Remove 2010 Remove Hospice care Remove Personal care Remove Social worker
article thumbnail

How California Began Expanding Palliative Care Via Medicaid

Hospice News

Cotter has been a board certified physician in family medicine since 1981 and worked as a hospice medical director from 1988 to 1989. He returned to hospice care part time from 2010 to 2014 from his home base in Napa County. Thus far in 2024, 625 patients have been active in the program; 1,000 were enrolled in 2023.

article thumbnail

Ep.13: How Becoming an Accredited Organization will Help you Build More Partnerships and Increase Referrals

Home Care Pulse

They required nurses to perform assessments before initiating care and regularly every 60 days. And that’s even though we were strictly a personal care provider and not providing any skilled nursing services. So we don’t come there, you know, looking for, you know, for medical type of, of care being provided.