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Top Lawmakers for Hospices to Watch in 2024

Hospice News

Lawmakers have an essential role in ensuring the viability of the Medicare Hospice Benefit, according to Davis Baird, director for government affairs for hospice at the National Association for Home Care and Hospice (NAHC). One key priority for the hospice community is to secure updates to the algorithm that the U.S.

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Important Predictions for Home Care in 2019

AlayaCare

As AlayaCare has grown, we’ve had the privilege of observing how health systems around the world are organizing to keep seniors and chronically or acutely ill patients receiving care and convalescing in their preferred setting: at home. Everywhere we look, home care is growing at double-digit percentages. in 2009 to 65.7%

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Understanding the Variability in Care of Nursing Home Residents with Advanced Dementia

GeriPal

Many years ago for the first study; I believe it was in 2009, 2010; I met with Susan Mitchell at the Institute for Aging Research, and told her that I wanted to study the use of feeding tubes for people with advanced dementia. And basically saying that high-quality nursing home care and palliative care are one and the same.

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The Ups and Downs of Inpatient Hospice Care: New Facilities Open as Others Close

Hospice News

The faith-based hospice company received Medicare certification in 2015 and primarily serves an urban region around the Chicago area. This is another level of care that we can provide,” Sade Bello told local news. This elevates care that we’re able to provide in the community to our patients.”

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

GeriPal

Does the hospice offer general inpatient care? Does the hospice offer continuous home care? And you hear the agitation of advice because I’ve been trying to, and you signed, Eric, a statement called Core Roles and Responsibilities of Physicians in Hospice Care. All of these things we could create data for today.

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