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Calls Grow Louder for Greater Federal Support of Rural Hospices

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“We hear from countless community providers and state association leaders that rural hospices are in financial trouble,” Hoover wrote in a recent letter to the U.S. With Medicare accounting for the overwhelming majority of hospice payments, hospice care is at the mercy of the federal government to continue providing high quality care.

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What Services Does Hospice Care Provide for Patients and Families?

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Hospice Care For Everyone Hospice care is a specialized form of healthcare that focuses on providing support and comfort to individuals facing life-limiting illnesses. In this article, we will delve into the various services that hospice care offers to patients and their families.

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Palliative Rehab?!?: Ann Henshaw, Tamra Keeney, and Sarguni Singh

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We additionally discussed hospice care as an option for care that might follow the trial of rehabilitation. Many of them aren’t enrolled in hospice before they die. And a lot of them never actually improve their ADLs once they’re sent to SNF. Sarguni: Yeah. Ann: Even though that would be cheaper.

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ProMedica Scales Down Operations; New Inpatient Facilities Open at Beacon Hospice, Holy Name Medical Center, The Hansen House

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Harbor Hospice is also part of the health system, which operates 50 locations across seven states, including Texas. The center will provide patients with “around-the-clock” hospice care and offer 24-hour visitation hours for loved ones, according to Brenna Rodriguez, vice president of operations at Harbor Hospice.

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HSPN ELEVATE: The Common Thread Linking Documentation, Satisfaction, and Revenue Protection

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Why not make it an all-inclusive benefit where we are reimbursed for not just the primary hospice diagnosis care, but exacerbating diagnoses as well? Things like complex wound care. PPS score, the prognostic statement, the disease progression, the ADLs, whatever it was, it was missing one or a multiple of those.

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