Fri.May 03, 2024

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Compassus, Bon Secours Mercy Health Finalize Hospice, Home Health JV

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Compassus and Bon Secours Mercy Health (BSMH) have finalized an agreement to form a home health and hospice joint venture. Through the JV, Compassus will operate 10 home health agencies and 11 hospice locations previously managed by BSMH. Then you also look at what integrated home-based care can do for the ecosystem.

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Barriers to Providing Palliative Surgery

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Palliative surgeries can provide symptomatic relief and reduce health care burdens for certain seriously ill patients alongside goals-of-care conversations and careful consideration, the research found. Their clinical research was recently published in Oxford University Press’ British Journal of Surgery (BJS).

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Breaking the Silence: The Mounting Need for Trauma-Informed Hospice Care

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Breaking down the barriers to stronger trauma-informed end-of-life care requires heightened awareness, legislative action and improved care delivery approaches. Hospices need to operate under the assumption that they’re caring for a significant number of patients who have been abused at some stage of their life, she stated.