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St. Croix’s New Minnesota Location Supports Staff Amid Growth

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Croix Hospice grows, the vision is to keep the care feeling like it is coming from a small town office, Beary told local news. Now there is a care team that is expected, and its not just one person whos going to be coming in and out. You have a nurse, you have a chaplain, you have a social worker, you have a hospice aide.

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Hospice Organizations Appoint New Leadership, VPs

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With a robust and growing membership and an engaged board, the Academy is strongly positioned to be a leading voice for hospice and palliative care physicians and professionals. The nonprofit health system has provided care across southern Florida for nearly 40 years and has an average daily census of more than 7,500 patients.

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Capital Caring Health to Expand Home-Based Primary Care Service

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The grant will also support efforts to address social determinants of health, according to Dr. Heidi Young, associate chief medical officer for Capital Caring and medical director of the Primary Care at Home program. million home-based primary care visits during 2016, up from less than 1 million in 1996, the study found.

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Incoming Samaritan CEO Phillip Heath: Reduce Dependence on Medicare

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One of the things that we’re doing also is launch our new program on social isolation and loneliness with the frail elderly. I personally have aging parents, and they live in an assisted living environment. We say that we can skip and modify the care plan. Now, they’re eight miles away.

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