Hospice News
APRIL 23, 2024
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.
Hospice News
FEBRUARY 2, 2023
Families caring for seriously ill loved ones face systemic barriers that could threaten patients’ ability to receive care at home, including at the end of life. If a family can’t withstand these burdens, the patient may have to receive care in a facility to ensure their needs are met. In 2010, the U.S.
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1-800-HOSPICE
APRIL 11, 2023
The most common misunderstanding of palliative care is the belief that it’s identical with hospice care. Palliative Care Commonly Provided by General Practitioners Family physicians/general practitioners who are closest to the community and easily accessible have a major role to play in providing palliative care.
GeriPal
AUGUST 25, 2022
Melissa: Well, we have a long history of looking at some of the evidence around differences in patient populations and care processes and outcome for patients based on hospice ownership, comparing for-profit and nonprofit hospices. That trajectory was in increase from 2000 to say, 2010. I just want to highlight some work.
Home Care Pulse
MAY 16, 2023
So before we became accredited by, with the Joint Commission in their home care program, we were already receiving referrals from local physicians, nurses, social workers, discharge planners, at a number of different healthcare systems in the area. Someone they have a strategic partnership with that is providing home health.
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