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

Hospice News

Angela Hospice provides adult and pediatric hospice, palliative care and grief support across Oakland County in southern Michigan. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), which requires providers to acquire a building and design a center to house a PACE program.

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Former VITAS Manager Becomes VP of Operations; Hawaii E.D. Doc Turns Hospice Medical Director

Hospice News

In addition to hospice, the nonprofit provider also offers palliative care and grief support. It became certified to offer hospice under the Medicare benefit in 1990, which Cogswell told local news was a “game changer,” in end-of-life care. Since 2006 he has held leadership roles in health care association accounting and finance teams.

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Hospice in Prison Part 1: An interview with Michele DiTomas and Keith Knauf

GeriPal

Through a series of events, I started working as a consultant to the Department of Corrections in around 2006, and I was assigned to the California Medical Facility. Alex: … in other words, than you might be in a Medicare-regulated hospice facility? Eric: And you’re also the medical director of the hospice unit here.

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