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MA Beneficiaries More Likely than Fee-for-Service Patients to Enter Hospice from Community Setting

Hospice News

While we found that hospice length of stay was longer for those enrolling from the community vs hospital or nursing home settings, we overall found that hospice length of stay among MA enrollees was only slightly longer than for those in [traditional Medicare].” As of 2023, nearly 31.5

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Transitions Care CEO: Hospice Marketing Doesn’t Work in a Vacuum

Hospice News

Palazzo established Illinois-based Transitions Care in 2007 as a portfolio company of the Transitions Group — which also holds skilled nursing, home health, medical equipment and therapy assets. When marketing his hospice business, Transitions Care CEO Jim Palazzo makes it personal.

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Understanding Policymakers’ Frame of Reference Crucial to Hospice, Palliative Care Advocacy

Hospice News

To get by, he took a job in the IT department of a nursing home, where he quickly realized that health care technology could use an upgrade. He turned his attention to health care after immigrating to the United States, where in time he matriculated at the University of Texas in Dallas.

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GeriPal 300th Episode: Ask Me Anything Hot Ones Style

GeriPal

Private equity is probably one of the top things that I’m worried about with the future of our field in Palliative care and that because private equity is buying up… And Geriatrics, buying up assisted livings, nursing homes, hospices at an extraordinary rate. And what is their motivation, Eric? Why are they doing this?

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Hospice care in the United States

Americare Hospice

In 2007, hospice treatment was used by 1.4 Care may be provided in a patient's home or in a designated facility, such as a nursing home, hospital unit or freestanding hospice, with level of care and sometimes location based upon frequent evaluation of the patient's needs. million people in the United States.

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Dementia and high risk surgery: Joel Weissman and Samir Shah

GeriPal

Joel: And by the way, I should mention that some of the work that’s been done in the past on patients with dementia in the hospital, it’s been based on Emily Finlayson’s work looking at surgery, but really looking only at nursing home patients. That provision was taken out of Obamacare back in 2007, 2008.

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The Future of Geriatrics: A Podcast with Jerry Gurwitz, Ryan Chippendale, and Mike Harper

GeriPal

Jerry: Probably for the reason a lot of people go into geriatrics, close relationship with grandparents, volunteered to work in a nursing home as a high school student, just felt really good about being around old people and not having a problem with it. Eric: And can I ask you, why did you choose geriatrics? Why did you go into it?