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Hospices Facilities Launch, Renovate With Growth in Mind

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The new location will allow for improved support for serious and terminally ill patients that lack caregiver support or need higher levels of care, said Dr. Christopher Strzalka, medical director at Julia Hospice & Palliative Care. The hospice facility is projected to reopen in the fall.

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For-Profit or Nonprofit, Hospice Is Not a ‘Hustle’

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Today, patients are enrolling in hospice with a wider range of diagnoses, some of which have a much less predictable trajectory than most cancers. of hospice enrollees in 2019, up from 9% in 2002, according to NHPCO. days for the overall hospice population. Hospice costs money. Dementia patients represented 20.9%

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