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Hospice News
JULY 10, 2023
As health care stakeholders work to improve care coordination, more hospices are exploring home-based primary care. Organizations that are delivering hospice and palliative care now are looking to the future and wanting to provide more of a full-service solution for seriously ill patients,” Singleton told Hospice News.
Hospice News
JULY 11, 2022
A group of 17 Illinois health care organizations is collaborating to expand access to home-based primary care, including a number of hospice and palliative care providers. Among the participants is Lightways Hospice and Serious Illness Care. To maximize their opportunity, hospices have to adapt to taking on that role.
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Hospice News
JANUARY 30, 2023
The nonprofit hospice and senior services provider plans to offer primary care to a larger population of chronically ill patients with an emphasis on the Arlington County, Virginia, region. A number of hospices have launched their own programs or partnerships with other providers. million primary care visits in 2016.
Hospice News
MARCH 23, 2023
Deborah Freeland, assistant professor of internal medicine at UT Southwestern Medical School, Division of Geriatric Medicine, in Texas. Across 150 different studies, white adults represented nearly two-thirds (65.1%) of roughly 800,000 individuals who had completed advance directives between 2011 and 2016.
Hospice News
JANUARY 1, 2024
As hospice providers build out a larger continuum of health care services, some are taking a close look at the primary care space. The term “upstream” has become a watchword in hospice. million home-based primary care visits during 2016, up from less than 1 million in 1996, the study found. million primary care visits in 2016.
Hospice News
AUGUST 9, 2023
Prison populations across the United States saw a 280% rise in incarcerated seniors in this age group from 1999 to 2016, the research found. The population that is over 55 — considered geriatric inside prisons because people’s life spans are much shorter there — is nearly one-third of the prison population,” Gorlock told local news.
Hospice News
SEPTEMBER 18, 2024
Pennant is the holding company for a cluster of independent hospice, home health and senior living providers located across 13 states. We’re a leadership company, and we’re trying to build physician and nurse practitioner leadership in the hospice space. Then I kind of wandered. We have various forms of it.
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