Effective IDGs & Plans of Care: Updates to Meet Regulatory Requirements

July 8, 2025
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DateJul 8, 2025Duration90 minutes
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02:00 PM CDT03:00 PM EDT
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An effective interdisciplinary group (IDG) supports the hospice care process and the patient plan of care.

Do you know the key elements of such an IDG? Who should participate in meetings? Do your teams collaborate? This informative session will address these questions and more so your patients can be assured of an individualized yet comprehensive, holistic plan of care.

AFTER THIS WEBINAR YOU’LL BE ABLE TO:
  • Determine which individual participants are essential to productive hospice IDG meetings
  • Understand the three items necessary for optimal preparation of an effective IDG
  • Explain key elements to an effective IDG
  • Identify critical areas where an effective IDG meeting can avoid POC survey challenges
  • Conduct an effective IDG with improved POC documentation related to the regulations

WEBINAR DETAILS

An effective IDG fosters patient-centered care by involving a team of professionals who collaborate to meet the medical, psychosocial, emotional, and spiritual needs of hospice patients and their families. This collaborative approach ensures a comprehensive, holistic plan of care is developed and implemented.

The plan of care continues to be a key area of focus and challenge for agencies with surveys and financial audits. This presentation will explain how to conduct an effective IDG that impacts the individualized patient plan of care. It will review key IDG elements, including care planning, team communication, patient documentation, continuous assessment, coordination of care, and scope of services. The recommended best practices to conduct an effective IDG will be outlined to provide a structured, scheduled, and formatted IDG that meets the hospice requirements, including supporting patient eligibility. If your agency has struggled with POC survey or ADR challenges, and/or IDG team participation challenges, this will be an excellent presentation to attend.

THIS WEBINAR WILL BENEFIT THE FOLLOWING AGENCIES:

  • Hospice
  • Palliative Care

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

This informative session is best suited for hospice clinical leadership, including medical directors and hospice physicians, NPs, DOPCSs, RN case managers, QA staff, hospice admission nurses, hospice staff nurses, MSWs, chaplains, volunteers, intake personnel, and staff who attend IDG meetings.

TAKE-AWAY TOOLKIT

  • MLN fact sheet Creating an Effective Hospice Plan of Care
  • Training log
  • PDF of slides and speaker’s contact info for follow-up questions
  • Attendance certificate provided, however there are no pre-approved CEs associated with this webinar

NOTE: All materials are subject to copyright. Transmission, retransmission, or republishing of any webinar to other agencies or those not employed by your agency is prohibited. Print materials may be copied for eligible participants only.

Presented By

Kathy AhearnKathy Ahearn
ALECC, Inc.
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