Hospice News

JULY 6, 2022

Founded in 1984, CommuniCare Health Services is a family-owned company that provides post-acute services including skilled nursing, assisted living, independent living, behavioral health and long-term care. The company was established in 2009. Hospice utilization among Medicare decedents in West Virginia reached 43.6%

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 6, 2022

The Johns Hopkins School of Nursing launched CAPABLE in 2009 and since then has overseen the program nationally. CAPABLE began with a 2009 pilot at a Johns Hopkins site in Baltimore and since has expanded to more than 40 locations in 21 states. Medicare is thinking about it. Housing agencies are interested in it, and Medicaid.

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GeriPal

MARCH 10, 2022

If you develop dementia, odds are you will spend the last months to years of your life in a nursing home or assisted living facility. And I wrote a paper a couple years ago, entitled Forced to Choose: When Medicare Policy Disrupts End of Life Care. It’s Forced to Choose: When Medicare Policy Disrupts End of Life Care.

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