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Learning Objectives
1.Identify six interventions, therapies, and other initiatives end-of-life care providers are using to enrich patient and family care within and outside of the basic Medicare Hospice Benefit conditions of participation.
2.Explain two ways that each intervention, therapy, or initiative profiled in Improving Dying can potentially enhance patient and family care, satisfaction and wellbeing.
3.Describe three necessary resources needed to organize, implement and provide additional services.
4.Discuss two possible barriers to the provision of additional care interventions, therapies initiatives and how those might be overcome.
5.Explain how such initiatives have a positive return on investment, benefiting patients, families, and the community at large, bolstering a providers footprint in the community, and increasing provider staff/volunteer retention.