Effectiveness of Palliative Care Initiative in Preventing End-of-Life Hospital Transfers

May 1, 2024
JAMDA

Determine effectiveness of palliative initiative in our memory care unit (MCU) in preventing end-of-life (EOL) hospital transfers via a quality review study of all MCU deaths in the past 33 months to see if our transfer rate in last 30 days of life, a key quality indicator, is significantly below the 33% nursing home (NH) average cited in a systemic review study and the average for other units in our NH.