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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. Seniors 65 and older represent 16.8%

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

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Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), which requires providers to acquire a building and design a center to house a PACE program. More than 30 interdisciplinary staff members provide care at the 5,600 square feet facility. Ohio’s Community Mercy Hospice offers end-of-life care across three counties in its home state.

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Trinity Health at Home Acquires Above & Beyond Home Health Care and Hospice

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Above & Beyond has provided home health and hospice care across eastern Iowa since 2004. Its home care services include nursing, and physical occupational and speech therapies, among others. Like in much of the country, aging demographics are driving up demand for end-of-life care in the Hawkeye State.

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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. Patients in hospice have fewer rehospitalizations, fewer intensive care unit admissions, and lower costs.