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Phoenix Children’s Palliative Chief: Shift the Culture in Health Care

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“And that’s really palliative care.” Working in hospice care as well, she began to see the benefits of having difficult conversations and making important care decisions before the patient was in hospice. “We The Phoenix Children’s palliative care program was launched in 2009.

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

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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. The facility will provide hospice care to patients requiring higher levels of pain and symptom management in a home-like environment.

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Sangre de Cristo Taps New CEO, YoloCares Names Palliative Care Director

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Egging will oversee operations of the hospice, home health and palliative care organization. She served as director of compliance for Sangre de Cristo Hospice & Palliative Care from 2001 to 2009. In addition to hospice, Angelic Health provides palliative and memory care, as well as telehealth services.

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Care Synergy Becomes National Center for Johns Hopkins’ CAPABLE Program

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The Johns Hopkins School of Nursing launched CAPABLE in 2009 and since then has overseen the program nationally. With this new agreement, Care Synergy will be taking over those management functions. “We Care Synergy was one of several organizations that threw their hats in the ring to become the new national center for CAPABLE.

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??Care Alternatives Returning to Court in FCA Case

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Care Alternatives’ documentation deficiencies were pervasive; Care Alternatives was aware of the gravity of its noncompliance; and Care Alternatives’ patients were potentially ineligible, as a medical matter, for hospice care.” The case has been winding through the courts since 2008.

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Tapestry Hospice Execs Settle Fraud Case for $1.4M; Prison Term, $3M Penalty in Angel Care Case

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Justice Department, Angel Care enrolled 24 patients in hospice between 2009 through 2017 who did not meet Medicare eligibility requirements. Patients and their family members testified that they had no knowledge of being enrolled in hospice care. According to the U.S. The case was prosecuted by Assistant U.S.

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St. Croix Hospice Leverages Predictive Analytics to Boost Quality

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“What we found with this tool is that we could transition patients in need quicker, identify declines faster and get the appropriate team members there to be with them in a timely fashion, especially during those last and important days of care.” Established in 2009, St. Through the predictive analytics data, hospice patients at St.

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