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Transitions Care CEO: Hospice Marketing Doesn’t Work in a Vacuum

Hospice News

Palazzo established Illinois-based Transitions Care in 2007 as a portfolio company of the Transitions Group — which also holds skilled nursing, home health, medical equipment and therapy assets. When marketing his hospice business, Transitions Care CEO Jim Palazzo makes it personal. For us, the majority of our patients are home patients.

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GeriPal 300th Episode: Ask Me Anything Hot Ones Style

GeriPal

Private equity is probably one of the top things that I’m worried about with the future of our field in Palliative care and that because private equity is buying up… And Geriatrics, buying up assisted livings, nursing homes, hospices at an extraordinary rate. And what is their motivation, Eric? Why are they doing this?

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Dementia and high risk surgery: Joel Weissman and Samir Shah

GeriPal

And at some point, she was living in assisted living and fell and broke her hip. That provision was taken out of Obamacare back in 2007, 2008. My mother-in-law, Ruth Leman, was a professor emeritus at American University. Really, a smart and caring woman. And she was rushed to the hospital.

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