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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. He describes the findings from the pilot program, and its subsequent influence, to showcase the vast importance of palliative care treatment. Thus far in 2024, 625 patients have been active in the program; 1,000 were enrolled in 2023.

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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.

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

Home Care Pulse

Michelle Cone ( 03:28 ): So, you know, at its most basic level, it really allows home care agencies to monitor and promote the quality of care that they provide to their clients with actual quantitative data. Readmissions have been tracked and monitored by c M S for over a decade now.