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

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Constructed in 2006 as the Schmidt Museum of Coca-Cola Memorabilia, the facility was renovated after its closure in 2011. 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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Why Patients with Lymphoma Are Less Likely to Receive Hospice

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Hospice Improves Quality of Life Hospice has been associated with improved quality of life at the end of life and reductions in the risk of psychiatric illness among bereaved caregivers. Place of death: correlations with quality of life of patients with cancer and predictors of bereaved caregivers’ mental health.

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Primary Care Clinicians Provide Palliative Care Without Realizing It

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Writing for the Mayo Clinic, Mary K Buss, MD, MPH made an interesting observation: “Many PCPs already engage in primary palliative care but may not recognize their actions as palliative care.” 1 In fact, general practitioners, not hospice or specialists, provide most palliative care.

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Two Hospices Halt Services Amid Staffing Shortages

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“Like many other hospice and home health programs across the nation, as the national health care worker shortage continues and the cost of health care staff and other expenses skyrocket, we are finding it increasingly difficult to manage the rising costs of doing business.”. Seniors 65 and older represent 13.6% Census Bureau.

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