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Frontline Honors: Joseph Solien, PharmD, BCPP, BCGP, OnePoint Patient Care

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I started working in hospice pharmacy in 2004 as a pharmacy student intern. Solien: Id like to make sure everyone knows about the benefits of hospice care! Even with increasing utilization year over year, many die without taking advantage of all the wonderful support hospice provides.

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‘Suncoast’ Film Points a Lens at Hospice Families’ Experience

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The film is based on director Laura Chinn’s personal experience as her brother Max received inpatient care at the Suncoast Hospice Care Center, an actual facility operated by the Florida-based nonprofit Empath Health. Fast forward to today, we have fireplaces in our care centers; some of them have aquariums.

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Angela Hospice’s New Inpatient Facility; Hosparus Opens PACE Center

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Set to open this summer, the hospice facility will feature 15 patient beds at Lourdes Senior Community in Waterford, Michigan. Expanding hospice care in the senior community will allow for improved support and care collaboration, according to Angela Hospice President and CEO Marti Coplai.

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Kain Capital Forms New Hospice Holdings Company, Makes First Acquisition

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Kansas City-based Hospice Care of America (HCA) was recently acquired by a newly formed holdings company established by the private equity firm Kain Capital LLC. Kain Capital established PERA Holdings as a way to gain a foothold in the hospice market. Financial details of the transaction were undisclosed.

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VITAS Appoints Three New Executives; Chemed CFO to Retire

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Patty’s passion and commitment to our patients, their families, our employees, hospice care and VITAS are exceptional.” Chemed’s board named Williams the parent company’s vice president and CFO in March 2004. In August 2007, he was promoted to executive vice president of Chemed, while retaining his CFO position. “It

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Trinity Health at Home Acquires Above & Beyond Home Health Care and Hospice

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Above & Beyond has provided home health and hospice care across eastern Iowa since 2004. Its home care services include nursing, and physical occupational and speech therapies, among others. Hospice utilization runs high in Iowa compared to other states.

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Global Partners in Care Program Fosters International Collaboration on Palliative Care

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The Indiana-based palliative care provider Center for Hospice Care (CHC) is looking beyond its immediate community and has developed networks that impact palliative care on a global scale. Under the NHPCO umbrella, the Center for Hospice Care became a partner in the program in 2008, Ahern said.