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Though professionally she has cared for terminally ill patients for more than 30 years, her personal experience after her mother’s diagnosis with Stage 4 pancreatic cancer underscored the critical importance of her work. This drives her commitment to expand access to hospicecare, particularly among underserved populations.
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Leveraging technology will be a key to quality outcomes as hospices and home health providers combat workforce shortages amid soaring demand, Templeton said at the Aging Media Network CONTINUUM Conference in Washington, D.C. There’s a human element to it and a patient-centered care element to it that helps advance health care overall.
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