Hospice & Palliative Care

Speaker's Name and Title: Cordt Kassner, PhD
Chief Executive Officer
National Hospice Analytics

Purpose: This webinar will review key hospice metrics at the provider, county, state, and national levels. Specific attention will be focused on recent MJHS publications exploring New York’s hospice utilization and new hospice quality measures. Data applications in public policy and regulatory environments will be discussed.

Objectives:  

1. Describe changing trends in hospice utilization, particularly in New York State
2. Discuss several hospice metrics and patient characteristics impacting care, and how New York compares to other states
3. Identify ways the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services may use claims, cost reports, and quality data to evaluate individual hospices, as well as the hospice field

Target Audience: Primary care providers, nurse practitioners, palliative care specialists, pain specialists, registered nurses, advanced practice nurses, registered nurses with a specialty in palliative care/hospice, social workers, allied health professionals, fellows, residents, and medical students

Criteria for Successful Completion:

1. Attendance at entire session
2. Submission of completed evaluation form
3. Successful completion of a posttest; 80% passing grade (mandatory to receive CE credit for social workers)

Continuing Education Credits: 1.0

Continuing Education Accreditation

Physicians: The AAFP has reviewed MJHS Institute for Innovation in Palliative Care Interprofessional Webinar Series - On Demand (3)--REV, and deemed it acceptable for AAFP credit. Term of approval is from 06/27/2024 to 06/26/2025. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. This session New York State Hospice Utilization and Updates is approved for 1.0 enduring AAFP Elective credit.
Note: Physicians should contact their respective licensing boards and specialty certification boards about acceptance of AAFP Elective credits when attempting to satisfy CME credit requirements.

Nurses: The MJHS Institute for Innovation in Palliative Care is approved as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the Northeast Multistate Division Education Unit, an accredited approver of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.

Social Workers: MJHS Institute for Innovation in Palliative Care is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0242.

Fees: Free (includes CME/CE certificate)

Release Date: June 27, 2024

Expiration Date: June 26, 2025 (for physicians and non-physicians); February 1, 2025 (for nurses); January 31, 2025 (for NYS Social Workers)

Disclosures:

Cordt Kassner, PhD, has no financial arrangements or affiliations with any commercial entities whose products, research, or services may be discussed in these materials. Any discussion of investigational or unlabeled uses of a product will be identified.

No Planning Committee Member has financial disclosures.

Planning Committee Members
Myra Glajchen, DSW
Kerrianne P. Page, MD, HMDC
Joyce Palmieri, MS, RN, CHPN
Karen Richards, PhD, EdS

Funding Disclosure: No commercial funding has been accepted for the activity.

Location: Online at https://www.mjhspalliativeinstitute.org/e-learning/