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Why Choose Traditions Health?

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When the time comes to make profound decisions about end-of-life care for a loved one, every question becomes a quest for the exceptional. A personalized approach, an unwavering commitment to comfort and dignity, and a deep understanding of each patient’s unique needs are at the heart of the hospice services we provide.

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10 Hospice News ‘Hidden Gem’ Stories from 2022

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Different health systems often fail to serve these families because they don’t have the right resources or because it’s very difficult to manage care.”. How the United States Will Revamp Family Caregiver Support. What’s Fueling the Hospice JV Furnace.

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The Ask-Tell-Ask Approach in Four Steps

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5 Patient recall of end-of-life discussions correlates with higher quality of life for patients and improved bereavement outcomes for caregivers. The Optimism of Hospice Care Hospice care can give patients hope. Prognosis communication in serious illness: Perceptions of older patients, caregivers, and clinicians.

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Two Traditions Health Hospice Branches Receive Patient Satisfaction Award from Strategic Healthcare Programs

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The annual SHPBest award program was created to acknowledge hospice providers that consistently provide high-quality service to families and caregivers of patients receiving hospice care. Traditions Health opened its first agency in Bryan, Texas in 2008. Traditions Health is a portfolio company of Dorilton.

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For-Profit or Nonprofit, Hospice Is Not a ‘Hustle’

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Starting with the headline, the story uses “hospice” as a monolithic term that makes little distinction among individual providers — heralding it overgeneralized and oversimplified perspective. Health care has its own language, and at times the New Yorker and ProPublica appeared to be less than fluent. Hospice costs money.

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Is Hospice Losing Its Way: A Podcast with Ira Byock and Joseph Shega

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What is our role as hospice and palliative care providers in advocating for high-quality hospice care? If you are interested in signing the position statement “Core Roles and Responsibilities of Physicians in Hospice Care”, click here. JAMA IM 2021 Hospice Acquisitions by Profit-Driven Private Equity Firms.

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Telemedicine in a Post-Pandemic World: Joe Rotella, Brooke Calton, Carly Zapata

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And the Ryan Haight Act I think was passed in 2008, which was in response to a young person who died of an opioid overdose. And they were prescribed those opioids from an online prescriber, that was not from a palliative care practice by the way, but some online prescriber of opioids. So now to make that assumption explicit.