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VITAS, Big Bend, Heart to Heart, Family Hospice Unveil New Locations

Hospice News

The company provides continuing education credits to health care providers in other settings, such as assisted living facilities, to help spread awareness about the benefits of hospice care. Its launch is in part intended to ease caregiver burden, Mitchell stated. De novos have been a core of VITAS’ growth strategy.

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New Directors at Iowa River, Home Health of the Ozarks; C-Suite Shifts at Elara Caring, VIA Health

Hospice News

Iowa River Hospice provides community- and facility-based hospice to patients in the home or in hospital, assisted living or nursing facilities. The organization also operates an inpatient hospice center, which launched in 2009 and features six patient suites in a home-like environment.

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Understanding the Variability in Care of Nursing Home Residents with Advanced Dementia

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If you develop dementia, odds are you will spend the last months to years of your life in a nursing home or assisted living facility. Caroline: As a very young caregiver myself for my parents who had advanced dementia, as a teenager, this was just a really powerful song that just hit home as a caregiver. Ruth: Sure.