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Longleaf Medical Director: Hospice Care Needs a ‘Revolution’ 

Hospice News

If I need to do a ventilator on someone, if we need to have a BiPAP, or non-invasive ventilation, or if we need different modalities, those will be done. The hospitals should be really for triaging, and and then hopefully successfully resuscitating and rehabilitating people. I conceive of a very different model.

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What can we learn from simulations? Amber Barnato

GeriPal

So the amount of dollars per Medicare beneficiary in the last six months of life varies more than twofold from one region of the country to the other region of the country. I’d be willing to take some time on a mechanical ventilation machine to live longer.” When it was do not resuscitate, fewer people chose it.