Hospice
Hospice care, documented where it happens.
The whole team's visits on one schedule, the benefit periods and the IDG cadence kept on the chart, election statements and consents signed at the bedside, and proof that every visit happened. Built to be the chart of record for a hospice.
The workflow in under two minutes
Hospice care, kept connected.
An interdisciplinary schedule, the hospice visit note, benefit periods, IDG and aide-supervision review dates, election and certification signatures, and office QA. See the hospice workflow in CareSign.
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Coordinate the team
Nursing, aide, social work, and spiritual care visits on one schedule, with patient care-team access in view.
Keep the care context
The hospice visit note includes pain and comfort, symptoms, function, and caregiver coping.
See the next review
Benefit-period dates and the upcoming IDG and RN aide-supervision reviews.
Follow the paperwork
Election and terminal-illness certification signature status, plus submitted forms in the QA queue.
The interdisciplinary team
One chart for the whole team.
A hospice patient is seen by a nurse, an aide, a social worker, and a chaplain, often in the same week. CareSign sets up hospice visit types and disciplines from the start, so every visit lands on the same patient record.
Nursing
Routine, evaluation, reassessment, and on-call visits, with recertification and discharge visits on the same chart.
Hospice aides
Aide visits with the care tasks for each patient, recorded at the bedside, and aide supervision tracked every 14 days.
Social work and spiritual care
Social work and chaplain visits scheduled and verified like every other discipline, on the same patient record.
Physicians and the IDG
Physicians and nurse practitioners on the roster, IDG review visits on the calendar, and a secure team thread for the group.
Scheduling the team
Every discipline on one board.
See the nurse, the aide, and the social worker side by side for the week. Drag a visit to reassign it; CareSign checks the clinician's license before it is booked.
- Week board by clinician or by patient, including on-call visits and time off
- Visits held to the ordered frequency, with overages flagged
- Recurring visits set once and filled forward
- GPS clock-in and clock-out at the patient's home or facility, with exceptions flagged
Benefit periods
90, 90, then 60, on the chart.
Each patient's benefit period sits on the chart with its dates. When the recertification is done, the next period opens at the right length.
- Benefit periods of 90, 90, and then 60 days, rolled forward at recertification
- Recertifications due on the worklist and the dashboard before the period ends
- Upcoming and past-due recertification reports across the census
- Admissions and referrals tracked from the first call
IDG and supervision cadences
Every interval proven by a visit.
A hospice starts with two cadences: an IDG review of each plan of care every 15 days, and an aide supervisory visit every 14 days for patients who receive aide visits. CareSign proves each one with a completed visit and tells you who is overdue.
- IDG plan of care review every 15 days, proven by an IDG review visit
- Aide supervisory visit every 14 days for patients with aide services
- Overdue and due-soon patients listed, so the interval never lives in someone's head
- Add your own cadences for anything else your hospice tracks
Election, consents, and physician signatures
Signatures built to hold up, from the bedside or from afar.
Election statements and consents on your own forms, signed by the patient or their representative on the nurse's iPhone or through a secure link. Certifications and orders go to physicians through a signing queue.
- Your election statement and consents with real signature capture, never a checkbox
- A representative signs with an attestation of their capacity to sign
- Remote signing links for a family member who is not in the room
- A physician queue for certifications and orders, signed remotely with sealed evidence
- A Medicare enrollment check on certifying and ordering physicians
Compliance, kept as you go
The logs a survey asks for, already kept.
Infection and incident logs
Log infections and incidents from the chart, follow each to resolution, and run the surveillance reports.
Emergency preparedness
A patient emergency plan with evacuation zones, and the emergency preparedness report across the census.
Staff credentials
Licenses, certifications, and immunizations on each staff record. An expired license blocks scheduling that clinician.
Mileage
Miles between visit stops computed from actual driving routes and exported for reimbursement.
The film shows the hospice visit note: pain and comfort, symptoms, function, caregiver coping, and the team update.
Audit-defensible records
When the records request comes, be boring.
Hospice records get questioned on who was there, when, and who signed. CareSign answers in the record itself.
Times you can trace
Clock-in, clock-out and signing times are captured when they happen. If the office has to enter or fix a clock time, the visit shows who did it, when and why, and the change lands in the audit trail.
GPS-verified visits
Location is captured at clock-in, clock-out, and the moment of signing. The chart shows the visit happened where it happened.
SHA-256-sealed signatures
Every completed signature is fingerprinted with SHA-256 and issued a verification code. Anyone you authorize can confirm authenticity without an account.
A complete audit trail
Every change to every record lands in an append-only, server-side log: who, what, when, and which fields changed. Not even agency admins can edit it.
CareSign runs on HIPAA-ready infrastructure under Business Associate Agreements, and every record exports as a PDF, so the chart is yours to hand to a surveyor or an auditor on demand.
See hospice in CareSign
Book a demo and we'll walk through a hospice demo agency with you, focused on the parts your team asks about.