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How Palliative Care Could Help Break the SNF-to-Hospital Cycle

Hospice News

A dearth of coordination or integration between rehab teams and palliative care teams routinely forces some patients into a cycle between the hospital and the nursing home in their last year of life. The post How Palliative Care Could Help Break the SNF-to-Hospital Cycle appeared first on Hospice News.

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Bartlett Regional Hospital Gets Green Light to Take Over Hospice Services, Executives Step Down

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Alaska-based Bartlett Regional Hospital recently received approval from legislators to relaunch hospice and home health services nearly a year after a local provider shut down. Bartlett Regional Hospital in January began the process of taking over HHCJ’s hospice and home health patients to fill care delivery gaps in southeast Alaska.

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

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Angela Hospice’s New Senior Living Inpatient Facility Michigan-based Angela Hospice recently unveiled plans to open a new inpatient center at a senior living facility. Set to open this summer, the hospice facility will feature 15 patient beds at Lourdes Senior Community in Waterford, Michigan. The William B. and Janet B.

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Enhabit Appoints General Counsel; The Denver Hospice Gets New Medical Director

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Home health and hospice provider Enhabit, Inc. The company’s more than 10,000 employees provide care from 105 hospice and 252 home health locations in 34 states. Enhabit plans to open 10 hospice de novos each year in its existing home health markets. The Denver Hospice Appoints New Medical Director.

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NYC Health + Hospitals/Bellevue Unveils New Palliative Care Unit

Hospice News

They’re vulnerable patients that might not have a lot of social support for a home hospice situation. For the palliative care unit, [it’s] collaborating with nursing staff, hospital medicine teams and the administrative side to make sure that the right patients end up in those beds.”

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

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Summary Transcript Summary In the early 1990’s, California Medical Facility (CMF) created one of the nation’s first licensed hospice units inside a prison. Keith per many reports, is the heart and sole of the hospice unit and oversees the Pastoral Care Workers. Eric: Wait, so Bonnie Raitt sang a song about hospice in prison?

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Ep.4: The Top 5 Challenges the Care Industry is Facing—And How Agencies Can Respond

Home Care Pulse

Now to tackle this big subject, we are so lucky to be joined by Kristen Wheeler, and many of you probably know her in the healthcare industry since 1990 and in home care since 2006. And my husband and I moved to Key West in 2005, and he went to work for a certified home health agency and hospice organization down there.