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AMOREM Launches New Inpatient Center, Agrace Temporarily Closes Facility

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To the families and the people, were going to make them a home, Susan Mitchell-Macfarlane, chairman and president of Mitchell House, told local news. A portion of the former Countryside Nursing Home is currently undergoing renovations as the boarding houses new site. Is this [facility] ever going to happen?

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Many Hospices Need to Step Up Disaster Planning

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For hospice and palliative care providers, many were unable to reach patients in facilities and at times could not provide care in some homes, Baker Rogers indicated. Referrals to hospice were frequently delayed, and respite care was also impossible in some instances due to nursing home restrictions.

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HopeHealth CMO: Hospice Rules for ‘Unrelated Care’ Getting Stricter

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We want to have money for our chaplains program and our bereavement services, and you could easily spend all of the money that we get from Medicare on pharmacy. If they’re able to take it by mouth, we switch the medicines to oral and get them out to a nursing home or to a home. So we try to be judicious about that.

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LeadingAge to Congress: Reform Hospice Benefit, Fund Palliative Care

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Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to modify rules for the four levels of hospice care, foster greater interoperability, examine nursing home relationships and other changes. “We In addition to concurrent care, LeadingAge urged Congress and the U.S.

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How Hospice, Behavioral Health May Cross Paths

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In some respects, the two sectors are already inextricably linked, given the holistic nature of hospice care, including attention to patients’ psychosocial and spiritual needs as well as bereavement support for families. Hospices also lack quality measures associated with bereavement care.

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New Hospice Facilities Launch Ahead While Others Halt

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This will make the organization’s third center for youth bereavement in the area, with additional locations in Auburndale and Sebring, Florida. The Hosparus Health Resource Center will extend bereavement services and education to underserved communities in that area.

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Hosparus Acquires Baptist Health Deaconess Hospice

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Founded in 1978, Hosparus Health’s 600 employees and 500 volunteers provide care for more than 10,000 patients annually, including hospice, medical care, palliative medicine, mental health and bereavement services. “We Also, in December of last year, the organization cut the ribbon on a $1.7

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