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Breast Cancer Patients Often Lack Access to Palliative Care

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Breast cancer patients often lack access to palliative care services, but the needle may be moving as researchers dig into common barriers and clinical and financial outcomes. A recent study of nearly 30,000 hospitalized metastatic breast cancer patients found that only 19% received palliative care from 2010 to 2014.

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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. hospice leaders. Palliative Care clinicians from Nkhoma Hospital in Malawi visit U.S.

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StateServe’s Delta Care Rx Acquisition Fueled by Hospice Cost Saving Potential

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Durable medical equipment (DME) provider StateServ has acquired Delta Care Rx, a national hospice pharmaceutical benefits manager (PBM). Based in Pennsylvania, PBM management company Delta Care also offers mail-ordered prescription services and clinical pharmacy consulting to hospice and palliative care providers.

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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. PERA aims to acquire mid-sized hospice and palliative care companies.

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Elara Caring Acquires Caregivers Home Health

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Dallas-based senior care provider Elara Caring has acquired Caregivers Home Health, expanding its footprint in Kansas and Iowa. We are excited to welcome our new caregivers and patients in Kansas and Iowa,” said Scott Powers, CEO and chairman of Elara Caring, in a statement. “Our

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

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Trinity Health at Home recently acquired Iowa-based Above & Beyond Home Health Care and Hospice for an undisclosed sum. The two will officially join forces on July 1 in a move aimed at expanding much-needed care in local communities. Above & Beyond has provided home health and hospice care across eastern Iowa since 2004.

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How April Anthony, Investors Built New Home Health and Hospice Company VitalCaring

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Currently, nine of the company’s locations are hospices, with more expected in the coming years. Hospice is a smaller part of what we have today, but we’re excited to make that a bigger part and bring hospice into our other operating states. My roots are in home care. “My My roots are in home care. NYSE: EHAB).