Description:
These two sessions from Weatherbee's Hospice Regulatory Boot Camp in Denver, Colorado focus on perhaps the most challenging new condition of participation: Initial and Comprehensive Assessment of the Patient.

Part 1 - Presents the CoP and its five standards with a review of time frames and strategies for implementation.

Part 2 - Reviews tools and processes, common disease trajectories and types of IDG assessment documentation that support hospice eligibility.

Objectives:

• Learner will list the five standards that comprise this condition of participation
• Learner will describe the time frames for completion of the initial assessment, comprehensive assessment, and assessment updates.
• Learner will describe the tools and processes needed to comply with this COP and its standards
• Learner will list the three end stage trajectories commonly associated with a hospice diagnosis.
• Learner will describe the types of IDG documentation that will support hospice eligibility.
  

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