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Family Resource Home Care Expands with Companion Care Acquisition

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Companion Care has roughly 100 employees that provide nonmedical personal care and caregiving services to seniors and disabled individuals in their home or in facility-based settings such as assisted and retirement living communities, hospitals or rehabilitation centers, incuding hospice patients. Census Bureau.

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Angela Hospice’s New Inpatient Facility; Hosparus Opens PACE Center

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The faith-based nonprofit organization also has a telehospice program, which offers virtual telehealth support to hospice caregivers and patients. Terminally ill residents at the Lourdes facility who are unable to remain at home or lack caregiver support will be eligible to receive care at the inpatient hospice.

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Why Patients with Lymphoma Are Less Likely to Receive Hospice

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Recently, Oreofe Odejide, MD, of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, and colleagues published an analysis of hospice utilization among patients who died with lymphoma, and they made recommendations for improving patient care. Length of hospice enrollment and subsequent depression in family caregivers: 13-month follow-up study.