New Community-Based Palliative Care Certification to Launch

First industry certification of home health and hospice services providing palliative care community at the highest level in place of residence of the patient is issued by the Joint Commission.

"Health care continues to evolve and Affordable Care Act is beginning to affect the industry, one of the things that came to light is that many patients in recent years have experienced admissions unnecessary hospitalization when managing your stage of disease really need palliative care, "says Margarita LABSON, RN, MSHSA, CPHQ, executive director of the Program homecare of the joint Commission." for those of us in "environment of home care in the community, have always tried to handle this, but current models of care does not really meet the needs of these patients because the Medicare benefit is episodic payment program that is built for rehabilitation and restoration, not maintenance. "

The new program of the Joint Commission, said, adds value to patients, results in a lower rate of readmission necessary and contributes to patient satisfaction and better health outcomes.

Research Community Based Palliative Care Certification (SCLC) will begin on July 1 Certification is granted for a period of three years, and the scope of aid providers certification, delivery and validation of treatments and focused on patient services. The main requirements for certification of SCLC include:

• A strong team of interdisciplinary care
• Personalized, comprehensive care plans
• After Hours Care
• The use of clinical practice guidelines based on evidence
• A hand-off communication processes defined

"This perhaps helps solve one of the key frustrations of hospitalists: repeated readmissions of patients with severe chronic diseases." LABSON said "This helps reduce the number of hospital admissions unjustified and allows the physician to focus on hospital admission and successful management of these patients that are appropriate for the intervention of the hospital or acute care intervention at this time."