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Systematic Change Needed to Support Family Caregivers of Hospice Patients

Hospice News

Given the critical role of family caregivers in home-based care, hospices have a vested interest in expanding their access to support. And while hospices offer social workers and spiritual care, many families continue to have unmet needs that could impede some patients’ access to hospice.

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How California Began Expanding Palliative Care Via Medicaid

Hospice News

He returned to hospice care part time from 2010 to 2014 from his home base in Napa County. All of this started from a [University of California-San Francisco (USCF)] safety net study in 2010, which showed that most MediCal members spend a lot of time in the hospital close to death,” he said.

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‘Elegant, Expert Care’: The Emergence of Neuropalliative Services

Hospice News

Daly was a part of the second-ever class to sit the palliative care certification exam in 2010. Cruetzfeldt added that it makes sense for a neurology practice to have embedded social workers and other palliative care specialists to ensure the best care for their patients. Most of them want to have these skills,” she said.

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Local Couple Pursues Business Dream as New Owners of Always Best Care Charlotte  

Always Best Care Senior Services

Always Best Care of Charlotte has been serving Mecklenburg County residents since 2010 and is one of nine Always Best Care agencies across North Carolina. The Jewells and their growing team of caregivers provide non-medical in-home care and senior living referral services to communities including Charlotte, Matthews and surrounding areas.

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Over the Threshold: Creating Solutions

Chicago Caregiving

By analyzing a variety of diagnostic codes, physician notes, and addresses in their electronic health medical record system, Epic, they’ve identified more than 20,000 people as homeless, going back to 2010. “It It speaks to the challenges that hospitals face in addressing the social determinants of health. Hartford Foundation.

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Private Equity Gobbling Up Hospices plus Hospice and Dementia: Melissa Aldridge, Krista Harrison, & Lauren Hunt

GeriPal

Krista Harrison found , to her surprise, that caregivers of people with dementia who died rated hospice as well as similar patients without dementia who died on hospice. That trajectory was in increase from 2000 to say, 2010. I do think the growth of for-profit hospice, so around 2000 to 2010, was beneficial in terms of access.

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Ep.17: How Home Care Agencies Can Reduce Hospital Readmissions

Home Care Pulse

Laura has a team of over 40 administrative staff and 400 caregivers providing over 9,000 hours of service per week in the community. Our caregivers, of course, can do those medication reminders. What is that caregiver looking for and what does she need to do? That is incredible. Thank you both for joining us.