Description:
Hospice is entirely dependent on referrals from physicians. Physician buy-in is essential for the survival of your hospice. This course will explore how to generate and sustain buy-in from the physicians served by your hospice. Real life examples and practical applications of the concepts taught will be presented. Common challenges as well as ways to overcome those challenges will be explored. Further, this presentation will discuss how to assess the effectiveness of your current efforts as well as gauge the success of future efforts.

Objectives:

• The learner will identify three daily opportunities to increase community physician support for their hospice program
• The learner will list three potential barriers to increasing local physician "buy-in" to hospice care
• The learner will discuss potential strategies to strengthen the relationship between their hospice and the physicians they serve
• The learner will discuss various measurement strategies to gage the current level of physician engagement and success of efforts to improve such engagement

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