HOPE Instrument: Understanding the New Hospice Quality Reporting Tool

CMS’s new HOPE instrument replaces the Hospice Item Set (HIS). It is designed to help hospice agencies better understand patient care needs through the dying process, ultimately contributing to the patient’s care plan. The HOPE instrument will provide assessment-based quality data to enhance the HQRP through standardized data collection and provide additional clinical data that could inform future payment refinements. HOPE’s aim is to collect quality data throughout the course of the patient’s stay by introducing additional timepoints called the HOPE Update Visit (HUV). Hospice agencies will be required to submit up to two HUVs, at specific times. Hospice workflow and the COPs will be considered with the intent to improve quality efforts.

This webinar will introduce hospice agencies to the HOPE instrument. It will cover the intent and purpose of the tool, along with anticipated implementation timeframes. You’ll learn about the reliability and validity of the tool, public reporting, and how to use it, including the required HOPE update visits and additional timepoint assessments. This tool is intended to capture the needs of the patient and family in real time, therefore impacting clinical interventions. It is critical that agencies understand how to use this tool, including when to assess (on admission) and what to assess at HUV timepoints.

This webinar is recommended for executive and clinical leadership, RN case managers, field staff, intake nurses, QA nurses, on-call staff, admission nurses, and educators.