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

Hospice News

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

Hospice News

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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Contessa’s Lessons Learned on Risk-Based Palliative Care

Hospice News

As Contessa Health pioneers a growing value-based palliative care-at-home program, they’ve encountered some learning curves when it comes to operating within a new payment system. Contessa is a subsidiary of Amedisys (NASDAQ: AMED), which the home health and hospice provider acquired in 2021 for $250 million.

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Five Things You Need to Know About Home Health Care

Traditions Health

At its core, home health care is simply a way for us to help people stay safely in their home while managing their health. And that means your home health team could include home health aides , skilled nurses , physical therapists, speech therapists, occupational therapists or medical social workers.

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On National AIDS and Aging Day, A Veteran Nurse Looks Back: How Nurses Can Transform the Lives of HIV/AIDS Patients Through Empathy

Daily Nurse

Those experiences helped shape the work we do today, as we strove to keep up with a rapidly evolving healthcare landscape, provide empathetic care for all underserved communities, and develop new models of care that would provide safe, in-home care.

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Voices: ??Dr. Khai Nguyen, National Medical Director, Geriatrician, CHAP

Hospice News

He was in his early 60s when I was born, and he suffered a stroke in 1989, which threw our family into the post-acute medical care space and encouraged me to take on a caregiving role. We struggled in the home care setting due to his morbidity and illness, and that is something I experienced on a very intimate level.

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Older Americans Month

AT Home Care & Hospice

Home health care services allow individuals with long-term or chronic conditions or people recovering from an illness or injury to be in a comfortable, stress-free environment while still getting the support they need. Home care can be a short-term or long-term service.

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