health care agencies, and nursing homes, the Medicare program is explaining how the Medicare Hospice Benefit works, the wealth of services it provides for patients, and why it is important for physicians to refer terminally ill patients to hospice care. More Information Read the Article Hospices, VA Join to Enhance End-of-Life Care Options for Veterans Launching a program to expand the end-of-life care options for America’s veterans, the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO), the Department of Veterans of Affairs (VA), and the Center for Advanced Illness Coordinated Care (CAICC) are seeking to increase veterans’ access to hospice and palliative services while providing educational opportunities for the clinicians who provide end-of-life care to veterans. More Information NHPCO Public Policy White Paper Outlines Institutional Barriers to Hospice “Hospice Care and the Institutional Barriers to its Success” documents some of the regulatory and administrative burdens that are unnecessarily diverting resources from the bedside of patients to questionable compliance efforts. Read the report A Call for Change: Improving Care for Children with Life-Threatening Conditions Broader availability of pediatric hospice and palliative care is the key to improving care for the estimated 400,000 American children and their families who live every day with chronic, life-threatening conditions. More Information Americans Endorse Consultations to Inform Patients of End-of-Life Options Nearly nine out of 10 Americans endorse a consultation with end-of-life experts to inform patients with life-limiting illness of their care options. According to a new survey conducted by the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization in conjunction with Interactive, 88 percent of the population believes that patients would benefit from such consultations. Press release. Complete survey results. NHPCO Seeks to Build on the 20-Year Success of the Medicare Hospice Benefit In the 20th anniversary year of the Medicare Hospice Benefit, the nation's hospices are poised to further improve care for dying Americans and their families, according to a white paper issued by the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization. 'Delivering Quality and Cost-Effectiveness at the End of Life: Building on the 20-Year Success of the Medicare Hospice Benefit' documents hospice's success and outlines a proposal to create a palliative care consultation benefit conducted by hospice and reimbursed by Medicare. Read the full report. Dole Launches National Hospice Education Campaign NEW: Submit 2001 NHPCO National Data Set Surveys Online Hospital-Hospice Partnerships in Palliative Care: Creating a Continuum of Service (a joint project of the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization and the Center to Advance Palliative Care) Hospice Trauma and Grief Resources in the Aftermath of September 11th Hospice Grief and Trauma Services Guidelines 'Cost of Care' Brochure Available Online NHPCO Conference and Audioconference InformationCircle of Life Award Information About the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization Keyword Search

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