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Hospice Organizations Appoint New Leadership, VPs

Hospice News

He was also a member of the Palliative and End-of-Life Care Standing Committee at the National Quality Forum. Catholic Hospice Taps New Executive Director Florida-based Catholic Hospice has appointed Diana Smith-Lopez as its new executive director. The hospice provider topped Inc.

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Hospices Call on Congress to Support Rural Hospices, Patients

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Hospice providers, industry groups and other stakeholders recently penned a letter urging Congress to improve payment infrastructures that would increase access to end-of-life care among rural populations.

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CommCare Expands with Notre Dame Hospice, Home Health Acquisitions

Hospice News

The home health and hospice acquisition extends CommCare’s reach across Louisiana and in parts of Mississippi where Notre Dame provides services. The Notre Dame Health System launched services in 1977, and in the past two years provided roughly 131,000 days of hospice care to more than 1,800 patients. Census Bureau.

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

Hospice News

Wisconsin-based Agrace Hospice & Supportive Care has hired a new hospice and palliative care physician, Dr. Raj Hiranandani, expanding its medical services team amid growth. Prior to joining Agrace, he was an internal medicine physician and hospice medical director at the Marshfield Clinic Health System. “We

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Global Partners in Care Program Fosters International Collaboration on Palliative Care

Hospice News

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. Historic run Getting the Global Partners in Care program to this level has been quite the journey for CHC.

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Agape Care’s New M&A VP, New CEO Takes Helm at Community Hospice

Hospice News

Katherine Brazzale as its new chief medical officer of hospice services. Brazzale was the first physician to be selected for Trustbridge’s fellowship program when it launched in 2008 and has stuck with the nonprofit hospice provider ever since.

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The Roots of Palliative Care: Michael Kearney, Sue Britton, and Justin Sanders

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She retrained as a social worker, and it was while she was a social worker that she began to formulate her ideas for better kind of end of life care, which was to become hospice care, modern hospice care. She put her back out. And I can’t remember the subtitle.