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Hospices’ Collaboration with Discharge Planners Key to Effective Care Transitions

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Securing timely referrals for eligible patients remains a challenge because many hospice patients receive care for only a few days prior to death. Additionally, careful management of discharges to hospice care is a growing priority as providers and payers seek to reduce hospitalizations, readmissions and emergency department visits.

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What New Allegations that HCA Healthcare Pressured Patients Mean for Hospices

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We don’t have all the personal things that are really between the caregiver and the patient,” Joe Lyons, research coordinator for SEIU’s health care division, told Hospice News. “It’s So, on one hand, patients do benefit from hospice care, and those services do reduce health care costs.